Transformations of Musical Modernism

Erling E. Guldbrandsen is professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo where he leads the research group, '20/21 - Musical Trajectories Today'. He has carried out research at IRCAM (Paris) and at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel) and received the King's Gold Medal for his work on Boulez. His 2006 article on Mahler and Boulez was awarded the Norwegian prize, 'Scientific Article of the Year'. He has published widely on Wagner and musical drama, musical modernism, music history, analysis, performance practice and aesthetic experience. Julian Johnson is Regius Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written five books, including Webern and the Transformation of Nature (Cambridge, 1999) and Mahler's Voices (2009). His most recent book, Out of Time: Music and the Making of Modernity (2015), considers music's constitutive relation to modernity from the sixteenth century to the present. In 2005, he was awarded the Dent Medal of the RMA for 'outstanding contributions to musicology' and, in 2013, became the first holder of the Diamond Jubilee Regius Chair of Music.

Introduction Julian Johnson and Erling E. Guldbrandsen; Part I. Rethinking Modernism: 1. The lure of the sublime: revisiting the modernist project Susan McClary; 2. Return of the repressed: particularity in early and late modernism Julian Johnson; 3. Expressionism revisited: modernism beyond the twentieth century Arnold Whittall; 4. Erik Bergman, cosmopolitanism and the transformation of musical geography Björn Heile; 5. Sharing a stage: the growing proximity between modernism and popular music David Metzer; Part II. Rewriting Modernism: 6. Ritual and Eros in James Dillon's Come live with me Michael Cherlin; 7. Montage in modernity: scattered fragments, dynamic fragments Jean-Paul Olive; 8. Transformations of appearance: suddenness and the modernist fragment Marion Hestholm; 9. Rethinking Boulez: schemes, logics and paradigms of musical modernity Edward Campbell; 10. Remembrance and prognosis in the music of György Ligeti Peter Edwards; 11. Valentin Silvestrov and the symphonic monument in ruins Samuel Wilson; Part III. Replaying Modernism: 12. Playing with transformations: Boulez's Improvisation III sur Mallarmé Erling E. Guldbrandsen; 13. Performance as critique Arnulf Christian Mattes; 14. 'Unwrapping' the voice: Cathy Berberian and John Cage's Aria Francesca Placanica; 15. Radically idiomatic instrumental practice in works by Brian Ferneyhough Anders Førisdal; 16. The ethics of performance practice in complex music after 1945 Tanja Orning.