Art music, orchestral and formal music Books
Edition Peters New Czerny Volume 1
Book SynopsisCarl Czerny''s studies are an indispensable foundation for learning the piano. The present edition contains a selection from his rich repertoire of exercises, arranged according to pedagogical principles. Its two volumes are designed to conform with modern teaching methods.Die Studien von Carl Czerny sind eine unverzichtbare Grundlage für das Erlernen des Klavierspiels. Die vorliegende Ausgabe bildet den ersten Band der Etüden und enthält eine Auswahl aus seinem reichhaltigen Repertoire an Übungen, die nach pädagogischen Grundsätzen von Alexander Rowley zusammengestellt sind.
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Edition Peters Album of 60 Lieder from Bach to Reger High Voice
Book SynopsisA selection of 60 songs by famous and less-known composers, also folk songs, selected for their value in vocal teaching, arranged in chronological order.UnterrichtsliederEine Sammlung von 60 beliebten Liedern mit Klavierbegleitung - Ausgabe für hohe Stimme.
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Edition Peters Marriage of Figaro
Book SynopsisMozart's The Marriage of Figaro (K. 492), is a commedia per musica in four acts composed in 1786, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This edition is a vocal score, edited by Kurt Soldan, contains a piano reduction accompaniment.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart schrieb die Commedia per musica in vier Akten Die Hochzeit des Figaro KV 492 im Jahr 1786 über ein italienisches Libretto von Lorenzo Da Ponte. Der vorliegende Klavierauszug wurde herausgegeben von Kurt Soldan.
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Edition Peters Sonatina Album Vol.1
Book SynopsisThe first volume of the Sonatina Album, edited by Heinz Volger. The edition contains works from various composers, including Bach, Handel, Mozart and Schubert, as well as other lesser know composers.Das Sonatinen Album (neue Folge) Band 1, herausgegeben von Heinz Volger, enthält Werke verschiedener Komponisten, darunter Bach, Händel, Mozart und Schubert, aber auch von anderen, weniger bekannten Komponisten.
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Edition Peters Album of 50 Songs
Book SynopsisMozart''s Album of 50 Songs for voice and piano, edited by Hans Joachim Moser. This edition is for high voice. Includes 3 Duets, 2 Terzets & 1 Quartet.Diese Ausgabe enthält 50 Lieder für Gesang und Klavier von Mozart, herausgegeben von Hans Joachim Moser. Der vorliegende Band ist für hohe Stimme und beinhaltet drei Duette, zwei Terzette und ein Quartett.
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Edition Peters Das Meisterbuch Band 1 Book of the Masters Vol.1
Book SynopsisA collection of 55 of some of the most famous piano works spanning across three centuries. Includes works such as Bach''s Prelude No. 1, Rachmaninov''s Prelude and Mendelssohn''s Songs without Words.Das Meisterbuch: Eine Sammlung berühmter Klaviermusik aus 3 Jahrhunderten, Bd. 1Die umfangreichen Sammlungen enthalten eine repräsentative Auswahl der berühmtesten Werke aus der klassischen Klavierliteratur, von Bachs Präludium Nr. 1 bis zu Rachmaninows Prélude.
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Edition Peters Songs Vol.1
Book SynopsisSchubert''s Selected Songs Vol. 1, edited by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, edition for low voice. Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, Schwanengesang for voice and piano.Schuberts Lieder, Band 1, herausgegeben von Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Diese neue Ausgabe für tiefe Stimme und Gesang enthält u.a. Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise und Schwanengesang.
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Edition Peters Mass in C minor K427 Vocal Score
Book SynopsisEdition Peters Urtext version of W.A. Mozart''s Mass In C Minor for Mixed choir with piano accompaniment.Missa c-Moll KV 427 (417a) (Ergänzung von F. Beyer) (Klavierauszug)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Messe in c-Moll ist, auch wenn sie zu einer der beliebtesten Vertonungen zählt, unvollendet geblieben. Viele haben sich an einer Ergänzung bzw. Rekonstruktion versucht, denn verschiedene Quellen erlauben eine Vorstellung von der Vorgehensweise Mozarts. In dieser Ausgabe wurden auf Grundlage der Originalhandschriften vor allem die Instrumentalstimmen von Credo und Incarnatus est ergänzt. Ebenso wird am Ende des Werkes das Kyrie mit den unterlegten Worten des Agnus Dei wiederholt.
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Edition Peters 9 German Arias HWV 202210
Book SynopsisHandel wrote the German arias at a time when he was mainly composing Italian operas for the Kings Theatre in London. The arias focus on the contemplation of the beauties of nature and the praise of God. Handel took the texts from the collection Earthly Pleasures in God by the Hamburg writer Barthold Heinrich Brockes.Händel schrieb die Deutschen Arien zu einer Zeit, als er hauptsächlich italienische Opern für das Kings Theatre in london komponierte. Die Arien haben die Betrachtung der Naturschönheiten und die Lobpreisung Gottes zum Inhalt. Die Texte entnahm Händel der Sammlung Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott des Hamburger Schriftstellers Barthold Heinrich Brockes.
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Edition Peters Hansel und Gretel
Book SynopsisComposed in 1891 - 1892, Humperdink''s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel has been a firm favourite (particularly at Christmas time) of audiences ever since. This classic vocal score is the choice of professional singers for productions across the world.Hänsel und Gretel (Klavierauszug: Märchenspiel in 3 BildernHumperdinks Märchenoper Hänsel und Gretel wurde zwischen 1891 und 1892 komponiert und ist seitdem (besonders zur Weihnachtszeit) ein absoluter Publikumsliebling. Diese klassische Vokalpartitur ist die Wahl professioneller Sänger für Produktionen auf der ganzen Welt.
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Edition Peters Album for the Young Op. 68 for Piano
Book SynopsisOne of the most remarkable scholarly publishing projects of its kind, the Edition Peters Robert Schumann piano series by Hans Joachim Köhler provides the best possible text to explore this infinitely poetic and inspired repertoire. Apart from its beautifully presented notation, carefully considered with the performer''s needs foremost in mind, each volume contains an extensive commentary and concluding essay detailing the historical context and editorial process for each work. This volume contains one of Schumann''s most famous pieces for, and about, children - The Album for the Young remains one of the classic works for children to play and learn.Album für die Jugend op. 68 für KlavierDas ''Album für die Jugend'' und die ''Kinderszenen'', op. 15 zählen zu den erfolgreichsten Klaviersammlungen überhaupt. Sie gehören zu den Standardwerken des Klavierunterrichts.
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Edition Peters Requiem Op.48 Vocal Score
Book SynopsisGabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. In seven movements, the work is scored for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. Different from typical Requiem settings, the full sequence Dies irae is omitted, replaced by its section Pie Jesu. The final movement In Paradisum is based on a text that is not part of the liturgy of the funeral mass but of the burial.Messe de Requiem op. 48 (Klavierauszug)Fauré vollendete das Werk 1887 im Alter von 42 Jahren. Der Schwerpunkt Faurés liegt eigentlich in der Komposition kammermusikalischer Werke. Dadurch ist seine Musik außerhalb seines Heimatlandes wenig bekannt geworden. Faurés Requiem weicht von der traditionellen Totenmesse ein wenig ab. Er fügt einen weiteren Teil In paradisum ein, das tr
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Edition Peters Das Meisterbuch Band 2 Book of the Masters Vol.2
Book SynopsisAn extensive collection containing a representative selection of the most famous works from classical piano literature, from Bach''s Prelude No. 1 to Rachmaninov''s Prelude, from Mendelssohn''s Songs without Words to Scott Joplin''s Entertainer.Das Meisterbuch: Eine Sammlung berühmter Klaviermusik aus 3 Jahrhunderten, Bd. 2Die umfangreichen Sammlungen enthalten eine repräsentative Auswahl der berühmtesten Werke aus der klassischen Klavierliteratur, von Bachs Präludium Nr. 1 bis zu Rachmaninows Prélude, von Mendelssohns Liedern ohne Worte bis hin zu Scott Joplins Entertainer.
£27.86
Edition Peters Der Freischutz Klavierauszug
Book SynopsisDie Vorlage für Carl Maria von Webers Oper Der Freischütz stammt aus dem Gespensterbuch von J. August Apel und Friedrich Laun und entspringt somit der damaligen Begeisterung für Schauer- und Gespenstergeschichten. Der andere Faktor, der die Oper zu einem solchen Erfolg führte, den sie schon zur Uraufführung hatte, war die Szenerie. Denn Weber ließ, ohne es explizit zu erwähnen, seine Oper in einem deutschen Dorf spielen, was das Publikum quasi persönlich ansprach. Gerade in der beginnenden Romantik entwickelte so mancher eine wahre Begeisterung für Themen wie Natur, Jagd, Brauchtum und das einfache Landvolk. Gerade diese Motive machen den Freischütz zu Webers bekanntestem Werk und, noch weiter, heben ihn auf den Sockel der deutschen Nationaloper. Der lautmalerische Einsatz der Instrumente, besonders der noch relativ neuen Klarinette, rundet das Werk ab und gibt ihm seinen eigenen Charme.Der Freischütz (Vocal Score): Romantic Opera in 3 Acts (German Lang.)Apart from fulfilling its original function in the opera, the Freischuetz Overture has long been an extraordinarily popular concert piece. Carl Maria von Weber excerpts the central elements of the operas storyline. The dense forest, the Wolfs Glen and Agathes love aria atmospherically and thematically stamp the course of the orchestral piece, which also anticipates the happy ending of the opera through its brilliant in C Major.
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Edition Peters Treble Recorder Tutor Ger.
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British Academy Huju Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai British
Book SynopsisAn account of Huju, a Shanghai operatic tradition which blends music and acting with portrayal of the lives of ordinary people, this study follows the genre as it develops in China's largest city from rural entertainment to urban ballad, revolutionary drama, and contemporary opera.Trade ReviewJonathan Stock has made a valuable contribution to the field of Chinese music studies in particular and to musicology in general. * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Rise of Local Opera form in east China, up to 1920 ; Female roles and the Rise of Actresses, 1915-c.1950 ; Place and Music: Local Opera in Shanghai, 1912-49 ; Huju and the politics of revolution, post-1949 ; Ethnomusicological Research in an Urban Setting
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Oxford University Press, USA Challenging the Modern Conservative Revolution in
Book SynopsisThe Weimar Republic is often seen as an era of progress for the arts, but strands of pessimism and conservatism also developed rapidly. In this cultural atmosphere, music and musical scholarship could provide forms of protest and resistance to modernity. Attfield's concentration on continuity challenges the received historiography of this period.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Weimar Culture and its Others 1: Music and the Idea of 'Conservative Revolution' 2: 'Sympathie mit dem Tode': Thomas Mann, Hans Pfitzner, and the Further Reflections of a Non-Political Man 3: 'Innerer Betrachtung gewidmet': Alfred Heuss, the Zeitschrift für Musik, and the Music Journal as Community 4: 'Der alte treue Meister Antonius': Mysticism, Nation, and the Weimar Bruckner Cult 5: 'Eine neue, edle deutsche Jugendkultur': August Halm, Gustav Wyneken, and the Question of Leadership Epilogue: Working Towards the Third Reich Appendix: Transcription and Translation of Paul Hindemith's letter to Alfred Heuss, February 1923
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Oxford University Press, USA The Music Road Coherence and Diversity in Music
Book SynopsisThe Music Road (the western half of the famous "Silk Road") explores transmissions, migrations and discourses of music, dance and theatre in the area between the Mediterranean and India, from the first to the 20th century. This scholarly panorama explores this cultural world and considers its fascinating inner diversity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Reinhard Strohm: The Music Road: an expedition across time and space Keynote 2: Martin Stokes: The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective Alexandrian Tracks 3: Gabriela Currie: Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus 4: Ciro Lo Muzio: Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra 5: Donatella Restani: Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries) Intercultural Islam 6: Andrew Hicks: Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism 7: Lisa Nielson: Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries 8: Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek: Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.) 9: Owen Wright: Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide 10: Kevin Dawe: Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey Indian Encounters 11: Margaret Walker: 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadère: The Indian dance as musical nexus 12: Nalini Ghuman: Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body' Hellas between West and East 13: Katy Romanou: The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century 14: Walter Puchner: A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century) 15: Kostas Kardamis: Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands 16: Avra Xepapadakou: European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East A Gypsy Epilogue 17: Anna G. Piotrowska: From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody' General bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sibelius
Book SynopsisOne of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Focusing on different parts of Sibelius' life, the author explores the composer's formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority.Trade Review"Until now, classical music listeners have not had an adequate context in which to place Sibelius's well-known and much-performed works. With Sibelius, Glenda Dawn Goss treats us to a panoramic view of the relevant Finnish background. This is idiosyncratic music from an idiosyncratic place, and Goss provides a generous overview of both. Unabashedly interpretive, this is a comprehensive and compelling look at a major composer and the culture he both influenced and drew upon. Essential reading for all Sibelians." (James Hepokoski, Yale University)"
£36.00
The University of Chicago Press Performing the Nation
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's history.
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The University of Chicago Press The Spirit of This Place How Music Illuminates
Book SynopsisArtists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern worldfrom water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorismone might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the felt experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts worlda world where the conversation revolves
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The University of Chicago Press Mande Music Traditional and Modern Music of the
Book SynopsisThis work traces the origins of one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures, from its beginnings in the 13th century Mali Empire, to the recording studios of Paris and New York. It focuses on four spheres of Mande music: hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, and jembe.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Monuments of Renaissance Music V 6 Musica Duorum
Book SynopsisThe Musica duorum of the composer Eustachio Romano, also known as Eustachius de Macionibus, was issued in Rome in 1521. Eustachio, who was a nobleman as well as a composer, dedicated this volume to the future Pope Julius III, offering these small chamber works to refresh the prelate's spirits when he tired of weightier studies. These light, playful duos were collected in the first publication ever devoted entirely to music for instrumental ensemble.
£152.00
The University of Chicago Press The Political Orchestra
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The University of Chicago Press Robert Schumann
Book SynopsisRobert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, he began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. This book tells the story of this multifaceted genius, set in the context of the political and social revolutions of his time.Trade Review"Martin Geck is a committed and erudite scholar, and his Johann Sebastian Bach is a consummation of much of his own life and work. It adds original scholarship to an exhaustive survey of other studies of Bach. And although it is often dense with information, it is just as often entertaining: rich in anecdotes and scintillating in its conjectures." -New York Times "Johann Sebastian Bach is brilliantly all-encompassing on the music and on the place of Bach in the musical pantheon, both in his own time and in the present." -Publishers Weekly"
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The University of Chicago Press Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in
Book SynopsisBetween 1850 and 1910, the US was a rising star in the international arena, and several European nations sought to strengthen their ties to the republic through cultural means. France capitalized on its art, Britain on its social ties and literature, and Germany promoted classical music. This book traces these efforts to export culture.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Haydns Sunrise Beethovens Shadow
Book SynopsisThe years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologiesincluding magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-playsthat offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and shaped the very idea of pure music. Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow is a fascinating exploration of the early romantic blending of sight and sound as encountered in popular science, street entertainments, opera, and music criticism. Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersectioncomposers' treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a balladcould then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.
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The University of Chicago Press ReEnvisioning Past Musical Cultures
Book SynopsisFrom the 6th to the 10th century, Gregorian chants existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and voices to pass each verse from one generation to the next. This work examines how these melodies were created, memorized, performed and modified.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Problem 2: The New Historical View of Chant Transmission A: The Theories of Treitler and Hucke B: Oral and Written Transmission as Conceived in the New Historical View 3: Some Reflections on the New Historical View A: The "Rules" of "Grammar" and "Rhetoric": Deciphering the "Language" of Formulaic Chant B: Problems of Proof and Plausibility: The Need for Empirical Confirmation C: Implications and Applications: Toward Methodologies for Melodic Criticism and Editing D: Summary 4: Some Ethnomusicological Concerns A: Some Terms B: Cross-Cultural Comparisons 1: Principles of Comparison 2: Some Comparable Cultures C: The Performers and Their World D: Books and the Oral/Written Continuum 1: The Historical Continuum, from Oral to Written 2: Uses of Books in Liturgical Celebrations 3: Performance Practice E: Cultural Contexts 1: Musical Contacts between Clergy and Laity 2: Liturgical and Quasi-Liturgical "Folk Songs" 3: Regional Chant Dialects 4: Art Music vs. Folk Song in the Liturgy 5: Some Possible Means of Oral Transmission in Liturgical Chant A: Formulas 1: Repetition 2: Ranges of Variability 3: Concepts of "Formula" and "Centonization" in Selected Cultures 4: "Formulas" with Syntactic Functions B: Melody Types, Melodic Models, and Tune Families 1: Melodic Groups and Types 2: Melodic Outlines and Contours 3: Kinds of Melodic Models: A Continuum 4: The Impact of Modal Theory C: Interpolated Syllables D: Melodic Embellishment E: Organum 6: Summary and Conclusion Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Yoruba Bata Goes Global Artists Culture Brokers
Book SynopsisResponding to international interest in Yoruba culture, practitioners of bata performance have presented themselves as an emblem of traditional Nigeria. Locally, however, the market for bata has been declining. This work explores this disjunction, revealing the world of bata artists and the global culture market that helps to sustain their art.
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The University of Chicago Press Distant Cycles Schubert and the Conceiving of
Book SynopsisArgues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these distant cycles and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments I: Introduction 1: In Search of Song II: Strophe, Variant, Version 2: Der Jungling am Bache: Schubert at the Source 3: The Aesthetics of Revision III: Distant Cycles 4: A Poetics of the Remote: Goethe's Entfernte 5: In der Ferne: Schubert's Rellstab 6: Schubert's Heine IV: The Cycles in Winterreise 7: Winterreise I 8: Winterreise II V: Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Sublime 9: Schlegel's Abendrote and the Failure of Cycle List of Works Cited Index of Names and Works
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The University of Chicago Press Beethovens Symphonies
Book SynopsisIn the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven's work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven's Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer's approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven's intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven's disappointment with Napoleon's decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements a pitch, a chord, a musical theme that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history's greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.
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The University of Chicago Press Resonances 183649
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The University of Chicago Press The Lucca Choirbook
Book SynopsisComprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges about 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the fifteenth century - including works by the celebrated composers Guillaume Du Fay and Henricus Isaac.
£228.00
The University of Chicago Press The Madrigals of Michaelangelo Rossi V10 Volume
Book SynopsisMichelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind. In addition to the music, this work includes an examination of the biographical, cultural and stylistic milieu in which the madrigals were written.
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The University of Chicago Press Rigoletto
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The University of Chicago Press Style and Music Theory History and Ideology
Book SynopsisLeonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. The latter part of this book contains a sketch-history of 19th-century music.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. I: Theory 1: Toward a Theory of Style 2: Style Analysis Pt. II: History, Innovation, and Choice 3: Thoughts Ahout History 4: Innovation - Reasons and Sources 5: Choice and Replication Pt. III: Music and Ideology: A Sketch-History of Nineteenth-Century Music 6: Romanticism - The Ideology of Elite Egalitarians 7: Convention Disguised - Nature Affirmed 8: Syntax, Form, and Unity Epilogue: The Persistence of Romanticism Bibliography of Works Cited Index Index of Musical Examples
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The University of Chicago Press The Melodramatic Moment
Book SynopsisWe seem to see melodrama everywhere we lookfrom the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in Pandora's Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctiveand often disconcertingalternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.
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The University of Chicago Press Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood New
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a deeply learned yet delightfully readable book. Mueller weaves together musicology and childhood studies in a way that is truly prodigious. Her revelatory arguments unfold with the glittering nimbleness of a Mozart symphony. Mueller uncovers previously unexplored connections between music and philosophy, pedagogy, children’s literature, drama, politics, religion, and disability. This fascinating book is a must-read for scholars working not just in musicology but also in children’s literature and childhood studies, the history of education and print culture, and theater and performance studies.” * Marah Gubar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *“Through buoyant prose, Mueller’s work puts a figure as familiar as Mozart in a completely new interdisciplinary frame. Mueller draws on a fantastic array of primary and secondary sources reflecting the social facts and developing mythologies of childhood. Taking nothing for granted in her scholarship, she is able to make broad claims without overgeneralizing. This book should appeal to people with an interest in constructions of childhood, as well as to general scholars of the Enlightenment, and of course to music historians.” * Matthew Gelbart, Fordham University *“This book investigates how ‘Mozart,’ a mediated figure in the public imagination, is a useful lens through which to examine the changing ideas about childhood, both in the Enlightenment and into the nineteenth century. This is by far the most extensive study on the topic, and there is no doubt that this is distinctly original, well-researched work. Mueller has done a wonderful job of laying out the stakes of childhood in the late Enlightenment and beyond.” * Mary Hunter, Bowdoin College *“This is a thoughtful and incisive account of Mozart and childhood in the late eighteenth century. . . . Addressing an impressively broad range of literature and cultural contexts, Mueller skillfully demonstrates Mozart’s pivotal position in discourse relating to the ideas, practices, and realities of childhood. Her study intelligently reshapes our understanding of the young Mozart and his historical and cultural significance.” * Simon P. Keefe, author of 'Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade' *"Adeline Mueller has written a very inspiring and readable book about Mozart, which is about much more than Mozart." * Sehepunkte (translated from German) *"What Mueller presents is a strong case for a quite direct relationship between Mozart and the concept of childhood. Here is an individual who was a child performer and a child composer, wrote music for children, and continued to be received in association with innocence and a kind of pure industriousness in the years immediately after his death." * Journal of the American Musicological Society *"Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood is an exceptional book. Mueller’s interdisciplinary approach sheds new light on a familiar composer and skillfully demonstrates his pivotal role in the history of childhood. She also deepens our understanding of how children’s literature, musical practices, political policies, economics, and Enlightenment thought intertwined to influence children’s lived experiences." * The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Figures and Musical Examples Introduction Chapter 1. Precocious in Print Chapter 2. Music, Philanthropy, and the Industrious Child Chapter 3. Acting Like Children Chapter 4. Kinderlieder and the Work of Play Chapter 5. Cadences of the Childlike Chapter 6. Toying with Mozart Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press John Cage
Book SynopsisWhen the avant-gardist John Cage died, he was already the subject of many interviews, memoirs and discussions of his contribution to music. This text includes a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America.
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The University of Chicago Press Antonio Salieri Viennese Opera
Book SynopsisBest-known as Mozart's envious nemesis, Antonio Salieri was actually among the leading opera composers of his age. This study seeks to restore Salieri's musical reputation, and identifies some orchestration, melodic style and form as distinctly "Salierian". It includes many excerpts from his works.
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The University of Chicago Press Music and Musical Thought in Early India Chicago
Book SynopsisOffering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century, presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation of India's magnificent musical heritage. In Indian culture, music forms an integral part of a broad framework of ideas that includes philosophy, cosmology, religion, literature, and science. Rowell works with the known theoretical treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the technical details of musical practice in their full cultural context. Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in English translation for the first time, and the necessary technical information is presented in terms accessible to the
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Nadia Boulanger and Her World
Book SynopsisTrade Review“As editor and contributor Brooks has done a fine job, mixing judiciously chosen source materials with carefully researched scholarly articles, plus photographs, scores and handwritten documents. Her book fulfills an academic agenda but, more importantly, to read it feels like spending time in Boulanger’s world, understanding a little better who she was and what she experienced as a human being.” * The Wire *"This publication joins a growing list of scholarly works about Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) and her sister, Lili (1893–1918). . . but the present volume evaluates new sources and leads to several reassessments. The maturity of these essays makes the book particularly compelling. Each contributor pays meticulous attention to details at every level: the book is marked by in-depth presentation of ideas; clear, nuanced, and explicit analysis; and excellent documentation that often adds context, source details, locations of the many primary sources consulted, and other useful information. This book is about the world Boulanger occupied and about the world she created: space and visibility for Lili’s compositions, placement of Gabriel Fauré at the center of French modern music for American audiences, links to new music and international connections for Polish musicians, and especially encouragement for the 50-plus who were her students." * Choice *"Nadia Boulanger and Her World offers a variety of new perspectives on a well-known figure... In eight full-length essays and five substantive introductions to excerpted primary sources, Brooks and the book’s nine other contributors present Boulanger as a master musician whose performances, pedagogy, and social dexterity placed her at the center of twentieth-century art music in Europe and the United States." * Journal of the American Musicological Society *Table of ContentsPreface: The Only Woman in the Picture Acknowledgments Permissions and Credits The Strange Fate of Boulanger and Pugno’s La ville morte ALEXANDRA LAEDERICH TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE MANDELL Serious Ambitions: Nadia Boulanger and the Composition of La ville morte JEANICE BROOKS AND KIMBERLY FRANCIS From the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette EDITED BY NADIA AND LILI BOULANGER SELECTED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN From Technique to Musique: The Institutional Pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger MARIE DUCHÊNE-THÉGARID TRANSLATED BY MIRANDA STEWART Nadia Boulanger’s 1935 Carte du Tendre INTRODUCED BY MARIE DUCHÊNE-THÉGARID INTRODUCTION TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN 36 rue Ballu: A Multifaceted Place CÉDRIC SEGOND-GENOVESI TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN “What an Arrival!”: Nadia Boulanger’s New World (1925) NADIA BOULANGER TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY JEANICE BROOKS AFTERWORD BY GAYLE MURCHISON Modern French Music: Translating Fauré in America, 1925–45 JEANICE BROOKS For Nadia Boulanger: Five Poems by May Sarton MAY SARTON INTRODUCED BY JEANICE BROOKS Friend and Force: Nadia Boulanger’s Presence in Polish Musical Culture ANDREA F. BOHLMAN AND J. MACKENZIE PIERCE “What Awaits Them Now?”: A Letter to Paris ZYGMUNT MYCIELSKI TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY J. MACKENZIE PIERCE A Letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger TRANSLATED BY J. MACKENZIE PIERCE The Beethoven Lectures for the Longy School INTRODUCED BY CÉDRIC SEGOND-GENOVESI TRANSLATED BY MIRANDA STEWART Boulanger and Atonality: A Reconsideration KIMBERLY FRANCIS Why Music? Aesthetics, Religion, and the Ruptures of Modernity in the Life and Work of Nadia Boulanger LEON BOTSTEIN Index Notes on the Contributors
£87.40
The University of Chicago Press Nadia Boulanger and Her World The Bard Music
Book SynopsisTrade Review“As editor and contributor Brooks has done a fine job, mixing judiciously chosen source materials with carefully researched scholarly articles, plus photographs, scores and handwritten documents. Her book fulfills an academic agenda but, more importantly, to read it feels like spending time in Boulanger’s world, understanding a little better who she was and what she experienced as a human being.” * The Wire *"This publication joins a growing list of scholarly works about Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) and her sister, Lili (1893–1918). . . but the present volume evaluates new sources and leads to several reassessments. The maturity of these essays makes the book particularly compelling. Each contributor pays meticulous attention to details at every level: the book is marked by in-depth presentation of ideas; clear, nuanced, and explicit analysis; and excellent documentation that often adds context, source details, locations of the many primary sources consulted, and other useful information. This book is about the world Boulanger occupied and about the world she created: space and visibility for Lili’s compositions, placement of Gabriel Fauré at the center of French modern music for American audiences, links to new music and international connections for Polish musicians, and especially encouragement for the 50-plus who were her students." * Choice *"Nadia Boulanger and Her World offers a variety of new perspectives on a well-known figure... In eight full-length essays and five substantive introductions to excerpted primary sources, Brooks and the book’s nine other contributors present Boulanger as a master musician whose performances, pedagogy, and social dexterity placed her at the center of twentieth-century art music in Europe and the United States." * Journal of the American Musicological Society *Table of ContentsPreface: The Only Woman in the Picture Acknowledgments Permissions and Credits The Strange Fate of Boulanger and Pugno’s La ville morte ALEXANDRA LAEDERICH TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE MANDELL Serious Ambitions: Nadia Boulanger and the Composition of La ville morte JEANICE BROOKS AND KIMBERLY FRANCIS From the Trenches: Extracts from the Final Issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette EDITED BY NADIA AND LILI BOULANGER SELECTED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN From Technique to Musique: The Institutional Pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger MARIE DUCHÊNE-THÉGARID TRANSLATED BY MIRANDA STEWART Nadia Boulanger’s 1935 Carte du Tendre INTRODUCED BY MARIE DUCHÊNE-THÉGARID INTRODUCTION TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN 36 rue Ballu: A Multifaceted Place CÉDRIC SEGOND-GENOVESI TRANSLATED BY ANNA LEHMANN “What an Arrival!”: Nadia Boulanger’s New World (1925) NADIA BOULANGER TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY JEANICE BROOKS AFTERWORD BY GAYLE MURCHISON Modern French Music: Translating Fauré in America, 1925–45 JEANICE BROOKS For Nadia Boulanger: Five Poems by May Sarton MAY SARTON INTRODUCED BY JEANICE BROOKS Friend and Force: Nadia Boulanger’s Presence in Polish Musical Culture ANDREA F. BOHLMAN AND J. MACKENZIE PIERCE “What Awaits Them Now?”: A Letter to Paris ZYGMUNT MYCIELSKI TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY J. MACKENZIE PIERCE A Letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger TRANSLATED BY J. MACKENZIE PIERCE The Beethoven Lectures for the Longy School INTRODUCED BY CÉDRIC SEGOND-GENOVESI TRANSLATED BY MIRANDA STEWART Boulanger and Atonality: A Reconsideration KIMBERLY FRANCIS Why Music? Aesthetics, Religion, and the Ruptures of Modernity in the Life and Work of Nadia Boulanger LEON BOTSTEIN Index Notes on the Contributors
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn Instruments
Book SynopsisPresents a study of Haydn's keyboard sonatas. This title deals with Haydn's keyboard instruments and their development. It discusses performance practice and style, explains the peculiarities of Haydn's manuscripts in the context of 18th-century notation, and provides specific suggestions for playing ornaments, improvising, slurring, and dynamics.Trade Review"Somfai's book has been in print in Hungarian for some years now, and it is no exaggeration to say that it has changed dramatically the manner in which not only Haydn, but to a great extent Mozart and Beethoven as well, are played in that country. My own interpretations have benefited enormously from Somfai's work, and every serious student of this repertoire should consider this study essential." - Malcolm Bilson, Cornell University"
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn Instruments
Book SynopsisPresents a study of Haydn's keyboard sonatas. This title deals with Haydn's keyboard instruments and their development. It discusses performance practice and style, explains the peculiarities of Haydn's manuscripts in the context of 18th-century notation, and provides specific suggestions for playing ornaments, improvising, slurring, and dynamics.Trade Review"Somfai's book has been in print in Hungarian for some years now, and it is no exaggeration to say that it has changed dramatically the manner in which not only Haydn, but to a great extent Mozart and Beethoven as well, are played in that country. My own interpretations have benefited enormously from Somfai's work, and every serious student of this repertoire should consider this study essential." - Malcolm Bilson, Cornell University"Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: Keyboard Instruments in Haydn's Time 2: For What Kind of Instrument Did Haydn Compose? 3: The Choice of Instruments for Present-Day Performers 4: An Introduction to Reading the Conventions of the Notation (Grace Notes,Ornaments) 5: Notation and Part Writing 6: Touch and Articulation 7: Haydn's Notation of Dynamics and Accents 8: Thoughts on Tempos in Haydn's Style 9: Early Divertimento and Partita Sonatas 10: The Mature Solo Piano Sonatas: A Survey with Historical Hypotheses 11: Originality and Personal Language: The Options of Analytic Methods 12: Survey and Classification 13: Grammar, Syntax, and Analytic Terminology 14: Exposition Strategies 15: The Primary Theme 16: Continuation: Secondary Group, Closing Group, and Fantasia-Like Insertions 17: Strategies of the Development Section 18: Recapitulation 19: Sonata Form and Scherzo Form in the Finale 20: Sonata Forms in Slow Tempos 21: Minuets 22: Rondos and Fast Variation Forms 23: Slow Variations and Double Variations 24: Fantasia and Capriccio Catalog of the Sonatas: Data and Guide Select Bibliography Index Ornament Locator Thematic Locator
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Gamelan
Book SynopsisThis work analyzes the music of Java and the development of the gamelan, an ensemble dominated by bronze percussion instruments. Drawing on sources ranging from 12th-century poetry to 20th-century nationalistic writing, it examines historical sources and contemporary cultural theory and criticism.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Hymns Inni
Book SynopsisComprises Giuseppe Verdi's two surviving secular choral works: "Inno popolare", or "Hymn of the People", for unaccompanied male chorus, and "Inno delle nazioni", or "Hymn of the Nations", for tenor solo, chorus, and orchestra.
£128.25
Columbia University Press Symphonic Music Its Evolution Since the
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to survey this large field afresh, and to do so in connected, chronological fashion. It takes notice of the fact that concertos, overtures, ballets, and suits- often overlooked or minimized in other books on symphonic music- are also parts of the literature.
£80.00
