Neo-Mythologism in Music: From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb

Victoria Bowles

doi:10.1017/9781576472811

Neo-Mythologism in Music

From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb

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Victoria Bowles

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: June 2018
Print publication year:: 2007
Online ISBN:: 9781576472811
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781576472811

Subjects:: Music, Music: General Interest

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This investigation aims to demonstrate how it is much more rewarding to view quintessential Western composers in a culturally non-purist and non-exclusive context, rather than insist on incongruity of independent cultural experiences. It has customarily been hard to overcome the divisions between the mind of a highly sophisticated art-musician and the mind of an aboriginal maker of music, myth, and ritual. Both neo-mythologism and neo-ritualism of the twentieth century clearly provide foundations for transcending the cultural borders. The role of mythification in compositional processes has remained outside the main focus of musicology. This book examines the different aspects of composers' thoughts from philosophical views and theoretical systems to operatic librettos and the musical fabric itself, including form, pitch organization, and instrumentation.

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Neo-Mythologism in Music

From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xvi

I - Neo-Mythologism: a Hermeneutic Construct and a Historic Trend
pp 1-26

II - The Prime Structuring “Molds”of Myth and Music
pp 27-76

III - Towards the Universality of Myth
pp 77-112

IV - In Search of the Lost Union: Word–Myth–Music
pp 113-136

V - Cosmologies
pp 137-182

VI - Numerology
pp 183-200

VII - “Where Time Turns Into Space”: The Mythologem of a Circle
pp 201-240

VIII - Reception and Critique
pp 241-264

Appendix 1 - An interview with George Crumb
pp 265-272

Appendix 2 - The English translation of the texts by García Lorca from George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children
pp 273-274

Appendix 3 - Text excerpts from Stockhausen's Licht
pp 275-276

Selected bibliography
pp 277-286

List of Illustrations
pp 287-290

Index
pp 291-299

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