Styl późny w muzyce, literaturze i kulturze. T. 3
The late style in music, literature and culture. Vol. 3
Contributor(s): Eugeniusz Knapik (Editor), Agnieszka Woźniakowska (Editor), Wojciech Stępień (Editor), Jarosław Szurman (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: music; literature; culture; the late style; theory of music; philosophy
Summary/Abstract: Two further volumes of The late style in music, literature and culture, i.e. volumes three and four, consist of lectures which were delivered at a conference which was organised in 2014 by the Academy of Music in Katowice and by the University of Silesia. This was a third meeting of the series “the late style”, which was attended by musicologists, theoreticians of music, specialists in the field of history of art, cultural studies and philosophers. The set of problems discussed in both of the publications is proof that the phenomena of “lateness” and “decadence” continues to be a source of controversy and that they elude attempts at unambiguous classification and description.The third volume consists of articles associated with the problems of the late style in European culture starting from the 18th century. The problems which were discussed, ones that are examined by the authors from the perspective of the late style and “decadence”, include the following: Polish Enlightenment artes poeticae of Golański, Dmochowski and Krasicki, the empire style in the context of the entire period and Hegel’s thinking, Brahms’ Klavierstücke op. 118 as a cycle, the music of the Burgundian school and the works of the French composers of the end of the 19th century, Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio in D-minor op. 120 against the background of his chamber music works, Nowowiejski’s 4th Symphony op. 58 and a solo organ musical poem, In Paradisum op. 61, the individualism of Rachmaninov’s style, Mahler’s works, “decadence” in the novels of Wilde, Joyce and O’Brien, Lawrence’s poetic works in the perspective of the aesthetics of existence and Said’s book On Late Style, the rhetoric of dynamic “staticness” as a new philosophical and cultural paradigm.
Series: Kultura, Sztuka, Muzyka
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-8012-881-2
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-8012-880-4
- Page Count: 204
- Publication Year: 2016
- Language: Polish
Noty o autorach
Noty o autorach
(About the authors)
- Author(s):Not Specified Author
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:197-201
- No. of Pages:5
Problem schyłku w procesie przekształceń genologicznych
Problem schyłku w procesie przekształceń genologicznych
(The Issue of Decadence in the Process of Genological Transformation)
- Author(s):Roksana Rał-Niemeczek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:9-25
- No. of Pages:17
- Summary/Abstract:The article constitutes an attempt at analysis of the most significant changes in the realm of genology which occurred in the period since antiquity until the classical period following the reign of Stanisław II August. The author traces the phenomenon of genologicaldecadence, placing it in the sphere of ancient postulates, which, in the following periods,had been either replicated or superseded by new tendencies. The primary research material comprises of Enlightenment poetics formulated by Filip Neriusz Golański, Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski, Ignacy Krasicki and others, which are then contrasted with genological principles of Plato or Diomede. Thus, the central problem of “lateness” or “maturity” of the antiquity as an epoch constitutive for the definition and systematization of genres relies upon the mutual permeation of influences and reconfiguring old norm with thehelp of the new ones.
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Empire jako styl późny w perspektywie myśli filozoficznej Georga Wilhelma Friedricha Hegla
Empire jako styl późny w perspektywie myśli filozoficznej Georga Wilhelma Friedricha Hegla
(Empire as the Late Style in the Philosophical Perspective of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
- Author(s):Sławomir Kaczor
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:26-37
- No. of Pages:12
- Summary/Abstract:The 19th century has been characterised as an extremely tumultuous period in the history of Europe. The rise of Napoleon at the turn of the century and his wide-ranging activity in numerous spheres of life, including the world of culture, had to and ultimately did find its reflection in many polemical and scholarly works, including various philosophers,such as Napoleon’s contemporary, G.W.F. Hegel. His interest in the multifaceted natureof the historical events found its reflection in, among others, Lectures on Aesthetics. Thetreatise constitutes an excellent source material concerning the changes in arts in the lateperiod of the classical era, often referred to as Empire. Hegel himself does not name thestyle explicitly, and he mentions Bonaparte by name only three times, yet the analysis ofthe work in question in the context of the entire epoch as well as Hegel’s personal attitudetowards its creator allow to accurately indicate the features which testify to the “lateness”of Empire.
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Klavierstücke op. 118 Johannesa Brahmsa. Zbiór czy cykl?
Klavierstücke op. 118 Johannesa Brahmsa. Zbiór czy cykl?
(Klavierstücke, op. 118 by Johannes Brahms. A Collection or a Cycle?)
- Author(s):Stanisław Kosz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:38-49
- No. of Pages:12
- Summary/Abstract:The six piano pieces which comprise Klavierstücke, op. 118 by Johannes Brahms are not defined by the literature of musicology as a coherent, integral cycle. Moreover, the title of the first note edition—Klavierstücke (N. Simrock, 1893)—does not seem to suggest that either. However, an in-depth analysis of the particular parts of opus 118, as well as theirparticular arrangement and the dramatic character of the entire piece—coupled with Mieczysław Tomaszewski’s six-phase conception of the creative path of the artist—allowto assume the hypothesis that, in fact, the piece constitutes at the same time a cycle characterized by a high level of internal integration and a kind of musical “autobiography” ofthe composer, dedicated nota bene to Clara Wieck.
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Francuski muzyczny symbolism stylu późnego
Francuski muzyczny symbolism stylu późnego
(French Musical Symbolism of the Late Style)
- Author(s):Jolanta Szulakowska-Kulawik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Music
- Page Range:50-77
- No. of Pages:28
- Summary/Abstract:The following article is based upon the premise of intertemporal comparative studies, the concept of which originated in a publication by Gustav R. Hocke on the stylistic similarity of European mannerism and surrealism, as well as a historical monograph on Burgundy by Norman Davies, and the canonical treatise by Norbert Elias. Thus, the article presents a picture of social and artistic transformations of the courtly culture of Burgundy in the late Middle-Ages, referring to the early French humanism and the works of Guillaume Dufay, and contrasts it with the nostalgic post-Romantic art of the declining bourgeoisie French elites in the late 19th century. The article analyses selected works by Maurice Ravel, André Caplet, Reynald Hahn and Ernest Chausson. Both socio-political processes of those belles époques exhibit similar stylistic markers – the decorative character of the works of art, an increase in symbolism, mysticism and etherealness as well as mannerism of the medium,which emerged on the basis of social changes connected with the decline of knighthoodand the bourgeoisie, respectively.
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Trio d-moll op. 120 i ostatnia faza twórczości kameralnej Gabriela Fauré
Trio d-moll op. 120 i ostatnia faza twórczości kameralnej Gabriela Fauré
(Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120 and the Late Period of Chamber Music by Gabriel Fauré)
- Author(s):Wojciech Stępień
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:78-99
- No. of Pages:22
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents the characteristic features of the late period of the French composer Gabriel Fauré’s (1845–1924) creative output, on the basis of his Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120 (1922–1923). The analysis of the piece has been conducted in the context of Fauré’s chamber music composed in the 1920s: Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, op. 115 (1919–1921) as well as Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, op. 117 (1921). The author argues that the modal features of the thematic material of the Trio constitute a direct result of the composer’s education in playing the organ as well as the Gregorian chant at École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris (1854–1861). The second part of the piece has been a subject of an in-depth analysis, and the author employed, among others, the method of paradigmatic analysis formulated by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, in order to exemplify the homogeneity of the thematic material and the sparingness of the means of expression utilised by the composer.
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IV Symfonia op. 58 i poemat na organy solo In Paradisum op. 61 Feliksa Nowowiejskiego wobec różnych koncepcji stylu późnego w muzyce
IV Symfonia op. 58 i poemat na organy solo In Paradisum op. 61 Feliksa Nowowiejskiego wobec różnych koncepcji stylu późnego w muzyce
(IV Symphony, op. 58 and the Poem for Organ Solo In Paradisum, op. 61 by Feliks Nowowiejski in the Context of Differing Conceptions of the Late Style in Music)
- Author(s):Ilona Dulisz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:100-116
- No. of Pages:17
- Summary/Abstract:4th Symphony, op. 58 and the poem for organ solo In Paradisum, op. 61 by Feliks Nowowiejski were composed towards the end of his career. That period of time in the life of the composer constituted a period of struggle: wartime exile, hiding from the occupying forces and struggle with illness. The relevance of the biographical and historical context appears to be extremely clear in the case of those musical pieces. However, while confronting the two aforementioned pieces with the conceptions of the late style formulated by Mieczysław Tomaszewski, Mieczysław Wallis, Carl Dahlhaus and Theodor Adorno, it is possible to notice traces of the characteristics of the late style, which, in the case of Nowowiejski, do not appear solely in his later works.
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Stylistyczne przemiany twórczości Sergiusza Rachmaninowa
Stylistyczne przemiany twórczości Sergiusza Rachmaninowa
(Stylistic Changes in the Works of Sergei Rachmaninoff)
- Author(s):Iwona Świdnicka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:117-134
- No. of Pages:18
- Summary/Abstract:Rachmaninoff’s composing style, often called the late-Romantic, conservative, or eclectic style, can be described as a belated—and first and foremost individual—style. For Rachmaninoff, modernity meant regression and forced attempts at originality, while, as T.S. Eliot said, “true originality is merely a development.” Rachmaninoff’s works, which constitute a continuation, complement and development, are characterised by their unique features which include: the Rachmaninoff accord, the signature-motif, the motif of fate, the motif of the bell. Another characteristic feature of his works is the direct connection with literary works, poetry and painting, as well as the influence of historical, social and culturalfactors, both of which testify to their intertextual character. The composer consciouslycreates musical pieces which bridge the present and the past, since he is not an innovator,but rather a continuator.
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Między prawdą a mitem, czyli styl późny w muzyce Gustawa Mahlera
Między prawdą a mitem, czyli styl późny w muzyce Gustawa Mahlera
(Between the Truth and Myth, or the Late Style in the Music of Gustav Mahler)
- Author(s):Bogumiła Mika
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:135-148
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The late style is an aesthetic category with a long-standing tradition. In addition, it is also a widely accepted and recognised category, which emerges time and time again in scholarly reflections of world-class musicologists and art theorists. In this article, the author briefly introduces a variety of approaches concerning the late style. The greatest emphasis is put on the theory of Joseph N. Straus, who distinguished six features of the late style. The majority of the articles are devoted to a discussion of a conception of the late style proposed by Vera Micznik in the context of the music of Gustav Mahler (primarily his 9th Symphony).Micznik conducts her analysis of “lateness” on the basis of three primary perspectives: the history of the work’s reception; the analytical perspective, focused on demonstrating the narrative character of the music; and the historical records, connected with the origin of the musical composition. Thus, the aim of the following article—although, to a large extent, the essay is focused on discussing the established literature on the subject—is to rethink the viewpoint concerning the “obvious” character of the presence of the late style in Mahler’s music.
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Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien. Różne oblicza schyłkowości w procesie relatywizacji absolutu
Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien. Różne oblicza schyłkowości w procesie relatywizacji absolutu
(Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien. Different Aspects of Decadence in the Process of Relativisation of the Absolute)
- Author(s):Dariusz Pestka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:149-167
- No. of Pages:19
- Summary/Abstract:Oscar Wilde, only nominally representing the Victorian Era, remained very much a contrarian in his artistic endeavours, not in the social and political sphere, but rather in the artistic and moral sense. As a representative of aestheticism, he remained under the idealistic theories of John Ruskin, at the same time succumbing to the impressionist visions of Walter Pater and referring to French symbolists. James Joyce, in his aesthetic credo, eschewed the idea of moral renewal in the religious sense, but at the same time heavily alluded to the aesthetic conception rooted in Thomism. Through his extensive use of experimental techniques, which constitute the very essence of modernism, and his use of parody, he presented the history of humanity focusing on the disintegration of language and its primary communication functions. Flann O’Brien, on the other hand, a writer of the late modern period, anticipated the tendencies characteristic of postmodernism and adopted a sceptical attitude towards the epistemological tradition of the Western civilisation. The ambiguity of O’Brien’s prose manifests, among others, in his use of Menippean satire, which the author utilises in order to allude to the narrative characteristic of the 20th-century anti-utopia with post-apocalyptic undertones, at the same time parodying that literary convention.
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Styl późny w służbie sztuki życia. O późnej poezji Davida Herberta Lawrence’a
Styl późny w służbie sztuki życia. O późnej poezji Davida Herberta Lawrence’a
(The Late Style in the Service of the Art of Life. On the Late Poetry of David Herbert Lawrence)
- Author(s):Alina Mitek-Dziemba
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:168-188
- No. of Pages:21
- Summary/Abstract:The point of departure for the following article is the belief that the concept of the late style, which was conceptualised primarily in the context of artistic endeavours, due to itsreflection on the nature of maturing, growing old, or the complex relationship betweensubjectivity and time, appears to share a certain affinity with the philosophy of existencemuch broader than just the art theory. Stylisation can be thus treated as an ancillary term,subordinate to the domain of existential aestheticisation (Richard Schusterman), whoseexistence is clearly inscribed into the modern philosophical project, though, in a broadersense, it has been present in philosophy from the very beginning, manifesting itself in thefigure of life understood as a work of art. Thus, the author of the article ponders the notionof the late style in the context of the aesthetics of existence, while the primary researchgoal becomes its concrete exemplification on the basis of one of the later poetic works ofD.H. Lawrence—a writer who on the one hand was taken before his time by an insidious illness, and on the other hand developed his sense of “lateness” and belatedness with reference to his contemporaries who died in the First World War. The reflections on the matter are highly influenced by the excellent late (and unfinished) book by Edward Said, On Late Style.
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O kończeniu i rozpoczynaniu, czyli co się rodzi, gdy przemija postać świata
O kończeniu i rozpoczynaniu, czyli co się rodzi, gdy przemija postać świata
(On Ending and Beginning, or What Is Born When the Present Form of the World Passes Away)
- Author(s):Marcin Trzęsiok
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
- Page Range:189-196
- No. of Pages:8
- Summary/Abstract:The article proposes a typology of articulation of the Romantic and modernist crisis of the Western Culture. The author distinguishes two primary narratives (rhetorics), inwhich the crisis is approached as a decline (twilight) or a new beginning (dawn). He alsointroduces yet another type—a rhetoric of dynamic stability, which emerges as a resultof the exhaustion of the idea of progress and guided history, in which the first two typesare deeply rooted. Moreover, the author characterises briefly each of these rhetorics andprovides examples of how each of them manifests in music. In the conclusions, the authorpoints to the potential for the emergence of a new philosophical paradigm, contained inthe premises of the rhetoric of dynamic stability.
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