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This scholarly monograph examines Bartok's engagement with the grotesque across his most significant compositional works, including Bluebeard's Castle, The Wooden Prince, The Miraculous Mandarin and Cantata Profana. The grotesque emerges as a central aesthetic strategy in Bartok's music, characterised by transgressive elements, bodily transformation and semantic ambiguity. The study explores how these works feature overtly grotesque scenarios and violations of the human body, alongside instrumental pieces that employ grotesque satirical strategies. Published by Routledge as part of the Royal Musical Association Monographs series, this volume provides rigorous analysis of how Bartok navigated modernism through the distorted, hybrid forms and hyperbolic expressions of the grotesque. Essential for musicologists, Bartok scholars and anyone investigating twentieth-century compositional practice and the relationship between bodily representation and musical innovation.

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Focuses on Bartok's four major theatrical works: Bluebeard's Castle, The Wooden Prince, The Miraculous Mandarin and Cantata Profana.

Analyses how Bartok employed grotesque bodily transformations and violations as compositional strategies across opera and instrumental genres.

Examines the grotesque as an unresolvable hybrid form that challenges semantic meaning and conventional musical expression.

Part of the Royal Musical Association Monographs series, providing peer-reviewed scholarly research on classical music and modernism.

Explores the relationship between the grotesque, modernity and contradiction in early twentieth-century musical composition.

Product Specifications
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Routledge
Format
hardcover
ASIN
0754657779
Category
Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Classical Music
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
28 October 2007
Listed Since
03 July 2007

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