Delves into Theodor W. Adorno’s lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Comprehensive and illuminating, Orpheus in the Underworld centers on Adorno’s concrete and immediate engagement with musical compositions and their interpretation in the concert hall and elsewhere. Here, Adorno registers his initial encounters with the compositions of the Second Viennese School, when he had yet to integrate them into a broad aesthetics of music. Complementarily essays on Bela Bartók, Jean Sibelius, and Kurt Weill afford insight into his understanding of composers who did not fit neatly into the dialectical schema propounded in the Philosophy of New Music. Additionally, essays on recording and broadcasting show Adorno engaging with these media in a spirit that is no less productive than polemical and focused as sharply on their potentialities as on their shortcomings. Orpheus in the Underworld offers a captivating exploration of Adorno’s musical compositions, shedding new light on his understanding of influential composers and his critical perspectives on recording and broadcasting.
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1.Bela Bartók2.Bartók’s Dance Suite3.Remarks on a Few of Bela Bartók’s Works4.Metronomization5.Alban Berg’s Early Songs6.On The Threepenny Opera7.On Twelve-Tone Technique8.Bartók’s Third String Quartet9.A Polemical Exchange with H. H. Stuckenschmidt on the Topic of Lightheartedness10.Schoenberg: Von heute auf morgen (I)11.Schoenberg: Von heute auf morgen (II)12.Stylistic Development in Schoenberg’s Music13.Bartók14.Berg and Webern15.An Initiate’s Reply16.Brahms’s Present Importance17.Schoenberg: Songs and Piano Pieces18.Strictures on Sibelius19.Introduction to Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony20.Schoenberg’s Piano Music21.Haringer and Schoenberg22.A Letter to the Editors of the Lippsches Volksblatt Regarding Bela Bartók23.Klemperer’s Don Giovanni24.Reflections on Music Criticism25.Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole26.Orpheus in the Underworld
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ISBN
9781803093222
Publisert
2024-08-02
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Seagull Books London Ltd
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513 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
300
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