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Author_Julie Brown
Berg's Lyric Suite
Berg’s Lyric Suite
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Cantata Profana
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Col Legno
corporeality in music
Danse Macabre
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
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Grotesque Body
Gypsy Music
Hungarian Folk Music
Hungarian Peasant Songs
Liszt's Writings
Liszt’s Writings
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malcolm
Mandarin's Music
Mandarin’s Music
Miraculous Mandarin
modernist grotesque analysis
musical
Musical Grotesque
musicology
Neudeutsche Schule
Peasant Music
Physical Culture Movement
pierrot
Pierrot Lunaire
profana
quartet
satirical musical forms
Seconda Parte
Sprach Zarathustra
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String Quartet
stylistic hybridity
Symphonie Fantastique
Throbbing Life
twentieth-century composition
Wooden Prince
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754657774
- Weight: 486g
- Dimensions: 150 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartók engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bartók's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Bartók developed each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartók was composing.
Julie Brown is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
