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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to EighteenthCentury Opera Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia
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Cambridge University Press The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture
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Cambridge University Press Portrait of a Castrato Politics Patronage and Music in the Life of Atto Melani 19 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press Peter Maxwell Davies Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Ravel Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Opera in the Age of Rousseau Music Confrontation Realism Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press French Organ Music in the Reign of Louis XIV Musical Performance and Reception
Book SynopsisPresenting a fresh approach to French organ music, David Ponsford analyses the repertory from the reign of Louis XIV by genre. The colourful French organ was so consistent in design that the very titles of pieces that were constituent parts of organ masses, Magnificats and suites prescribed the registrations: plein jeu, fugue, duo, rÃcit, trio, fond d'orgue and grand jeu. Particular examples from published livres d'orgue and important manuscript collections are analysed chronologically, so that influences from Italian as well as French sacred and secular music can be traced. This analysis reveals the dynamic development of compositional styles in which each composer developed, modified or reacted against the exemplars of his predecessors. Composers discussed include Louis Couperin, FranÃois Couperin, Raison, ClÃrambault and Marchand. The reader will gain an enhanced understanding of performance practices such as notes inÃgales, fingering and ornamentation, and the influence of French cTrade Review'Here is a book the organ world has been waiting for: an authoritative account of French Baroque organ music from Louis Couperin to Clérambault, based on an examination of the repertoire by genre rather than simply by composer, thus revealing many new insights. Moreover, the links between stylistic analysis and performance practice make the book essential reading for both performers and scholars.' Kenneth Gilbert'David Ponsford's analytical book on French classical organ music is a very welcome addition to the small number of works in English on this subject … The book is well indexed and I suspect that the work's true value will be as a reference tool for organists wrestling with performance issues for specific composers and pieces. This book is a must-have for any serious organist.' William McVicker, Choir and Organ'An invaluable aid to understanding and appreciating its subject.' Early MusicTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Genre; 3. The conventions of notes inégales; 4. Ornaments; 5. Fingering; 6. The influence of Italian music; 7. Plein jeu; 8. Fugue; 9. Duo; 10. Récit de dessus; 11. Récit en taille; 12. Récit de basse; 13. Trio; 14. Fond d'orgue; 15. Grand jeu.
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Cambridge University Press Thinking about Harmony Historical Perspectives on Analysis
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Cambridge University Press Communication in EighteenthCentury Music
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Cambridge University Press Fashions and Legacies of NineteenthCentury Italian Opera
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Cambridge University Press Medieval MusicMaking and the Roman de Fauvel
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Haydn Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press Music in London and the Myth of Decline From Haydn to the Philharmonic
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Cambridge University Press Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press TwelveTone Music in America Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 25
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Cambridge University Press Staging Euridice
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Cambridge University Press Bach Handel and Scarlatti
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Cambridge University Press Margaret Bonds The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo
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Cambridge University Press The Crossings
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Cambridge University Press Hensel String Quartet in E flat
Book SynopsisFanny Hensel's String Quartet in E flat major (1834) is one of her most ambitious and individual compositions. Contextualising it within wider scholarly discussion about female composers' music, Benedict Taylor explores the unique qualities of Hensel's piece and shows how it responded to the most progressive works of the time.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Genesis and private reception; 4. First movement: Adagio ma non troppo; 5. Second movement: Allegretto; 6. Third movement: Romanza; 7. Finale: Allegro molto vivace; 8. Responding to the Quartet.
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Cambridge University Press Discovering Medieval Song
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song
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Cambridge University Press Mendelssohn and the Genesis of the Protestant A Cappella Movement
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of SixteenthCentury Music
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Cambridge University Press Boulez in Context
Book SynopsisPierre Boulez was a towering figure in contemporary music from the 1940s and 1950s to his death in 2016. This volume demonstrates his distinctive impact on new music and situates him within a wide range of contexts to enhance appreciation of the cultural embeddedness of his work. Successive sections consider his early life and education, his engagements with cultural, musical, literary and artistic modernism, his relationships with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the intersections of his work with literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology. Contributors explore his various roles as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder, as well as his role in French cultural politics, his move to Germany and the time he spent in the United States. This book is essential for students and educators but also accessible to a general audience interested in Boulez''s legacy and his unique position in recent music history.
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Cambridge University Press Olivier Messiaens Catalogue doiseaux
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Cambridge University Press AvantGarde on Record
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Cambridge University Press Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
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Cambridge University Press Louise Farrenc Nonet for Winds and Strings
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Cambridge University Press The Crossings
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms
Book SynopsisThis Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. The author proposes personal factors that shaped their modernism despite their shared experiences of the Cultural Revolution and education.
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Cambridge University Press Elliott Carters Late Music
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.Trade Review'… absorbing, frequently demanding but always rewarding reading.' Richard Whitehouse, GramophoneTable of ContentsPart I. Context: 1. Carter's career and reception history; 2. The elements of an aesthetic; 3. Harmony; 4. Rhythm and form; Part II. A Literary Imagination (Text Settings): 5. Sense and sensibility- opera; 6. A kind of light -song cycles and other text settings; Part III. Instrumental Music: 7. Illusions -music for orchestra; 8. Social aspirations -music for instrumental soloist and ensemble; 9. A free society- music for large chamber ensemble; 10. Social relations- music for small chamber ensemble; 11. Reflections- short instrumental pieces.
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Cambridge University Press Women and Music in SixteenthCentury Ferrara
Book SynopsisWith new information on four generations of women musicians, this book expands and alters the narratives that scholars and musicians have told about music in sixteenth-century Ferrara. A radical perspective on a familiar repertoire, it proposes a new way of thinking with consequences for music history and performance practice.Trade Review'In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded window that has, until now, obscured our understanding of this chapter in music history … Stras offers a second life to the musical women of sixteenth-century Ferrara.' Rebecca Cypess, Music and LettersTable of ContentsIntroduction: Musica secreta; 1. Ferrarese convents and the Este in the first half of the sixteenth century; 2. Courtly women and secular music in Ferrara in the first half of the sixteenth century; 3. Princesses and politics: the Este women and music in the 1550s; 4. Actresses and Ariosto: spectacle and song in the 1560s; 5. 'Un modo di cantare molto diverso': Ferrara and the new singing of the 1570s; 6. Margherita's arrival and the convents in the first half of the 1580s; 7. Musical practices of the 1580s concerto; 8. Ferrara's final chapter: court and convents in the 1590s; 9. Afterlife in Mantua.
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Cambridge University Press The Symphony in Beethovens Vienna
Book SynopsisAn original study of the history of the symphony in Vienna during Beethoven's lifetime, this 2006 book explores the context in which the composer worked. Based on an extensive study of the wider symphonic repertoire of the period and of the characteristics of musical life that shaped the changing fortunes of the genre, from manuscript and printed dissemination to concert life, David Wyn Jones provides a multi-faceted account of the development of the symphony in one of the most crucial periods in its history. The volume offers a wide perspective on musical development in the period, and will be of interest to musicologists and cultural historians. As well as dealing with unfamiliar works by Czerny, Eberl, Krommer, Reicha, Anton Wranitzky, Paul Wranitzky and others, it charts the changing reception of the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart, and offers insights into the symphonic careers of Beethoven and Schubert.Trade Review'… a worthy contribution to our newly broadening view of this pivotal moment in European music.' The Times Literary Supplement'This is an exemplary study, with valuable illustrations, tables and music examples; there are details of sources, thematic catalogues and modern editions, a bibliography and a good index.' Peter Branscombe, University of St Andrews'…David Wyn Jones has assembled an account that provides an excellent overview of the whole picture of symphonic writing in Vienna and its neighbourhood from the 1970s to the late 1820s, enabling Beethoven's symphonies to be seen in their more immediate context for the first time…and there is much excellent and original research embodied here. Yet the book remains very lucid and readable.' Music and Letters'Remarkable both for the uniquely accessible quality of writing and the depth of scholarship, The Symphony in Beethoven's Vienna by David Wyn Jones, Reader of Music at Cardiff University, is an excellent addition to the world of research on Beethoven's life and times for both the amateur and the more serious Beethoven scholar. …This book puts so many things into perspective that it seems each page leads to a new revelation. …I feel safe in saying this is a magnificent, rare look at the composers who were working in and around Vienna just prior to and during Beethoven's tenure in that city. It puts Beethoven into a unique historical context.' NotesTable of Contents1. Setting the scene; 2. Selling symphonies; 3. Performing symphonies; 4. A tale of two brothers: Anton and Paul Wranitzky; 5. Loose ends and false beginnings; 6. A rare and rarefied genre; 7. Beethoven and the decline of the symphony; 8. The reformulation of the symphony and Beethoven; List of sources, thematic catalogues and modern editions; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press A Handbook to TwentiethCentury Musical Sketches
Book SynopsisThis indispensable handbook, first published in 2004, explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts. This book surveys the knowledge necessary to work efficiently in archives and libraries housing this material and with the skills and techniques specifically related to sketch studies: transcription, reconstructing sketchbooks, deciphering handwriting, dating documents. It deals with the music of important twentieth-century composers and presents visual examples of manuscripts from the collections of world-renowned institutions such as the Paul Sacher Foundation. The book aims to make the work of both researchers and students more efficient and rewarding.Trade Review'… a wide-ranging, handsomely presented, pedagogical survey that is intended to explain "how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts" … invaluable resource … The contributing authors strike a fair balance between practical guidance and specific research concerns, and there is a useful appendix that lists the addresses of thirty-eight archives and institutes that house twentieth-century music manuscripts … offers sound advice … invaluable … The author's extensive knowledge of Bartok's sketches is amply illustrated in this chapter … this information is fascinating.' Twentieth-Century MusicTable of ContentsIntroduction Friedemann Sallis and Patricia Hall; 1. Sketches and sketching Giselher Schubert and Friedemann Sallis; 2. Preliminaries before visiting an archive Ulrich Mosch; 3. Archival etiquette Therese Muxeneder; 4. Coming to terms with the composer's working manuscripts Friedemann Sallis; 5. The classification of musical sketches exemplified in the catalogue of the Archivio Luigi Nono Erika Schaller; 6. Digital preservation of archival material William Koseluk; 7. Transcribing sketches Regina Busch; 8. A tale of two sketchbooks: reconstructing and deciphering Alban Berg's sketchbooks for Wozzeck Patricia Hall; 9. 'Written between the desk and the piano': dating Béla Bartók's sketches László Somfai; 10. Defining compositional process: idea and instrumentation in Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime (1918) and Pribaoutki (1915) Tomi Mäkelä; 11. Floating hierarchies: organisation and composition in works by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 1950s Pascal Decroupet; 12. Elliot Carter's sketches: spiritual exercises and craftsmanship Denis Vermaelen; 13. E-Sketches: Brian Ferneyhough's use of computer assisted compositional tools Ross Feller; 14. John Cage's Williams Mix (1951–3): the restoration and new realizations of and variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition Larry Austin; Appendix. Select list of institutions housing manuscript collections of twentieth-century composers.
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Cambridge University Press Communication in EighteenthCentury Music
Book SynopsisWritten by ten leading scholars, this volume assembles studies of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music under the broad rubric of communication. That such an impulse motivates musical composition and performance in this period of European musical history is often acknowledged but seldom examined in depth. The book explores a broad set of issues, ranging from the exigencies of the market for books and music in the eighteenth century through to the deployment of dance topoi in musical composition. A number of close readings of individual works by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven draw on a sophisticated body of historically-appropriate technical resources to illuminate theories of form, metre, bass lines and dance topoi. Students and scholars of music history, theory and analysis will find in this volume a set of challenging, state-of-the-art essays that will stimulate debate about musical meaning and engender further study.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Two editors have done a fine job of showcasing some of the most interesting voices in music scholarship today. Over the years, the sprightly, optimistic music of the late eighteenth century has fallen victim to some very dull analysis. Here, by contrast, lively ideas meet lively music, with a satisfying result.' Eighteenth-Century MusicTable of ContentsForeword Danuta Mirka; Part I. Communication and the Market: 1. Communication and verisimilitude in the eighteenth century Paul Cobley; 2. Listening to listeners Mark Evan Bonds; 3. 'Mannichfaltige abweichungen von der gewöhnlichen sonaten-form': Beethoven's 'Piano-Solo' op. 31 no. 1 and the challenge of communication Claudia Maurer Zenck; Part II. Musical Grammar: 4. Metre, phrase structure and manipulations of musical beginnings Danuta Mirka; 5. National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries William Rothstein; 6. Schoenberg's 'Second Melody', or, 'Meyer-ed' in the bass William E. Caplin; Part III. Rhetorical Form and Topical Decorum: 7. A metaphoric model of sonata form: two expositions by Mozart Michael Spitzer; 8. Beethoven's op. 18 no. 3, First Movement: two readings, with a comment on analysis Kofi Agawu; 9. K331, First Movement: once more, with feeling Wye J. Allanbrook; 10. Dance topoi, sonic analogs and musical grammar: communicating with music in the eighteenth century Lawrence Zbikowski; Afterword Kofi Agawu.
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Cambridge University Press Mode in Ancient Greek Music Cambridge Classical Studies
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1936, this book presents a discussion regarding the modality of ancient Greek music, using literary evidence supplemented by surviving melodies. Detailed notes are incorporated throughout, together with indexes of proper names, terms and passages.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. The direct evidence of ancient theory; Part II: 1. The evidence of the species of the octave; 2. The evidence of early scales; 3. The evidence of the fragments; Part III: 1. The evidence of the Aristoxenians; 2. The evidence of Aristides Quintilianus; 3. The evidence of Ptolemy; 4. Mode and key; Concluding note; Diagram; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Understanding the Leitmotif
Book SynopsisLeitmotifs are a type of associative theme found in dramatic music. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the musical leitmotif, from Wagner and art music to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series.Trade Review'In eloquent prose, Dr Bribitzer-Stull offers a fascinating interpretation of the structural and expressive roles of the leitmotif in Wagnerian opera and Hollywood film music. His attractive semiotic theory of associative meaning yields fundamental insights into how musical motives enhance meaning in intermedial contexts.' Robert S. Hatten, University of Texas, Austin'Wagner, the leitmotif, and the cinema have floated near one another for a century now. Bribitizer-Stull has woven them together to fashion the first thoroughly convincing explanation of Wagnerian practice in relation to its heirs in the symphonic underscore of classical and contemporary film.' David P. Neumeyer, University of Texas, AustinTable of Contents1. Introduction: the leitmotif problem; Part I. Musical Themes: 2. Motive, phrase, melody, and theme; 3. Thematic development, thematic identity: musical themes and the prototype model; Part II. Musical Association: 4. The phenomenon of musical association; 5. Piece specifics, cultural generics, and associative layering; 6. From 'Nibelheim' to Hollywood: the associativity of harmonic progression; Part III. Leitmotifs in Context: 7. The paradigm of Wagner's Ring; 8. Leitmotif in Western art music outside the Ring; 9. The modern-day leitmotif: associative themes in contemporary film music.
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Cambridge University Press Brittens Unquiet Pasts Sound And Memory In Postwar Reconstruction Music since 1900
Book SynopsisExamining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.Trade Review'Fascinating …' The Times Literary Supplement'Unfailingly readable …' Musical TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Music and cultural renewal; 2. 'Today on Earth the Angels Sing': carols in wartime; 3. Realizing Purcell; 4. Gloriana and the 'new Elizabethans'; 5. Noye's Fludde and the rituals of lost faith; 6. Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.
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Cambridge University Press Plague and Music in the Renaissance
Book SynopsisPlague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book uncovers the place of music - whether regarded as an indispensable medicine or a moral poison that exacerbated outbreaks - in the management of the disease. This original musicological approach further reveals how composers responded, in their works, to the discourses and practices surrounding one of the greatest medical crises in the pre-modern age. Addressing topics such as music as therapy, public rituals and performance and music in religion, the volume also provides detailed musical analysis throughout to illustrate how pestilence affected societal attitudes toward music.Trade Review'Plague and Music in the Renaissance does a fine job of presenting the pressures that plague put upon medical, theological, and civic understanding. It beautifully outlines the manner in which Saint Sebastian became identified with the plague.' Chadwick Jenkins, Notes'… the book is a very judicious and well-structured study on this otherwise underresearched topic of music in the medical regimens against plague, and covers a wide span of Renaissance music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.' Johann F. W. Hasler, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Medicine for the body and soul; 2. Sympathetic resonance, sympathetic contagion; 3. Devotions on the street and in the home; 4. The cult of St Sebastian; 5. Madrigals, Mithridates, and the plague of Milan.
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Cambridge University Press The Operas of Maurice Ravel
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, documentary and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's two operas, his working life and his compositional practice. The first study devoted to Ravel's operas, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone who is interested in French music.Trade Review'… altogether this is a very fine piece of work, which anyone involved in performing either of Ravel's operas should read and re-read.' Roger Nichols, BBC Music Magazine'Scholars, singers, conductors, stage directors, and general readers hoping to gain a deeper understanding of the milieu in which these exquisite small operas were created will find illuminating insights and much to ponder.' Keith E. Clifton, Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library AssociationTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Making Operas: 1. Introduction: 'a single act at the Opéra-Comique'; 2. Ravel's hour; 3. The Child and the impresarios; Part II. Words and Music: 4. The collaborative process; 5. Songs into operas; 6. 'This archaic attempt at a modern fantasy'; 7. A portrait of an opera-ballet; Part III. The Compositional Web: 8. The 'calling cards' of L'Heure espagnole; 9. From Carmen to Concepcion; 10. The 'big, small world' of L'Enfant et les sortilèges; 11. A child of his time; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press The Stage Works of Philip Glass
Book SynopsisThe Stage Works of Philip Glass is a rich exploration of Glass and his widely acclaimed music for the theatre within the context of other composers interested in so-called minimalist features. It assesses different critical interpretations of Glass's work, and sheds light on his challenging creative philosophy.Trade Review'… reading the book is not only pertinent but necessary.' Jesús Rodríguez Lenin, MinimalismoreTable of ContentsPreface; Background; 1. Introduction; 2. Terminology and Stages of Minimalism; 3. Terminology: Post-Minimalism, Postmodernism, and Neo-Romanticism; 4. Philip Glass's Early Life and Career (1937-1975); STAGE WORKS: 5. Theater; 6. Language and Philosophy; 7. Themes, Genres, and Archetypes; 8. Multimedia and Hybrid Genres; 9. Dance; 10. Music; 11. Critical and Audience Reception; 12. Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of TwentiethCentury Music The Cambridge History of Music
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-ranging book traces the progressive fragmentation of the European 'art' tradition, and its relocation as one tradition among many at the century's end.Trade Review'Its pluralist narrative finds room for pop, jazz and easy listening alongside classical mainstreams and avant-garde orthodoxies. The non-interventionist stance makes for lively debate between contributors, reflecting the revisionist brand of musicology where the importance of any musical culture must be constantly contested.' The Independent'It can be warmly recommended as a worthwhile institutional purchase and as an encouragingly good read.' Music teacher'There is no doubt that this hefty single-volume history of music in the twentieth century is a brave and ambitious undertaking … fascinating … authoritative … compelling critical reappraisal … passionate … thought-provoking and challenging in their reassessment of the concept of the mainstream in twentieth-century music histories, and in their rethinking of how to tell selected aspects of those histories.' Twentieth-Century MusicTable of ContentsIntroduction: trajectories of twentieth-century music Nicholas Cook with Anthony Pople; 1. Peripheries and interfaces: the Western impact on other music Jonathan Stock; 2. Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy Leon Botstein; 3. Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900–20 Christopher Butler; 4. Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War Stephen Banfield; 5. Classic jazz to 1945 James Lincoln Collier; 6. Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900–1945 Susan C. Cook; 7. Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the 'little people from the suburbs' Peter Franklin; 8. Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars David Nicholls; 9. Proclaiming a mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern Joseph Auner; 10. Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period Hermann Danuser; 11. Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond Michael Walter; 12. Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920–70 Derek B. Scott; 13. New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945–62 David Osmond-Smith; 14. Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945–75 Arnold Whittall; 15. After swing: modern jazz and its impact Mervyn Cooke; 16. Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s Robynn Stilwell; 17. Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962–75 Richard Toop; 18. To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity Andrew Blake; 19. Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism Alastair Williams; 20. (Post-)minimalisms, 1975–2000: the search for a new mainstream Robert Fink; 21. History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 Dai Griffiths; 22. 'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa Martin Scherzinger; Appendix 1. Personalia Peter Elsdon with Björn Heile; Appendix 2. Chronology Peter Elsdon and Peter Jones.
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Cambridge University Press Pierre Boulez Studies
Book SynopsisPierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, featuring analysis of previously unpublished material, the historical context for Boulez's music and a final section examining the reception of his music in the United Kingdom.Trade Review'By bringing together a substantial amount of recent scholarship in a highly accessible format, this collection of essays should open up numerous avenues for exploration and have a significant impact on future research in this area. … The availability of groundbreaking scholarship that had previously only been published in other languages to the general English-speaking public will hopefully have an impact, broadening and refining understanding of his music. The diverse readership that this book targets through the accessibility of its content is clearly beneficial to its wider aim of disseminating scholarship on this relatively understudied repertoire.' Catherine Losada, Music Theory SpectrumTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. The Context of the Late 1940s and 1950s: 1. Pierre Boulez: composer, traveller, correspondent Edward Campbell; 2. Traces of an apprenticeship: Pierre Boulez's Sonatine (1946/1949) Susanne Gärtner; 3. Schoenberg vive Jessica Payette; Part II. The Evolution of a Style: 4. 'A score neither begins nor ends; at most it pretends to': fragmentary reflections on the Boulezian non finito Robert Piencikowski; 5. Serial organisation and beyond: cross-relations of determinants in Le Marteau sans maître and the dynamic pitch-algorithm of Constellation Pascal Decroupet; 6. 'Du Fond d'un Naufrage': the quarter-tone compositions of Pierre Boulez Werner Strinz; 7. Alea and the concept of the 'work in progress' Peter O'Hagan; 8. Casting new light on Boulezian Serialism: unpredictability and free choice in the composition of Pli selon pli – portrait de Mallarmé Erling E. Guldbrandsen; 9. Serial processes, agency and improvisation Joseph Salem; 10. Listening to doubles in stereo Jonathan Goldman; 11. Composing an improvisation at the beginning of the 1970s Paolo Dal Molin; Part III. Reception Studies: 12. Pierre Boulez in London: the William Glock years Peter O'Hagan; 13. Tartan from Baden-Baden: Boulez at the 1965 Edinburgh International Festival Edward Campbell; 14. Pierre Boulez and the suspension of narrative Arnold Whittall.
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Cambridge University Press Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy 18 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 18
Book SynopsisThe idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was one of the most fertile products of the Renaissance literary and artistic imagination. This book explores one specific aspect of this idea: the musical representation and stylization of the myth of Arcadia in sixteenth-century Italy. Giuseppe Gerbino outlines how Renaissance culture strove to keep this utopia alive and demonstrates how music played a fundamental role in the construction and preservation of this collective illusion. Covering a range of different musical genres, including the madrigal, music for theater, and early opera, the book overcomes traditional barriers among genres. Illustrative music examples, including previously unpublished music, serve to expand the reader's knowledge of this important repertory, and provide insights into the role of music in the preservation of cultural myths.Table of ContentsIntroduction: music in Arcadia: an unsettled tradition; 1. The idiosyncrasies of chronology; 2. The return of the shepherd; 3. Musical remedies; 4. On the cusp between language and music; 5. Musical eclipses: theatre; 6. The boundaries of the genre; 7. Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants; 8. Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque; 9. Re-founding pastoral theatre; 10. The (female) performance of high culture: the madrigal; 11. A pastoral society; 12. The dark side of Arcadia; 13. Marenzio's utopia of the senses; 14. Lost in Arcadia; Epilogue: pastoral, opera and the impossibility of tragedy.
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Cambridge University Press Boulez Music and Philosophy 27 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 27
Book SynopsisWhile acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. Campbell examines significant encounters which link Boulez to the work of a number of important philosophers and thinkers, including Adorno, LÃvi-Strauss, Eco and Deleuze. Relating Boulez's music and ideas to broader currents of thought, the book illuminates a number of affinities linking music and philosophy, and also literature and visual art. These connections facilitate enhanced understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's distinctive approach to composition. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documentary sources and providing musical analysis of a number of key scores, the book traces the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents which inform Boulez's work.Table of Contents1. Preparing the ground; 2. Early influences and movements; 3. Dialectic, negation and binary oppositions; 4. Boulez, Adorno and serial critique; 5. Deduction and the scientific model; 6. Serialism and structuralism; 7. Post-structuralist encounters; 8. Boulez, difference and repetition; 9. Expanding the virtual; 10. Continuity and discontinuity of space and time; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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