Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of music examples -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- List of Peter Franklin's Major Publications -- Introduction -- SECTION I: Personal tributes -- 1 Peter Franklin's guilty pleasures -- 2 From opera house to cinema: forging a new discipline in 1988 -- SECTION II: Modernism and modernity -- 3 Extraordinary listening (Mahler - and Franklin) -- 4 Korngold's Violanta: Venice, carnival, and the masking of identities -- 5 Erik Satie and the subject(s) of mobility -- SECTION III: Reconsidering interwar Germany -- 6 'Ein Menschenherz geopfert - oder viele!': Hans Pfitzner and the idea of a Volksoper -- 7 the architecture of trauma: Richard Strauss, Salzburg, and the Great War -- 8 Cozarinsky's La Guerre d'un seul homme and musical categories: (Re)-framing Pfitzner, Strauss, Schreker, and Schoenberg cinematically -- SECTION IV: Musicology and its values -- 9 'Britten Minor': constructing the modernist canon -- 10 Elgar's part-song cycle, op. 53: idealism and education -- 11 'It must be done fresh and new'-Bernard Herrmann's score for North by Northwest -- 12 Back from the dead: Kubrick, music, and the auteur -- Index.
Peter Franklin's The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others set a challenge for musicology: how best to talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream? Thirty years on, Franklin's students and colleagues return to that challenge and the vibrant intellectual field that has since developed. Moving freely between insights into opera, Volksoper, film, festival, and choral movement, and from the very beginning of the twentieth century up to the 80s, its authors listen with a 'critical ear', siting these phenomena within modern cultural practices. This perspective enables them to exercise a disciplinary self-awareness after Franklin's manner.