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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"musical modernism"”.
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National Identity Formation and Musical Modernism in Post-World War II Korea
… cultural rebuilding, was manifested in the musical works and careers of Korean composers who engaged with modern art music of the West. In exploring this question, my dissertation presents a cultural history of the translation of twentieth-century European musical modernism into the Korean …
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Edino Krieger's solo piano works from the 1950s : a dialectical synthesis in Brazilian musical modernism
… in the aesthetic-historical context of Brazilian musical nationalism. By way of introduction, this work traces the origins of this cultural trend as it emerged from earlier examples of Romantic Nationalism, with reference to works by Brasílio Itiberê, Alexandre Levy and Alberto Nepomuceno, still …
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Historicist Composition for the Catholic Church: France and Belgium, 1894–1937
… to a wider problem in contemporaneous European musical culture, that of how to write in the shadow of an ever-expanding canon. Subsequent chapters turn to more technical discourse on historicist composition. Chapter 2 retraces the aspirations of church composers to invent a new style of choral …
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Purely Sonorous: The Rhetoric of Sound in Twentieth-Century Music
… which is figured as subordinating sound to musical language. In this thesis, I call this tendency ‘sonicism’. I analyse the rhetoric of sonicism on the level both of discourse and of compositional technique. The analysis is comparative: modernist concert music, electroacoustic/electronic …