{"title":"Le rêve et la science : Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe, Icare et la musique aéronautique en France avant la Première Guerre mondiale","authors":"Federico Lazzaro, M. Leduc","doi":"10.7202/1091838ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1091838ar","url":null,"abstract":"En 1911, un Gala à l’honneur de l’aviation française est organisé à l’Opéra de Paris, avec comme oeuvre centrale Icare, une « épopée lyrique » composée par Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe. Magnat du pétrole, grand mécène aéronautique et musical ainsi que compositeur, Deutsch de la Meurthe est une figure tout à fait singulière qui lie le monde des technologies industrielles, les cercles sportifs et le milieu musical français du début du XXe siècle. Cet article propose d’étudier Icare en situant l’opéra à la fois dans l’histoire culturelle et musicale de l’essor de l’aviation française et dans la production musicale de Deutsch de la Meurthe. Le portrait qui s’en dégage permet en outre de remettre en question l’affirmation proclamée par les futuristes que l’opéra L’aviatore Dro (1915) de Francesco Balilla Pratella serait le premier opéra à sujet aéronautique.","PeriodicalId":193425,"journal":{"name":"Music and Machines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129358797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machines et imaginaires musicaux (1900–1950)","authors":"Federico Lazzaro, Christopher Moore","doi":"10.7202/1091834ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1091834ar","url":null,"abstract":"Le dossier Machines et imaginaires musicaux (1900–1950) / Machines and the Musical Imagination (1900–1950) conçoit une réflexion autour de trois axes sur les rapports entre la musique et les machines au début du XXe siècle : 1) la spécificité de cette époque dans l’histoire de la représentation des machines en musique; 2) les topoï de cette transposition; 3) la complexité des interactions entre machines, musique et société.","PeriodicalId":193425,"journal":{"name":"Music and Machines","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127928183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un « divertissement cinématographique » : machine/nature dans la musique de Tibor Harsányi pour le dessin animé La Joie de vivre (1934)","authors":"Stefano Alba","doi":"10.7202/1091835ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1091835ar","url":null,"abstract":"La Joie de vivre d’Anthony Gross et Hector Hoppin est un cas précoce d’animation d’avant-garde qui transpose une esthétique moderniste dans la formule du dessin animé musical des années 1930. Ses décors alternent le machinisme inspiré de la banlieue ouvrière parisienne (usines, une centrale électrique, le chemin de fer) avec un paysage bucolique. Sans être ouvertement critique de l’industrialisation, cette dichotomie pourrait être perçue comme évasion pastorale. La musique originale composée par Tibor Harsányi joue un rôle central dans l’esthétique du film, et son analyse permet de réinterpréter la dualité machine/nature dans une perspective « post-pastorale ».","PeriodicalId":193425,"journal":{"name":"Music and Machines","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131163019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machines, Films, and Operas: A (Mostly) Soviet Perspective","authors":"Paulo F. de Castro","doi":"10.7202/1091837ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1091837ar","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I explore some of the ways in which opera was affected by the dynamics of rupture and experimentation in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. In particular, I examine the criticism of opera as a genre among composers and theatrical practitioners, such as Nikolay Foregger, who advocated a fusion of opera and ballet inspired by the rhythms, movements, and sounds of modernity, and Adrian Piotrovsky, who argued for the transfer of cinematic devices to other art forms, including opera. The article further explores some intersections with the Futurist and Constructivist cult of the machine as reflected in the operatic experiments of Vladimir Deshevov and Aleksandr Mosolov, which were almost immediately suppressed by the rise of a more populist aesthetics and remain largely unknown.","PeriodicalId":193425,"journal":{"name":"Music and Machines","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122838991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hear the Machine, Fear the Machine: George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique and Listener Ambivalence in the Twentieth Century","authors":"C. Sumner","doi":"10.7202/1091836ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1091836ar","url":null,"abstract":"George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique is notorious for its cacophonous sonorities, its industrial allusions, and its use of mechanical instruments, notably the player piano. Despite a successful première in Paris in 1926, the 1927 American reception of the piece was viscerally critical. Drawing upon contemporary documents, this article reconsiders the American reception of the ballet in light of the relationship between early twentieth-century American audiences and the mechanical. It suggests that through its use of mechanized instruments, specifically the player piano, Ballet Mécanique exacerbated anxiety and skepticism about the mechanical and mirrored a growing fear about the destructive consequences of a mechanized society.","PeriodicalId":193425,"journal":{"name":"Music and Machines","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131774458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}