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The first full-length study of a remarkable composer, writer, painter, and expert on astrology, based on Rudhyar's personal archives.
Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was a unique figure in twentieth-century American culture: a composer, thinker, painter, poet, novelist, and expert on astrology. His thought and work transcended disciplinary boundaries, integrating perspectives that were, and often still are, generally pursued in isolation from each other.
Rudhyar's musical compositions -- such as the remarkable Three Paeans for piano -- were often described at the time as ultramodernand deeply philosophical. Noted music critic Nicolas Slonimsky described Rudhyar's music as "searching and challenging . . . the explanation of a puzzle of human existence."
Rudhyar's sometimes startling paintings and his brilliantly articulate prose writings on a variety of subjects reached outward to pre-Renaissance and non-Western traditions. Novelist Henry Miller praised Rudhyar's ability "to show the relation between the parts, and finally to relate the parts to the whole. . . . He is so many things precisely because his sight is always focused on the central core, on the source from which all flows."
Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art is the first full-length study of this remarkable polymath and citizen of the world and universe. The book is enriched with numerous color illustrations of Rudhyar's paintings and with examples drawn from his music and writings.
DenizErtan has taught at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham.
Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was a unique figure in twentieth-century American culture: a composer, thinker, painter, poet, novelist, and expert on astrology. His thought and work transcended disciplinary boundaries, integrating perspectives that were, and often still are, generally pursued in isolation from each other.
Rudhyar's musical compositions -- such as the remarkable Three Paeans for piano -- were often described at the time as ultramodernand deeply philosophical. Noted music critic Nicolas Slonimsky described Rudhyar's music as "searching and challenging . . . the explanation of a puzzle of human existence."
Rudhyar's sometimes startling paintings and his brilliantly articulate prose writings on a variety of subjects reached outward to pre-Renaissance and non-Western traditions. Novelist Henry Miller praised Rudhyar's ability "to show the relation between the parts, and finally to relate the parts to the whole. . . . He is so many things precisely because his sight is always focused on the central core, on the source from which all flows."
Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art is the first full-length study of this remarkable polymath and citizen of the world and universe. The book is enriched with numerous color illustrations of Rudhyar's paintings and with examples drawn from his music and writings.
DenizErtan has taught at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 323
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
15 January 2009
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781580462877
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MUSIC / History & Criticism, History of music, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Music reviews and criticism, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups
A sophisticated interplay between diverse philosophies and aesthetics works together with musical analyses to present a complex portrait. . . . Ertan systematically teases out what the 'Orient' meant for Rudhyar, showing how he found integration or 'wholeness,' as he put it, in Asian and Indian arts and religious practices.. . . Ertan draws meaningful lines of influence between Rudhyar and composers from Ruth Crawford Seeger to Edgard Varèse to Carl Ruggles. . . . Persuasively resituates Rudhyar in twentieth-century musical thought. . . . Deniz Ertan's great gift is to bring [Rudhyar] back into the light in one totality, so his achievements in music, astrology, painting, and writing can be seen within the unity of a single-minded aesthetic and philosophical approach.
Earliest Influences
Aesthetic Origins
Approaches to Contemporary Aesthetics
Philosophical and Psychological Outlook
Aesthetic Principles
Toward Artistic Practice
Beginnings and Branchings
Adaptation
New World
Aesthetic Origins
Approaches to Contemporary Aesthetics
Philosophical and Psychological Outlook
Aesthetic Principles
Toward Artistic Practice
Beginnings and Branchings
Adaptation
New World