caa a22 4500 465793983 CHVBK 20180323112032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01807620 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01807620 Cohen-Shalev Amir The University of Haifa, Israel aut The aging psyche and the question of artistic change: An examination of one career [Elektronische Daten] [Amir Cohen-Shalev] A long-time lover of music, I confess to having a bizarre penchant for trying to test my informally trained musical intelligence in situations which require quick recognition, be it a piece, a composer, a performer, or some such feature. In fact, this article originated with my failure to recognize a theretofore unfamiliar work and with the surprise I experienced upon learning it was Verdi's last opera,Falstaff, composed when he was nearly 80. For a listener familiar withLa Traviata orAida, it appeared quite strange and surprising. Moreover, as I found out later, the sense of puzzlement was not merely a matter of subjective impression but rather exemplified an overall stylistic departure in Verdi's late life work, its salient features being compression and urgency rather than spaciousness, flowing line, a pervasive use of biting irony compared to the straightforward lyricism of the earlier work, a retreat from psychological realism in favour of sketchy, abstract portrayals, an overall impatience with established operatic convention, and a symphonic rather than linear or melodic conception. Some of these characteristics have also been found in the late works of painters and sculptors (e.g., Arnheim, 1986; Clark, 1972; Munsterberg, 1983). Taken together these observations raised for me the issue of artistic change, an issue of considerable significance to the understanding of creative endeavour in general. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1990 Interchange Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/2(1990-06-01), 1-14 0826-4805 21:2<1 1990 21 10780 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807620 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807620 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cohen-Shalev Amir The University of Haifa, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Interchange Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/2(1990-06-01), 1-14 0826-4805 21:2<1 1990 21 10780 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer