Stephen Moore Whiting (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 612 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

False (illustrator). In-8°, pp. 596, illustrazione in antiporta, tela editoriale con sovracc. illustrata. ll compositore Erik Satie (1866-1925) crebbe nella subcultura bohémien di Montmartre, con i suoi cabaret di artisti e i caffè-concerto. Questi ambienti colorati modellarono in modo decisivo le sue priorità estetiche e le sue strategie compositive, dalle Gymnopédies esoteriche degli anni Ottanta dell'Ottocento ai balletti d'avanguardia degli anni Venti. Whiting rende più comprensibile questa radicale trasvalutazione dei valori artistici ricevuti inserendola nell'intero contesto bohémien di Montmartre.

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often downplayed this background as potentially harmful to the reputation of a composer whom they regarded as the progenitor of modern French music. Whiting argues, on the contrary, that Satie's two decades in and around Montmartre decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies. He gives the fullest account to date of Satie's professional activities as a popular musician, and of how he transferred the parodic techniques and musical idioms of cabaret entertainment to works for concert hall. From the esoteric Gymnopédies to the bizarre suites of the 1910s and avant-garde ballets of the 1920s (not to mention music journalism and playwriting), Satie's output may be daunting in its sheer diversity and heterodoxy; but his radical transvaluation of received artistic values makes far better sense once placed in the fascinating context of bohemian Montmartre.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 608.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 608 9:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 608.