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Oxford University Press Inc Early Music
Book SynopsisIn this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly frames chapters on the forms, techniques, and repertories of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods with discussion of why old music has been and should be revived, along with a short history of early music revivals.Trade Reviewa useful stocking filler ... packs an incredible amount into a pocket format * Ham & High *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Chapter 1: What is Meant by "Early Music"? Chapter 2: Repertories: Medieval Chapter 3: Repertories: Renaissance Chapter 4: Repertories: Baroque Chapter 5: Performing Issues Chapter 6: A Very Short History of the Modern Early Music Revival Further Reading Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Musorgsky His Life and Works Composers Across Cultures
Trade ReviewThis does a good job of putting those red-blooded melodies into context - from a childhood spent listening to his nurse's folk tales, to his death surrounded by unfinished potential masterpieces. * Anna Britten, Classic FM - The Magazine *
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Oxford University Press The Performance of 16thCentury Music Learning from the Theorists
Book SynopsisThrough The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest and glorious potential.Trade Reviewan engaging and useful study * Richard Wistreich, Early Music *[a] subtle and coherent story ... No one who performs sixteenth-century music, and no one who cares about what this music sounded like or how they understood it back then, can afford to be without this ... book. * Kenneth Kreitner, Performance Practice Review *Ann Smith ... does an immense service to performers, and especially to students, not only by bringing relevant quotations together, but also by contextualizing them without in any other way over-simplifying their ambiguities. ...we should expect nothing less of someone who has devoted her working life to developing and imparting such understanding. * Richard Wistreich, Early Music *Table of ContentsABOUT THE COMPANION WEB SITE; PREFACE; APPENDIX: MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc After the Rite Stravinskys Path to Neoclassicism 19141925
Book SynopsisThe riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky''s The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history. The third in a series of works commissioned for Sergei Diaghalev''s famed Ballets Russes, the piece combined disjunct tonalities, provocative rhythms, and radical choreography that threw spectators and critics into a literal fury. In the century following its premiere, The Rite of Spring has demonstrated its earth-shattering impact on music and dance as well as its immortalizing effect on Stravinsky and his career. Having gained international attention by the age of 30, what direction could Stravinsky''s path forward take after the momentus events of 1913?After the Rite: Stravinsky''s Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) traces the evolution of Stravinsky''s compositional style as he searched for his own voice in the explosive musical world of the early 20th century as he respTrade ReviewCarr's book contains a vast amount of information, including musical examples, sketch reproductions, tabular presentations of musical form, and meticulous documentation. Thus, it will prove invaluable to the student of this period in Stravinskys life. * Neil Minturn, The Russian Review *Throughout Carr's analysis, the reader can witness how the composer establishes and maintains objectivity in his compositions...Carr's scholarship successfully elucidates this correspondence and compels us to investigate Stravinsky's music further and from other vantage points. * Music Theory Online *Not only does it furnish the Stravinsky scholar with insight into the composer's creative processes and socio-historical-aesthetic background, it provides those more widely interested in sketch-study methodology with a welcome compendium of resources and insights to which they will frequently return. * Music Analysis *If Stravinsky's legacy to the twentieth century (and beyond) is to be fully evaluated, then an analytical rehearing of his neoclassical works is long overdue. * IDissonance: Swiss Music Journal for Research and Creation *Table of ContentsPrologue ; Chapter One: ; The emergence of Stravinsky's neoclassicism and the aesthetic underpinnings of the idea in the other arts and in recent social/political history ; Chapter Two: ; Stravinsky at the Crossroads after the Rite ; Jeu de rossignol mecanique [Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale] (1 August 1913) ; Trois pieces (Vl 2, Va, Vc; ), II [Three Pieces for String Quartet, II] ; Grotesques ; "Eccentrique" (2 July 1914) ; Trois pieces faciles (Kl 4 hdg) [Three Easy Pieces] (4 hands) ; "Marche" (19 December 1914) ; Chapter Three: ; Stravinsky at the Crossroads between Primitivism and Neoclassicism ; Renard [Bajka](1915-1916) ; and ; Histoire du soldat (1917-1918) ; Chapter Four: ; Stravinsky's Improvisatory Style ; The predictive qualities of the Etude pour Pianola (1917) ; Stravinsky's appropriation of the "rag idiom" (1917) ; Stravinsky completes three works that were inspired by elements of ragtime (1918): ; (1) Ragtime (for piano and the same piece arranged for 11 Instruments), ; (2) "Ragtime" as one of the three dances in Histoire du soldat and ; (3) the last movement of Trois pieces pour clarinette. ; The two faces of Stravinsky's Piano-Rag-Music (1919): portrait or collage? ; Chapter Five: ; Stravinsky's Compositional Process for Symphonies d'instruments a vent (191?-1920) and Concertino (1920) as understood through the overlapping of the musical sketches and the resulting sound blocks ; Chapter Six: ; Les cinq doigts (1921) as a link between Pulcinella (1919-1920) and Mavra (1922) ; Commentaries by Poulenc, Schloezer, Cocteau and Mayakovsky with Stravinsky at the Pleyel Factory (November 18, 1922); retrospective commentaries about Mavra in Poetics ; Chapter Seven: ; Stravinsky's Neoclassicism flourishes in Oktett (1919-1923) ; Experiments with Cinq pieces monometriques (-; 192?) ; Konzert (Piano and Winds) (1923-1924) ; Chapter Eight: ; Stravinsky's models from the piano literature (by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin) ; NPR interview with Charles Rosen and Elliot Carter on Beethoven influences in the Sonata ; commentaries by Arthur Lourie, Boris deShloezer, Roman Vlad ; Sonate (Piano) (1924) ; Serenade en la (1925) ; Epilogue
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Oxford University Press Making Music for Modern Dance Collaboration In The Formative Years Of A New American Art Source Readings
Book SynopsisMaking Music for Modern Dance is a fascinating collection of source readings that offer first-hand accounts of musical collaboration for early modern dance in America.Trade ReviewWow! A book with such glorious content and organization that I would enthusiastically use it in my own courses, and recommend it to students and all readers in modern dance history, music for dance, collaborative and interdisciplinary arts, and American music history. How wonderful to have all these primary sources (many rare or previously unavailable) under one cover, each one placed in a clear context. A fantastic contribution illuminating an often neglected subject. * Greg Presley, Music Instructor, Gonzaga University, and former pianist for Martha Graham *This meticulously researched and annotated collection of articles gives invaluable context to the development of dance as an American art form and the intertwining and influences of leading composers and dance figures to its history. * Janet Mansfield Soares, author, Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance and Professor of Dance Emerita, Barnard College, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Threads of America's Heritage in Music and Dance Part One: Musical Collaboration for a New Era in Dance Overview: The Question of Using Old Music for New Dance 1. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. How to Revive Dancing Music and the Dancer 2. Isadora Duncan. Dancing to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony 3. Baird Hastings. Music for Isadora Duncan's Dance 4. Helen Caldwell. The Dance Poems of Michio Ito: The White Peacock, to Music by Griffes 5. Denishawn program. America and the Dance Music Visualization 6. Norman Cazden. On Dancing to Bach: Humphrey-Weidman Programs 7. Ted Shawn. American Music and Composers: What Dancers Need Part Two: Creative Procedures and Ingredients Overview: Some Challenges of Collaboration, and Composers Debate What Works 8. Louis Horst. Music and Dance: The New Generation's Change in Methods 9. Henry Gilfond. Louis Horst 10. Gertrude Lippincott. A Quiet Genius Himself: A Dance Teacher's Tribute to Louis Horst 11. Wallingford Riegger. Synthesizing Music and the Dance 12. Ernestine Stodelle. Sensing the Dancer's Impulse: A Dancer Talks about the Art of Composer-Accompanists 13. Vivian Fine. My Scores for Modern Dance: Tragedy and Comedy 14. Doris Humphrey. The Race of Life: My Side of the Story The Relationship of Music and Dance 15. Lehman Engel. Under Way: Composing for Martha Graham Details of Contemporary Collaboration 16. Henry Cowell. Relating Music and Concert Dance: An Idea for Elastic Form 17. Norman Lloyd. Sound-Companion for Dance: Henry Cowell's Talent 18. Norman Lloyd. Composing for the Dance: A Retrospective Overview of Procedures; Personal Experiences; and Advice to Collaborators Part Three: Towards New "American" Styles Overview: Defining "American" Music; Common Musical Concerns of Ballet and Modern Dance 19. Verna Arvey. The Cosmopolitan Scene of the 1920s and '30s: Avant-Garde Experiments; Symphonic Ballet Scores; Jazz 20. Virgil Thomson. The Theatrical Thirties 21. Katherine Teck: Virgil Thomson's Later Reflections 22. Dance Observer. Editorial: Dance and American Composers Drawing Upon Folk Music and War-Time Patriotism 23. Woody Guthrie. People Dancing 24. Nora Guthrie. Sophie Maslow and Woody 25. Agnes de Mille. Music for Martha 26. Aaron Copland. The Commission for Appalachian Spring 27. Gail Levin. Aaron Copland's America 28. Richard Philp. Appalachian Spring: An Appreciation 54 Years Later Building on the Horton Experience 29. Larry Warren and Others. Lester Horton: Of Money, Music, and Motivation 30. Katherine Teck. Kenneth Klauss: Musician for California Dancers 31. Katherine Teck. Carmen de Lavallade: Dancing to Many Musical Styles 32. Alvin Ailey. Instructions: How to Play the Drums 33. Jennifer Dunning. Alvin Ailey's Revelations 34. Alvin Ailey with A. Peter Bailey. How Revelations Came to Be Part Four: Instruments, Technology, and the Avant-Garde Overview: Expanding Timbre Possibilities with Percussion, Vocalization, Electronic Instruments, and the Sounds Around Us 35. Franziska Boas. Percussion Music and Its Relation to the Modern Dance 36. Henry Cowell. East Indian Tala Music 37. Lehman Engel. Choric Sound for the Dance 38. John Cage. Goal: New Music, New Dance 39. Otto Luening. Electronic Music for Doris Humphrey's Theatre Piece No. 2 40. Alwin Nikolais. My Total Theater Concept 41. John Cage. Experimental Music 42. John Cage. Communication 43. Carolyn Brown. Dancing with the Avant-Garde Part Five: Well-Springs of Creative Collaboration Overview: Diverse Methods and Aesthetic Ideas 44. Leonard Bernstein. "Fun" in Music and the Dance 45. Paul Taylor. Why I Make Dances 46. Carlos Surinach. My Intention to Serve Spanish Ballet Serves American Modern Dancers Instead 47. Lou Harrison. Meditations on Melodies, Modes, Emotion, and Creation 48. Lucia Dlugoszewski. New Music for the Dance: Choices Open to Collaborators at Mid-Century Part Six: Master Artists Speak to Future Generations Overview: Postwar Trends, and Music in the Training of Dancers 49. Erick Hawkins. My Love Affair With Music 50. Bessie Schönberg. Finding Your Own Voice 51. Paul Draper. Music and Dancing 52. José Limón. Dancers Are Musicians Are Dancers Afterword: Creativity in One's Own Time Appendix: Checklist of Composers Notes, Commentary, and Recommended Resources Bibliographic Essay Index
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Oxford University Press The Reception of Bachs Organ Works from
Book SynopsisIn this penetrating study, Russell Stinson considers how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century-Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms-responded to the model of Bach's organ music. His book represents a major step forward in the literature on the so-called Bach revival.Trade ReviewStinson has successfully combined biography and analysis to produce a book that is highly readable and accessible to both scholars and enthusiasts. Russell Stinson should be commended for assembling information from a great variety of sources in order to produce this valuable resource. I am sure that his enthusiasm for this subject - and the book's extensive bibliography - will help stimulate further study in this fascinating study. * Ian Mills, Assistant Editor, The Bach Bibliography *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; THE FINAL YEARS); THE MASTER TEACHER); / THE INFLUENCE OF SPITTA'S BACH BIOGRAPHY / BRAHMS'S INSCRIPTIONS IN THE ORGAN-MUSIC VOLUMES OF THE BACHGESELLSCHAFT EDITION / THE MARKING OF THEMES AND MOTIVES / THE MARKING OF MUSICAL FORM / THE MARKING OF RHYTHMIC, HARMONIC, MELODIC, AND CONTRAPUNTAL IRREGULARITIES COMPARATIVE READINGS, SUGGESTED READINGS, AND CORRECTIONS / THE MARKING OF ORNAMENTATION / FINGERINGS / MISCELLANEOUS ANNOTATIONS / BRAHMS AS SCHOLAR-COMPOSER: THE ELEVEN CHORALE PRELUDES, OP. 122 . ); APPENDIX: JOHANNES BRAHMS'S STUDY SCORE OF THE FANTASY IN G MAJOR, BWV 572; NOTES; LITERATURE CITED
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Oxford University Press Musical Form and Transformation Four Analytic
Book SynopsisMusical Form and Transformation collects four of David Lewin's analytic essays to stimulate thought about the general methodology of musical analysis and issues of large-scale form as they relate to transformational analytic structuring.Trade ReviewNo one can match David Lewin's ability to present detailed analyses of 20th-century music in such a way that the committed reader can absorb them in all of their richness. Beyond their originality and interpretive mastery, these essays are indispensable for their stylistic qualities. * Richard L. Cohn, Battell Professor of the Theory of Music, Yale University *David Lewin's great gift was his ability to connect sophisticated mathematics to musical experience in ways that were deeply compelling, never losing sight of either the music, or the experience. Together these two volumes display both his theoretical brilliance and his sensitivity to the individuality of musical works. Most significantly, they are imbued with his unflagging dedication to and abiding love for the acts of making and understanding music. * Andrew Mead, Professor of Music, University of Michigan *David Lewin's work is among the most important on music theory in the twentieth century. Through some of the examples of practical applications, Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations was the inception and theoretical basis of the 'Neo-Riemannian' strand of tonal music theory. In addition, its transformational network analysis paradigm has become part of every music theorist's standard repertory for analysis, and has since been extended by Lewin himself, Klumpenhouwer, Lambert, Stoecker, Headlam, Rahn, and Mazzola among many others. The analytical essays in Musical Form and Transformations illustrate the new analytical paradigm Lewin introduced in Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations. These seminal works on music theory are essential reading. * John Rahn, Professor of Music, University of Washington *While David Lewin's thought had been animated for decades by some of these books' ideas---the complex significance of interval, the audibility of pitch-class inversional indices, the definition of directed motion more by context than convention---it was their concentrated presentation here that enabled many readers to assimilate them as a 'theory.' The result was a shift in the discipline's conception of its methods, even its goals, to the point where imitation of the books (of their imitable aspects) could become a career path. In a renewed encounter with the originals, we are confronted once more by Lewin's intellectual probity, his intense concern with every construction's relation to hearing (which need not mean anything so simple as that every construction is heard), his fastidious eschewal of hype. With these taken as exemplary, the field would change again. * Joseph Dubiel, Professor of Music, Columbia University *Table of ContentsFOREWORD BY ED GOLLIN; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc The Orchestra A Very Short Introduction Very
Book SynopsisIn this Very Short Introduction, D. Kern Holoman considers the structure, roots, and day-to-day functioning of the modern philharmonic society. He explores topics ranging from the life of a musician in a modern orchestra, the recent wave of new hall construction from Berlin to Birmingham, threats of bankruptcies and strikes, and the eyebrow-raising salaries of conductors and general managers. At the heart of the book lies a troubling pair of questions: Can such a seemingly anachronistic organization long survive? Does the symphony matter in contemporary culture? Holoman responds to both with a resounding yes. He shows that the orchestra remains a potent political and social force, a cultural diplomat par excellence. It has adapted well to the digital revolution, and it continues to be seen as an essential element of civic pride. In a time of upheaval in how classical music is created, heard, distributed, and evaluated, the orchestra has managed to retain its historic role as a meeting Trade Review"The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction is a savvy, modern, and entertaining introduction to the 21st-century world of orchestras. It combines an insider's perspective with a general overview of the subject-definitely a must for all music lovers." --Alan Gilbert, music director, New York Philharmonic "The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction should be required reading for everyone who cares about classical music in today's world. Presented in a refreshingly nontraditional format, Holoman's book is absolutely comprehensive, brimming with surprising insight, wit and vibrancy. Perhaps inspired by the words of the philosopher Seneca whom he quotes-'True pleasure is serious business'-the author succeeds in making a serious and important subject a complete pleasure to explore in this superb book."--JoAnn Falletta, Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony; Principal Conductor, Ulster Orchestra "Holoman's series of witty quips, anecdotes, and one-liners will keep one reading to the book's much too rapid conclusion." -- Music Media MonthlyTable of ContentsChapter 1: Philharmonia ; Chapter 2: Musicians ; Chapter 3: Venue ; Chapter 4: Money ; Chapter 5: Conductors ; Chapter 6: Repertoire ; Chapter 7: Commentary ; Chapter 8: Records ; Chapter 9: Peace ; Epilogue: Civics ; References ; Further Reading ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Bizet
Book SynopsisToday Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity, color, and a wealth of melody. Yet it is only one act in Bizet''s story. In Bizet, renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald goes beyond the composer''s most famous opera to take an in-depth look at his entire life and oeuvre. In so doing, Macdonald identifies a number of previously unknown pieces by Bizet, assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer''s work. Incorporating these little-known pieces with a thorough reading of primary sources, Macdonald considers the latest in Bizet scholarship to create a complete biography of the composer. Revealing the true extent of Bizet''s work as arranger and transcriber, Macdonald sheds light on the composer''s complex relationships with his contemporaries, and traces the strange misrepresTrade ReviewThough best known as a distinguished Berlioz scholar, Hugh Macdonald now reveals himself as wearing a different French hat with no less aplomb. His fine new Master Musicians volume on Georges Bizet adds much to our knowledge of this deeply disappointed composer of operas * Musical Times, Andrew Thompson *One of Professor Hugh Macdonald's declared aims is 'to set the composer in the context of French music of the Second Empire', and this spledid biography proves that there is no one better qualifies for the task * BBC Music Magazine, Roger Nichols *Long meditated and meticulously documented, Hugh Macdonald's critical biography of Bizet will surely have no trouble being acclaimed as the definitine work on its subject * Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; List of Illustrations ; 1 1838 - 1857: Le Docteur Miracle ; 2 1858 - 1860: Don Procopio ; 3 1860 - 1863: Les Pecheurs de perles ; 4 1864 - 1865: Ivan IV ; 5 1866 - 1867: La Jolie Fille de Perth ; 6 1868 - 1870: La Coupe du Roi de Thule ; 7 1870 - 1872: Djamileh ; 8 1872 - 1873: Don Rodrigue ; 9 1873 - 1875: Carmen ; 10 1875 - 2013: Life After Death ; Appendices ; A. Calendar ; B. List of Works ; C. Personalia ; D. Select Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Enrique Granados Poet Of The Piano
Trade ReviewClark tactfully addresses conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic death, including a far-fetched one, which claimed that England plotted the torpedo attack to lure America into the war. A compelling musical-historical panorama. * Newark Star-Ledger *Table of ContentsForeword by Alicia de Larrocha ; Preface to the Paperback Edition ; Abbreviations ; Map of Spain ; Preludio: Renaissance ; 1. A Born Pianist ; 2. The Emerging Composer ; 3. Works for Piano in a Central European Style ; 4. Teacher, Conductior, Organizer ; 5. Modernisme Catalan ; 6. Catalan Works with Texts by Apeles Mestres ; 7. La Maja de Goya ; 8. Goyescas ; 9. A World of Ideas ; Epilogo: The Legacy of Ideas ; Appendix 1: Genealogy ; Appendix 2: List of Works ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index of Works ; General Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Dinner with Lenny
Book SynopsisLeonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking.In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer Jonathan Cott to his country home in Fairfield, Connecticut for what turned out to be his last major interview--an unprecedented and astonishingly frank twelve-hour conversation. Now, in Dinner with Lenny, Cott provides a complete account of this remarkable dialogue in which Bernstein discourses with disarming frankness, humor, and intensity on matters musical, pedagogical, political, psychological, spiritual, and the unabashedly personal. Bernstein comes alive again, with vodka glass in hand, singing, humming, and making pointed comments on a wide array of topics, from popular music (the Beatles wTrade ReviewThe interview is replete with a generous helping of the boast and bombast which was Bernstein's stock-in-trade, which one either loves or hates ... The account makes riveting reading. * Classical Music *Rarely has a composer or conductor enjoyed such public adulation, and this lovely little book goes some way towards explaining why Bernstein did. A transcription of the "last long interview" with him, conducted in the year before his death, it captures Bernstein on sparkling form... Dinner with Lenny is an evocative tribute, not just to Bernstein's musical gifts but his ever-active mind. * The Financial Times *[In Dinner with Lenny] ancedotes flow freely as the casual obscenities and gushing Yiddish emoting. The most telling quip comes in Cott's perceptive introduction: just before a concert at the Vatican, followed by an audience with the Pope, a well-wishing friend sent Bernstein a telegram: 'Remember: the ring, not the lips.' * The Spectator *Jonathan Cott is gifted at making a discussion - presented in the formatting of a play script, with occasional stage directions - feel like a live recording, while we wander from fascinating reflections about languages, the mystic number seven, and Hitler's effect on 20th-century music, to lovely anecdotes such as the one about Bernstein's late wife washing the eccentric Glenn Gould's hair. * The Independent on Sunday *Lenny is witty, erudite, epigrammatic and wicked - filled with off-the cuff reminiscences about friends, colleagues and reflection on major composers. * The Times *What Cott has achieved, though this final interview, is to make Lenny speak and sing again. It's been said that if you remember an evening with Lenny, you weren't really there. The genius of Cott's book is not only to remember but to recall with pinpoint accuracy and sympathy the flame of Leonard Bernstein that burned so brightly and so true. * New Statesman *A feast * New York Times *I found this terrific book quite impossible to put down ... Here is a vibrant and authentic Leonard Bernstein, speaking freely, frankly and extremely entertainingly, but never wavering in his raging passion for music, or his simple lust for life. * International Record Review *Table of Contents1. PRELUDE ; 2. DINNER WITH LENNY ; 3. POSTLUDE ; NOTES ; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Oxford University Press, USA The Organ and Its Music in GermanJewish Culture
Book SynopsisThe Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the development of a new organ music repertoire as a paradigm for the changing identity of modern Jewry.Trade ReviewThis groundbreaking and engaged study is really two books in one: the story of modern Jewry's growing interest in the organ, combined with a fresh look at music in German Jewish culture. It's solid and satisfying on both counts. * Mark Slobin, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, and author, Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World *Table of Contents1 The Organ, Jewish Music, and Identity ; 2 Jewish "Curiosities": The Organ in Judaism Before 1800 ; * The Jewish Literature of Early Modernity ; * Pictorial Sources of Different Cultural and Religious Provenance ; * Meshorerim as the Forerunners of Organ Accompaniment ; * The Synagogues of Prague and Venice ; 3 The Organ as a Jewish Religious Response to Modernity ; * From Liturgical Reforms to a New Musical Identity ; * The Synagogue Organ in the Context of Organ Building Traditions ; * Intermezzo: Sharing the Console-The Synagogue Organist ; * The Synagogue Organist in the Framework of Christian Traditions ; * Organists at the New Synagogue in Berlin ; * The Impact of the Organist Question ; 4 Organ Music in Jewish Communities ; * From Lewandowski to Schalit: The Stylistic Development of Jewish Organ Music ; * Departure and Destruction: Organ Music in the "Spiritual Ghetto" ; 5 The Aftermath of Emigration ; * Limitations in the "Land of Opportunity" ; * The Organ in Israeli Culture-A Bridge between East and West ; 6 Between Assimilation and Dissimilation: The Jewish Community in the Course of Modernity ; Notes, Bibliography, Index-Names, Index-Places
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Oxford University Press, USA Music the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the contribution made by the military to British music history, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life.Trade ReviewThe meticulous and exhaustive research, enormous depth of experience, and exemplary clarity infomring Herbert and Barlow's account turn the British aristocracy and even royalty from philistines into diachronic patrons of music...This book is a magnificent achievement. * CHOMBEC News, Univeristy of Bristol *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Historical preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 Trumpets, drums and fifes ; Chapter 2 Bands of musick ; Chapter 3 Soldiers and musicians ; Chapter 4 Musical identities and infrastructures 1770-1857 ; Chapter 5 Military music in the British provinces 1770-1840 ; Chapter 6 Recruitment, training and the Kneller Hall project ; Chapter 7 Amateurs, brass bands and the 1859 Rifle Volunteers ; Chapter 8 Concerted performances and instrumentation ; Chapter 9 Military culture, the music profession and the question of status ; Chapter 10 Ritual, performance style and musical patriotism ; Chapter 11 The empire and other foreign fields ; Appendix 1 Regulations, standing orders and circular memoranda, etc., addressing ; music ; Appendix 2 Printed (Harmonie) repertoire for bands of music, c.1800, an indicative ; list ; Appendix 3 The Duke of Cumberland's Band Archive ; Appendix 4 Indicative list of band instrumentations in the late eighteenth and ; nineteenth centuries ; Appendix 5 The objects of the Military School of Music ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press, USA Piano Sonata in A Major Op 101 Beethovens Last Piano Sonatas An Edition with Elucidation Volume 4
Table of ContentsAbout the Companion Website ; Editor's Preface ; Foreword ; Preliminary Remarks ; First Movement ; Second Movement ; Third Movement ; Editions ; Bibliography of Cited Works by Heinrich Schenker ; Bibliography of Cited Works by Other Authors ; Index
£82.00
Oxford University Press J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument
Book SynopsisIn J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of these masterpieces, and their reception, and shows how they have remained a fixture of Western culture for nearly three hundred years.Trade ReviewA wonderfully readble work of high scholarship ... Anyone with a serious interest in Bach should certainly engage the book carefully and in depth. * Jonathan B. Hall, The American Organist *Table of ContentsContents ; INTRODUCTION ; ONE ; Studies and Discoveries ; TWO ; Bach and the Varied Stollen ; THREE ; Some Observations on Mendelssohn's Reception of Bach's Organ Works ; FOUR ; Bach's Organ Works and Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift ; FIVE ; Cesar Franck as a Receptor of Bach's Organ Works ; Franck's Performances of Bach's Organ Works ; Matters of Pedagogy ; Franck's Compositional Responses to Bach's Organ Works ; SIX ; Edward Elgar as a Receptor of Bach's Organ Works ; Elgar as Bach Interpreter ; Elgar as Bach Devotee and Bach Critic ; Elgar's Bach Transcriptions ; SEVEN ; Aspects of Reception from Bach's Day to the Present ; The Six Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-30 ; The Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 ; The Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533 ; The Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540 ; The Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 ; The Six Great Preludes and Fugues, BWV 543-48 ; The Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552 ; The Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 ; The Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 ; The Fantasy in G Major (Piece d'Orgue), BWV 572 ; The Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 ; <"Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ,>" BWV 639 ; <"Herzlich tut mich verlangen,>" BWV 727 ; APPENDIX 1 ; APPENDIX 2 ; LITERATURE CITED
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Oxford University Press Arranging Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue And The Creation Of An American Icon
Book SynopsisThis book reconceives the history and reception of Rhapsody in Blue, freeing it from established narratives and frequently encountered anecdotes. By approaching the Rhapsody as an "arrangement," it shifts emphasis away from a centralized text and from the sole agency of George Gershwin, providing a dynamic and multifaceted reappraisal of this emblematic piece.Trade ReviewA fascinating exploration of the 'active and, at times, surprising life' of an American musical icon. Saturated in original archival research and musical insights, the book offers a vivid, unique account of the Rhapsody as a 'variable idea and not a fixed text'-a savvy approach that opens up fresh ways of hearing and understanding the piece. * Jeffrey Magee, Associate Professor of Music and Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *Addressing fascinating but little-noticed source material, Arranging Gershwin advances an original thesis that promises to change the way we think about Rhapsody in Blue in particular and the whole question of classical/nonclassical hybridity in general. Moreover, Banagale accomplishes his goal with an accessible, engaging style that draws in the general reader as well as the specialist. * Larry Hamberlin, Middlebury College, author oTin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era *Table of ContentsCredits ; Acknowledgements ; About the Companion Website ; Introduction: Arranging an Icon ; 1. Complex Compositional Origins: Ferde Grofe and Rhapsody in Blue ; 2. Living Legends: George Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue ; 3. From Camp to Carnegie Hall: Leonard Bernstein and Rhapsody in Blue ; 4. Rearranging Concert Jazz: Duke Ellington and Rhapsody in Blue ; 5. "It Ain't Necessarily So": Larry Adler and Rhapsody in Blue ; 6. Selling Success: Visual Media and Rhapsody in Blue ; Epilogue: Arranging at Multiple Levels ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press FourHanded Monsters FourHand Piano Playing and NineteenthCentury Culture
Trade Review"What a delight! Adrian Daub has written the cultural history of a long-neglected and much-maligned medium of musical performance that at one time was cultivated in just about every bourgeois household. If four-hand piano playing regains renewed interest in our own age of mechanical reproduction, we will have Adrian Daub partly to thank." --Thomas Christensen, Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago "Adrian Daub is a peerless and stimulating exegete of the 'four-handed monster': he brilliantly and meticulously excavates the cultural, social, and aesthetic traces of a vital nineteenth-century musical practice." --Jeffrey Kallberg, Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Music History, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: The Sonic Hearth and the "Piano Plague" ; Chapter 2: Four-Hand Piano Playing between Parlor Music and the Culture Industry ; Chapter 3: "At Best an Intruder, at Worst a Voyeur": Four-Hand Piano Playing and the Family Unit ; Chapter 4: Four-Handed Monsters ; Chapter 5: The Semantics of the Hand ; Chapter 6: Fordist Chords ; Chapter 7: Musical Platonism: Four-Hand Playing Among the Philosophers ; Chapter 8: Kakanian Variations-Four Hands and the Passing of the Nineteenth Century ; Index
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Oxford University Press Analyzing Classical Form An Approach for the Classroom
Book SynopsisAnalyzing Classical Form offers an approach to the analysis of musical form that is especially suited for classroom use at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Students will learn how to make complete harmonic and formal analyses of music drawn from the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.Table of ContentsChapter 1 A Review of Harmony ; The Basics ; Harmonic vocabulary ; Harmonic progressions ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Tonic function ; Dominant function ; Pre-dominant function ; Prolongational progressions ; Cadential progressions ; Sequential progressions ; Finer Points ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Part 1 Conventional Theme-Types ; Chapter 2 The Sentence ; The Basics ; Presentation phrase ; Continuation phrase ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Basic idea ; Repetition of the basic idea ; Tonic prolongation ; Presentation phrase versus presentation function ; Continuation function ; Cadential function ; Continuation ; Finer Points ; "Real" versus "notated" measures ; Modulating sentence ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Chapter 3 The Period ; The Basics ; Antecedent phrase ; Consequent phrase ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Basic idea ; Contrasting idea ; Weak cadential closure ; Return of the basic idea ; Strong cadential closure ; Boundary processes: lead-in, elision ; Finer Points ; Antecedent (and consequent) as "mini-sentence" ; Modulating period; cadential strength ; Reinterpreted half cadence ; Sentence versus period ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Chapter 4 Hybrid Themes ; The Basics ; Hybrid types ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Hybrid type: antecedent + continuation ; Hybrid type: antecedent + cadential ; Compound basic idea ; Hybrid type: compound basic idea + continuation ; Hybrid type: compound basic idea + consequent ; Finer Points ; Hybrid themes in relation to the sentence and period ; Appearances of the basic idea ; Phrase ambiguities ; Other "hybrid" possibilities ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Chapter 5 Phrase Deviations, Cadential Deviations, and Framing Functions ; The Basics ; Phrase deviations ; Cadential deviations ; Framing functions ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Phrase deviations ; Cadential deviations ; Framing functions ; Finer Points ; Contrasting idea replaced by continuation phrase ; Codetta closes with cadence; cadence of limited scope ; Boundary process: melodic overlap ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Chapter 6 Compound Themes ; The Basics ; Compound Period ; Compound Sentence ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Compound Period ; Compound Sentence ; Finer Points ; Compound period ; Real vs. notated measures ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Chapter 7 The Small Ternary (Rounded Binary) ; The Basics ; Exposition (A) ; Contrasting middle (B) ; Recapitulation (A') ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Tight-knit versus loose formal organization ; Exposition (A) ; Contrasting middle (B) ; Recapitulation (A') ; Finer Points ; Contrasting middle (B) ; Recapitulation (A') ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Chapter 8 The Small Binary ; The Basics ; Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Model Composition ; Part 2 Sonata Form ; Chapter 9 Sonata Form-An Overview ; Large-scale formal structure ; Large-scale tonal structure ; Exposition ; Let's Practice ; Development ; Let's Practice ; Recapitulation ; Let's Practice ; Chapter 10 Exposition (I)-Main Theme ; The Basics ; More Details ; Conventional theme-types ; Nonconventional theme-types ; Finer Points ; Main-theme group ; Character and affect ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 11 Exposition (II)-Transition ; The Basics ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Style, character, dynamics ; Boundary processes: accompanimental overlap, elision ; Modulation techniques ; Opening strategies ; Phrase-structural organization; loosening devices ; Closure ; Finer Points ; Unusual opening strategies ; Two-part transition ; Omission of concluding function ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 12 Exposition (III)-Subordinate Theme ; The Basics ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Contrasting nature of the subordinate theme ; Looser sentential functions ; Internal half cadence (dominant arrival) ; Subordinate-theme group ; Closing section ; Finer Points ; Omission of initiating function ; Expanded periodic design ; Expanded repetition of a subordinate theme ; Harmonic-tonal loosening ; Thematic introduction ; Obscured boundary between transition and subordinate theme ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 13 Development ; The Basics ; Tonal organization ; Phrase-structural organization ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Melodic-motivic material ; Core ; Pre-core ; Retransition ; Finer Points ; Development sections without a core ; Transitional introduction ; Unusual endings ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 14 Recapitulation ; The Basics ; An analytical methodology-comparison ; Tonal-harmonic organization ; Structural changes ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Thematic functions of the recapitulation ; Structural changes: main theme ; Structural changes: transition ; Structural changes: subordinate theme (group) ; Finer Points ; Additional features of the recapitulation ; Fusion of main theme and transition ; Deviations from the norm ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 15 Coda ; The Basics ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Melodic-motivic material of the coda ; Start of the Coda ; Phrase structural organization of the coda ; Compensatory functions ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 16 Slow Introduction ; The Basics ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Style and affect ; Tonal, phrase-structural, and motivic organization ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Part 3 Other Full-Movement Forms ; Chapter 17 Slow-Movement Forms ; The Basics ; Large Ternary ; Theme and Variations ; Sonata without development ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Large ternary versus small ternary ; Large ternary-interior theme ; Large ternary-coda ; Theme and variations-structural alterations ; Finer Points ; Sonata form in slow movements ; Sonata without development-truncated recapitulation ; Ending a slow movement ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 18 Minuet/Trio Form ; The Basics ; Minuet/trio form ; Minuet form ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Exposition (A) ; Contrasting middle (B section) ; Recapitulation (A') ; Coda ; Trio ; Finer Points ; Binary minuet form ; Minuet/trio form-functional relations ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 19 Rondo Forms ; The Basics ; Five-part rondo ; Sonata-rondo ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Main theme ; Subordinate-theme complex ; Interior theme ; Returns of the main theme ; Development ; Coda ; Finer Points ; Deviations from the norm ; Enlargements of rondo form-seven-part rondo, nine-part sonata-rondo ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Chapter 20 Concerto Form ; The Basics ; Opening ritornello ; Solo Exposition ; Subordinate-key ritornello ; Let's Practice ; More Details ; Opening ritornello ; Solo Exposition ; Subordinate-key ritornello ; Solo Development ; Solo Recapitulation ; Closing ritornello ; Reviewing the Theory ; Examples for Analysis ; Glossary of Terms ; Notes ; Index of Musical Compositions ; General Index
£87.12
The University of Chicago Press Sibelius
Book SynopsisOne of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Focusing on different parts of Sibelius' life, the author explores the composer's formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority.Trade Review"Until now, classical music listeners have not had an adequate context in which to place Sibelius's well-known and much-performed works. With Sibelius, Glenda Dawn Goss treats us to a panoramic view of the relevant Finnish background. This is idiosyncratic music from an idiosyncratic place, and Goss provides a generous overview of both. Unabashedly interpretive, this is a comprehensive and compelling look at a major composer and the culture he both influenced and drew upon. Essential reading for all Sibelians." (James Hepokoski, Yale University)"
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Mahler
Book SynopsisThis text analyzes Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. It examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Performing the Nation Swahili Music and Cultural
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's history.
£94.05
The University of Chicago Press Performing the Nation
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's history.
£40.85
The University of Chicago Press Writings Through John Cages Music Poetry Art
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the creative work of the avant-gardist John Cage, from an interdisciplinary perspective. His activities as a composer, performer, thinker and artist are explored.
£38.75
The University of Chicago Press Knowing Music Making Music
Book SynopsisThis study explores the nature of musical competence. Using the collaborative structure of gamelan - Javanese ensemble music - as a point of departure, this work lays the foundation for a comprehensive theory of musical competence and interaction.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Technical Notes A Sketch of Central Javanese Gamelan Introduction Prelude. Two Performances 1: Modeling Musical Competence 2: Javanese Musical Competence 3: Individual Competences 4: Who Knows What? 5: Acquiring Competence 6: My Experience Is My Teacher: The Acquisition of Javanese Musical Competence 7: Toward a Theory of Musical Interaction 8: Musical Interaction in Javanese Gamelan 9: Interaction in Javanese Multimedia Productions 10: Individuals Making Music Together 11: Musical Competence and Interaction Appendix Glossary Bibliography Discography Index
£99.00
The University of Chicago Press Courtly Song in Late SixteenthCentury France
Book SynopsisUsing courtly song as a window, this work examines the culture of the French royal court. It considers the role of the air de cour in defining patronage hierarchies at court, and the relationship to the world beyond its own confines.
£115.00
The University of Chicago Press The Spirit of This Place How Music Illuminates
Book SynopsisArtists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern worldfrom water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorismone might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the felt experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts worlda world where the conversation revolves
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The University of Chicago Press Mande Music Traditional and Modern Music of the
Book SynopsisThis work traces the origins of one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures, from its beginnings in the 13th century Mali Empire, to the recording studios of Paris and New York. It focuses on four spheres of Mande music: hunter's music, music of the jelis or griots, and jembe.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Verdis Theater Creating Drama Through Music
Book SynopsisFocuses on a neglected aspect of Verdi's operas: their effectiveness as theatre. This text argues that two main aesthetic conceptions underlie all of Verdi's works - that of the melodrama, which dominates Verdi's early work, and the musical drama, which is dominant in his later work.
£42.67
The University of Chicago Press Classicism of the Twenties Art Music and
Book SynopsisThe triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. In this book, the author offers a compelling account of that movement. Focusing on the works of Stravinsky, Picasso, and T S Eliot, It shows how the turn to classicism manifested itself.Trade Review"'Classicism' in the earlier twentieth century has been extensively discussed in reference to individual writers, artists, and musicians, but Ziolkowski, dealing with individual cases from an overarching interdisciplinary and international perspective, has brilliantly expanded its multicultural horizons." (Burton Pike, City University of New York)"
£39.00
The University of Chicago Press Monuments of Renaissance Music V 6 Musica Duorum
Book SynopsisThe Musica duorum of the composer Eustachio Romano, also known as Eustachius de Macionibus, was issued in Rome in 1521. Eustachio, who was a nobleman as well as a composer, dedicated this volume to the future Pope Julius III, offering these small chamber works to refresh the prelate's spirits when he tired of weightier studies. These light, playful duos were collected in the first publication ever devoted entirely to music for instrumental ensemble.
£152.00
The University of Chicago Press The Political Orchestra
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The University of Chicago Press Robert Schumann
Book SynopsisRobert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, he began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. This book tells the story of this multifaceted genius, set in the context of the political and social revolutions of his time.Trade Review"Martin Geck is a committed and erudite scholar, and his Johann Sebastian Bach is a consummation of much of his own life and work. It adds original scholarship to an exhaustive survey of other studies of Bach. And although it is often dense with information, it is just as often entertaining: rich in anecdotes and scintillating in its conjectures." -New York Times "Johann Sebastian Bach is brilliantly all-encompassing on the music and on the place of Bach in the musical pantheon, both in his own time and in the present." -Publishers Weekly"
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The University of Chicago Press Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in
Book SynopsisBetween 1850 and 1910, the US was a rising star in the international arena, and several European nations sought to strengthen their ties to the republic through cultural means. France capitalized on its art, Britain on its social ties and literature, and Germany promoted classical music. This book traces these efforts to export culture.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Sibelius
Book SynopsisJean Sibelius (1865-1957) is one of the twentieth century's greatest composers. This biography explores the composer's formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority. It traces Sibelius' relationships with his creative contemporaries, with whom he worked to usher in a golden age of music and art.Trade Review"Until now, classical music listeners have not had an adequate context in which to place Sibelius's well-known and much-performed works. With Sibelius, Glenda Goss treats us to a panoramic view of the relevant Finnish background. This is idiosyncratic music from an idiosyncratic place, and Goss provides a generous overview of both. Unabashedly interpretive, this is a comprehensive and compelling look at a major composer and the culture he both influenced and drew upon. Essential reading for all Sibelians." - James Hepokoski, Yale University"
£94.45
The University of Chicago Press Haydns Sunrise Beethovens Shadow
Book SynopsisThe years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn's career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven's, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologiesincluding magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-playsthat offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and shaped the very idea of pure music. Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow is a fascinating exploration of the early romantic blending of sight and sound as encountered in popular science, street entertainments, opera, and music criticism. Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersectioncomposers' treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a balladcould then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.
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The University of Chicago Press ReEnvisioning Past Musical Cultures
Book SynopsisFrom the 6th to the 10th century, Gregorian chants existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and voices to pass each verse from one generation to the next. This work examines how these melodies were created, memorized, performed and modified.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Problem 2: The New Historical View of Chant Transmission A: The Theories of Treitler and Hucke B: Oral and Written Transmission as Conceived in the New Historical View 3: Some Reflections on the New Historical View A: The "Rules" of "Grammar" and "Rhetoric": Deciphering the "Language" of Formulaic Chant B: Problems of Proof and Plausibility: The Need for Empirical Confirmation C: Implications and Applications: Toward Methodologies for Melodic Criticism and Editing D: Summary 4: Some Ethnomusicological Concerns A: Some Terms B: Cross-Cultural Comparisons 1: Principles of Comparison 2: Some Comparable Cultures C: The Performers and Their World D: Books and the Oral/Written Continuum 1: The Historical Continuum, from Oral to Written 2: Uses of Books in Liturgical Celebrations 3: Performance Practice E: Cultural Contexts 1: Musical Contacts between Clergy and Laity 2: Liturgical and Quasi-Liturgical "Folk Songs" 3: Regional Chant Dialects 4: Art Music vs. Folk Song in the Liturgy 5: Some Possible Means of Oral Transmission in Liturgical Chant A: Formulas 1: Repetition 2: Ranges of Variability 3: Concepts of "Formula" and "Centonization" in Selected Cultures 4: "Formulas" with Syntactic Functions B: Melody Types, Melodic Models, and Tune Families 1: Melodic Groups and Types 2: Melodic Outlines and Contours 3: Kinds of Melodic Models: A Continuum 4: The Impact of Modal Theory C: Interpolated Syllables D: Melodic Embellishment E: Organum 6: Summary and Conclusion Works Cited Index
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University of Chicago Press Yor249b225 B224t225 Goes Global Artists Culture
Book SynopsisResponding to growing international interest in Yoruba culture, practitioners of bata performance - a drumming, dancing, and singing tradition - have presented themselves to the world as an emblem of traditional Nigeria. This work describes the dramatic changes and reinventions of traditional bata performance.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Yoruba Bata Goes Global Artists Culture Brokers
Book SynopsisResponding to international interest in Yoruba culture, practitioners of bata performance have presented themselves as an emblem of traditional Nigeria. Locally, however, the market for bata has been declining. This work explores this disjunction, revealing the world of bata artists and the global culture market that helps to sustain their art.
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Distant Cycles Schubert and the Conceiving of
Book SynopsisArgues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these distant cycles and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments I: Introduction 1: In Search of Song II: Strophe, Variant, Version 2: Der Jungling am Bache: Schubert at the Source 3: The Aesthetics of Revision III: Distant Cycles 4: A Poetics of the Remote: Goethe's Entfernte 5: In der Ferne: Schubert's Rellstab 6: Schubert's Heine IV: The Cycles in Winterreise 7: Winterreise I 8: Winterreise II V: Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Sublime 9: Schlegel's Abendrote and the Failure of Cycle List of Works Cited Index of Names and Works
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The University of Chicago Press Beethovens Symphonies
Book SynopsisIn the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven's work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven's Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer's approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven's intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven's disappointment with Napoleon's decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements a pitch, a chord, a musical theme that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history's greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.
£21.85
The University of Chicago Press Resonances 183649
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The University of Chicago Press Robert Schumanns Advice to Young Musicians
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The University of Chicago Press The Lucca Choirbook
Book SynopsisComprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges about 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the fifteenth century - including works by the celebrated composers Guillaume Du Fay and Henricus Isaac.
£228.00
The University of Chicago Press The Madrigals of Michaelangelo Rossi V10 Volume
Book SynopsisMichelangelo Rossi's two books of five-voice polyphonic madrigals are among the most expressive works of their kind. In addition to the music, this work includes an examination of the biographical, cultural and stylistic milieu in which the madrigals were written.
£228.00
The University of Chicago Press La Traviata
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The University of Chicago Press Rigoletto
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The University of Chicago Press Style and Music Theory History and Ideology
Book SynopsisLeonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. The latter part of this book contains a sketch-history of 19th-century music.Table of ContentsPreface Pt. I: Theory 1: Toward a Theory of Style 2: Style Analysis Pt. II: History, Innovation, and Choice 3: Thoughts Ahout History 4: Innovation - Reasons and Sources 5: Choice and Replication Pt. III: Music and Ideology: A Sketch-History of Nineteenth-Century Music 6: Romanticism - The Ideology of Elite Egalitarians 7: Convention Disguised - Nature Affirmed 8: Syntax, Form, and Unity Epilogue: The Persistence of Romanticism Bibliography of Works Cited Index Index of Musical Examples
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The University of Chicago Press The Melodramatic Moment
Book SynopsisWe seem to see melodrama everywhere we lookfrom the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in Pandora's Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper. This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctiveand often disconcertingalternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today. A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.
£45.60
