Overview
Examines the connections between musical modernism and German cinema from the Autorenfilm movement (1913-14) through the dawn of the recorded sound film (1932-33)
Analyses a corpus of original compositions, films, and aesthetic writings
Documents how modernist composers from the Austro-German area approached film music composition and engaged with cinema as an aesthetic phenomenon
Reconstructs the connections between modernist composers and the film music universe through historically verifiable collaborations
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, actually had a significant relationship with cinema. True, it was a complex and contradictory relationship in which cinema often emerged more as an aesthetic point of reference than an objective reality; nonetheless, the reception of the language and aesthetic of cinema had significant influence on the domain of music. Between 1913 and 1933, Modernist composers’ exploration of cinema reached such a degree of pervasiveness and consistency as to become a true aesthetic paradigm, a paradigm that sat at the very heart of the Modernist project. In this insightful volume, Finocchiaro shows that the creative confrontation with the avant-garde medium par excellence can be regarded as a vector of musical Modernism: a new aesthetic paradigm for the very process – of deliberate misinterpretation, creative revisionism, and sometimes even intentional subversion of the Classic-Romantic tradition – which realized the “dream of Otherness” of the Modernist generation.
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Book Title: Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933
Authors: Francesco Finocchiaro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58262-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58261-0Published: 18 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86362-7Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58262-7Published: 16 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 259
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Screen Studies, Music, European Culture, Cultural History