Transformations of Musical Modernism

Contents

• Introduction Julian Johnson and Erling E. Guldbrandsen;
• Part I . Rethinking Modernism:
• 1. The lure of the sublime: revisiting the modernist project Susan McClary;
• 2. Return of the repressed: particularity in early and late modernism Julian Johnson;
• 3. Expressionism revisited: modernism beyond the twentieth century Arnold Whittall;
• 4. Erik Bergman, cosmopolitanism and the transformation of musical geography Björn Heile;
• 5. Sharing a stage: the growing proximity between modernism and popular music David Metzer;
• Part II . Rewriting Modernism:
• 6. Ritual and Eros in James Dillon's Come live with me Michael Cherlin;
• 7. Montage in modernity: scattered fragments, dynamic fragments Jean-Paul Olive;
• 8. Transformations of appearance: suddenness and the modernist fragment Marion Hestholm;
• 9. Rethinking Boulez: schemes, logics and paradigms of musical modernity Edward Campbell;
• 10. Remembrance and prognosis in the music of György Ligeti Peter Edwards;
• 11. Valentin Silvestrov and the symphonic monument in ruins Samuel Wilson;
• Part III . Replaying Modernism:
• 12. Playing with transformations: Boulez's Improvisation III sur Mallarmé Erling E. Guldbrandsen;
• 13. Performance as critique Arnulf Christian Mattes;
• 14. 'Unwrapping' the voice: Cathy Berberian and John Cage's Aria Francesca Placanica;
• 15. Radically idiomatic instrumental practice in works by Brian Ferneyhough Anders Førisdal;
• 16. The ethics of performance practice in complex music after 1945 Tanja Orning.