Bartok and the Grotesque

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Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music

By: Julie Brown

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Hardcover | 28 October 2007

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The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), BartA (3)k engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that BartA (3)k's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While BartA (3)k developed each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which BartA (3)k was composing.

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'This volume is a valuable contribution to the literature that provides thought-provoking material for future research, especially regarding the interpretation of bodily meanings. ... Julie Brown has opened up a hugely fascinating area of musical modernism that remains largely unexplored.' Music and Letters

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Introduction
Bartók and the 19th century grotesque
Bartók and the body
The Mandarin's miraculous body: 'expressly for our vexation'?
The 3rd String Quartet as grotesque
Conclusion and coda: on Adorno and the grotesque
Select bibliography
Index
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Bartok and the Grotesque

Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music

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