{"product_id":"irony-and-sound-9781580461894","title":"Irony and Sound","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is it about \u003ci\u003eBoléro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGaspard de la nuit\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDaphnis et Chloé\u003c\/i\u003e that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so?\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Zank here illuminates these and other works of Maurice Ravel through several of the composer's fascinations: dynamic intensification, counterpoint, orchestration, exotic influences on Western music, and an interest in multisensorial perception.\u003cbr\u003e Connecting all these fascinations, Zank argues, is irony. His book offers an appreciation of Ravel's musical irony that is grounded in the vocabularies and criticism of the time and in two early attempts at writing up a \"Ravel Aesthetic\" by intimates of Ravel.\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Mann calledirony the phenomenon that is, \"beyond compare, the most profound and most alluring in the world.\" \u003ci\u003eIrony and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, written with insight and flair, provides a long-needed reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Musicologist Stephen Zank has taught at University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University of Rochester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMaurice Ravel: A Guideto Research\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Stephen Zank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280501649659,"sku":"9781580461894","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781580461894.jpg?v=1772485046","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/irony-and-sound-9781580461894","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}