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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Neoclassicism"”.
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“I Shan't Ever Play Down These Influences”: Poulenc’s Neoclassicism as Musical Legacy
<p>Leaving behind an abundance of primary documents, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) reveals himself to be a colorful, opinionated composer, with an intriguing mindset regarding the role of twentieth-century composers. Poulenc’s writings place importance on the idea of musical legacy, where engaging …
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Irreverent Faith: Neoclassicism, Catholicsm, and Humor in Francis Poulenc's Sacred Choral-Orchestral Works
Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) music, along with that of his early twentieth-century French contemporaries, occupies a unique place in the classical music canon. Its accessibility, and often its humor, led many scholars and performers to downplay his music's importance, especially with its …
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Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth
<p>This paper does a comparative study of literary conventions in the eighteenth century realism. The central works of this paper are John Cleland’s two novels and two of William Hogarth’s engraving series. The paper gives an overview of theories on realism from the Greek philosophers, Aristotle …
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Aesthetics of neoclassicism and populism in chamber works for woodwinds by Charles Koechlin and Francis Poulenc, 1918-1939
The interwar period in France was a time of turmoil and discovery. The end of World War I began a politicizing of the culture that extended to the farthest reaches of the arts. The question of what is authentically French became and all encompassing obsession for intellectuals as well as those …
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Joseph Messner's organ music: evolution of a style
… elements of late-romanticism and an emerging neoclassicism. This paper analyses the works in regards to form, stylistic elements, and performance issues in addition to establishing the historical contexts from which they originated.
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet
… the wide range of styles and genres, including neoclassicism, expressionism, and polytonality, that can be derived from Eastern-European folk-songs. In this regard, the program itself highlights the relevance of folk-music as a viable source of inspiration for artistic expression.
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STRAVINSKY’S NEO-CLASSICISM AND HIS WRITING FOR THE VIOLIN IN SUITE ITALIENNE AND DUO CONCERTANT
… Concertant. In these works, Stravinsky’s use of neoclassicism is revealed in two opposite ways. In Suite Italienne, Stravinsky based the composition upon actual music from the eighteenth century. In Duo Concertant, Stravinsky followed the stylistic features of the eighteenth century without …
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Technology and form : iron construction and transformation of architectural ideals in nineteenth century France, 1830-1889.
… of iron construction paralleled the crisis of neoclassicism, in which an ambiguous compromise between classical formal norms and modem science and technology was already manifest in the iron reinforced lintel. In the crisis of neoclassicism, iron, with its impact on both technological and …
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SYMPHONY NO. 2 “SYMPHONY OF CHORALES” BY LUKAS FOSS: A STUDY IN COLLAGE AND MUSICAL BORROWING
… to merge two identities, his Stravinskian Neoclassicism and his improvisation-influenced experimentalism. The mature Foss is first able to blend these two disparate styles with the premiere of American Cantata in 1976, while his third (1991) and fourth (1995) symphonies show a mastery of …
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Abijail de Andrade: artísta plástica do Rio de Janeiro no século xix
… of academic teaching reached its peak, imposing neoclassicism as a predominant style. As masculine authority ruled society, it was difficult for women to exceed in the fine arts. In this context, we present the biography of the artist Abigail de Andrade, precursor of Social Realism was this …
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A Historical and Analytical Examination of the Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments, with a Guide to Performance Preparation of the Two Trumpet Parts
… the origin of the Octet and its role in neoclassicism. Chapter 3 discusses the role of the Octet in the wind ensemble and orchestral repertoire, and includes a representative performance history, including the premiere. Chapter 4 provides analytical insights into the construction and …
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Word and Song: The Paradox of Romanticism
… mediums, address the apparent rejection of Neoclassicism, the apex of Romanticism, and the realization of its limitations. The result is the revelation of the paradox of Romanticism. For each artist, the realization of the Romantic spirit presents contrasts. Ultimately, the rejection of …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… rise of partisanship, the triumph of reason and neoclassicism that followed in the wake of civil war and revolution produced imaginative writing defined by sharp oppositions, by clarity and exactness, by the concrete and not the metaphorical, or so literary history has often told us. "The Poetics …
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… experimented with various modernist approaches, Neoclassicism being the most prominent; his ‘jazz period’ (1927–31), which produced a series of concert works combining jazz elements with an angular, sometimes harsh, Neoclassical language; and his mature period (1932–51), in which he integrated …
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… experimented with various modernist approaches, Neoclassicism being the most prominent; his ‘jazz period’ (1927–31), which produced a series of concert works combining jazz elements with an angular, sometimes harsh, Neoclassical language; and his mature period (1932–51), in which he integrated …
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The Strange and the Familiar: Shakespeare as a Point of Anglo-Germanic Cultural Exchange
… and heavy resistance from proponents of French Neoclassicism, Shakespeare became an indispensable part of the German literary and theatrical worlds. This was due in part to German writers’ construction of Shakespeare in terms more palatable to their countrymen, terms that grew to represent not …
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… in the midnineteenth century at the height of neoclassicism, subsuming their works and histories under the connotations of its words. Instead of simply permitting us to name these sculptors, `white, marmorean flock' raises both a problem of historiography, as a study of the exclusion of the …
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Passé recomposé: Neoclassical Sonata Form in Interwar France
… emphasis on the notion of time. At the heart of neoclassicism is the exploration of temporality: a desire to situate oneself historically, and a preoccupation with the experience of time. Form becomes the arena where historical and musical time are explored. In this repertoire, once the …
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William Robert Ware and the beginnings of architectural education in the United States, 1861-1881
… to emulate those of the Ecole, and the eclectic neoclassicism of the Beaux-Arts began to predominate in students' drawings. The Department of Architecture at M.I.T. in these earliest years functioned best in providing a one- or two-year course of special study for persons who were graduates of …
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The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century
… chart a movement from the age of Augustanism and neoclassicism to that of sensibility and proto-Romanticism. From Burns' work to that of Walter Scott, John Galt and James Hogg we highlight Scottish writers making creative capital from the difficult and fractured Scottish identity and seeing this …
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