Michael Christoforidis

Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Christoforidis is widely recognized as a leading expert on one of Spain's most important composers, Manuel de Falla. This volume brings together both new chapters and revised versions of previously published work, some of which is made available here in English for the first time. Three comprehensive sections explore different facets of Falla's mature works and musical identity. Christoforidis provides a distinctive and original contribution to the study of Falla, as well as to the wider fields of musical modernism, exoticism, and music and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351392594
• Artikelnr.: 50215919

Autorenporträt

Michael Christoforidis lectures in musicology at The University of Melbourne, where he completed his doctorate on Manuel de Falla's neoclassical music (1997). As a musicologist, he spent several years in Madrid and Granada, including extensive research at the Archivo Manuel de Falla. The main focus of his publications has been on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish music and dance, and he is the co-author of Carmen and the Staging of Spain with Elizabeth Kertesz.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude
1. Images of a Life
Parisian Encounters and Andalusian Echoes
2. Conversations with Claude Debussy: La vida breve and Beyond
3. Isaac Albéniz, Claude Debussy and Views of the Alhambra from Paris
4. Fabricating Folk-songs in Paris: Siete canciones populares españolas
5. Belle-Epoque Primitivism, Igor Stravinsky, and El amor brujo (1915)
6. Spanish Guitar Traditions and Evocations of Andalusia
The Hispanic Modernist
7. Picasso, Ortega y Gasset and the Framing of El retablo de maese Pedro
8. New Orchestral Horizons and Echoes of the Past in El retablo de maese
Pedro
9. The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Moors in El retablo de maese
Pedro
10. The Aesthetics of Sobriety: Reconciling Faith and Modernity
11. Hispanic Traditions through the Lens of European Modernity in the
Concert
In Search of Atlantis
12. Greek Echoes in the Construction of Hispanic Identity
13. Negotiating Politics, Religion and the Idea of Castile in 1930s Spain
14. Argentine Afterword: Thoughts on Religion, Spain, and Global Cataclysm
from the New World