Musical style and genre : history and modernity / Marina Lobanova ; translated by Kate Cook.

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. History and the present day -- The problem of cultural dialogue -- Unprecedented reality: innovation, tradition, and style in epochs of great rupture. "Something has come to an end" -- The antinomies of Baroque -- Innovation - tradition - culture -- Baroque "Conservatives" and "Modernists" -- Innovation in twentieth-century culture -- Tradition: the preservation and transformation of culture -- Culture and memory -- The principles of musical poetics - Baroque and the twentieth century. The concept of music -- "Music" in the age of Baroque -- "Music" in the twentieth century -- The "Musica politica" of the twentieth century -- "Seeing" or Hearing"? -- Space - time - motion -- Concepts of space, time and motion in the age of Baroque -- The development of a new concept of space, time and motion: 1920s to 1930s -- Concepts of musical time in twentieth century -- Space-time compositions in music -- The formation of a new concept of musical style. The language of art in epochs of great rupture -- Music and words: new treatments -- Problems of musical syntax: Baroque - Classicism - Romanticism -- The "New musical syntax" of the twentieth century: principles and distinguishing features -- Problems of musical style: Classicism, Baroque and twentieth century. The concept of style in the age of Baroque -- New functions of musical style in the twentieth century -- The problem of style in the early decades of the twentieth century -- The "Polystylistic situation" in the second half of the 1960s -- From the "Polystylistic situation" to a "Mixed style" -- The problem of musical genre: Baroque, Classicism and the twentieth century. "In mixto genere" -- The crisis of "Absolute music" and the formation of the twentieth-century genre system -- The genre experiment -- The plurality principle -- The mixing principle -- Memory in musical genre -- In lieu of a conclusion. New syntheses.

"In this book Marina Lobanova presents the case for a new type of historical analysis - related in its methods to the new historicism in literary criticism. Embracing such aspects of cultural life as poetry and philosophy, she deals with the problems of cultural dialogue and with the disintegration of the concept of "absolute music", proposing a radical reanalysis of "old" cultural objects and the contemporary creation of "new" ones. Lobanova stresses the need for cultural theories to enter into the cultural mores of a given period rather than import contemporary ideas and prejudices." "Drawing on a wide frame of reference (baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary music), Dr. Lobanova proposes an original concept of musical syntax with special emphasis on the role of the categories of time, space and motion in music."--Jacket.

Translated from the Russian.

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