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Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media / Michael Long.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California studies in 20th-century music ; 10Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: x, 311 p. : ill ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520228979 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520257207 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.6/8 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3470 .L64 2008
Contents:
Registering the classic. The expressive vernacular ; Making overtures ; Yiddishkeit and the musical ethics of cinema -- Envisioning the classic. Hearing monsters ; The fantastic, the picturesque, and the dimensions of nostalgia ; Listening in dark places ; Concertos, symphonies, rhapsodies (and an opera) -- Conclusion: sitting down with mnemosyne.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 781.68 LO BE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0039904

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index.

Registering the classic. The expressive vernacular ; Making overtures ; Yiddishkeit and the musical ethics of cinema -- Envisioning the classic. Hearing monsters ; The fantastic, the picturesque, and the dimensions of nostalgia ; Listening in dark places ; Concertos, symphonies, rhapsodies (and an opera) -- Conclusion: sitting down with mnemosyne.

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