Musical Networks across Borders
The Multiplicity of Musical Creation
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- Editors: Bella Brover-Lubovsky, Irit Youngerman
- Language: English
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- Size: 6.7 x 9.4 inches
- Pages: 456
Saggi di Lawrence F. Bernstein, Peter Bloom, Bella Brover-Lubovsky, Yosef Goldenberg, Yoel Greenberg, Alexander Knapp, Yulia Kreinin, Sara Manasseh, Simon McVeigh, Malcolm Miller, Eitan Ornoy, Rimona Paul, Alon Schab, Michael Talbot, Naphtali Wagner, Irit Youngerman
Musical creativity emerges from a multitude of cultural, social and historical intersections. This collection of essays aims to highlight the fluidity of genre, style and compositional technique by expanding musical networks to encompass different forms of mobility, including movement across cultural and geographical spaces and the shifts between centre and periphery. Drawing on a variety of sources, including archival materials and fieldwork, the essays in this collection explore aspects of music-making through diverse cases, ranging from early eighteenth-century instrumental music to opera during the ‘long' nineteenth century and to the modern developments of Jewish and Israeli music. in shifting the focus from the centre to the intricate networks that foster musical creativity, individuals and works that have faded from both historiography and concert performance come into view. Thus, so-called ‘Minor composers' is one of the themes that serve as a common thread running through several essays. Other essays observe style and genre through uncommon yet illuminating lenses, revealing, for example, echoes of opera in Mahler's symphonies, or tracing the influence of Historically Informed Performance on popular video clips. Further intersections arise from placing composers in broader social, political and cultural perspectives, and in following the movement of musicians who transgressed social, cultural and geographical borders. Subsequently, paths are drawn, for example, from the virtually unknown composer-instrumentalists of early eighteenth-century London to the Russian-Jewish immigrant Samuel Alman and his activities in London's East End, where the first-ever Yiddish opera was produced in 1912; or from Berlioz and his ‘Jewish friends' to Ernest Bloch's Paris encounters that gave birth to his great project, the opera Macbeth. in highlighting a variety of possible angles and approaches, the volume reflects something of the multiplicity that is at the source of musical creation. The collection is dedicated to Jehoash Hirshberg, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and aims to reflect the diversity and breadth of his own scholarship.
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Musical Networks across Borders
