Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century

This book offers a fresh discussion of the methodology of music historiography. So far historiographical methodology has always depended on other fields within humanities (especially on history) to a degree where it moved the focus of its thought away from the musical work's structure and away from the musical work itself. Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century looks at musical structures in its cultural context, using different methodological models for the interpretation of the subsequent phases of the twentieth-century musical modernism.

Autorentext

Maciej Golab is Head of the Department of Musicology and Professor of Musicology at the University of Wroclaw. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century music history and theory, Chopin studies, and methodology of musicological research.

Inhalt

Contents: What is history of modernism? - The birth of modernism - A modernism like all others - Modernism enslaved - A different modernism - Freed modernism.