Resultaten voor 'karol berger'
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Mahler's Symphonic World
A new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world. Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde; his tenth symphony was left incomplete at his death in 1911. Mahler's Symphonic World provocatively suggests that over his lifetime, the composer pursued a single vision and a single, ideal symphony that strived to capture his personal outlook on human existence. Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, when all trust in firm philosophical and spiritual foundations had evaporated, Mahler's music reflected a deep preoccupation with human suffering and transience and a search for sources of possible consolation. In Karol Berger's reading, each of the symphonies follows a similar trajectory, with an opening quest leading to the final unveiling of a transcendent, consolatory vision. By juxtaposing single movements--the opening Allegros, the middle movements, the Finales--across different works, Berger traces recurring plotlines and imagery and discloses the works' multiple interrelationships as well as their cohesiveness around a central idea. Ultimately, Mahler's Symphonic World locates Mahler's music within the matrix of intellectual currents that defined his epoch and offers a revelatory picture of his musical way of being in the world.
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Jenseits der Vernunft
Karol Berger setzt Wagners Musikdramen in Beziehung zu den philosophischen und kulturellen Ideen seiner Zeit und konzentriert sich dabei in einer ausführlichen und gut verständlichen Analyse auf die vier Werke, die dieser in der zweiten Hälfte seiner Karriere schuf: ¿Der Ring des Nibelungen¿, ¿Tristan und Isolde¿, ¿Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg¿ und ¿Parsifal¿. Der Autor versucht, in das Geheimnis der Großform von Wagners Musikdramen einzudringen und erzielt überraschende Ergebnisse wie die Nähe Wagners zur italienischen Oper. Bei seiner Einordnung der Musikdramen auf der ideologischen Landkarte seiner Zeit relativieren sich, ganz gegen des Autors ursprüngliche Absicht, viele Einwände von Wagners Kritikern, allen voran Nietzsche.
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A Theory of Art
What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past? A Theory of Art shifts the focus of aesthetics from the traditional debate of "what is art?" to the engaging question of "what is art for?" Skillfully describing the social and historical situation of art today, author Karol Berger argues that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a radical, acute, and revealing fashion. He also uniquely combines aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. Offering a careful synthesis of a wide breadth of scholarship from art history, musicology, literary studies, political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and written in a clear, accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the arts.
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A Theory of Art
This philosophical theory of art, addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?" to the question "What is art for?"; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. A distinctive feature of the book is its argument that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a particularly revealing fashion.
€ 241,10