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Columbia University Press The Musical Idea and the Logic Technique and Art
Book SynopsisThis treatise relates Schoenberg's concept of the musical idea. It defines his thought on gestalt, motive, grundgestalt, phrase, rhythm and accent, the construction function of harmony, homophonic and contrapuntal forms, and compositional coherence.
£90.40
University of Illinois Press Bach Perspectives Volume 5
Book Synopsis More than a century passed after Johann Sebastian Bach''s death in 1750 before his music found an audience in the United States. Volume Five in theBach Perspectivesseries tracks the composer''s reputation in America from obscure artist to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the country. Barbara Owen surveys Bach''s early reception in America. Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight''s role in advocating Bach''s work. Michael Broyles considers Bach''s early impact in Boston while Mary J. Greer offers a counterpoint in her study of Bach''s reception in New York. Hans-Joachim Schulze''s essay links the American descendants of August Reinhold Bach to the composer. Christoph Wolff also focuses on Bach''s descendants in America, particularly Friederica Sophia Bach, the daughter of Bach''s eldest son. Peter Wollny evaluates manuscripts not included in Gerhard Herz''s study ofBach Sources in America. The volume concludes with Carol K. BaTrade ReviewNOTE: ISSN is 1072-1924
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University of Illinois Press The String Quartets of Beethoven
Book SynopsisA collection of original works by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets. Includes an appendix with the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.Trade Review"As other scholars read and digest the ideas expressed in these essays, they will be encouraged to reexamine works both by Beethoven and other composers in light of the concepts and methodologies presented here. This book is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in Beethoven’s quartets, or any facet of Beethoven’s music, as well as for libraries serving research and graduate programs in music history, musicology, or music theory."--Notes"In these studies of Beethoven's life and music, Kinderman brings together essays that will please historians, critics, and music theorists. This impressive volume is important not only to the study of the string quartets, but to how we understand Beethoven's music in general."--Christopher A. Reynolds, professor of music, University of California, Davis
£87.55
University of Illinois Press Bach Perspectives Volume 6
Book SynopsisNew issues at the heart of Bach studiesTrade Review"Anyone concerned with Bach or Telemann scholarship, or even merely with German late-Baroque music, will profit from this book."--Music and Letters "Joshua Rifkin, whose essay on Bach's Ouverture, BWV 1067 forms the major part of this volume, is one of the most virtuosic scholars in the positivist musicology."--Early Music History
£40.50
University of Illinois Press Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
Book SynopsisThe collected writings of composer Ben JohnstonTrade ReviewAwarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).— ASCAP Deems Taylor AwardTable of ContentsEditor's Acknowledgments xi Introduction xi Bob Gilmore Ben Johnston: A Chronology xxv Bob Gilmore 1. ON MUSIC THEORY Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 3 Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource 10 Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations 32 Microtonal Resources 41 Tonality Regained 46 Music Theory 53 Rational Structure in Music 62 A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation 77 2. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTURE Musical Intelligibility: Where Are We? 91 A Talk on Contemporary Music 103 Festivals and New Music 107 Three Attacks on a Problem 109 On Context 118 Contribution to IMC Panel 122 How to Cook an Albatross 126 Art and Survival 134 On Bridge-Building 143 Seventeen Items 149 Art and Religion 151 Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper 153 A.S.U.C. Keynote Address 156 Just Intonation and Mere Intonation 163 Without Improvement 166 Maximum Clarity 171 3. SOME COMPOSITIONS On String Quartet No. 2 183 On Sonata for Microtonal Piano 185 The Genesis of Knocking Piece 187 Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence 192 On Carmilla 196 On Crossings (String Quartet No. 3 and String Quartet No. 4) 199 On The Age of Surveillance 201 On String Quartet No. 5 203 On String Quartet No. 6 204 On Journeys 205 On Sleep and Waking 207 4. ON OTHER COMPOSERS Letter from Urbana 211 To Perspectives of New Music re. John Cage 216 The Corporealism of Harry Partch 219 Harry Partch/John Cage 232 Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music 235 Beyond Harry Partch 243 Regarding La Monte Young 251 Notes on Sources 259 Bibliography 263 Discography 267 Index 271
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MO - University of Illinois Press Serving Genius Carlo Maria Giulini
Book SynopsisTells the life story of Carlo Maria Giulini, one of the renowned and beloved conductors of the twentieth century. Detailing Giulini's professional career, this book also chronicles Giulini's personal life, including his musical awakening while growing up amid the spectacular beauty of the Dolomite mountains.Trade Review"A thorough, balanced and illuminating portrait of the charismatic Italian as man and maestro."--Chicago Tribune"It was wonderful to get to know the man we have met so often in his music-making."--American Record Guide"A fascinating full account."--Los Angeles Times"[A] highly illuminating biography."--The Spectator"Highly readable and musically substantive. Strongly recommended."--Classical.Net"This engaging and extensive biography shows why Carlo Maria Giulini stood apart from other maestri, and above the fray: because of his gentle humanity, his spiritual resonance with music, and his uncompromising seriousness of purpose. This is certainly a book I will recommend to all the conductors I encounter, as well as others because it captures the essence of an uncommonly inspired and inspiring human being."--Kenneth Kiesler, conductor, director of orchestras at the University of Michigan, and director of the Conductors Retreat at Medomak and Conductors Programme at the National Arts Centre of Canada"Thomas D. Saler's biography of the conductor Carlo Maria Giulini is worthy of the noble, deceptively complex subject. Saler paints an extraodinarily sensitive, comprehensive and illuminating portrait of an artist who was selflessly dedicated to his art. The author's enthusiasm is palpable, his reportage elevated by rare knowledge and passion."--Martin Bernheimer, 1982 Pulitzer Prize Winner for CriticismTable of ContentsPreface — ix Acknowledgments — xiii Abbreviations — xv 1. Beauty and Betrayal — 1 2. Mastering the Melodrama — 15 3. Prometheus in London — 33 4. Amore: The Chicago Years — 52 5. Molto, Molto, Espressivo — 87 6. Out of Eden — 117 7. Peace, Love, and Pleated Pants — 126 8. Days of Wine and Roses — 139 9. Wearing the Garment of Tragedy — 173 Notes — 189 Interview List — 213 Index — 215 Illustrations follow page — 86
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University of Illinois Press Mysterious Mozart
Book SynopsisOffers a direct interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique, audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age. This book explores themes of constancy, prodigy, freedom, and religion. It offers up bits of his own history, revealing his affinity for the creative geniuses of the eighteenth century.Trade Review"A good read from a highly published and interesting thinker who loves Mozart's music."--Journal of Austrian Studies"A most intriguing alternative, in content and method, to almost all other recent books on Mozart. Highly recommended."--Choice"A journey of fanciful discovery. . . . Opinionated and laden with insights."--Opera News"Philippe Sollers is a mercurial personality and a leading controversial figure on the French literary scene, and his take on Mozart is fresh, lively, witty, and informed. What makes Mysterious Mozart especially interesting is its blend of music criticism, biography, and personal insight."--David Hayman, translator and editor of Philippe Sollers's Writing and the Experience of Limits
£29.70
University of Illinois Press Childs Unfinished Masterpiece
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the creation of Child's opus, The English and Scottish Popular BalladsTrade Review"This monument of research, synthesis, and reflection is a groundbreaking book that stands as its own major contribution to folklore and ballad studies and serves as a stimulus for further research--just as Child's own titanic work has done. I learned many things from this book, as will anyone who opens its pages."--Maureen N. McLane, author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry "A key text for English-language ballad studies."--Victorian Studies"An important resource. Brown's project gives Anglo-American folksong scholarship a formidable point of reference to reexamine Child's ongoing impact on song scholarship and practice."--Journal of Folklore Research"This illuminating study captures the richness of Francis James Child's labors on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads through a patient scrutiny of his vast correspondence with a host of collaborators. In tracing Child's conclusions about the ballads, Brown provides valuable analysis of the letters that will be appreciated by ballad scholars, folklorists, and scholars of literature alike."--James Porter, founding editor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music"I did not anticipate that a book about the writing of an earlier book, albeit a classic collection, could be so interesting, engaging, informative and exciting as this one. . . .Brown adds new material and insights, and brings the story together in a unified whole that is compelling, insightful, sometimes surprising, and beautifully written."--FolkloreTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prelude; The Project 1 1. The Man -- Francis James Child 7THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS 2. The Description 71 3. The History of the Book -- Child's Great Temptation 78CHILD'S GALLANT ARMY OF AUXILIARIES 4. The Transatlantic Collaborators 159 5. William Macmath -- Partner in the Ballad Cause 186 6. George Lyman Kittredge -- Literary Executor Extraordinaire 213 Postlude: Child's Ballad Concept Redux 231 Appendix A. Wanted, Old Ballads 249 Appendix B. Invitation 251 Appendix C. Prospectus 258 Appendix D. Rejected Pieces 260 Bibliography 265 Index 275
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University of Illinois Press George Szell
Book SynopsisA comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest conductorsTrade ReviewReceived the Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music Award from the Association for Recorded Sound Collection (ARSC), 2012. "Reading this book would serve as a manual of music appreciation. Charry's tribute reflects the scope and brilliance of Szell's career, in the careful detailing of his performances and music critics' opinions of them."--Ohioana Quarterly"A discerning and highly informed new biography. Charry makes a convincing case for admiring his subject's skill in musical matters without concealing Szell's many personality flaws."--Forward"Charry not only gives us invaluable insights into his leadership style and musical tastes ... but details some of the financial and political issues facing the orchestra during that era. . . . Perhaps the book’s greatest value lies in humanizing a man whom many have come to see as a humorless (or perhaps joyless) martinet."SymphonyNow"A magnificent achievement. I was especially impressed by Mr. Charry's skill in conveying a deep admiration for his subject without falling into the trap of fawning or idol-worshipping--a quality seldom encountered in biographies of great conductors."--Stephen C. Hillyer, past president of the Fritz Reiner Society"A fine biography of one of the 20th century's greatest classical conductors. This thorough biography of one of the most important figures on the American classical scene in the post-World War II era is a valuable contribution to the literature on classical music."--Library Journal"Charry’s achievement is unlikely to be surpassed for a long time, if ever, and the reader will come away with a real depth of insight into this towering, complex figure, which can only enhance our appreciation of his extraordinary accomplishment and artistic legacy."--Fanfare"Charry examines Szell's personal life in greater detail than has been afforded before, with a trove of previously unpublished letters. . . . Straightforward and erudite."--The Wall Street Journal"Musicians, concertgoers, and general readers will be captivated by the author's behind-the-scenes look at what goes into shaping a world-class orchestra."--The Washington Times "An excellent job of chronicling the everyday life of professional musicians."--HuffingtonPost.com "Given the conductor's close identification with a symphonic orchestra, the extent of Szell's operatic experience may come as a surprise to some readers. Charry has done excellent work in illuminating this overshadowed facet of Szell's career."--Opera News "A lively and balanced portrait of Szell's life and work."--Opera America "Very well written and will surely appeal to anyone with an interest in George Szell."--American Record Guide "There is surely no one more qualified than Michael Charry to write Szell's biography."--Musical OpinionTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xix Chronology xxi Introduction 1 1. The New Mozart (1897-1929) 3 2. The Conductor Spreads His Wings (1930-38) 23 3. Musical Pioneering in Australia (1938, 1939) 42 4. New World, New Beginnings (1939-46) 56 5. Cleveland: Contest and Commitment (1942-47) 78 6. Szell, the Orchestra Builder (1947-54) 105 7. George Szell and Rudolf Bing (1953-54) 141 8. Keeping the Promise: "Second to None" (1954-57) 149 9. The Golden Years (1957-65) 172 10. The Cleveland Orchestra in the World (1965-68) 223 11. Summers at Home 254 12. Finale: Cleveland, Japan, Korea, Anchorage, Cleveland (1968-70) 270 Epilogue 289 In Szell's Words 291 Appendix A. "On the 150th Anniversary of Schumann's Birth," by George Szell 295 Appendix B. Staff and Kulas Foundation Conductors under George Szell 299 Appendix C. Apprentice Conductor Qualifications 301 Appendix D. 1957 European Tour Repertoire 303 Appendix E. 1965 European Tour Repertoire 305 Appendix F. Szell's Repertoire 307 Discography 331 Notes 355 Bibliography 397 Index 399Illustrations follow page 104
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University of Illinois Press The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Book SynopsisThe Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children''s play song 'Shortenin'' Bread,' the fiddle tune 'Bonaparte''s Retreat,' the blues 'Another Man Done Gone,' and the spiritual 'Ain''t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down,' these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by.Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who
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University of Illinois Press Making the March King
Book SynopsisJohn Philip Sousa''s mature career as the indomitable leader of his own touring band is well known, but the years leading up to his emergence as a celebrity have escaped serious attention. In this revealing biography, Patrick Warfield explains how the March King came to be by documenting Sousa''s early life and career. Covering the period 1854 to 1893, this study focuses on the community and training that created Sousa, exploring the musical life of late nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia as a context for Sousa''s development. Warfield examines Sousa''s wide-ranging experience composing, conducting, and performing in the theater, opera house, concert hall, and salons, as well as his leadership of the United States Marine Band and the later Sousa Band, early twentieth-century America''s most famous and successful ensemble. Sousa composed not only marches during this period but also parlor, minstrel, and art songs; parade, concert, and medley marches; schottisches, Trade Review"Making the March King is chock full of fresh and previously unpublished details about John Philip Sousa's early years, his influences, his formative experiences, and his strategies for promoting his career and reputation. Recommended for anyone interested in music history and the full story of one of the giants of early American popular culture."--Thomas L. Riis, author of Frank Loesser"Thorough, engaging and fun. Musicians interested in the evolution of music in the US will be riveted by this study of one of America's most beloved musical icons. Highly recommended."--Choice"An engaging book, easy to read, full of facts and footnotes."--American Record Guide"Warfield has brilliantly illuminated how Sousa managed his nascent career to become the March King, providing readers with a remarkable look at how an artist can shape his or her career."--American Music"Like Sousa's musical programs, the book is both educational and entertaining."--Washington History"A terrific new book on the early life and times of a composer who has long been as enigmatic as he is familiar."--Kenneth R. Kreitner, author of Discoursing Sweet Music: Brass Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania
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University of Illinois Press Aaron Jay Kernis
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is all too rare to have such a comprehensive account of a living composer, one, in fact, of a composer who is still at the height of his creative powers. So Leta Miller's fascinating new book about Aaron Jay Kernis is extremely welcome, not only because it shines light on many of his important compositions, but because it is also a really good read! In revealing that the life of a present day composer can be every bit as compelling as the biographies of the so-called old masters, hopefully it will encourage authors and publishers to further mine the life stories of other leading music creators of our time."--Frank J. Oteri, composer and founding editor of NewMusicBox"Aaron Jay Kernis is one of the most important and original voices in contemporary music. Writing about a living composer and explaining contemporary music present enormous challenges. Leta Miller meets them with uncanny skill. Illuminating Kernis' life and getting to the core of his music, she finds fascinating and important links between them."--Hugh Wolff, Director of Orchestras and Chair of Orchestral Conducting, New England Conservatory"In Leta Miller's wonderfully intimate and detailed portrait of Aaron Kernis, she chronicles his personal and professional progression to become one of the world's leading voices in new music. Her book inspires me to revisit the works I know with new insight, to listen to the works I have missed and to anticipate many years of amazing new creations."--David Shifrin"Enjoyable and readable. The sections on the Pulitzer and Grawemeyer; his studies with Wuorinen; the accounts of rehearsals of his music by Jacob Druckman, Zubin Mehta, and Kurt Masur; the music itself; the variety of styles that he drew from; brief connections to minimalism, rap, jazz, and popular music--all were interesting to read. I found her discussion of turning points within his career, and consistencies within his style (including eclecticism itself), to be strongly supported by the presentation and analyses of his music. Not only does she point out Judaic, popular, and personal references in the music, she provides a wider context of understanding about their meaning in his output as a whole."--Sharon Mirchandani, author of Marga RichterTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii 1. Introduction 1 2. Learning the Craft: Early Years and Training (1960-1983) 7 3. Kernis Meets the New York Philharmonic 26 4. Coming to Grips with History (1984-1991) 43 5. War, with Interludes (1991-1995) 71 6. Triumphs and Tribulations: Big Commissions, Big Risks, Big Rewards (1995-2001) 100 7. Family Matters (2002-2009) 126 8. Looking to the Future 152APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS 163SUGGESTED LISTENING 171NOTES 173INDEX 185
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University of Illinois Press Harry T. Burleigh
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dr. Snyder is a good storyteller. Her words flow easily across the page and assure the reader that a rewarding journey lies ahead. . . . Snyder is to be congratulated for her biography of "this grand old man," and her efforts demand the immediate attention of readers."--The American Organist"The definitive biography of Burleigh, unlikely to be superseded in the near future."--Thomas Riis, author of Just before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York, 1890–1915"In prose that is both accessible and detailed, Snyder has written a biography that will appeal not just to musicologists and Burleigh specialists, but also to anyone wanting to learn more about the contributions of this historically significant musician, mentor, and activist."--Notes"The definitive biography of Burleigh. . . . worth reading for anyone interested in the cultural life of African American communities in the “Promised Land” after the Civil War. . . . a worthy addition to any library, personal or institutional, that collects information about black music and important figures in African American history."--Black Grooves"In addition to a detailed account of Burleigh's relationships with his contemporaries, his complex marital life, and his successful performing career, Snyder provides valuable musicological analysis of Burleigh's compositions and arrangements. Highly recommended."--Choice"Jean E. Snyder's brilliant encyclopedic evaluation of the life and legacy of Harry Thacker Burleigh reveals an intriguing lode of personal and professional detail about the iconic singer whose seminal influence in American compositional history is appreciated today by precious few."--George I. Shirley, Grammy Award winner and Director of the Vocal Arts Division, University of Michigan"By incorporating the unique perspective offered by members of Harry T. Burleigh's family, Jean Snyder makes a valuable and much-needed contribution to the literature on one of the greatest African-American musical figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, Snyder's work is timely since it coincides with the Burleigh sesquicentennial celebration."--Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., author of The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
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University of Illinois Press Exploring the World of J. S. Bach
Book SynopsisA singular resource, Exploring the World of J. S. Bach puts Bach aficionados and classical music lovers in the shoes of the master composer. Bach scholar Robert L. Marshall and veteran writer-translator Traute M. Marshall lead readers on a Baroque Era odyssey through fifty towns where Bach resided, visited, and of course created his works. Drawing on established sources as well as newly available East German archives, the authors describe each site in Bach's time and the present, linking the sites to the biographical information, artistic and historic landmarks, and musical activities associated with each. A wealth of historical illustrations, color photographs, and maps supplement the text, whetting the appetite of the visitor and the armchair traveler alike.Trade Review"Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, with both modern photographs and 18th-century images, Exploring the World of Bach is an invaluable guidebook for any traveler wishing to explore Bach's Germany and Germany's Bach… A sophisticated and original piece of scholarship (including a superb bibliography and valuable appendix) which will be of great value to both Bach experts and novices for years to come."--Early Music America "An extraordinary accomplishment and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the life and works of J. S. Bach. The authors combine in a single volume the results of the latest research and biographical studies in the form of an illustrated guide of the towns in which Bach lived and which he visited." --Don O. Franklin, The American Bach Society"For the academic, student, or aficionado who might not be able to travel to Germany, this resource provides an excellent gateway into the geopolitical world where Bach lived, produced music as performer and director, and composed."--Notes "It is equal parts social history, travelogue, memoir, and biography, making for a surprisingly engaging look at one of the most iconic musicians of all time." --RoguesPortal"The book is clear, intelligent, authoritative, and readable. Also, it is stocked with photos. . . . You may wonder whether Robert and Traute Marshall themselves have followed Back through Bach Country. They have. Every step. I wish I had done it with them. But you can do it, in a sense, through this book. . . . I esteem what the Marshalls have done."--Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion"This book deserves a wide audience of both specialists and general readers." --BACH: Journal of the Reiemenschneider Bach Institute"This highly informative, practical, beautifully illustrated, and altogether inviting travel guide to Bach country has no equivalent. Robert and Traute Marshall describe both the principal stations and the lesser known places where Johann Sebastian Bach and members of this distinguished family of musicians lived and worked in a wonderful way. History is truly brought to life for the traveling music lover. Small as it is in terms of geographic extent, Bach's world becomes truly monumental and memorable in this extremely useful book."--Christoph Wolff, author of Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician"The vivid descriptions and images of the places where Bach visited or lived, and the latest in musicological research, make this book essential reading for everyone who wants to know more about his music, life, and world."--Mark Kroll, harpsichordist and author of Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World
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University of Illinois Press Charles Ivess Concord
Book SynopsisIn 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata. Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata and the essays in full. Diffracting the twinned works into their essential aspects, Gann lays out the historical context that produced Ives''s masterpiece and illuminates the arguments Ives himself explored in the Essays. Gann also provides a movement-by-movement analysis of the work''s harmonic structure and compositional technique; connects the sonata to Ives works that share parts of its material; and compares the 1921 version of the Concord with its 1947 revision to reveal important aspects of Ives''s creative process.A tour de force of critical, thTrade Review"Goes far beyond any existing literature in this domain. It's possibly the best analytical writing about a major Ives composition that I've seen."--William Brooks, University of York"It is refreshing to read such a passionate description of a major work of art which is so profoundly meaningful to the author. Practically every page is informative, or contains new insight into the work. By far the best work ever done on the subject."--Neely Bruce, Wesleyan University"Not only an important addition to the thinking about Ives, but a moving companion to the artist and the Concord." * Wire *"This is a book which no Ives scholar or enthusiast can be without. It is quite indispensable, a glowing and lasting monument to the forty years which Gann has spent loving and working on his subject." * Journal of Experimental Music Studies *"This is an interesting and important book. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"In Charles Ives's Concord: Essays After a Sonata Gann's analysis takes the form of a kind of biblical exegesis, where canonical texts are pored over by ever-new generations. He achieves a balance between writing for Ives specialists and delivering a text that is compulsively readable. . . . This is a book to savor with headphones." * Times Literary Supplement *"A major work gets a major analysis: a masterpiece gets a masterpiece." * Do the M@th *"A treatise on past and future performance practice for the 'Concord' Sonata. This is an absolutely essential reading for performers interested in this work." * Notes *"Gann's passionate survey of the Concord Sonata and its various offshoots and progeny is and should remain an indispensable contribution to Ives studies and twentieth-century keyboard literature." * American Music *
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University of Illinois Press English Pastoral Music
Book SynopsisCovering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed established musical and aesthetic conventions that reflected the experiences of British composers and audiences during the early twentieth century. By approaching pastoral music as a cultural phenomenon dependent on time and place, Saylor forcefully challenges the body of critical opinion that has long dismissed it as antiquated, insular, and reactionary.Trade Review"This is a darn fine book, well-written and well-researched. " --Journal of Musicological Research"With Eric Saylor's welcome reassessment of style, mode, and genre in English Pastoral Music, the relegation of the study of pastoralism in (English) music to the margins of scholarly discourse appears to be behind us." --Notes"Even more fascinating than an interview can convey; it's a book very much worth reading for yourself."--Iowa Public Radio"Eric Saylor's book, English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1950 is even more fascinating than an interview can convey; it's a book very much worth reading for yourself."--Iowa Public Radio"It must be said that this book is as much one of advocacy as of analysis; yet it is not diminished by Saylor's passion. It is creative and open-ended, as research ought to be; and there are many lines of inquiry started here that invite further discussion."--NABMSA Reviews"Saylor makes his points with clarity, insight, and a touch of humor. . . . This book is valuable for to bringing serious attention to a repertoire that has long been pigeonholed and dismissed." --Music Reference Services Quartertly"In this landmark study, Eric Saylor sensitively illuminates the contexts and meanings (including many dark currents) of a body of twentieth-century music that remains exceptionally popular with audiences, and yet is still frequently misunderstood and underestimated by critics and musicologists."--Alain Frogley, author of Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony"Eric Saylor's English Pastoral Music is a brilliant new mapping of a repertory much admired but often misunderstood. Juxtaposing visions of Arcadian landscapes with the existential realities of war, Saylor reframes early-twentieth-century pastoral--idyllic and elegiac--as a modernist art form. Rich in biographical, social, and ideological perspectives, this study is both superbly researched and deeply felt."--Philip Rupprecht, author of British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries
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University of Illinois Press Libby Larsen
Book SynopsisLibby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus. At the same time, she has advocated for living composers and new music since cofounding the American Composers Forum in 1973. Denise Von Glahn's in-depth examination of Larsen merges traditional biography with a daring scholarly foray: an ethnography of one active artist. Drawing on musical analysis, the composer's personal archive, and seven years of interviews with Larsen and those in her orbit, Von Glahn illuminates the polyphony of achievements that make up Larsen's public and private lives. In considering Larsen's musical impact, Von Glahn delves into how elements of the personala 1950s childhood, spiritual seeking, love of nature, and status as an important woman artistinform her work. The result is a portrait of a musical pathfinder who continues to defy expectations and reject labels.Trade Review“Excellently researched, beautifully organized, and entertainingly written. Presents a sensitive, wonderfully collaborative portrait of an ‘exuberant,’ highly productive, and driven woman who dealt with all the turbulence, social change, and musical vicissitudes of her social and musical worlds.”--Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender“A scholarly contribution of great importance. Fills in some of the gaps of a leading female composer of our time. Von Glahn’s ‘collaboration’ with Libby Larsen is surely a positive factor in ensuring an unprecedented level of detail.”--Kay Kaufman Shelemay, author of Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World"Undoubtedly, Von Glahn's scholarship and the insight with which she has framed her research are immensely valuable, and as a first biography of the master composer, her book holds even more significance. Anyone, musical or not, who wants to learn about Libby Larsen should read Von Glahn's well-researched and thorough portrayal of her subject." --Women and Music"Recommended for anyone who wishes to study the fascinating life of Larsen, her compositions, and her presence in American compositional life." --Choral Journal"Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life is a welcome addition to the growing number of biographies about women composers." --NOTES
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MO - University of Illinois Press Bach Perspectives Volume 11
Book SynopsisAmong his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons. The eleventh volume of Bach Perspectives presents essays that explore these men's lives and careers via distinctive and, in several cases, alternative and interdisciplinary methodologies. Robert L. Marshall traces how each of the sons grappled withand at times suffocated beneaththeir illustrious father's legacy. Mary Oleskiewicz's essay investigates the Bach family's connections to historical keyboard instruments and musical venues at the Prussian court, while David Schulenberg looks at Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's diverse and innovative keyboard works. Evan Cortens digs into everything from performance materials to pay stubs to offer a detailed view of the business of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's liturgical music. Finally, Christine Blanken discusses how the rediscovery of Bach family musical manuscripts in the Breitkopf archive opens up new perspectives on familiar topics. A supplemental companion weTrade Review"This book is, as with the earlier volumes in this series, immaculately produced and presented, and at once become an indispensable part of any serious musician's library." --Organ
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University of Illinois Press Los Romeros
Book SynopsisSpanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero FamilyCeledonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Litohave become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States. Walter Aaron Clark''s in-depth research and unprecedented access to his subjects have produced the consummate biography of the Romero family. Clark examines the full story of their genius for making music, from their outsider''s struggle to gain respect for the Spanish guitar to the ins and outs of making a living as musicians. As he shows, their concerts and recordings, behind-the-scenes musical careers, and teaching have reshaped their instrument''s very history. At the same time, the Romeros have organized festivals and encouraged leading composers to write works for guitar as part of a tireless, lifelong effort to promote the guitar and expaTrade Review"For the protraction of my musical education and the great pleasure of their company, I am truly grateful to the family Romero."--Sir Neville Marriner, from the foreword"We are taken on a beautiful journey starting in the hills of southern Spain and traveling across the world in an exquisite poetic narrative that evokes the magic of the musical life of the Romero family. Their amazing guitar playing is central to this adventure, as they shared their passion with their audiences. The author gives us a wonderful insight into their lives and the enormous contribution they have made to the world of music."--David Russell, classical guitarist"It is impossible to overestimate the impact that the Romeros have had on the world of the classical guitar. They’ve enthralled millions of listeners and inspired generations of players with their brilliant technique, phenomenal musicianship, and joyous stage artistry. The LAGQ feels blessed to be part of their grand legacy, and we applaud the poetry and beauty that the author brings to this fascinating subject."--The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (John Dearman, Matthew Greif, William Kanengiser and Scott Tennant) "To see Los Romeros play is to witness them making love to an instrument that, in their hands, is transformed into the most beautiful human voice."--Jesús López Cobos, from the foreword"All the Romeros form a very close family that has bestowed on our guitar honors, nobility, and the best music. This book tells their story in a fashion worthy of them."--Manolo Sanlúcar, flamenco guitarist
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University of Illinois Press Bach Perspectives Volume 13
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This intriguing collection casts new light on Bach’s influences and impact through illuminating case studies in how composers borrow, adapt, and rework music of their predecessors, spanning from Bach’s own reworkings to ways his music has infused modern jazz and funk."--J. Peter Burkholder, author of Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the MusicTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Reworking Fischer: Some Observations about Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer by Markus Zepf Repaying Debt with Interest: The Revision of Borrowed Movements in C. P. E. Bach’s Passions by Moira Leanne Hill The Bach-Busoni Goldberg Variations by Erinn E. Knyt Bach as Modern Jazz by Stephen A. Crist Certifying J. S. Bach’s Interplanetary Funksmanship or: What Bach Meant to Bernie Worrell by Ellen Exner Contributors General Index
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University of Illinois Press Elliott Carter Speaks
Book SynopsisThese previously unpublished lectures by Elliott Carter date to the summer of 1967, when the acclaimed composer taught at the Contemporary Music Workshop held by the University of Minnesota. Leading an introductory course on orchestra repertoire, Carter gave nine hours of lectures covering principal topics like how to live with the musical present and whether the symphony orchestra was a relic of the past or a possible active force for new music. But Carter''s observations and prompts by audience questions broadened the discussion into areas ranging from electronic music to analyses of works by other artists and himself. Laura Emmery presents the complete text from each session alongside introductions, commentary, and annotated examples that provide valuable context for readers. Expansive and essential, Elliott Carter Speaks opens up the artist''s teaching and introspection to new contemporary perspectives on his thought and art.Please note that the order and arrangemeTrade Review"An exciting new contribution to Carter scholarship that documents one of the most important voices in concert music of the modern era. Audiences of contemporary music, musicians, and scholars of this era will find a rich new vein of material that reveals how Carter perceived his role in the musical history and culture of his time--along with a broad collection of analyses of compositions from Debussy and Bartók to Nono, Varèse, and Penderecki."--Douglas Rust, University of Southern Mississippi
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University of Illinois Press The Italian Opera Singers in Mozarts Vienna
Book SynopsisDorothea Link examines singers' voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna's court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers' voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera''s casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart''s Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today. Trade Review"Dorothea Link crowns her research into Italian opera in Josephine Vienna by exposing systematically, season by season, the hierarchy of stars and lesser singers and the politics of their terms of employment: a book for scholars to treasure and enjoy."--Julian Rushton, author of MozartTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Currency Used in Mozart’s Vienna The Establishment and Management of the Italian Opera Company at the Vienna Court Theater Classification of Operatic Roles, Voice Types, and Singing Styles Casting Information in Scores and Librettos of the Operas Produced in the Italian Company, 1783-91 Nancy Storace: The Italian Company, 1783-84 Nancy Storace: The Company Stabilizes, 1784-85 Nancy Storace’s Annus Horribilis and Celeste Coltellini, 1785-86 Nancy Storace’s Exuberant Year, 1786-87 Anna Morichelli Comes and Goes, 1787-88 Luisa Laschi: The Year of the Three Prima Donnas, 1788-89 Adriana Ferrarese: Opera on a Shoestring, 1789-90 Adriana Ferrarese: Portents of Change, 1790-91 A Neapolitan Prima Donna and the End of Josephine Opera, 1791-92 Appendix A. Roles of Ten Major Singers Appendix B. A Tale of Four ScoresNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press Aaron Copland in Latin America
Book SynopsisBetween 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland’s diaries inform Carol A. Hess’s in-depth examination of the composer’s approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland’s tours facilitated an exchange of music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland’s introduced works by U.S. composers (including himself) through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess’s focus on Latin America’s reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind revTrade Review“Among its many achievements, Aaron Copland in Latin America is a vital contribution to the study of U.S. cultural diplomacy. Carol Hess’s meticulously researched, beautifully written book is not only an essential work of history and biography; it chronicles and illuminates longstanding debates about the politicization and weaponization of music that inform policy to this day. As both a scholar and practitioner of cultural diplomacy, I will continue to turn to Aaron Copland in Latin America for edification and inspiration.”--Mark Katz, author of Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World“A noted scholar of classical composers in Latin America, Carol Hess once again delivers a deeply researched perspective on hemispheric history--this time focusing on the cultural diplomacy in Latin America of the composer Aaron Copland. With Copland’s internationalist spirit at center stage, his commitments to world peace are explored, as are his gifts as an open-minded cultural ambassador. Hess offers a richly contextualized and eminently readable book.”--Carol J. Oja, author of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of WarTable of ContentsPART I. A Citizen Diplomat PreparesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Copland and the Beginnings of U.S. Cultural DiplomacyChapter 3. Copland as Good Neighbor: A Musical Diplomat and the OIAAPART II. Copland, Latin America, and World War IIChapter 4. Diplomat “in the Field”Chapter 5. Copland in ArgentinaChapter 6. Copland in BrazilChapter 7. Copland in ChileChapter 8. “The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass”: The Americas at WarPART III.Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar Chapter 9. Copland, Latin America, and the Early Cold WarChapter 10. Shifting Ground: Copland, Latin America, and the Crisis of ModernismChapter 11. A “Living Refutation to Communist-Inspired Lies”: Copland in Latin America in the SixtiesChapter 12. Latin American Classical Music and MemoryRecommended ReadingIndex
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University of Illinois Press Circle of Winners
Book SynopsisAn essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization’s prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization’s ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chàvez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work. Trade Review“Denise Von Glahn’s intricately researched new book deftly explains and exposes the inner workings of a culturally influential old boy’s network--one we think we know, but of which we actually still know too little--and reveals the potential advantages and disadvantages that this set of circumstances brought about. Circle of Winners is a timely historical narrative within our current moment of cultural reckoning.”--Amy C. Beal, author of Johanna BeyerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Family The Foundation The Advisors The Network The College The Winners Conclusions Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press The Propaganda of Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The Propaganda of Freedom makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Cold War. The thesis that an ideology of ‘freedom’ made it impossible for leading American intellectuals to recognize the cultural achievements of Soviet artists during the Cold War is compelling and convincing--even for readers unversed in the cultural or musical history of the twentieth century. Moreover, it exposes one of the weaknesses of an omnipresent American world view: the fallible notion that, by virtue of its devotion to individual liberty, the United States surpasses the rest of the world in its ability to nurture artistic, scientific, and cultural achievement. In fact, all too often American foreign policy is based on the false premise that promoting ‘individual freedom’ must remain at the heart of the nation’s efforts to exert influence abroad.“The book raises important questions not only about the efficacy of US foreign policy, but also about the relationship between culture and democracy, even about the nature of democracy itself --questions extremely pertinent in a world where populist political movements have called into question democratic norms that once seemed unassailable.“Above all, it is the author’s extrapolation of a ‘fetishization of freedom’ that makes this work so vital. Horowitz writes: ‘That so many fine minds could have cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual cost of the Cold War.’ I would argue that these same reductionist tendencies have played a significant part in the rise of volatile populist movements, as well as in the construction of the so-called war on terror that followed the 9-11 attacks. In this sense, the book serves as a warning that the American tendency towards political and cultural unilateralism is not only naïve, but dangerous.”--David Woolner, Resident Historian, the Roosevelt Institute; author of The Last One Hundred Days: FDR at War and at Peace“The Propaganda of Freedom is an impressive achievement, a wholly absorbing read, a valid indictment of Nicolas Nabokov and the whole Congress of Cultural Freedom project as supremely misconceived and clumsily executed--something of a mirror image, in fact, of postwar Stalinist Russia itself. In that sense they deserved each other. And there can be no doubt that the approach both countries came to embrace by the late 1950s, enshrined in the 1958 cultural diplomacy agreement, changed many more minds and attitudes over the decades that followed.”--John Beyrle, former United States Ambassador to Russia (2008-2012)“Readers of Joseph Horowitz’s seminal Understanding Toscanini and Wagner Nights will know what to expect from The Propaganda of Freedom: a brilliant, combative work where the intensity of historical research is matched by the force of analysis. He has spotted what he calls an ‘imposed propaganda of freedom’ in John F. Kennedy’s arts advocacy--an analysis that raises important questions for historians of the Kennedy Administration and the Cold War. Not the least of these is the relationship between the artist (embodied here by Shostakovich and Stravinsky) and the state in Cold War society. As one of the leading cultural historians and public intellectuals of the last four decades, whose world-class research and writing have had such a profound impact on the study of twentieth century American culture, Mr. Horowitz has written another exceptional revisionist work that completely upends our understanding of the cultural Cold War.”--Richard Aldous, author of Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian and Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship“The Propaganda of Freedom, Joseph Horowitz’s fascinating, compact study of Cold War cultural relations, is a timely reminder that ideology not only informs propaganda--whether true or false--but also the key concept of ‘freedom.’ As culture became an exchangeable commodity between the opposing powers of the Soviet Union and the United States (and its Western allies), it became open to manipulation by both sides. Horowitz closely examines the role of the Soviet propaganda machine and the American Congress for Cultural Freedom (funded largely by the CIA) and the key figure of Nicolas Nabokov. He presents fresh perspectives on old arguments and exposes as dubious the idea that culture only exists where there is freedom. The concept was aired in 1949 by opponents of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace in New York, and later taken up with eloquence by President Kennedy, admittedly not a man of any cultural depth. Horowitz reminds us of the danger of such fallacious arguments, and of the many facetted sides of Soviet art. The purportedly opposing figures of Shostakovich and Stravinsky, seen to represent Soviet and American societies, could both create masterpieces despite different stylistic choices; in the former’s case notwithstanding ideological control and repression, and in the latter’s as an expression of the exile’s hermetic oasis where politics didn’t intrude. In all this, one wonders how Nicolas Nabokov succeeded in selling a festival of avant-garde music in Paris to the CIA--as an act of propaganda or of ‘lavishly bankrolled impetuous opportunity?’”--Elizabeth Wilson, author of Shostakovich: A Life Remembered“The Propaganda of Freedom newly explores the cultural Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. It discovers vital connections that previously were wholly hidden from view. An exceptionally timely and consequential study that dramatically changes our understanding of a fascinating chapter in twentieth century cultural history.”--Vladimir FeltsmanTable of ContentsApologia Preface: Why and What JFK, the Artist, and “Free Societies”: A Cold War Myth Nicolas Nabokov and the Cultural Cold War Lines of Battle: The Case for Stravinsky; the Case against Shostakovich CIA Cultural Battlegrounds: New York and Paris Survival Strategies: Stravinsky and Shostakovich Survival Strategies: Nicolas Nabokov Cold War Music, East and West Enter Cultural Exchange Summing Up: Culture, the State, and the “Propaganda of Freedom” Afterword: The Arts, National Purpose, and the Pandemic Appendix A: Nicolas Nabokov, “The Case of Dmitri Shostakovitch” (1943) Appendix B: President John F. Kennedy/Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Amherst Speech (1963) Notes Acknowledgments Index
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University of Illinois Press Lieder in America
Book SynopsisLieder and the rise of song recital in the United States, 1850–1914 Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder became a centerpiece of nineteenth century song recitals in the United States. By the 1890s, these songs, which were often sung in English, were a sensation among tutored and untutored music lovers alike. Heather Platt examines the varied supporters and singers who both established the lied as a concert repertoire and shaped a new kind of recital dedicated to art songs. Lieder were embraced and spread by performers like Max Heinrich and advocates like John Sullivan Dwight, as well as by the women’s clubs that flourished nationwide. At the same time as examining the critical reception of the artists and songs, Platt reveals ways in which US recital programs anticipated trends in European recitals. She also places lieder against the backdrop of the time, when factors like the growth in the sheet music industry, the evolution of American art song, and Trade Review“A little-known aspect of the late nineteenth-century expansion of art music culture in the United States is the popularity of German lieder recitals. Heather Platt masterfully weaves a profound knowledge of the genre’s roots in Europe with an exhaustive survey of US digital resources to tell this important story.”--E. Douglas Bomberger, author of Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes Regarding Titles of Compositions and Sources Introduction Introducing a “Higher Class” of Song to American Audiences Song Recitals and Song Recital Series The Henschels’ Polyglot “Vocal Recitals” Max Heinrich’s “Classical Song Recitals” Max Heinrich’s Expanding Stylistic and Geographic Vistas Villa Whitney White and Women’s Music Clubs David Bispham and the Heyday of Song Recitals Epilogue: The End of an Era Appendix: Milestones in the Development of Song Recitals Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press Sound Pedagogy
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A direct call for action grounded in the day-to-day work we do as teachers. Inspired by recent work in musicology and related fields, this is the first collection that brings scholars, teachers, and administrators together to think collectively about student wellbeing and the need for instructors to center care in their pedagogy.”--Loren Kajikawa, author of Sounding Race in Rap SongsTable of ContentsForeword William Cheng Introduction: Radical Care Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright Part I. The Heart of Curricular Interventions Chapter 1. Re-Enchanting Music History Sara Haefeli Chapter 2. Teaching Approaches to Race Through Music: A Timely Example from the American South Molly M. Breckling Chapter 3. Empathy in Opera Colleen Renihan Chapter 4. Integrating Wellbeing and Intersectional Equity Across a Revised Music History and Culture Curriculum John Spilker Chapter 5. Care, Carefully: Caring for the Whole Student from Recruitment through Retention Frederick A. Peterbark Chapter 6. Kindness as Universal Design: Rethinking the College Music Classroom from Within Stephanie Jensen-Moulton Part II. Unmeasured Pedagogical Horizons Chapter 7. Connecting Students and Artistic Communities: Understanding Agency, Fostering Empathy, and Expanding Representation in the Classroom Mark Katz Chapter 8. Towards Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy: A Rant, Some Theories and A Few Resources Eric Hung Chapter 9. Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle? William A. Everett and Matteo Magarotto Chapter 10. Listening with Care to Nonhuman Musicality and Material Culture Kate Galloway Part III. Self-Care, the Root of Teaching Chapter 11. Curriculum Changing Culture: Improving the Mental Health of University Music Students Nathan A. Langfitt Chapter 12. Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music History Classroom: A Student-to-Professor Perspective Reba A. Wissner Chapter 13. New Waters in Music: Recognizing and Processing Trauma While Trying to Diversify a School of Music’s Curriculum Offerings Amanda Christina Soto Chapter 14. Lessons in Student- and Self-Care from Trauma: A Personal Narrative Laura Moore Pruett Chapter 15. Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure Mary Natvig Chapter 16. Modeling Cura Personalis: Caring for Our Students and Ourselves Trudi Wright Epilogue: Care for Now Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright Contributors Index
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University of Illinois Press Cecilia Reclaimed
Book SynopsisCecilia, a fifteenth-century Christian martyr, has long been considered the patron saint of music. In this pathbreaking volume, ten of the best known scholars in the newly emerging field of feminist musicology explore both how gender has helped shape genres and works of music and how music has contributed to prevailing notions of gender. The musical subjects include concert music, both instrumental and vocal, and the vernacular genres of ballads, salon music, and contemporary African American rap. The essays raise issues not only of gender but also of race and class, moving among musical practices of the courtly ruling class and the elite discourse of the twentieth-century modernist movement to practices surrounding marginal girls in Renaissance Venice and the largely white middle-class experiences of magazine and balladry.Trade ReviewWinner of the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Editing, 1996.Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Editing, 1996. * Susan Koppelman Award *
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University of Illinois Press Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between queer sexuality and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryQueer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950--a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae. Contributors are Byron Adams, Philip Brett, Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Sophie Fuller, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, Ivan Raykoff, Fiona Richards, Eva RiTrade ReviewPhilip Brett Award by the Gay & Lesbian Study Group of the American Musicological Society, 2002 "Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity is a beautifully edited collection of essays devoted to the intersections of music and queerness in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1950. . . . A stellar contribution to queer music scholarship [and] an essential text for those interested in the modernist period."--Journal of the American Musicological Society"Anyone interested in music, sexuality, or both undoubtedly will find something new or intriguing in this book and, in the process, will find incontrovertible evidence that the two worlds of sexuality and music were and are intimately connected."--Journal of the History of Sexuality"This superb collection of twelve essays offers much new research and makes a fine addition to queer musicology. . . . Many of the contributors explore subject matter previously overlooked, veiled, or suppressed, presenting significant new research that draws on primary documents. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"A substantial contribution to the developing field of queer studies in musicology. . . . Will become required reading in the field very quickly. . . . A rich source of information about composers and other musicians that we have not had readily available before."--Ruth Solie, editor of Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music ScholarshipTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Secret Passages 1Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell PART 1: PRIVATE PERFORMANCE 1. "Desire Is Consuming Me": The Life Partnership between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger 25Eva Rieger 2. Ravel's Way 49Lloyd Whitesell 3. "Devoted Attention": Looking for Lesbian Musicians in Fin-de-Siecle Britain 79Sophie Fuller PART 2: PUBLIC APPEARANCES 4. "He Isn't a Marrying Man": Gender and Sexuality in the Repertoire of Male Impersonators, 1870-1930 105Gillian Rodger 5. Tchaikovsky and His Music in Anglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s 134Malcolm Hamrick Brown 6. Transcription, Transgression, and the (Pro)creative Urge 150Ivan Raykoff 7. Musicology and Sexuality: The Example of Edward J. Dent 177Philip Brett PART 3: DOUBLE MEANINGS 8. Cross-Dressing in Saint-Saens's Le Rouet d'Omphale: Ambiguities of Gender and Politics 191Jann Pasler 9. The "Dark Saying" of the Enigma: Homoeroticism and the Elgarian Paradox 216Byron Adams 10. "An Anthology of Friendship": The Letters from John Ireland to Father Kenneth Thompson 245Fiona Richards PART 4: QUEER LISTENING 11. Tristan's Wounds: On Homosexual Wagnerians at the Fin de Siecle 271Mitchell Morris 12. When Subjects Don't Come Out 293Sherrie Tucker Contributors 311 Index 315
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University of Illinois Press The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
Book SynopsisJohn Philip Sousa (1854-1932) is an American icon. Most famous for his military marches, the composer-bandmaster led a disciplined group of devoted musicians on numerous American tours and around the world, shaping a new cultural landscape. Paul E. Bierley documents every aspect of the 'March King''s' band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings and radio, and the problems they faced on their 1911 trip around the world. Enhanced by more than 120 images and photographs, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa also contains six statistical appendixes detailing where the band played, a complete list of musicians, instrumentation of the band, program listings, and a discographyTrade ReviewReceived the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, under the heading of “Best Discography.” "A remarkable array of carefully arranged and meticulously detailed data. . . . Bierley opens doors to new arenas of American music research. . . . With this remarkable book, Sousa research is now ready to really begin."--Nineteenth-Century Music Review "The premier Sousa authority, Bierley caps his forty-year career with this admirably comprehensive tome on his--and many Americans'--favorite subject. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Solidly researched, the book provides a view of music in American life not found in other studies of Sousa or the period. Highly recommended."--Library Journal "If your personal library is missing this book, you cannot have a complete music section."--Circus Fanfare"This is the first major scholarly work to minutely detail the four-decade-long existence of the greatest and most influential concert band ever. A magnificent resource brimming with intriguing and detailed information, it is one of the best books ever in the field of band scholarship."--Craig B. Parker, professor of music history, Kansas State University
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University of Illinois Press Making the March King
Book SynopsisJohn Philip Sousa''s mature career as the indomitable leader of his own touring band is well known, but the years leading up to his emergence as a celebrity have escaped serious attention. In this revealing biography, Patrick Warfield explains how the March King came to be by documenting Sousa''s early life and career. Covering the period 1854 to 1893, this study focuses on the community and training that created Sousa, exploring the musical life of late nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia as a context for Sousa''s development. Warfield examines Sousa''s wide-ranging experience composing, conducting, and performing in the theater, opera house, concert hall, and salons, as well as his leadership of the United States Marine Band and the later Sousa Band, early twentieth-century America''s most famous and successful ensemble. Sousa composed not only marches during this period but also parlor, minstrel, and art songs; parade, concert, and medley marches; schottisches, Trade Review"Making the March King is chock full of fresh and previously unpublished details about John Philip Sousa's early years, his influences, his formative experiences, and his strategies for promoting his career and reputation. Recommended for anyone interested in music history and the full story of one of the giants of early American popular culture."--Thomas L. Riis, author of Frank Loesser"Thorough, engaging and fun. Musicians interested in the evolution of music in the US will be riveted by this study of one of America's most beloved musical icons. Highly recommended."--Choice"An engaging book, easy to read, full of facts and footnotes."--American Record Guide"Warfield has brilliantly illuminated how Sousa managed his nascent career to become the March King, providing readers with a remarkable look at how an artist can shape his or her career."--American Music"Like Sousa's musical programs, the book is both educational and entertaining."--Washington History"A terrific new book on the early life and times of a composer who has long been as enigmatic as he is familiar."--Kenneth R. Kreitner, author of Discoursing Sweet Music: Brass Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An engaging investigation of the creative process and genetic criticism. These deeply thoughtful essays establish an enviable range, from Mozart through the grand figures of the German nineteenth century (Beethoven, Schumann) and beyond to three seminal figures of the twentieth (Mahler, Bartók, Kurtág). A significant contribution."--Richard Kramer, author of Unfinished Music"Few scholars would be able to deftly navigate through material as diverse as the musical sketches of both Mozart and György Kurtag with the ease, perspective, analytical rigour and insight of Kinderman. A masterly chapter on an unfinished piano trio by Beethoven was no surprise from a scholar well known for his research into the latter’s Diabelli Variations, but other chapters devoted to Schumann, Mahler or Bartók are equally probing. The methodology successfully channels Critique génétique, the French literary subdiscipline devoted to the scientific study of creative process in literature, and the many case studies full of musical excerpts could well be adapted to a classroom setting." --Jonathan Goldman, associate professor of musicology, University of Montreal"A significant contribution to musical scholarship."--Fontes Artis Musicae"The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtág is a remarkable piece of work in terms of both depth and breadth. William Kinderman has succeeded in weaving analytical and historical perspectives into a compelling discourse about how music is created and what it means. Even more astonishing is the scope of this undertaking. Most sketch-study scholars work within the context of 'their composer.' This book expands that context to embrace the past two hundred years. In so doing, Kinderman has raised the bar for all of us."--Friedemann Sallis, author of Music Sketches"This fascinating study explores the way in which an understanding of a composer's creative process may enhance appreciation and the interpretation of the music. In an introductory chapter Kinderman, an authority of sketch studies . . . traces the arguments surrounding the discipline of what has been termed 'genetic criticism.' The Beethoven chapter . . . is but one of the illuminating case studies in a book rich in musical, historical and interpretative detail and which promises to attract new attention to the growing field of genetic criticism."--Arietta
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MO - University of Illinois Press Los Romeros Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For the protraction of my musical education and the great pleasure of their company, I am truly grateful to the family Romero."--Sir Neville Marriner, from the foreword"We are taken on a beautiful journey starting in the hills of southern Spain and traveling across the world in an exquisite poetic narrative that evokes the magic of the musical life of the Romero family. Their amazing guitar playing is central to this adventure, as they shared their passion with their audiences. The author gives us a wonderful insight into their lives and the enormous contribution they have made to the world of music."--David Russell, classical guitarist"It is impossible to overestimate the impact that the Romeros have had on the world of the classical guitar. They’ve enthralled millions of listeners and inspired generations of players with their brilliant technique, phenomenal musicianship, and joyous stage artistry. The LAGQ feels blessed to be part of their grand legacy, and we applaud the poetry and beauty that the author brings to this fascinating subject."--The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (John Dearman, Matthew Greif, William Kanengiser and Scott Tennant) "To see Los Romeros play is to witness them making love to an instrument that, in their hands, is transformed into the most beautiful human voice."--Jesús López Cobos, from the foreword"All the Romeros form a very close family that has bestowed on our guitar honors, nobility, and the best music. This book tells their story in a fashion worthy of them."--Manolo Sanlúcar, flamenco guitarist
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University of Illinois Press The String Quartets of Beethoven
Book SynopsisTrade Review”As other scholars read and digest the ideas expressed in these essays, they will be encouraged to reexamine works both by Beethoven and other composers in light of the concepts and methodologies presented here. This book is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in Beethoven’s quartets, or any facet of Beethoven’s music, as well as for libraries serving research and graduate programs in music history, musicology, or music theory.”—Notes ”In these studies of Beethoven's life and music, Kinderman brings together essays that will please historians, critics, and music theorists. This impressive volume is important not only to the study of the string quartets, but to how we understand Beethoven's music in general.”—Christopher A. Reynolds, professor of music, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsContents Introduction William Kinderman 1. Transformational Processes in Beethoven's Op. 18 Quartets William Kinderman 2. Metrical Dissonance and Metrical Revision in Beethoven's String Quartets Harald Krebs 3. Peak Experience: High Register and Structure in the "Razumovsky" Quartets, Op. 59 Malcolm Miller 4. Beethoven's "Harp" Quartet: The Sketches in Context Lewis Lockwood 5. "Haydn's Geist aus Beethovens Händen"? Fantasy and Farewell in the Quartet in E, Op. 74 Nicholas Marston 6. Aspects of the Genesis of Beethoven's String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 Seow-Chin Ong 7. "so träumte mir, ich reiste [. . .] nach Indien": Temporality and Mythology in Op. 127/I Birgit Lodes 8. Plenitude as Fulfillment: The Third Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in B, Op. 130 Robert Hatten 9. The Genesis of the Countersubjects for the Grosse Fuge William Caplin 10. Opus 131 and the Uncanny Joseph Kerman 11. Beethoven's Last Quartets: Threshold to a Fourth Creative Period? William Kinderman Appendix: Chronology and Sources of the String Quartets Selected Bibliography Index
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MO - University of Illinois Press Charles Ivess Concord
Book SynopsisIn 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata. Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata and the essays in full. Diffracting the twinned works into their essential aspects, Gann lays out the historical context that produced Ives''s masterpiece and illuminates the arguments Ives himself explored in the Essays. Gann also provides a movement-by-movement analysis of the work''s harmonic structure and compositional technique; connects the sonata to Ives works that share parts of its material; and compares the 1921 version of the Concord with its 1947 revision to reveal important aspects of Ives''s creative process.A tour de force of critical, thTrade Review"Goes far beyond any existing literature in this domain. It's possibly the best analytical writing about a major Ives composition that I've seen."--William Brooks, University of York"It is refreshing to read such a passionate description of a major work of art which is so profoundly meaningful to the author. Practically every page is informative, or contains new insight into the work. By far the best work ever done on the subject."--Neely Bruce, Wesleyan University"Not only an important addition to the thinking about Ives, but a moving companion to the artist and the Concord." * Wire *"This is a book which no Ives scholar or enthusiast can be without. It is quite indispensable, a glowing and lasting monument to the forty years which Gann has spent loving and working on his subject." * Journal of Experimental Music Studies *"This is an interesting and important book. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"In Charles Ives's Concord: Essays After a Sonata Gann's analysis takes the form of a kind of biblical exegesis, where canonical texts are pored over by ever-new generations. He achieves a balance between writing for Ives specialists and delivering a text that is compulsively readable. . . . This is a book to savor with headphones." * Times Literary Supplement *"A major work gets a major analysis: a masterpiece gets a masterpiece." * Do the M@th *"A treatise on past and future performance practice for the 'Concord' Sonata. This is an absolutely essential reading for performers interested in this work." * Notes *"Gann's passionate survey of the Concord Sonata and its various offshoots and progeny is and should remain an indispensable contribution to Ives studies and twentieth-century keyboard literature." * American Music *
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University of Illinois Press Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAwarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).— ASCAP Deems Taylor AwardTable of ContentsEditor's Acknowledgments xi Introduction xi Bob Gilmore Ben Johnston: A Chronology xxv Bob Gilmore 1. ON MUSIC THEORY Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 3 Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource 10 Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations 32 Microtonal Resources 41 Tonality Regained 46 Music Theory 53 Rational Structure in Music 62 A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation 77 2. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTURE Musical Intelligibility: Where Are We? 91 A Talk on Contemporary Music 103 Festivals and New Music 107 Three Attacks on a Problem 109 On Context 118 Contribution to IMC Panel 122 How to Cook an Albatross 126 Art and Survival 134 On Bridge-Building 143 Seventeen Items 149 Art and Religion 151 Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper 153 A.S.U.C. Keynote Address 156 Just Intonation and Mere Intonation 163 Without Improvement 166 Maximum Clarity 171 3. SOME COMPOSITIONS On String Quartet No. 2 183 On Sonata for Microtonal Piano 185 The Genesis of Knocking Piece 187 Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence 192 On Carmilla 196 On Crossings (String Quartet No. 3 and String Quartet No. 4) 199 On The Age of Surveillance 201 On String Quartet No. 5 203 On String Quartet No. 6 204 On Journeys 205 On Sleep and Waking 207 4. ON OTHER COMPOSERS Letter from Urbana 211 To Perspectives of New Music re. John Cage 216 The Corporealism of Harry Partch 219 Harry Partch/John Cage 232 Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music 235 Beyond Harry Partch 243 Regarding La Monte Young 251 Notes on Sources 259 Bibliography 263 Discography 267 Index 271
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University of Illinois Press Aaron Copland in Latin America
Book SynopsisBetween 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland’s diaries inform Carol A. Hess’s in-depth examination of the composer’s approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland’s tours facilitated an exchange of music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland’s introduced works by U.S. composers (including himself) through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess’s focus on Latin America’s reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind revTrade Review“Among its many achievements, Aaron Copland in Latin America is a vital contribution to the study of U.S. cultural diplomacy. Carol Hess’s meticulously researched, beautifully written book is not only an essential work of history and biography; it chronicles and illuminates longstanding debates about the politicization and weaponization of music that inform policy to this day. As both a scholar and practitioner of cultural diplomacy, I will continue to turn to Aaron Copland in Latin America for edification and inspiration.”--Mark Katz, author of Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World“A noted scholar of classical composers in Latin America, Carol Hess once again delivers a deeply researched perspective on hemispheric history--this time focusing on the cultural diplomacy in Latin America of the composer Aaron Copland. With Copland’s internationalist spirit at center stage, his commitments to world peace are explored, as are his gifts as an open-minded cultural ambassador. Hess offers a richly contextualized and eminently readable book.”--Carol J. Oja, author of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of WarTable of ContentsPART I. A Citizen Diplomat PreparesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Copland and the Beginnings of U.S. Cultural DiplomacyChapter 3. Copland as Good Neighbor: A Musical Diplomat and the OIAAPART II. Copland, Latin America, and World War IIChapter 4. Diplomat “in the Field”Chapter 5. Copland in ArgentinaChapter 6. Copland in BrazilChapter 7. Copland in ChileChapter 8. “The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass”: The Americas at WarPART III.Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar Chapter 9. Copland, Latin America, and the Early Cold WarChapter 10. Shifting Ground: Copland, Latin America, and the Crisis of ModernismChapter 11. A “Living Refutation to Communist-Inspired Lies”: Copland in Latin America in the SixtiesChapter 12. Latin American Classical Music and MemoryRecommended ReadingIndex
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University of Illinois Press Circle of Winners
Book SynopsisAn essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization’s prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization’s ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chàvez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work. Trade Review“Denise Von Glahn’s intricately researched new book deftly explains and exposes the inner workings of a culturally influential old boy’s network--one we think we know, but of which we actually still know too little--and reveals the potential advantages and disadvantages that this set of circumstances brought about. Circle of Winners is a timely historical narrative within our current moment of cultural reckoning.”--Amy C. Beal, author of Johanna BeyerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Family The Foundation The Advisors The Network The College The Winners Conclusions Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press Lieder in America
Book SynopsisLieder and the rise of song recital in the United States, 1850–1914 Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder became a centerpiece of nineteenth century song recitals in the United States. By the 1890s, these songs, which were often sung in English, were a sensation among tutored and untutored music lovers alike. Heather Platt examines the varied supporters and singers who both established the lied as a concert repertoire and shaped a new kind of recital dedicated to art songs. Lieder were embraced and spread by performers like Max Heinrich and advocates like John Sullivan Dwight, as well as by the women’s clubs that flourished nationwide. At the same time as examining the critical reception of the artists and songs, Platt reveals ways in which US recital programs anticipated trends in European recitals. She also places lieder against the backdrop of the time, when factors like the growth in the sheet music industry, the evolution of American art song, and Trade Review“A little-known aspect of the late nineteenth-century expansion of art music culture in the United States is the popularity of German lieder recitals. Heather Platt masterfully weaves a profound knowledge of the genre’s roots in Europe with an exhaustive survey of US digital resources to tell this important story.”--E. Douglas Bomberger, author of Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes Regarding Titles of Compositions and Sources Introduction Introducing a “Higher Class” of Song to American Audiences Song Recitals and Song Recital Series The Henschels’ Polyglot “Vocal Recitals” Max Heinrich’s “Classical Song Recitals” Max Heinrich’s Expanding Stylistic and Geographic Vistas Villa Whitney White and Women’s Music Clubs David Bispham and the Heyday of Song Recitals Epilogue: The End of an Era Appendix: Milestones in the Development of Song Recitals Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press Sound Pedagogy Radical Care in Music
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A direct call for action grounded in the day-to-day work we do as teachers. Inspired by recent work in musicology and related fields, this is the first collection that brings scholars, teachers, and administrators together to think collectively about student wellbeing and the need for instructors to center care in their pedagogy.”--Loren Kajikawa, author of Sounding Race in Rap SongsTable of ContentsForeword William Cheng Introduction: Radical Care Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright Part I. The Heart of Curricular Interventions Chapter 1. Re-Enchanting Music History Sara Haefeli Chapter 2. Teaching Approaches to Race Through Music: A Timely Example from the American South Molly M. Breckling Chapter 3. Empathy in Opera Colleen Renihan Chapter 4. Integrating Wellbeing and Intersectional Equity Across a Revised Music History and Culture Curriculum John Spilker Chapter 5. Care, Carefully: Caring for the Whole Student from Recruitment through Retention Frederick A. Peterbark Chapter 6. Kindness as Universal Design: Rethinking the College Music Classroom from Within Stephanie Jensen-Moulton Part II. Unmeasured Pedagogical Horizons Chapter 7. Connecting Students and Artistic Communities: Understanding Agency, Fostering Empathy, and Expanding Representation in the Classroom Mark Katz Chapter 8. Towards Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy: A Rant, Some Theories and A Few Resources Eric Hung Chapter 9. Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle? William A. Everett and Matteo Magarotto Chapter 10. Listening with Care to Nonhuman Musicality and Material Culture Kate Galloway Part III. Self-Care, the Root of Teaching Chapter 11. Curriculum Changing Culture: Improving the Mental Health of University Music Students Nathan A. Langfitt Chapter 12. Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music History Classroom: A Student-to-Professor Perspective Reba A. Wissner Chapter 13. New Waters in Music: Recognizing and Processing Trauma While Trying to Diversify a School of Music’s Curriculum Offerings Amanda Christina Soto Chapter 14. Lessons in Student- and Self-Care from Trauma: A Personal Narrative Laura Moore Pruett Chapter 15. Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure Mary Natvig Chapter 16. Modeling Cura Personalis: Caring for Our Students and Ourselves Trudi Wright Epilogue: Care for Now Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright Contributors Index
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Indiana University Press Mary Music and Meditation Sacred Conversations in PostTridentine Milan Music and the Early Modern Imagination
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Indiana University Press The Italian Cantata in Vienna
Book SynopsisThe cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions.Trade ReviewThis is an important book. It deserves to be warmly welcomed not only by scholars but also by performers of Baroque vocal chamber music, who will find many interesting avenues to explore. * Early Music *[T]his book is to be recommended as shedding light on an important yet seldom-discussed repertory, written by someone whose expertise is unquestionable. * Music and Letters *By taking multiple analytical approaches, Bennett establishes an overall understanding while also demonstrating how individual composers approached the genre. . . . Recommended. * Choice *The book is of great use in providing a panorama of vocal chamber music during the age of Leopold I and Joseph I, identifying the characteristics of their patronage, and giving an important overview of musical entertainments at the imperial court. . . . With this book, Professor Bennett provides scholars with an important tool for understanding the context in which cantatas were composed and performed, and in which the Hapsburgs' important music collection . . . was created. * Notes *Table of ContentsPrefaceList of Bibliographical AbbreviationsList of RISM Sigla1. IntroductionThe Role of Music in the Daily Lives of the HabsburgsThe Scope of the BookThe Secondary LiteratureThe Cantata TerminologyForerunners of the Cantata in ViennaPart I: The Cantata in Vienna, 1658-17002. The Political and Cultural MilieuHistorical BackgroundLeopold I as Patron and ComposerHabsburg Music Chapels, 1658-1700Occasions, Places of Performance, and PerformersLibrettists3. The ComposersComposers Who May Have Written Cantatas for Vienna During the EarlyReign of Leopold IAntonio and Carlo DraghiFilippo VismarriCarlo CappelliniGiovanni Battista PederzuoliAntonio Maria and Giovanni Buonaventura VivianiGerman-Speaking Composers4. Repertoire and SourcesThe RepertoireThe Sources5. Text and MusicAntonio Maria VivianiAntonio BertaliFilippo VismarriCarlo CappelliniGiovanni Battista PederzuoliAntonio and Carlo DraghiPart II: The Cantata in Vienna, 1700-17116. The Political and Cultural MilieuHistorical BackgroundJoseph I as Patron and ComposerCultural GrowthHabsburg Music Chapels, 1700-1711Genre DesignationsOccasions, Places of Performance, and PerformersLibrettists and Librettos7. The ComposersCarlo Agostino BadiaGiovanni BononciniMarc'Antonio ZianiAttilio AriostiAntonio Maria BononciniComposers Who May Have Written Cantatas for Vienna8. Repertoire and SourcesNew Interest in the CantataThe Repertoire of Cantatas by Habsburg ComposersSources9. Style OverviewThe Style TransitionBroad Structural PlansSelection of VoicesInstrumentationDynamicsRecitative and AriosoAria KeysContinuum (Tempo/Meter)The Use of DevisenAria Designs10. Aspects of FormThe Conventional Da Capo DesignVariants from the Conventional DesignArticulation of Form11. Melody, Harmony, and RhythmMelodyHarmonySurface RhythmChanges in Timbre12. The Relationship of Text and MusicThe Text and Its Influence upon the Musical DesignThe Interactions of the Text with Melody and RhythmTone Color and DynamicsDescriptive Treatment of the TextAffective Treatment of the Text13. Conclusion: The Interregnum and Its AftermathThe End of the War of the Spanish SuccessionThe Fate of the Cantata Composers and Librettists Who Served Joseph IThe Cantatas by Composers Residing in Vienna During the InterregumAppendix A: Index of Cantata Text Incipits and SourcesAppendix B: Catalogue Raisonné of Viennese Cantata SourcesAppendix C: Texts of Arias Analyzed in Chapters 10-12NotesBibliography
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Indiana University Press Death in Winterreise
Book SynopsisBrings new insights to the study of text-music relationships and the song cycle.Trade ReviewSuurpää's book is a highly valuable addition to the literature on Winterreise, while also being one that develops innovative approaches to the analysis of vocal music in general. It would be most interesting to apply the same methodology to the first thirteen songs of the cycle (or indeed to other songs and song cycles) to find out whether the combination of Schenker and Greimas works equally well there. For now, we have to praise Lauri Suurpää for opening up new insights into Schubert, the analysis of vocal music and, last but not least, the engagement with death through music. * Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland *[This] book will doubtless give professional analysts plenty of fodder to chew over. Those with a less analytical bent should certainly not be put off; the chapters teem with helpful summations and thorough cross-referencing. The chapters on the nature of cycles and the relationship between music and text are highly informative, and worth reading in their own right. . . . this book cannot but help deepen a peformer's understanding of the cycle. * Early Music Review *Death in Winterreise presents a unique and captivating study of Schubert's cycle, exposing us to new musico-poetic relationships between Müller's poems and the composer's text-settings. * Music Theory Online *Suurpää's book offers scholars, analysts, and performers a path through Winterreise and constructs a valuable theoretical system for analyzing musico-poetic relationships. Its eclectic analytical approach, paradoxically, reveals unity behind Winterreise's familiar story. . . . Suurpää's psychologically compelling interpretation and deep musical insights will be warmly received by anyone wishing to discover yet further meanings in Schubert's challenging cycle. * Notes *Lauri Suurpää's book is a significant contribution to Schenkerian studies. * Music Theory and Analysis *Death in Winterreise is a wide-ranging study of Schubert's winter songs, one that navigates gracefully between the intricate rigors of Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, the intersection of which offers a systematic approach to the study of text-music relationships in song. Surpaa's explanation of his methodology is remarkably clear in the early chapters and well executed in the analytical chapters. The book offers a new methodology for the study of musico-poetic associations in song . . . . The book will be of immediate value to those interested in the study of textmusic relationships in song, the study of Schenkerian analysis, especially close readings of individual songs, the study of Winterreise in particular, and the study of musical meaning in general. * Journal of Schenkerian Studies *Lauri Suurpaa's Death in Winterreise is a welcome addition to the literature on Schubert's second song cycle. * Music Analysis *Notwithstanding the substantial contribution to textual analysis provided by Death in Winterreise, the book's ultimate value lies in its detailed engagement with the music of this song cycle, and the author's facility for vivid analytical elucidation. Just as Müller draws us towards the innermost thoughts and despairs of his wanderer, so Suurpää conveys his reader inwards towards a deeper, more profound appreciation of these songs and their musicopoetic associations. * Music and Letters *Suurpää's Death in Winterreise is a collection of nuanced and musically sensitive analyses that are a welcome addition to Lieder analysis. . . . Suurpää's innovative combination of methodologies, his astute interpretation of textual and tonal relations across the second half of the cycle, and his consistently clear communication of musical insights create an analytical journey well worth following. * Music Theory Spectrum *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on the Translations of the PoemsPart I: Background1. Genesis and Narrative of Winterreise2. Winterreise in Context3. Text-Music Relationships: Five Propositions4. Musico-Poetic Associations: Principles of AnalysisPart II: Songs5. The Emergence of Death as a Positive Option: "Der greise Kopf"6. Death Contemplated: "Die Krähe"7. From Hope for the Past to Hope for the Future: "Letzte Hoffnung"8. Reflecting Lost Hope: "Im Dorfe," "Der stürmische Morgen," and "Täuschung"9. Choosing Death: "Der Wegweiser"10. Death Eludes the Wanderer: "Das Wirtshaus"11. Reflecting on the Inability to Find Death: "Mut," "Die Nebensonnen," and "Der Leiermann"Part III: Cycle12. The Song Cycle as a Genre: Some Recent Views13. Winterreise as a Cycle14. Epilogue: The Meaning of Death in WinterreiseNotesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Fanfares and Finesse
Book SynopsisUnlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the concert hall. This title deals with this topic.Trade ReviewWhether an enthusiastic student or a seasoned professional, I wholeheartedly endorse this book. Elisa Koehler should be commended for this wonderful addition to the market—I can guarantee it will remain a resource that will get you reaching for your shelf time and time again. * The Brass Herald *Elisa Koehler has given us a thoughtful and much needed reference book and guide for the contemporary trumpeter. Her gentle conversational style may convince more players to expore trumpet history and even the broader cultural history in which trumpet music is firmly placed.2014 * Historic Brass Society Journal *Fanfares and Finesse is a wonderful addition to the literature on trumpet history. It is a fabulous resource for performers, while historians and pedagogues will find great value in it as well. Dr. Koehler is to be commended for such a valuable contribution to our discipline. * ITG Journal *[T]his book is highly recommended for any moderately advanced trumpet player or for inclusion in any library serving even a small population of trumpeters. It will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding historically informed performance practice for the trumpet and its many predecessors. * Notes *Koehler has created a compendium of trumpet history with short, fact-filled chapters. It will serve both amateur and professional musicians alike, and few could read this text without learning something. Fanfares and Finesse is a thorough sampling of trumpet topics, including something of interest for every trumpet player, brass enthusiast, or curious reader. * Pan Pipes *Serving as a concise guide linking the history of trumpet to performance, this book includes information on band music, bugle calls, orchestral repertoire, and jazz. Particularly useful are the sections on transposition, and how jazz is written versus played. . . . Teachers and performers alike will benefit from this book. * American Reference Books Annual *Trumpet players in a wide variety of situations and at many levels will find a great deal of useful information, presented in a clear, engaging, reader-friendly way yet backed by solid research. While some topics are covered in more depth than others, Koehler's breadth of vision and thoroughness are commendable. Helpful appendixes and an extensive bibliography are a bonus. For all trumpeters and anyone who teaches them. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAuthor's NoteAcknowledgements1. Fanfares and Finesse: An Introduction2. The Natural Trumpet3. The Modern Baroque Trumpet with Vent Holes4. The Cornetto5. The Slide Trumpet6. The Quest for Chromaticism: Hand-Stopping, Keys, and Valves7. Bugles, Flügels, and Horns8. The Cornet9. Changing of the Guard: Trumpets in Transition10. Smaller Trumpets11. Pitch, Temperament, and Transposition12. Early Repertoire and Performance Practice13. Baroque Repertoire14. Classical Repertoire15. Signals, Calls, and Fanfares16. Strike up the Band17. The Modern Orchestral Trumpet18. Jazz and the Trumpet19. Solo Repertoire after 190020. Brass Chamber Music21. Trumpeting in the Twenty-First CenturyAppendix A: List of Names and DatesAppendix B: Significant Events in Trumpets HistoryAppendix C: Selected Recordings: An Annotated ListAppendix D: Museums with Instrument CollectionsAppendix E: Period Instrument ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Sonata Fragments Romantic Narratives in Chopin
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a major achievement." -Michael L. Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern SubjectTable of ContentsIntroduction: Romantic Musical Discourse, Or, A Rhetoric Of Romantic MusicPart I. Fragmentation and Atemporality1. Fragmentation: Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism2. Atemporality in Narrative and MusicPart II. Structural and Rhetorical Strategies in Music with and Without Text3. Music With Text: Two Slow Movements by Brahms4. Music Without Text: Forms of AtemporalityPart III. Brahms's Piano Sonatas5. Treatment of the Medial Caesura6. Treatment of the S-Space7. Treatment of the Development and Recapitulation8. Treatment of the Slow Introduction and CodaConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Sonata Fragments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a major achievement." -Michael L. Klein, author of Music and the Crises of the Modern SubjectTable of ContentsIntroduction: Romantic Musical Discourse, Or, A Rhetoric Of Romantic MusicPart I. Fragmentation and Atemporality1. Fragmentation: Aesthetics of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism2. Atemporality in Narrative and MusicPart II. Structural and Rhetorical Strategies in Music with and Without Text3. Music With Text: Two Slow Movements by Brahms4. Music Without Text: Forms of AtemporalityPart III. Brahms's Piano Sonatas5. Treatment of the Medial Caesura6. Treatment of the S-Space7. Treatment of the Development and Recapitulation8. Treatment of the Slow Introduction and CodaConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press A Theory of Musical Narrative
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Theory of Musical Narrative is an impressive and thought-provoking study which includes many fascinating ideas and insights as well as a comprehensive critique of previous literature. * Music Analysis *[N]atural, elegant, and convincing . . . a must for all music theory collections. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1. A Theory of Musical Narrative 1. An Introduction to Narrative Analysis: Chopin's Prelude in G Major, Op. 28, No. 3 2. Perspectives and Critiques 3. A Theory of Musical Narrative: Conceptual Considerations 4. A Theory of Musical Narrative: Analytical Considerations 5. Narrative and TopicPart 2. Archetypal Narratives and Phases 6. Romance Narratives and Micznik's Degrees of Narrativity 7. Tragic Narratives: An Extended Analysis of Schubert, Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960, First Movement 8. Ironic Narratives: Subtypes and Phases 9. Comic Narratives and Discursive Strategies 10. Summary and ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahmss
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWorth a read for Brahms devotees, even those without advanced music theory knowledge. . . . Recommended. * Choice *This is a wonderfully musical book with many valuable insights (and many generously long music examples). It will be useful to Brahms scholars, of course, but also to those who study music from roughly 1780 to the early twentieth century. * Notes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Musical Instrument AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Notion of Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music2. Lovelorn Lamentation, or Histrionic Historicism?: Re-Examining Allusion and Extramusical Meaning in the B-Major Piano Trio, op. 83. Musical Memory and the D-Major Serenade, op. 114. An Historical Model, an Emerging Soloist, a Young Composer in Turmoil: The Piano Concerto in D Minor, op. 15 5. A Later Example: Tragic Antiquarianism in Brahms's Fourth SymphonyConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex
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