Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire
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| Title: | Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire |
| Type of Resource: | Book, Text |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
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| Summary: | Ravel the Decadent offers a bold new perspective on the music of Maurice Ravel by locating its aesthetic origins in the French Decadence and demonstrating this influence across the length of his oeuvre. The notions of memory, sublimation, and desire are invoked to delineate the Decadent profile of this music. Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Memory, Decadence, and Music -- 1. Thematic Cyclicism and the Ravelian Finale -- 2. Reanimation and the Primal Scene -- 3. Dandy, Interrupted -- 4. Idylls and Bacchanals -- 5. Epilogism in the Valses nobles et sentimentales -- 6. Dynamism in La valse -- Conclusion: In the Footsteps of the Faun -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| ISBN: | 9780199876013 |
| Footnotes: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Data collection: | Lokale HMT-Bestände |