Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work (Sources of Music & Their Interpretation S) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822321149 ISBN 13: 9780822321149

Publisher: Duke University Press, 1997

Synopsis

As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Stauss’s death, scholarly interest in the composer continues to grow. Despite what was once a tendency by musicologists to overlook or deny Strauss’s importance, these essays firmly place the German composer in the musical mainstream and situate him among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1992, this volume examines Strauss’s life and work from a number of approaches and during various periods of his long career, opening up unique corridors of insight into a crucial time in German history.
Contributors discuss Strauss as a young composer steeped in a conservative instrumental tradition, as a brash young modernist tone poet of the 1890s, as an important composer of twentieth-century German opera, and as a cultural icon manipulated by the national socialists during the 1930s and early 1940s. Individual essays use Strauss’s creative work as a framework for larger musicological questions such as the tension between narrative and structure in program music, the problem of extended tonality at the turn of the century, stylistic choice versus stylistic obligation, and conflicting perspectives of progressive versus conservative music.
This collection will interest Strauss scholars, musicologists, and those interested in the artistic and cultural life of Germany from 1880 through the Second World War.

Contributors. Kofi Agawu, Günter Brosche, Bryan Gilliam, Stephen Hefling, James A. Hepokoski, Timothy L. Jackson, Michael Kennedy, Lewis Lockwood, Barbara A. Peterson, Pamela Potter, Reinhold Schlötterer, R. Larry Todd

About this title

About the Author

Bryan Gilliam is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Music at Duke University.

From the Back Cover

"from reviews of the cloth edition:
""Gilliam, perhaps now the leading North American expert on Strauss's operas . . . has assembled a group of authors who collectively present what is undoubtedly a major contribution to Strauss studies."--Scott Warfield, "Notes

""What better way for musicology to mark the twentieth century's final, self-questioning stages than . . . to reevaluate Richard Strauss?"--Arnold Whittall, "Times Literary Supplement

""Bryan Gilliam's compilation of essays on Richard Strauss's life and work promises broad scope and exciting reading."--Lydia D. Rohmer, "Brio"

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822321149
• ISBN 13: 9780822321149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Gilliam Bryan