Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources - Tapa dura

"I highly recommend Daniel Albright's collection as a useful set of texts for any course dealing with Modernism, especially Modernism in music. In no other place are so many important writings gathered together, and students will find the introductory and explanatory material extremely helpful when beginning their studies."--Alan Shockley "Fontes Artis Musicae " "In Modernism and Music, Albright assigns the full flush of Modernism to the period 1890-1910, identifying 1894 as a watershed year in the history of music (Debussy's Pr lude l'apr s-midi d'un faune, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel). He is, however, perfectly justified in including earlier, hugely influential works such as Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Wagner's Beethoven (1870), and Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal (1857) in his scope. . . . Albright's range of reference extends that indicated by the table of contents, covering everything from Augustine to Abate, Boethius to Berlioz. The commentaries that link this diverse assembly do so with elegance and purpose. . . . A virtually error-free work of reference."--Thomas Mansell, Yearbook of English Studies--Thomas Mansell "Yearbook of English Studies "

This work offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others - all of which combine with Daniel Albright's commentary to place modernist music in the full context of intellectual history.