| Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel Contributor(s): Zank, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1580461891 ISBN-13: 9781580461894 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2009 Annotation: An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory - Music | Individual Composer & Musician |
| Dewey: 780.92 |
| LCCN: 2009028391 |
| Series: Eastman Studies in Music |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.95 lbs) 449 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |