{"product_id":"centre-and-periphery-roots-and-exile-interpreting-the-music-of-istvan-anhalt-gyorgy-kurtag-and-sandor-veress-9781554585823","title":"Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919-2012), György Kurtág (1926-), and Sándor Veress (1907-92). Although all three composers are of Hungarian origin, their careers followed radically different paths. Whereas, Kurtág remained in Budapest for most of his career, Anhalt and Veress left: the former in 1946 and immigrated to Canada and the latter in 1948 and settled in Switzerland. All three composers have had an extraordinary impact in the cultural environments within which their work took place.  \u003cp\u003e In the first section, \"\"Place and Displacement,\"\" contributors examine what happens when composers and their music migrate in the culturally complex world of the late twentieth century. The past one hundred years produced record numbers of refugees, and this fact is now beginning to resonate in the study of music. As Anhalt himself forcefully asserts, however, not all composers who emigrate should be understood as exiles. The first chapters of this book explore some of the problems and questions surrounding this issue. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Essays in the second section, \"\"Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation,\"\" look at how performing acts of interpretation on music implies bringing the time, place, and identity of the musician, the analyst, and the teacher to bear on the object of study. Like Kodály, Kurtág considers his work to be \"\"naturally\"\" embedded in Hungarian culture, but he is also a quintessentially European artist. Much of his production - he is one of the twentieth century's most prolific composers of vocal music - involves the setting of Hungarian texts, but in the late 1970s his cultural horizons expanded to include texts in Russian, German, French, English, and ancient Greek. The book explores how musicologists' divergent cultural perspectives impinge on the interpretation of this work. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The final section, \"\"The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music,\"\" examines the impact time and memory can have on notions of place and identity in music. All living art taps into the personal and collective past in one way or another. The final four chapters look at various aspects of this relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Examples\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Plates and Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction  Friedemann Sallis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 István Anhalt: A Character Sketch  John Beckwith (University of Toronto)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Kurtág, as I Know Him  Gergely Szokolay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 \"\"A Kind of Musical Autobiography\"\": Reading Traces in Sándor Veress's \u003ci\u003eOrbis tonorum\u003c\/i\u003e  Claudio Veress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlace and Displacement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Of the Centre, Periphery; Exile, Liberation; Home and the Self  István Anhalt (Queen's University)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 István Anhalt's Kingston Triptych  Robin Elliott (University of Toronto)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 István Anhalt's \u003ci\u003eThe Tents Of Abraham\u003c\/i\u003e: Where Music Cannot Heal, Let It Be Restored  William Benjamin (University of British Columbia)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Which Displacement? Tracing Exile in the Postwar Compositions of István Anhalt and Mátyás Seiber  Florian Scheding (University of Southampton)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Letters to America  Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway, University of London)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 Roots and Routes: Travel and Translation in István Anhalt's Operas  Gordon Smith (Queen's University)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Le fonds István Anhalt (MUS 164) à Bibliothéque et Archives Canada : auto-construction du compositeur et rôle du lieu dans son oeuvre  Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor (Bibliothéque et archives Canada)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 Sewing Earth to Sky: István Anhalt and the Pedagogy of Transformation  Austin Clarkson (York University)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 György Kurtág's \u003ci\u003eJátékok\u003c\/i\u003e: A \"\"Voyage\"\" into the Child's Musical Mind  Stefano Melis (Conservatorio di musica \"\"L. Canepa\"\" di Sassari)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 Arracher la figure au figuratif: la musique vocale de György Kurtág  Alvaro Oviedo (Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Dénis) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 Dirges and Ditties: György Kurtág's Latest Settings of Poetry by Anna Akhmatova  Julia Galieva-Szokolay (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 Interpreting György Kurtág and George Crumb: Through the Looking Glass  Dina Lentsner (Capital University, Columbus, Ohio)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16 György Kurtág et Walter Benjamin : considérations sur l'aura dans la musique  Jean-Paul Olive (Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Dénis)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 What Presence of the Past? Artistic Autobiography in György Kurtág's Music  Ulrich Mosch (Paul Sacher Foundation)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18 \"\"Listening to inner voices\"\": István Anhalt's \u003ci\u003eSonance•Resonance (Welche Töne?)\u003c\/i\u003e  Alan Gillmor (Carleton University)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19 Music Written from Memory in the Late Work of István Anhalt  Friedemann Sallis (University of Calgary)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinal Word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 On Doubleness and Life in Canada: An Interview with István Anhalt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188669243735,"sku":"9781554585823","price":32.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/centre-and-periphery-roots-and-exile-interpreting-the-music-of-istvan-anhalt-gyorgy-kurtag-and-sandor-veress-9781554585823","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}