Neo-mythologism in Music: From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and CrumbPendragon Press, 2007 - 299 pages Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- I Neo-Mythologism: a Hermeneutic Construct and a Historic Trend -- Defining the Term: "Neo-Mythologism" as Assertion of Myth's Artistic Validity -- The Diachronic Perspective -- Remythification in Literature -- Early-Twentieth-Century Approaches to Myth in Music -- Creative Mythology During the Age of Disintegration -- Late-Twentieth-Century Approaches to Myth in Music -- The Role of Jungian Psychoanalysis in Neo-Mythologism -- Forerunners of Neo-Mythologism Prior to the Twentieth Century -- Wagner -- Scriabin -- The Synchronic Perspective -- Mythologems -- The Operational Modes and Archetypes of (Neo- )Mythic Thought -- II The Prime Structuring "Molds"of Myth and Music -- Binary Opposition -- Hindemith's Oppositive Thinking: Is Mediation Possible on Earth? -- Schoenberg, the Mediator of Opposites -- Other Instances of the Binary Opposition at Work -- The Idea of Symmetry and Mythological Twins -- The Odd and Even from Stravinsky to Reich -- Mythic Repetitiveness and Musical Ostinato -- The Mythologem of the World Tree as the Model for a Musical Score -- The Meaning of Ostinato in Minimalism: Steve Reich's The Desert Music -- "The Quest for the Invariant": Variability and Combinatoriality -- III Towards the Universality of Myth -- "Wie ein Naturlaut": Reaching Beyond Culture -- Crumb's "Evocation of Nature": Drones -- Imagining the Pre-Cultural: Babbitt's Philomel -- The Composer as "Archaeologist of Culture"--The Mythic "World Body" and the Idea of Global Communication -- From Universal Nature to Universal Culture -- Polystylistics in its Mythological Function: Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms -- The Tower of Babel -- IV In Search of the Lost Union: Word-Myth-Music -- Assonance and Alliteration -- Babbling, the Language of Magic -- Mythic Power of Names in Stockhausen's Licht |
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Contents
a Hermeneutic Construct and a Historic Trend | 1 |
The Synchronic Perspective | 18 |
The Operational Modes and Archetypes of NeoMythic Thought | 24 |
Mythic Repetitiveness and Musical Ostinato | 51 |
Variability and Combinatoriality | 64 |
Towards the Universality of Myth | 77 |
The Composer as Archaeologist of Culture | 83 |
Stravinskys | 90 |
Return of Number Symbolism | 185 |
Numerology in Musical Fabric and in Piece Grouping | 187 |
The Mythologem of a Circle | 201 |
The Circle in Archaic Myths and Jungs Theory | 207 |
The Circle in the Poetic Text of Ancient Voices of Children | 213 |
Historical Precedents? | 221 |
Stockhausens Curvilinear Thought | 230 |
The Cyclic Time of David Demnitz | 236 |
The Tower of Babel | 108 |
Assonance and Alliteration | 117 |
Mythic Power of Names in Stockhausens Licht | 125 |
Denisovs Requiem | 132 |
Cosmogony and Eschatology | 152 |
the Initiation Rite of Modernism | 168 |
The Musical Mythification of Technology and Science | 178 |
The Reception of Crumbs Music | 243 |
Schnittkes Mythological Outlook | 249 |
The Devil and the Perception of Schnittkes Early Style | 256 |
Postlude | 262 |
The English translation of the texts by García Lorca | 273 |
List of Illustrations | 287 |
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