Webern & the Transformation Nature

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JohnsonCambridge University PressEdition: New e., 1/12/2008EAN 9780521027861, ISBN10: 0521027861Paperback, 288 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishThis book is about the wa y in which a society constructs an idea of nature and the role that art, and specifically music, may have in the articulation of that idea. It explores such an idea in relation to Webern, whose music has been almost exclusively portrayed as abstract and autonomous. In opposition to the exclusively formalist concerns of post-Darmstadt Webern reception, this book argues that abstraction in music is understood fully only in relation to the material, historical reality from which it abstracts, and that musical modernism is more fully understood by exposing its underground roots in the aesthetics of romanticism.Acknowledgements1. The social construction of nature2. A maternal landscapethe early works (1899–1905)3. Paradise lostthe Dehmel Lieder to Op. 11 (1906–14)4. The transformation of memorythe vocal works Op. 12-Op. 19 (1914–26)5. Ideal landscapesthe serial works Op. 20-Op. 31 (1926–43)6. Webern, nature and modernismAppendicesNotesSelect bibliographyIndex. Show more