Music's Monisms

Disarticulating Modernism

Music's Monisms
Daniel Albright, Alexander Rehding
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 296pg
20 Oct 2021 US
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9780226791227
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Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. In Music' s Monisms, he shows how musical and literary phenomena alike can be fruitfully investigated through the lens of monism, a philosophical conviction that does away with the binary structures we use to make sense of reality. Albright shows that despite music' s many binaries-diatonic vs. chromatic, major vs. minor, tonal vs. atonal-there is always a larger system at work that aims to reconcile tension and resolve conflict. Albright identifies a "radical monism" in the work of modernist poets such as T. S. Eliot and musical works by Wagner, Debussy, Britten, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. Radical monism insists on the interchangeability, even the sameness, of the basic dichotomies that govern our thinking and modes of organizing the universe. Through a series of close readings of musical and literary works, Albright advances powerful philosophical arguments that not only shed light on these specific figures but also on aesthetic experience in general. Music' s Monisms is a revelatory work by one of modernist studies' most distinguished figures.
"This is vintage Albright, a work of original, engaging criticism shot through with interpretive flair and sparkling erudition. This is criticism born of boundless sympathy and enthusiasm, not just of deep understanding. "-- "Stephen Hinton, Stanford University" "Music' s Monisms celebrates the power of music to transcend the oppositions of verbal language and, indeed, of everyday life. Albright presents brilliantly original readings of major works in twentieth-century music. He takes on some of the most imposing figures in music history with a wonderfully humane, and wonderfully personal, touch. "-- "Arman Schwartz, King' s College London"
Daniel Albright (1945-2015) was the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He was the author or editor of many books, including Untwisting the Serpent and Modernism and Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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ISBN-13: 9780226791227
Published: 20 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 296

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