Roberto Gerhard
Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in Exile
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2022
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-0-19-726713-4 (ISBN)
Description
Gerhard was one of the most visionary composers of the twentieth century drawing together ideas from science, philosophy, and the arts into an oeuvre that encompasses the folk song of his native Catalonia, to serialism and electronic music. The composer lived through some of the most tumultuous times in recent memory including the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War as an exile in England. This edited volume uniquely brings together specialists in Spanish cultural studies, exile, musicology, and analysis to explore how these events and the post-war cultural and political climate shaped Gerhard's life and work.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
31 figures
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
642 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-726713-4 (9780197267134)
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Persons
Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield. He has written and edited books on the relationship between art and music, ambient music, the work of Roberto Gerhard as well as journal articles on the aesthetics of digital music for Organised Sound and the Journal of Music Technology and Education, book chapters on music education, mixed music, and the electronic music of Christopher Fox. Adkins is also active as a composer and sound designer.
Rachel E. Mann is an Assistant Professor of music theory at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and has held appointments at the University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University at Albany. Her research interests include music theory pedagogy, educational technology, and the music and writings of Roberto Gerhard. She is a reader for the AP Music Theory Exam and Senior Content Developer for the software app Harmonia by Illiac Software, which has received major funding from the National Science Foundation. Her research is published by Ashgate, Cambridge Scholars Press, Routledge, and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
Rachel E. Mann is an Assistant Professor of music theory at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and has held appointments at the University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University at Albany. Her research interests include music theory pedagogy, educational technology, and the music and writings of Roberto Gerhard. She is a reader for the AP Music Theory Exam and Senior Content Developer for the software app Harmonia by Illiac Software, which has received major funding from the National Science Foundation. Her research is published by Ashgate, Cambridge Scholars Press, Routledge, and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
Content
i: Rachel E. Mann and Monty Adkins: Introduction
1: Monty Adkins: Gerhard's Cultural Milieu: An Explorer and a Survivor
2: Sebastiaan Faber: The Forgotten Legacies of Spanish Civil War Exile: Dispersed, Diverse, Divided
3: Magda Polo Pujadas: The Musical Aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914-1938)
4: Benjamin K. Davies: Between Heuristic and Hypostatisation
5: Francis Lough: National Identity and Spanish Republican Exile
6: Samuel Llano: Exile, Music, and Cultural Translation: Gerhard's Transnational Chronotopes
7: Leticia Sanchez de Andres: Roberto Gerhard's First Decade of Exile (1939-49): Rootlessness and Survival
8: Mark E. Perry: Gerhard as Composer in Exile
9: Judy-Ann Desrosiers: Memoir of The Spanish Civil War: A Political Reading of Roberto Gerhard's Ballet Pandora
10: Mari Paz Balibrea: 'Staple of the Contemporary Music Scene': Roberto Gerhard in Geopolitical Perspective
11: Marco Ramelli: The Influence of the Spanish Civil War in Gerhard's Guitar Music
12: Belen Perez Castillo: Roberto Gerhard's Cantares: Seven Songs of Absence ... and a Presence
13: Julian White: 'Smiling Bravely at the Night': Roberto Gerhard's S ymphony No. 3, 'Collages' and Albert Camus's 'Retour a Tipasa'
14: Rachel E. Mann: A Voice Apart: Constructing a Cosmopolitan Identity in Exile
1: Monty Adkins: Gerhard's Cultural Milieu: An Explorer and a Survivor
2: Sebastiaan Faber: The Forgotten Legacies of Spanish Civil War Exile: Dispersed, Diverse, Divided
3: Magda Polo Pujadas: The Musical Aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914-1938)
4: Benjamin K. Davies: Between Heuristic and Hypostatisation
5: Francis Lough: National Identity and Spanish Republican Exile
6: Samuel Llano: Exile, Music, and Cultural Translation: Gerhard's Transnational Chronotopes
7: Leticia Sanchez de Andres: Roberto Gerhard's First Decade of Exile (1939-49): Rootlessness and Survival
8: Mark E. Perry: Gerhard as Composer in Exile
9: Judy-Ann Desrosiers: Memoir of The Spanish Civil War: A Political Reading of Roberto Gerhard's Ballet Pandora
10: Mari Paz Balibrea: 'Staple of the Contemporary Music Scene': Roberto Gerhard in Geopolitical Perspective
11: Marco Ramelli: The Influence of the Spanish Civil War in Gerhard's Guitar Music
12: Belen Perez Castillo: Roberto Gerhard's Cantares: Seven Songs of Absence ... and a Presence
13: Julian White: 'Smiling Bravely at the Night': Roberto Gerhard's S ymphony No. 3, 'Collages' and Albert Camus's 'Retour a Tipasa'
14: Rachel E. Mann: A Voice Apart: Constructing a Cosmopolitan Identity in Exile