From Modernism to Postmodernism

Katarina Bogunovi c Hoc_evar works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include the history of 19th and first half of 20th century music, the history of Slovene music and the aesthetics of music.Gregor Pompe studied comparative literature, German language and musicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. His scientific interest focuses on the problem of musical semantics, the history of opera and contemporary music.Nejc Sukljan studied musicology and general history at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He works as an Assistant at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

lt;p>Preface ............................................................................................................................9

Postmodernism in Society and Art: An Overview ................................................17

Modernity - Postmodernity. Controversial Core Structures

of Musical Thinking ...................................................................................................33

The Creative Practice (of Architecture): Insisting on the In-Between ................43

Globalization and/or Pluralism: But What about Musics, Their Styles,

Techniques and Musicology? ....................................................................................55

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis' (1875-911) Musical Works as

an Example of European Modernism in its Early Stages ......................................71

Modernism at Work in Pierre Boulez's Writings, 1948-952 ........................... 107

Rethinking Form: A Structural Analysis of Constellation-Miroir,

Formant 3 of Boulez's Third Piano Sonata ........................................................... 127

Textual Permutation in Mauricio Kagel's Anagrama (1957-958):

New Modes of Serial Thought ............................................................................... 153

6 Contents

Contemporary Opera and Musical Theatre on Italian Stages Between the

Second Postwar Period and the End of the 1960s: Notes for an Overview ..... 165

From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Modulation and

Correlation between Two Styles in the Context of

Musical Works by Sacred Minimalists .................................................................. 177

Modernism, Postmodernism and Globalism: Takemitsu, November Steps ..... 193

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem fur einen jungen Dichter and

Leonard Bernstein's Mass: European and American postmodernism, or

pluralism vs. eclecticism ......................................................................................... 207

Musical Quotation as a Fundamental Way for Expressing a

Message in the Work of Alfred Schnittke ............................................................. 231

Wien Modern, Festival d'Automne a Paris, and Warsaw Autumn

after the Year 2000 in a Comparative Perspective: European or

National Forums for Contemporary Art Music and Culture? .......................... 253

A Language-Based Approach to Music and Intertextuality ............................... 267

Contemporary Music between History and Eschatology .................................. 279

Jais Kudi sP eris Vasks as Neo-Romantic: Characteristic Style Signs of

Latvian Composer Symphonic Music in the Context of Postmodern

Culture and Art ........................................................................................................ 303

The Semantics of the Music of Anatolijus Senderovas ....................................... 327

Different Faces of Postmodernism in the Works of Contemporary

Composers of the Gdansk Milieu ......................................................................... 337

The Way from Modernist Positions to the Intimate Lyrical Position

of the Composer Oto Ferenczy .............................................................................. 353

Lojze Lebic: Modernism and the Vernacular ...................................................... 361

Opera Mileva by Aleksandra Vrebalov: A Tale of Woman's Otherness ........... 377