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Ravel the Decadent - Memory, Sublimation, and Desire
39,60 €
OUP USA
Sivumäärä: 272 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2012, 19.04.2012 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has always proven itself a difficult topic for scholars. The traditional stylistic categories of impressionism, symbolism, and neoclassicism, while relevant, have offered too little purchase on his fascinating but enigmatic work. Ravel the Decadent provides an innovative and productive solution by locating the aesthetic origins of this music in the French Decadence
and demonstrating the extension of this influence across the length of his oeuvre. While there are many Decadent topics, this book selects three—memory, sublimation, and desire—and uses them not only to delineate the content of this music, pinpoint its overlap with contemporary cultural discourse, and link it
to its biographical context, but also to create new methods altogether for the analysis and interpretation of music.

Ravel the Decadent opens by defining the main concepts, giving particular attention to memory and decadence. It then stakes out contrasting modes of memory in this music: a nostalgic mode that views the past as forever lost, and a more optimistic mode that imagines its resurrection and reanimation. It acknowledges Ravel's lifelong identity as a dandy—a figure that embodies the Decadence and its aspiration toward the sublime—and identifies possible moments of musical self-portraiture
before stepping back to theorize dandyism in European musical modernism at large. It then addresses the dialectic between desire and its sublimation in the pairing of two genres—the bacchanal and the idyll—and leverages the central trio of concepts to offer provocative readings of the two waltz sets, the
Valses nobles et sentimentales and La valse. It concludes by invoking the same terms to identify a topic of "faun music" that promises to create new common ground between Ravel and Debussy. Rife with close readings that will satisfy the musicologist, the book also suits a more general reader through its broadly humanistic key concepts, immersion in contemporary art and literature, and clear, direct language.

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