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Author Chornik, Katia

Title Alejo Carpentier and the musical text / Katia Chornik
Published Leeds : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (148 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; Carpentier and Music; Critical Writings; Previous Scholarship; Summary of Chapters; (Inter)disciplinary Matters; Notes to Chapter 1; 2 Music as Formative; The Primitive; The grandfather Ape; European Theories and Methodologies; Latin American Theories and Methodologies; The decline of Music; 'Birdcalls are no more singing than the howling of a dog'; The Primeval in Western Music; The evolution of Musical Instruments; The Souls of Cultures; The Quest for Primeval Music Los in pasos perdidos
'Something Far Beyond language, and Yet Still Far from Song'Reading Music Backwards; Juxtapositions between 'los orígenes de la música' Los and pasos perdidos; Notes to Chapter 2; 3 Music as Form; The Form of El acoso; Plays on Musical Timing; So, does El acoso Indeed Parallel Musical Form?; Music as an Organizing Metaphor; Notes to Chapter 3; 4 Music as Performed; The Eroica: Toying with (Mis)Understandings; The Militant Rite of Spring; 'l'Internationale': From Hatred to Redemption and Showcase; Multi-layered Ironies; Notes to Chapter 4; Conclusion; Appendix
The Origins of Musicand Primitive MusicNotes to the Appendix; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Works by Alejo Carpentier; Other Works; Index
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Subject Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980 fast
Subject Music in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American.
Music in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351577151
1351577158