Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries
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Accademia Degli Incogniti
Alessandro Stradella
Author_Ljubica Ilic
Berio's Piece
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Claudio Monteverdi
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Die Jakobsleiter
Early Modern Music
Early Modern Predecessors
Electro-acoustic Music
Electroacoustic Music
Elektronische Musik
Emotional Exhaustion
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European art music
Functional Ego
Groupe De Recherches Musicale
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John Bokina
John's Decapitation
La Pellegrina
Laborintus II
Luciano Berio
Main Character
Maria Rika Maniates
musical narrative theory
Musical Rhetoric
phenomenology of music
selfhood and identity in music
Seventeenth Century Piece
subjectivity in composition
Threepenny Opera
twentieth-century modernism
Und Fall Der Stadt Mahagonny
unresolved musical forms analysis
Vos Omnes
Product details
- ISBN 9781409407614
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity. The focus is on European art music whose grand narrative, defined by tonality and teleological development, begins in the seventeenth century and ends with twentieth-century modernisms. This particular musical "language game" coincides with historical changes in the phenomenological understanding of space and selfhood. A key concept of the book concerns musical compositions that remain without proper conclusions: if the wholesome (musical) work is a manifestation of wholesome subjectivity, the pieces Ilic explores deny it, reflecting conflict of the individual with previous beliefs, with contexts, and even within the self as the basic modern condition. The musical work is, in this case, still bounded and well-defined, but fractured by the incapability or refusal to satisfactorily conclude: the implicit cut forced upon it changes the expected musical flow or - speaking in spatial terms - it influences the musical form. By using the metaphor of space, Ilic explores: how the existence of a separate self as a primary feature of Western modernity becomes negotiated through awareness of the subject's own independence and individuality; innerness as something entirely separate from its surroundings; and the collective space of social interaction. Seeing musical storytelling as a metaphoric representation of selfhood, and modernity as a historical continuum, Ilic examines the boundaries and relationships between the musical work, the subject, and modern European history.
Ljubica Ilic holds degrees from the University of Arts in Belgrade (BA in musicology) and University of California, Los Angeles (MA and PhD in musicology), where she was a Chancellor’s fellow. Ilic was an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2008), and a visiting professor in the department of musicology at UCLA (2008-2009).
