Music and the Reconstruction of Spanish Modernism: The Broken Mosaic [Hardcover]

This book provides new critical insights into Spanish musical, artistic, and literary works produced between the concluding years of the nineteenth century and the initial decades of the twentieth century. This book will be of interest not only to music scholars but also those involved in art, literature, and philosophy.

This is one of the most intellectually sophisticated and conceptually significant books on Spanish music, and it?will be of interest not only to music scholars but also those interested in art, literature, and philosophy. ?It persuasively challenges several long-held notions concerning the relationship between Spanish music and philosophy; however, what further impresses the reader are the author's literary flair and ability to convey the complexities of this subject with verbal nuance.

Professor Walter Aaron Clark, University of California, Riverside.

Amanda Garc?a Fern?ndez-Esc?rzaga has written a fine and extremely well-documented study of Felipe Pedrells?Els Pirineus?and Enrique Granadoss?Goyescas, which she places within their historical and cultural context. Instead of reading them from a purely musical standpoint, she explores both works vis-?-vis Spanish modernist art, literature, and philosophy. This interdisciplinary approach proves to be extremely fruitful: in addition to providing a thorough and expert analysis of those two musical pieces, by placing music at the forefront of cultural discussion Garc?a Fern?ndez-Esc?rzaga offers an original and persuasive account of the broken mosaic of Spanish modernism.?

Professor Nil Santi??ez, Saint Louis University Research Institute. Author of?Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare.

Amanda Garc?a Fern?ndez-Esc?rzaga is a musicologist, pianist, and writer with an aclƒ)