Composer and nation : the folk heritage in music /
Finkelstein, Sidney, 1909-1974.
Composer and nation : the folk heritage in music / Composer & nation by Sidney Finkelstein - New York, NY : International Publishers, c1960. - 333 pages ; 20 cm.
This book opens with the poem "Proud Music of the Storm" by Walt Whitman.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323 - 330) and index.
Introduction. Music as national expression: I. The world of music, 150 years ago and today -- II. Pride in nation and chauvinistic nationalism -- III. How music speaks -- 1. Social origins of melody: I. Folk music as realistic art -- II. Tribal chants and melodic forms -- III. Speech-inflected and rhythm controlled folk music -- IV. Families of melodies -- V. The rounded song and the rise of nations -- 2. Baroque music and popular audiences: I. Folk strains in Italian opera and instrumental music -- II. Handel's oratorios and the English middle class -- III. Bach and the divided German nation -- 3. Classic form and critique of aristocracy: I. The classic sonata form and dramatic conflicts -- II. Haydn, Mozart, and court patronage --- III. Haydn and folk music -- IV. Social criticism in Mozart's operatic music -- V. Beethoven and marketplace contradictions -- 4. Classic form and social revolution: I. Beethoven's early experiments and national ties -- II. The "poetic" principle and the democratic spirit -- III. Reaction in society and inner conflicts in music -- IV Music and history -- the Eroica Symphony -- V. The Ninth Symphony and the popular style -- 5. Patriotism and peasant music: I. Weber and the "childlike" folk -- II. Schubert and the social fund of melody -- III. Song writing and psychology -- IV. Liszt and Hungary, Chopin and Poland -- V. Glinka and Russian national consciousness -- 6. The romanticist battle for freedom: I. Classic and romantic views of the individual and society -- II. Contrasts between classic and romantic form -- III. The batle of Berlioz with society -- IV. Schumann and national expression turned inward -- V. Wagner and the nation without the people -- 7. Opera, tone poem, and politics: I. Verdi and Italian independence -- II. Smetana and the national-heroic past of Bohemia -- III. Mussorgsky and the peasantry moving in history -- 8. The search for classical balance: I. Architecture in Brahms, and subjective use of folk music -- II. Dvorak and the brotherhood of peoples -- III. Tchaikovsky, popular art and the social mind -- IV. Self-searching and modernism of Rimsky-Korsakov -- 9. The humanist crisis in the twentieth century: I. Puccini, Richard Strauss, and the lack of a critical mind -- II. Philosophical loneliness of Mahler, Schonberg, and Berg -- III. Sibelius and the freedom of Finland -- IV. Vaughan Williams and questions of English progress -- V. Ives and a vanished American tradition -- VI. Bloch and Jewish consciousness -- 10. Folk music in the revolt against romanticism: I. Debussy, Ravel and the search for a national style -- II. Fall and the Spanish poor -- III. Stravinsky and the primitivist use of folk music -- IV. Form in Villa-Lobos -- V. Janacek and the music of speech -- VI. Bartok and the Hungarian peasant tragedy -- 11. The Soviet Union and the problems of a people's music: I. Partisanship and artistic truth -- II. Experiments of the early Prokofiev -- III. Shostakovich and Soviet music in the 1930's -- IV. Harmful tendencies of the music criticism of 1936 -- V. Music and the Second World War and after -- 12. Jazz as folk and art music: I. Origins of jazz -- II. The blues -- III. The jazz age of the 1920's --IV. American national trends in the 1930's -- V. Coming breakdown of barrier between "fine" art and "popular."
"Sidney Finkelstein's contribution to the understanding of music with Composer and Nation is unusual in some respects, and well worth presenting again to a new audience. Only rarely have recent music writers looked at long spans of history. With the proliferation of scholars and the ever-increasing historical detail available from their work, the task of compiling a one-volume history of music is formidable. Well written, and intended for both the amateur as well as the musician, this volume approaches a time span of 300 years, from 1700 to the present. The presentation avoids detailed analysis of works and does not aim at complete coverage of historical detail. Instead, Finkelstein surveys major details of what is usually called the modern era from an unpretentious sociological premise, namely that musical values and the relationship of the composer to society are reflected in the musical works. It follows then that the structure and texture of the work would reflect the composer's view of society and that important musical events offer insight into contemporary social and historical currents. Finkelstein presents an outline of the era from the viewpoint of the musical sociologist. His lively writing style, in the best tradition of the amateur, and his observation post-removed from the usual musicological context make this new edition a welcome addition to musical and sociological literature." -- from online
0717806715 (pbk.) : 9780717806713
6009947
Nationalism in music.
Folk music
Music--Social aspects
Music--History and criticism
ML 3545 / .F55 1960
780
Composer and nation : the folk heritage in music / Composer & nation by Sidney Finkelstein - New York, NY : International Publishers, c1960. - 333 pages ; 20 cm.
This book opens with the poem "Proud Music of the Storm" by Walt Whitman.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323 - 330) and index.
Introduction. Music as national expression: I. The world of music, 150 years ago and today -- II. Pride in nation and chauvinistic nationalism -- III. How music speaks -- 1. Social origins of melody: I. Folk music as realistic art -- II. Tribal chants and melodic forms -- III. Speech-inflected and rhythm controlled folk music -- IV. Families of melodies -- V. The rounded song and the rise of nations -- 2. Baroque music and popular audiences: I. Folk strains in Italian opera and instrumental music -- II. Handel's oratorios and the English middle class -- III. Bach and the divided German nation -- 3. Classic form and critique of aristocracy: I. The classic sonata form and dramatic conflicts -- II. Haydn, Mozart, and court patronage --- III. Haydn and folk music -- IV. Social criticism in Mozart's operatic music -- V. Beethoven and marketplace contradictions -- 4. Classic form and social revolution: I. Beethoven's early experiments and national ties -- II. The "poetic" principle and the democratic spirit -- III. Reaction in society and inner conflicts in music -- IV Music and history -- the Eroica Symphony -- V. The Ninth Symphony and the popular style -- 5. Patriotism and peasant music: I. Weber and the "childlike" folk -- II. Schubert and the social fund of melody -- III. Song writing and psychology -- IV. Liszt and Hungary, Chopin and Poland -- V. Glinka and Russian national consciousness -- 6. The romanticist battle for freedom: I. Classic and romantic views of the individual and society -- II. Contrasts between classic and romantic form -- III. The batle of Berlioz with society -- IV. Schumann and national expression turned inward -- V. Wagner and the nation without the people -- 7. Opera, tone poem, and politics: I. Verdi and Italian independence -- II. Smetana and the national-heroic past of Bohemia -- III. Mussorgsky and the peasantry moving in history -- 8. The search for classical balance: I. Architecture in Brahms, and subjective use of folk music -- II. Dvorak and the brotherhood of peoples -- III. Tchaikovsky, popular art and the social mind -- IV. Self-searching and modernism of Rimsky-Korsakov -- 9. The humanist crisis in the twentieth century: I. Puccini, Richard Strauss, and the lack of a critical mind -- II. Philosophical loneliness of Mahler, Schonberg, and Berg -- III. Sibelius and the freedom of Finland -- IV. Vaughan Williams and questions of English progress -- V. Ives and a vanished American tradition -- VI. Bloch and Jewish consciousness -- 10. Folk music in the revolt against romanticism: I. Debussy, Ravel and the search for a national style -- II. Fall and the Spanish poor -- III. Stravinsky and the primitivist use of folk music -- IV. Form in Villa-Lobos -- V. Janacek and the music of speech -- VI. Bartok and the Hungarian peasant tragedy -- 11. The Soviet Union and the problems of a people's music: I. Partisanship and artistic truth -- II. Experiments of the early Prokofiev -- III. Shostakovich and Soviet music in the 1930's -- IV. Harmful tendencies of the music criticism of 1936 -- V. Music and the Second World War and after -- 12. Jazz as folk and art music: I. Origins of jazz -- II. The blues -- III. The jazz age of the 1920's --IV. American national trends in the 1930's -- V. Coming breakdown of barrier between "fine" art and "popular."
"Sidney Finkelstein's contribution to the understanding of music with Composer and Nation is unusual in some respects, and well worth presenting again to a new audience. Only rarely have recent music writers looked at long spans of history. With the proliferation of scholars and the ever-increasing historical detail available from their work, the task of compiling a one-volume history of music is formidable. Well written, and intended for both the amateur as well as the musician, this volume approaches a time span of 300 years, from 1700 to the present. The presentation avoids detailed analysis of works and does not aim at complete coverage of historical detail. Instead, Finkelstein surveys major details of what is usually called the modern era from an unpretentious sociological premise, namely that musical values and the relationship of the composer to society are reflected in the musical works. It follows then that the structure and texture of the work would reflect the composer's view of society and that important musical events offer insight into contemporary social and historical currents. Finkelstein presents an outline of the era from the viewpoint of the musical sociologist. His lively writing style, in the best tradition of the amateur, and his observation post-removed from the usual musicological context make this new edition a welcome addition to musical and sociological literature." -- from online
0717806715 (pbk.) : 9780717806713
6009947
Nationalism in music.
Folk music
Music--Social aspects
Music--History and criticism
ML 3545 / .F55 1960
780