1. Decadence, music and the map of European modernism; 2. Pessimism and nihilism; 3. Degeneration and regeneration; 4. Deformation and dissolution; 5. Mannerism and avant-garde; 6. Convalescence and primitivism.

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Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.

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Stephen Downes is Reader in Musicology at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Szymanowski as Post-Wagnerian (1994), Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology (2003) and The Muse as Eros: Music, Eroticism and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination (2006). In 1999 he was awarded the Karol Szymanowski Memorial Medal.

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'… a significant achievement.' Classical Music

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