Rethinking Peripheral Symphonism: Transcultural Form and Glocal Modernism at the Fin de Siècle KU Leuven
My proposed project is the first large-scale study of early global musical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. It focuses on the peripheral symphonies by travelling composers that fall outside of the Austro-German orientated European canon. This study suggests that such music displays a long neglected transcultural modernist style that integrates the prevailing cosmopolitan and nationalist idioms, a quality which reflects the ...