Baroque Transformation: The Modernization Journey of Music
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Yazar: Aykut Köksal
Brand: Topos Yayınları
Basım Tarihi: Ocak 2020
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Sayfa Sayısı: 215Boyut: 13.5 / 21.0 cm
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9786056986604
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Topos Pocket Books began its publishing life with the "Music Series," and Aykut Köksal's work, "Baroque Transformation," became the first book in the series to hit the shelves. Köksal, who reads the Baroque era as a story of "modernization," first gives a general overview of Western music from its beginnings to the pre-Baroque period under the title "A General Look at Western Music from its Beginning to the Pre-Baroque" before delving into the Baroque era. He then examines Baroque music through periods, countries, and schools, and analyzes the production of individual composers. Another feature of the book is that the periods are discussed not only with text but also with visuals. The book's design was carried out by Ersun Pekin. Pekin transforms the text from a dry music history into an enjoyable read. Mehmet Nemutlu, in his Afterword to Baroque Transformation, evaluates the book as follows: "Aykut Köksal's Baroque Transformation, The Journey of Music's Modernization, is not just a conventional music history text written for specialists. It is also a guiding text that traces the 'Baroque journey' as a whole, with its innovations, significant breakthroughs, roles, changing intellectual background, and the cross-connections between them. It is concise, highlighting the productions, attitudes, and relationships that made the most meaningful contributions to the era. It sheds light on the social, individual, and cultural relationships behind a production of such intensity that it would amaze us even today. Looking at the structure of the book, it is seen that a cross-reading has been made in the context of countries and local cultures. The components that form the identity of Baroque music are discussed with the degree and weight of each's contribution. When it comes to the 17th century, a significant change is observed in the book's systematics: developments previously explained under topic headings and thematic subheadings are summarized under the names of certain composers from this point on. Towards the end of the book, a panoramic view of the entire Baroque period is reached through Corelli, Vivaldi, Rameau, Telemann, Handel, and Bach. This also indicates how Baroque modernization brought individual musical writing to the center."