1st Edition
Music and the Reconstruction of Spanish Modernism The Broken Mosaic
Section One 1. Circumstance and Perspective 2. The Circumstance of Contradiction 3. The Profound Dimension: Fracture 4. Between Myth and Reality Section Two 5. Prismatic Music 6. Aesthetic of Conflict 7. Recreation as Profound Dimension 8. Recreation as Game and Dehumanization
Biography
Amanda García Fernández-Escárzaga is a musicologist, pianist, and writer with an academic background spanning multiple institutions. She holds a degree in Music from the University of Aberdeen, an MA in Musicology from the University of Bristol, and an MA in Spanish and Latin-American Musicology from the Universidad Complutense Madrid. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. Currently an independent researcher, her interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of philosophy, technology, music, art, and literature, contributing new perspectives to the study of these fields.
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 García Fernández-Escárzaga has written a fine and extremely well-documented study of Felipe Pedrell’s Els Pirineus and Enrique Granados’s Goyescas, which she places within their historical and cultural context. Instead of reading them from a purely musical standpoint, she explores both works vis-à-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 García Fernández-Escárzaga offers an original and persuasive account of the “broken mosaic” of Spanish modernism.
Professor Nil Santiáñez, Saint Louis University Research Institute. Author of Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare.
