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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel
- Publication Date
- 2009-10-30
- Pages
- 449
- ISBN
- 9781580461894
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Rochester Medical Press
ISBN-10
1580461891
ISBN-13
9781580461894
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65820359
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
449 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Irony and Sound : the Music of Maurice Ravel
Publication Year
2009
Subject
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Individual Composer & Musician, Instruction & Study / Theory, Ethnic
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music
Series
Eastman Studies in Music Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-028391
Reviews
An accomplished, handsome, and thorough book. . . . Zank has clearly mastered [Ravel's output] fully, usually providing insightful musical examples in the course of each of his chapters. Ravel's manipulation of dynamics [and other musical parameters] as a means of building irony into musical sound becomes clear through Zank's able analysis. H-FRANCE-NET [Kelly Maynard] Read the complete review at http://h-france.net/vol11reviews/vol11no83Maynard.pdf A thoughtful and important contribution to Ravel studies and a welcome respite from the customary "life and works" approach. . . . A careful reading of the "Aoua" movement from the Chansons madécasses is one of Zank's most penetrating. . . . Raises crucial questions in [the] final pages. . . . Scholars, enthusiasts, and intrepid general readers will discover illuminating insights that will provide fruitful paths for further inquiry. MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES [Keith E. Clifton] Irony and Sound is one of finest studies of Ravel ever written. Subtly, eruditely, Stephen Zank puts into play a great many definitions of irony, definitions ample enough to cover almost the whole range of Ravel's aesthetic -- including maybe the greatest of Ravel's ironies: his way of limiting himself to a rigidly inflected, virtuosic surface of sound, depthless, but suggesting depth by means of anamorphoses or rebuses imprinted on the surface. --Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University and author of Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres (University of Rochester Press) Filled with detailed insight into the thought world of Ravel and his time, and, best of all, close reading of the music. . . . Most illuminating. . . . Can be read with profit by anyone interested in the composer's work. . . . [The chapter on synaesthesia] is certainly one of the best expositions of this complex notion. . . . This book gives a full picture of Ravel and the intellectual issues of his circle. FANFARE, Irony and Sound is one of finest studies of Ravel ever written. Subtly, eruditely, Stephen Zank puts into play a great many definitions of irony, definitions ample enough to cover almost the whole range of Ravel's aesthetic -- including maybe the greatest of Ravel's ironies: his way of limiting himself to a rigidly inflected, virtuosic surface of sound, depthless, but suggesting depth by means of anamorphoses or rebuses imprinted on the surface. --Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University and author of Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres (University of Rochester Press), A thoughtful and important contribution to Ravel studies and a welcome respite from the customary 'life and works' approach. . . . A careful reading of the 'Aoua' movement from the Chansons madécasses is one of Zank's most penetrating. . . . Raises crucial questions in [the] final pages. . . . Scholars, enthusiasts, and intrepid general readers will discover illuminating insights that will provide fruitful paths for further inquiry., A thoughtful and important contribution to Ravel studies and a welcome respite from the customary 'life and works' approach. . . . A careful reading of the 'Aoua' movement from the Chansons mad casses is one of Zank's most penetrating. . . . Raises crucial questions in [the] final pages. . . . Scholars, enthusiasts, and intrepid general readers will discover illuminating insights that will provide fruitful paths for further inquiry.
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
66
Illustrated
Yes
Volume Number
Vol. 66
Dewey Decimal
780.92
Table Of Content
Introduction"Gentle Irony"Simple Sound: Ravel and "Crescendo"Opposed Sound: Ravel and CounterpointDisplaced Sound: Ravel and RegistrationPlundered Sound: Ravel and the ExoticSound and Sense: Ravel and Synaesthesia"Secrets of Modernity": Irony and StyleAppendix: Ravel's 1902 Prix de Rome FugueNotesBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
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., An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture., 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 ., What is it about Bol ro, Gaspard de la nuit, and Daphnis et Chlo 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 called irony 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 Guide to Research.
LC Classification Number
ML410.R23Z36 2009
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