From Modernism to Postmodernism: Between Universal and Local (Hardcover)

Preface ............................................................................................................................9

Postmodernism in Society and Art: An Overview ................................................17

Modernity ? Postmodernity. Controversial Core Structures

of Musical Thinking ...................................................................................................33

The Creative Practice (of Architecture): Insisting on the In-Between ................43

Globalization and/or Pluralism: But What about Musics, Their Styles,

Techniques and Musicology? ....................................................................................55

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis’ (1875?911) Musical Works as

an Example of European Modernism in its Early Stages ......................................71

Modernism at Work in Pierre Boulez’s Writings, 1948?952 ........................... 107

Rethinking Form: A Structural Analysis of Constellation-Miroir,

Formant 3 of Boulez’s Third Piano Sonata ........................................................... 127

Textual Permutation in Mauricio Kagel’s Anagrama (1957?958):

New Modes of Serial Thought ............................................................................... 153

6 Contents

Contemporary Opera and Musical Theatre on Italian Stages Between the

Second Postwar Period and the End of the 1960s: Notes for an Overview ..... 165

From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Modulation and

Correlation between Two Styles in the Context of

Musical Works by Sacred Minimalists .................................................................. 177

Modernism, Postmodernism and Globalism: Takemitsu, November Steps ..... 193

Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Requiem fur einen jungen Dichter and

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass: European and American postmodernism, or

pluralism vs. eclecticism ......................................................................................... 207

Musical Quotation as a Fundamental Way for Expressing a

Message in the Work of Alfred Schnittke ............................................................. 231

Wien Modern, Festival d’Automne a Paris, and Warsaw Autumn

after the Year 2000 in a Comparative Perspective: European or

National Forums for Contemporary Art Music and Culture? .......................... 253

A Language-Based Approach to Music and Intertextuality ............................... 267

Contemporary Music between History and Eschatology .................................. 279

Jais Kudin?Peeris Vasks as Neo-Romantic: Characteristic Style Signs of

Latvian Composer Symphonic Music in the Context of Postmodern

Culture and Art ........................................................................................................ 303

The Semantics of the Music of Anatolijus ?enderovas ....................................... 327

Different Faces of Postmodernism in the Works of Contemporary

Composers of the Gdansk Milieu ......................................................................... 337

The Way from Modernist Positions to the Intimate Lyrical Position

of the Composer Oto Ferenczy .............................................................................. 353

Lojze Lebic: Modernism and the Vernacular ...................................................... 361

Opera Mileva by Aleksandra Vrebalov: A Tale of Woman’s Otherness ........... 377