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Book SynopsisThe book explores two radical changes of cultural and social paradigm that determined the World after 1945 – Modernism and Postmodernism. From the cataclysmic atmosphere emerged the second wave of Modernism. In art this attitude was manifested in the form of a radical break with the aesthetic and stylistic characteristics of prior generations. In architecture the International Style was born, meanwhile similar «universality» was also a characteristic of musical serialism.
From the beginning of the 1970s the wheels again began to turn in the other direction. The powerful destructive will of modernism increasingly waivered, and the period after modernism – postmodernism – began. The book answers questions related to the reasons for these turnarounds, their consequences and their implications.
Table of ContentsPreface ............................................................................................................................9
Theoretical Basis
Gregor Pompe
Postmodernism in Society and Art: An Overview ................................................17
Helmut Loos
Modernity – Postmodernity. Controversial Core Structures
of Musical Thinking ...................................................................................................33
Petra Čeferin
The Creative Practice (of Architecture): Insisting on the In-Between ................43
Nikša Gligo
Globalization and/or Pluralism: But What about Musics, Their Styles,
Techniques and Musicology? ....................................................................................55
From Modernism …
Gražina Daunoravičienė
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’ (1875–911) Musical Works as
an Example of European Modernism in its Early Stages ......................................71
Manuel Farolfi
Modernism at Work in Pierre Boulez’s Writings, 1948–952 ........................... 107
Hei Yeung John Lai
Rethinking Form: A Structural Analysis of Constellation-Miroir,
Formant 3 of Boulez’s Third Piano Sonata ........................................................... 127
Ka-man Choi
Textual Permutation in Mauricio Kagel’s Anagrama (1957–958):
New Modes of Serial Thought ............................................................................... 153
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Cristina Scuderi
Contemporary Opera and Musical Theatre on Italian Stages Between the
Second Postwar Period and the End of the 1960s: Notes for an Overview ..... 165
…to Postmodernism
Jūija Jonāe
From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Modulation and
Correlation between Two Styles in the Context of
Musical Works by Sacred Minimalists .................................................................. 177
Moeko Hayashi
Modernism, Postmodernism and Globalism: Takemitsu, November Steps ..... 193
Gregor Pompe
Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Requiem fur einen jungen Dichter and
Leonard Bernstein’s Mass: European and American postmodernism, or
pluralism vs. eclecticism ......................................................................................... 207
Jana Majerova
Musical Quotation as a Fundamental Way for Expressing a
Message in the Work of Alfred Schnittke ............................................................. 231
Simone Heilgendorff
Wien Modern, Festival d’Automne a Paris, and Warsaw Autumn
after the Year 2000 in a Comparative Perspective: European or
National Forums for Contemporary Art Music and Culture? .......................... 253
Alessandro Miani
A Language-Based Approach to Music and Intertextuality ............................... 267
Milena Bozhikova
Contemporary Music between History and Eschatology .................................. 279
Postmodernism in Eastern Europe
Jāis KudiņšPēeris Vasks as Neo-Romantic: Characteristic Style Signs of
Latvian Composer Symphonic Music in the Context of Postmodern
Culture and Art ........................................................................................................ 303
Kamilė Rupeikaitė
The Semantics of the Music of Anatolijus Šenderovas ....................................... 327
Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska
Different Faces of Postmodernism in the Works of Contemporary
Composers of the Gdańsk Milieu ......................................................................... 337
Tatiana Pirnikova
The Way from Modernist Positions to the Intimate Lyrical Position
of the Composer Oto Ferenczy .............................................................................. 353
Niall O’Loughlin
Lojze Lebič: Modernism and the Vernacular ...................................................... 361
Ira Prodanov Krajišnik
Opera Mileva by Aleksandra Vrebalov: A Tale of Woman’s Otherness ........... 377
