Harbingers of 20th-Century Neo-classicism
Harbingers of 20th-Century Neo-classicism This book proposes a new theory about the neo-classical style in music. Gade - to discuss his thesis that the main classical-romantic current of the 19th…
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Harbingers of 20th-Century Neo-classicism
This book proposes a new theory about the neo-classical style in music. Gade - to discuss his thesis that the main classical-romantic current of the 19th century in fact represents two sub-currents. The Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen has chosen three different composers - the French Camille Saint-Saens and Charles Gounod, and the Danish Niels W.
In close readings of works by these three composers, Hansen demonstrates how in different aspects they were harbingers of the neo-classical style - a style that is usually exemplified through later composers like Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith and the members of the French group Les Six. One sub-current focusing on the romantic aspects, the other focusing on the classical aspects of its musical style. Hansen labels these harbingers' style as retro-classicism.
Finn Egeland Hansen's doctoral dissertation was on The Grammar of