Description: Further DetailsTitle: Irony and SoundCondition: NewSubtitle: The Music of Maurice RavelISBN-10: 1580461891EAN: 9781580461894ISBN: 9781580461894Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/30/2009Description: An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.What is it about Boléro, Gaspard de la nuit, and Daphnis et Chloé that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so? Stephen Zank here illuminates these and other works of Maurice Ravel through several of the composer's fascinations: dynamic intensification, counterpoint, orchestration, exotic influences on Western music, and an interest in multisensorial perception. Connecting all these fascinations, Zank argues, is irony. His book offers an appreciation of Ravel's musical irony that is grounded in the vocabularies and criticism of the time and in two early attempts at writing up a "Ravel Aesthetic" by intimates of Ravel. Thomas Mann calledirony the phenomenon that is, "beyond compare, the most profound and most alluring in the world." Irony and Sound, written with insight and flair, provides a long-needed reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture. Musicologist Stephen Zank has taught at University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University of Rochester. He is the author of Maurice Ravel: A Guideto Research.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Stephen ZankGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Eastman Studies in MusicItem Weight: 1gRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Irony and Sound
Title: Irony and Sound
Subtitle: The Music of Maurice Ravel
ISBN-10: 1580461891
EAN: 9781580461894
ISBN: 9781580461894
Release Date: 10/30/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 449 Pages
Publication Name: Irony and Sound : the Music of Maurice Ravel
Language: English
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Individual Composer & Musician, Ethnic, Instruction & Study / Theory
Publication Year: 2009
Item Weight: 28.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Stephen Zank
Subject Area: Music
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Eastman Studies in Music Ser.
Format: Hardcover
