Palestrina and the German romantic imagination : Interpreting historicism in nineteenth-century music / James Garratt.

Author/creator Garratt, James, 1974-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMusical performance and reception
Musical performance and reception. ^A522440
Contents Historicism in nineteenth-century art, aesthetics and culture. Originality: consensus or controversy? ; 'On the benefit and detriment of history' ; Hegel, historicism and the 'Decay and disintegration of art' -- Romanticism and the problem of church music. Hoffmann and the romantic idealization of Palestrina ; Palestrina and the Romantic new mythology ; Palestrina and absolute vocal music ; Palestrina and the modern composer -- The protestant Palestrina revival. Old Italian music, bildung and the German singvereine ; Quasi-liturgical music: Spohr and Nicolai ; Mendelssohn and the Berlin Palestrina revival ; Winterfeld and the historical Palestrina revival ; Broader trends in performance and composition ; Palestrina and the primacy of vocal music -- The Catholic Palestrina revival. Tradition and reform ; Witt and the Allegemeine Deutsche Cacilen-Verein ; Broader trends in composition: Palestrinianism ; Completing Palestrina: Haberl, Haller and the Gesamtausgabe ; Liturgical function and aesthetic value ; Liszt, Bruckner and the Palestrina revival -- Palestrina in the concert hall. Palestrina in secular and non-liturgical music ; Wagner's 'Stabat mater' and the poetics of arrangement ; Liszt, Wagner and allusion -- Interpreting the secondary discourse of nineteenth-century music.
Abstract Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It explores the diverse ways in which later composers responded to his works and style, and expounds a provocative new model for interpreting compositional historicism. In addition to presenting insights into the works of Bruckner, Mendelssohn and Liszt, the book offers new perspectives on the institutional, aesthetic and ideological frameworks sustaining the cultivation of choral music in this period. This is the first modern publication to provide an overview and analysis of the relation between the Palestrina revival and nineteenth-century composition, and it demonstrates that the Palestrina revival was just as significant for nineteenth-century culture as parallel movements in the other arts, such as the Gothic revival.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 296-310) and index.
LCCN 2002071579
ISBN0521807379
ISBN052100196X (pbk.)