Musical Style and Genre: History and Modernity

Contents

• Introduction; History and the present day; The problem of cultural dialogue;
• Section 01 1. Unprecedented Reality: Innovation, Tradition and Style in Epochs of Great Rupture;
• Section 01 -01-01 "Something has come to an end";
• Section 01 -01-02 The antinomies of Baroque;
• Section 01 -01-03 Innovation - tradition - culture;
• Section 01 -01-04 Baroque "conservatives" and "modernists";
• Section 01 -01-05 Innovation in twentieth-century culture;
• Section 01 -01-06 Tradition: the preservation and transformation of culture;
• Section 01 -01-07 Culture and memory;
• Section 02 2. The Principles of Musical Poetics - Baroque and the Twentieth Century;
• Section 02 -01-01 The concept of music;
• Section 02 -01-02 "Music" in the age of Baroque;
• Section 02 -01-03 "Music" in the twentieth century;
• Section 02 -01-04 The "musica politica" of the twentieth century;
• Section 02 -01-05 "Seeing" or "hearing"?;
• Section 02 -01-06 Space - time - motion;
• Section 02 -01-07 Concepts of space, time and motion in the age of Baroque;
• Section 02 -01-08 The development of a new concept of space, time and motion: 1920s to 1930s;
• Section 02 -01-09 Concepts of musical time in the twentieth century;
• Section 02 -01-10 Space-time compositions in music;
• Section 03 3. The Formation of a New Concept of Musical Style;
• Section 03 -01-01 The language of art in epochs of great rupture;
• Section 03 -01-02 Music and words: new treatments;
• Section 03 -01-03 Problems of musical syntax: Baroque - Classicism - Romanticism;
• Section 03 -01-04 The "new musical syntax" of the twentieth century: principles and distinguishing features;
• Section 04 4. Problems of Musical Style: Classicism, Baroque and the Twentieth Century;
• Section 04 -01-01 The concept of style in the age of Baroque;
• Section 04 -01-02 New functions of musical style in the twentieth century;
• Section 04 -01-03 The problem of style in the early decades of the twentieth century;
• Section 04 -01-04 The "polystylistic situation" in the second half of the 1960s;
• Section 04 -01-05 From the "polystylistic situation" to a "mixed style";
• Section 05 5. The Problem of Musical Genre: Baroque, Classicism and the Twentieth Century;
• Section 05 -01-01 "In mixto genere";
• Section 05 -01-02 The crisis of "absolute music" and the formation of the twentieth-century genre system;
• Section 05 -01-03 The genre experiment;
• Section 05 -01-04 The plurality principle;
• Section 05 -01-05 The mixing principle;
• Section 05 -01-06 Memory in musical genre;
• conclusion In Lieu of a Conclusion; New syntheses; Appendices; Tables; Diagrams; Index;