Edward Elgar, Modernist

(Part of the Music in the Twentieth Century Series)

by Paul Harper-Scott and J.P.E. Harper-Scott

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The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. Focusing on Elgar's music rather than his life, Harper-Scott blends the hermeneutic and existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger with music-analytical methods derived from Heinrich Schenker and James Hepokoski. In the course of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521107547

ISBN13:9780521107549

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.96 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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