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HarperCollins Publishers Inc City of Night Birds
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc With Love from Harlem
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HarperCollins The Jazzmen
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HarperCollins The Griffin Sisters Greatest Hits Standard Edition
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Just Kids
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Little, Brown Book Group The Real Mahler
Book SynopsisGustav Mahler may have become a popular composer, but he remains widely misunderstood both as a man and musician. This biography re-examines his life and work and the circumstances leading to his death in 1911.
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Penguin Books Ltd On Directing Film
Book SynopsisA masterclass on the art of directing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and Oscar and Tony-nominated) writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, The Verdict, and Wag the DogCalling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing—from script to cutting room—to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, On Directing Film will be indispensible not only to students but to anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking.Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence—just what one would expect from Mamet. —Sidney Lumet, Academy Award-nominated director of 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict
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Penguin Random House Australia Garcia An American Life
Book SynopsisHe was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock ''n'' roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five years, gives us an unparalleled portrait of Garcia--the musical genius, the brilliant songwriter, and ultimately, the tortured soul plagued by his own addiction. With more than forty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, Garcia: An American Life is the ultimate tribute to the man who, Bob Dylan said, had no equal.
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Penguin Publishing Group Living at the Movies Penguin Poets
Book SynopsisFrom the Author of The Basketball Diaries Originally released in 1973, Living at the Movies was the first aboveground publication of the work of Jim Carroll, a singer-songwriter Newsweek called “contender for the title of rock’s new poet laureate.” In these poems, all written before the age of twenty-two, Carroll shows an uncanny virtuosity. His power and poisoned purity of vision are reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud, and, like the strongest poets of the New York School, Carroll transforms the everyday details of city life into poetry. In language at once delicate, hallucinatory, and menacing, his major themes—love, friendship, the exquisite pains and pleasures of drugs, and above all, the ever-present city—emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. It is an astonishing debut by an important American writer and artist. “Jim Carroll has the sure confidence of a true artist. .
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Penguin Putnam Inc Rip It Up and Start Again
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Penguin Putnam Inc Getting Real
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Penguin Publishing Group Gimme Something Better The Profound Progressive and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Book SynopsisAn oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast BirthplaceOutside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and di
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Penguin Publishing Group Vanity Fairs Tales of Hollywood Rebels Reds and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films
Book SynopsisThe stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood's most iconic movies The magazine world 's monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago. Now, for the first time ever, Vanity Fair presents a one-of-a-kind collection featuring thirteen behind-the- scenes stories on some of cinema's most iconic films-including pictures as varied as All About Eve, Cleopatra, Sweet Smell of Success, Rebel Without a Cause, and Saturday Night Fever. For pop-culture fanatics and movie buffs alike, Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood is an irresistible glimpse at how classic films-and box office bombs-are made.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Crucible
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Oxford University Press Inc Tandem Dances
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
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Oxford University Press Inc Moving Modernism
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Oxford University Press History of Emotion in Western Music A Thousand Years from Chant to Pop
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Oxford University Press Inc Music and Social Justice A Guide for Elementary Educators
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Oxford University Press Winding It Back Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings
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Oxford University Press Melody of Time Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era
Book SynopsisMusic has been seen since the Romantic era as the quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. The Melody of Time explores the multiple ways in which music may provide insight into the problematics of time, spanning the dynamic century between Beethoven and Elgar.Trade ReviewAt once a deeply engaged historical studyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. Time and Transcendence in Beethoven's late Piano Sonatas ; 2. Music, Time and Philosophy ; 3. Memory and Nostalgia in Schubert's Instrumental Music ; 4. Temporality in Russian Music and the Ideology of History ; 5. La sonate cyclique and the Structures of Time ; 6. Elgar's The Music Makers and the Spirit of Time ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Chamber Music A Listeners Guide
Book SynopsisChamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present.Trade ReviewEven after a career spent immersed in chamber music, I gained new and fascinating insights from James Keller's essays. This is a book that enlightens professionals as well as general music-lovers. I am happy we have it! * Menahem Pressler, Beaux Arts Trio *Chamber music is beloved by all musicians, and a reference such as this is welcome and needed. James Keller has given us a beautifully written guide that in a single volume targets appropriate repertoire for musicians and music-lovers. He clearly adores chamber music and, in his writing, conveys that love with passion and authority in a way that will enrich any listener or performer. * Renee Fleming *James Keller's engaging essays do exactly what great program notes should: they transport us inside classical music's fascinating scenarios of creation. Choosing intelligently from myriad possible details, Keller weaves a story about each work that has the feeling of a suspense novel, where the thrilling final chapter will be our listening experience. When describing music he is the ideal tour guide, leading us on musical journeys with enthusiasm and authority. This will be a hard-to-put-down book for anyone, from the newly-curious to the seasoned expert. Keller has provided an essential volume that will take its rightful place among music's most authoritative sources. * David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center *A solid representation of musicians from a wide range of genres, time periods, and countries...Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide offers something to tempt even the most discriminating and academic individual. * New York Journal of Books *The brief overviews of the standard repertoire are excellent and will certainly serve the intended audience...Essential. * Choice *Writing a good programme note is a difficult and delicate art, and this collection of short programme-note length essays shows James Keller has it down to a T...The book is a treasure trove of learning, which Keller deploys with a wonderful lightness of touch. * BBC Music Magazine ("Five Stars Book Choice") *The mantle of America's leading program-note writer would appear to have passed to James Keller...The tone is always inviting, enthusiastic, sincere, and enlivened with touches of humor...Keller succeeds admirably in the often elusive aim of every good program-note writer of satisfying the needs of both the novice and the expert...The book might well serve as the impetus for a yearlong project to become familiar with the entire repertoire he covers. This is recommendation enough to award Keller's work a standing ovation. * Fanfare *You can trust Keller...In the end, reading Keller's engaging notes makes you want to hear the piece - a sure sign of good, descriptive music writing. * Music Media Monthly *The essays are mostly historical, well written, and quite informative. Each composition is described in terms of its emotional content, with a minimal amount of technical jargon. This excellent guide is highly recommended for all lovers of chamber music. * Library Journal Review *It's a valuable, friendly companion, whether you're onstage or in the audience...Keller provides authoritative historical backgrounds and absorbing analytical reports for each work...This is a book to desire. * Strings *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Anton Arensky ; Johann Sebastian Bach ; Samuel Barber ; Bela Bartok ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Alban Berg ; Alexander Borodin ; Johannes Brahms ; Benjamin Britten ; Elliott Carter ; Aaron Copland ; Ruth Crawford Seeger ; George Crumb ; Achille-Claude Debussy ; Ernst von Dohnanyi ; Antonin Dvorak ; Edward Elgar ; Georges Enesco ; Gabriel Faure ; Cesar Franck ; Mikhail Glinka ; Osvaldo Golijov ; Edvard Grieg ; Franz Joseph Haydn ; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel ; Paul Hindemith ; Jacques Ibert ; Charles Ives ; Leos Janacek ; Zoltan Kodaly ; Gyorgy Ligetti ; Bohuslav Martinu ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Olivier Messiaen ; Wolfgang Amade Mozart ; Carl Nielsen ; Francis Poulenc ; Sergei Prokofiev ; Maurice Ravel ; Steve Reich ; Silvestre Revueltas ; Camille Saint-Saens ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Franz Peter Schubert ; Clara Wieck Schumann ; Robert Schumann ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Jean Sibelius ; Bedrich Smetana ; Igor Stravinsky ; Karol Szymanowski ; Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky ; Joan Tower ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Anton Webern ; Hugo Wolf
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Oxford University Press Music as Discourse Semiotic Adventures In Romantic Music Oxford Studies In Music Theory
Trade ReviewKofi Agawu is widely known as one of the pioneers of musical semiotics. Now, in Music as Discourse, he offers a focused study that shows semiotics in action, engaging with a familiar and cherished repertory in a way that provides valuable insights to both scholar and student. * Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music Theory, Yale University *At a moment when referential and structural interpretations of music threaten divorce, Agawu's fresh initiative supports synthesis and debate. These are splendid new analyses of important works. * David Lidov, Department of Music, York University, Toronto *Excitement, radicalism, challenge: these qualities have seldom been associated with advanced courses in analysis. This book, with its lapidary clarity, its surprising insights, and its emphasis on musical meaning, is going to change all that. * Raymond Monelle, Honorary Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh, Scotland *Confirms [the author's] status as one of the foremost semiotic analysts of our time. . . rarely can a treatise that ponders on matters so weighty have had such a light, intensely readable, touch. * Tempo *An excellent example of . . . analysis as a kind of 'performance'. * Notes *Remarkable . . . inspiring . . . a reminder of how playful and rewarding music analysis can be. . . . One finishes Agawu's book with new methods to probe music's unfathomable meanings, new ways to refashion the tools we already know, a conviction that the real value of analysis lies in the doing of it rather than the 'truth' it uncovers, and a desire to get down to work. * Theoria *The painstaking clarity of the analyses will surely be imitated by a generation of bright students. . . radical and challenging . . . easy to absorb yet infinitely sophisticated. . .This elegant and rich book needs to be lived with and digested. Of how many analytical manuals can one say that? * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I ; Theory ; 1. Music as Language ; 2. Criteria for Analysis I ; 3. Criteria for Analysis II ; 4. Bridges to Free Composition ; 5. Paradigmatic Analysis ; PART II ; Analyses ; 6. Liszt, Orpheus (1853-1854) ; 7. Brahms, Intermezzo in E Minor, op. 119, no. 2 (1893), and Symphony no. 1/ii (1872-1879) ; 8. Mahler, Symphony no. 9/i (1908-1909) ; 9. Beethoven, String Quartet, op. 130/i (1825-1826), and Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Out of Time Music and the Making of Modernity
Book SynopsisOut of Time explores a bold idea: that western art music of the last four hundred years is better understood through the idea of musical modernity than by the usual periodizations of music history.Trade ReviewIncluding many musical examples and a wealth of references to literature on modernity and music, this refreshing exploration of "modern music" goes backward and forward, and surrounds music in the present. * B. L. Eden, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Mapping musical modernity ; 1. Being Late ; Looking back ; Brokenness ; Remembering ; 2. Being Early ; Pushing forwards ; The temporality of desire ; Sounding utopia ; 3. The Precarious Present ; Simultaneity ; Boredom ; Historicism as modernism ; 4. Being Everywhere ; The space of music ; Labyrinths ; Technologies of the musical body ; 5. Being Elsewhere ; Music as transport ; The metaphysics of restlessness ; Re-enchantment ; 6. Placing the Self ; Being nowhere ; Hypersubjectivity ; Staging the self ; 7. Like a Language ; Disclosure ; Discourse ; Music as self-critique ; 8. Le corps sonore ; The return of the repressed ; Bodies of sound ; The grammar of dreams ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Kodály Today A Cognitive Approach to Elementary Music Education Revised Kodaly Today Handbook Series
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodály Today, Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer an expertly-researched, thorough, and -- most importantly -- practical approach to transforming curriculum goals into tangible, achievable musical objectives and effective lesson plans.Trade ReviewKodály Today is essential reading for music teachers seeking an approach that will provide their students with lifelong musical literacy and musicianship, while nurturing their love for music. This book offers a powerful, layered approach to the developmentally appropriate teaching of music by presenting the Kodály method in a way that is usable and understandable by music teachers. Houlahan and Tacka render Kodály more relevant than ever by presenting vivid practical models for classroom teachers supported by research on cognition and learning. Teachers of music and the university professors who prepare them for their craft should find this book extremely valuable. * Eileen M. Coppola, Center for Education, Rice University *An extremely valuable source for elementary music instructors, pre-service teachers, and methods teachers at the collegiate level. To say that Kodály Today is a thorough text would be an understatement. There are few Kodály-based resources that provide such a thorough overview of the philosophy behind the approach, a conceptual frame-work for teachers wishing to apply this philosophy, and detailed strategies for repertoire selection, curriculum development, and implementation. * General Music Today *The authors have developed a text that incorporates appropriate musical material and sound teaching strategies for presenting this material to students. Grade level goals, objectives, and strategies are outlined in great detail, and these materials would prove extremely valuable to a music teacher. I also appreciate the inclusion of learning theorists from the education community at large. All in all, this is a very practical text. * Brent M. Gault, Ph. D., Indiana University Jacobs School of Music *Kodály music training has shown that most if not all children entering elementary school can begin to learn immediately how to sing musically and with developing skill. Research is showing that such musical training can also stimulate and contribute to broader cognitive and emotional growth. This important detailed, scholarly and thoughtful examination and presentation of Kodály method now proposes further development to align with recent work in music pedagogy and cognitive learning. * Martin F. Gardiner, Center for the Study of Human Development, Brown University *A mammoth undertaking and a welcome addition to the body of literature on the Kodály concept of music education...This is a book worthy of thorough study and use as a text...A valuable teaching resource that is highly recommended! * Laurdella Foulkes-Levy, Kodály Envoy *This is an extremely comprehensive and exhaustive text which fills a gap in the current Kodály music teaching literature. It has enough information for an experienced teacher to improve their teaching and rethink their current teaching practices but at the same time manages to give the basic and necessary elementary knowledge a beginning Kodály teacher would need in their first venture into this type of music teaching. The relevance of the research undertaken by Houlahan and Tacka and the linking to current educational requirements and standards helps to bring this exceedingly valuable and successful method of music teaching into the 21st century. * Australian Journal of Music Education *This thorough, intensive and above all, elegantly practical approach to understanding and applying [the Kodály method's] tried-and-tested tenets will prove a boon to teachers and students alike...A clearly-signposted volume that succeeds in validating the self-enabling claims of Kodály's Method as an essential tool for teachers and their pupils. The inclusion of 140 pages of exhaustively detailed song lists and lesson and monthly plans is a reason in itself to buy this invaluable book. * Music Teacher *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter one: Building the Framework of a Music Curriculum Based on the Kodaly Concept ; Chapter two: Developing a Music Repertoire of Songs For The Elementary Music Classroom ; Chapter Three: Developing Creative Expression In The Elementary Classroom Through Singing Movement and ; Chapter Four, Teaching Tools and Techniques for Developing Audiation and Music Literacy Skills ; Chapter five: From Sound to Symbol: A Model of Learning and Instruction for Teaching Music Concepts and ; Chapter six: Grade One Through Five Teaching Strategies for Rhythmic and Melodic Concepts and Elements ; Chapter seven: Developing Musicianship Skills in the Classroom ; Chapter eight: Technology in the Kodaly Classroom ; Chapter nine: Applying the Kodaly Concept to the Elementary Choir ; Chapter ten: Sequencing and Lesson Planning ; Chapter eleven: Teaching Musicianship Skills Starting in the Upper Grades ; Chapter twelve: Evaluation and Assessment ; Chapter thirteen: Organizing Your Teaching Resources for Elementary Classroom
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Oxford University Press Kodály in the First Grade Classroom Developing The Creative Brain In The 21St Century Kodaly Today Handbook Series
Book SynopsisKodály in the First Grade Classroom provides teachers with a step-by-step road map for developing children's performance, creative movement, and literacy skills in an organic and thoughtful manner. Each chapter contains key questions, discussion points, and ongoing assignments. Scholarly yet practical and accessible, this volume is sure to be an essential guide for music teachers everywhere.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; About the Companion Website ; Introduction ; Chapter one: Building the Framework for a Grade One Music Curriculum based on the Kodaly Concept ; Chapter two: Developing a Music Repertoire: Children as Stewards of Their Cultural and Musical Heritage ; Chapter three: Teaching Strategies: Teaching music concepts and elements in Grade 1 ; Chapter four: Developing Music Skills and Creative Expression: Children as Performers ; Chapter five: Six Units and 30* Sequential Lessons Plans for Grade 1 ; Chapter six: Assessment of Performance, Reading, Writing, and Improvisation in Grade 1 ; Index
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Oxford University Press Kodály in the Second Grade Classroom
Book SynopsisKodály in the Second Grade Classroom provides teachers with a step-by-step road map for developing children's performance, creative movement, and literacy skills in an organic and thoughtful manner. Each chapter contains key questions, discussion points, and ongoing assignments. Scholarly yet practical and accessible, this volume is sure to be an essential guide for music teachers everywhere.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter one: Building the Framework for the second grade Music Curriculum based on the Kodaly Concept ; Chapter two: Developing a Music Repertoire: Children as Stewards of Their Cultural and Musical Heritage ; Chapter three: Developing Music skills and Creative Expression: Children as Performers: ; Chapter four: Teaching Strategies ; Chapter five: Unit Plans ; Chapter six: Assessment and Evaluation
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Oxford University Press Kodály in the Third Grade Classroom
Book SynopsisKodály in the Third Grade Classroom provides teachers with a step-by-step road map for developing children's performance, creative movement, and literacy skills in an organic and thoughtful manner. Each chapter contains key questions, discussion points, and ongoing assignments. Scholarly yet practical and accessible, this volume is sure to be an essential guide for music teachers everywhere.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter One: Building the Framework for a Grade Three Music Curriculum based on the Kodaly Concept ; Chapter Two: Developing a Music Repertoire: Children as Stewards of Their Cultural and Musical Heritage ; Chapter Three: Teaching Strategies: Teaching music concepts and elements in Grade 3 ; Chapter Four : Developing Music Skills and Creative Expression: Children as Performers ; Chapter Five: Eighth Units and 40 Sequential Lessons Plans for Grade 3 ; Chapter Six: Assessment of Performance, Reading, Writing, and Improvisation in Grade 3
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Oxford University Press Kodály in the Fourth Grade Classroom
Book SynopsisKodály in the Fourth Grade Classroom provides teachers with a step-by-step road map for developing children's performance, creative movement, and literacy skills in an organic and thoughtful manner. Each chapter contains key questions, discussion points, and ongoing assignments. Scholarly yet practical and accessible, this volume is sure to be an essential guide for music teachers everywhere.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter One: Building the Framework for a Grade Four Music Curriculum based on the Kodaly Concept ; Chapter Two: Developing a Music Repertoire: Children as Stewards of Their Cultural and Musical Heritage ; Chapter Three: Teaching Strategies: Teaching music concepts and elements in Grade 4 ; Chapter Four: Developing Music Skills and Creative Expression: Children as Performers ; Chapter Five: Eighth Units and 40 Sequential Lessons Plans for Grade 4 ; Chapter Six: Assessment of Performance, Reading, Writing, and Improvisation in Grade 4
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Oxford University Press Pieces of Tradition An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music Oxford Studies in Music Theory
Book SynopsisOver the last century tonality has adapted and persisted in remarkable ways. In Pieces of Tradition, Daniel Harrison explores the modern endurance of tonal music, examining works by masters such as Shostakovich and Hindemith alongside music by Leonard Bernstein and Brian Wilson.Table of Contents1. Inheritance 2. Overtonality 3. Geography 4. Harmony 5. Styles Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Music for a Mixed Taste Style Genre and Meaning in Telemanns Instrumental Works
Book SynopsisThis first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extra musical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works.Trade ReviewIf any music-lovers, performers, or scholars still doubt the beauty and richness of Telemann's music or the importance of his industrious life for the course of music history, let them now read this new study by Steven Zohn, which is extraordinarily well researched, meticulously argued, and original in both content and approach. In one bound, Zohn sets new standards not only for literature in English on Telemann, but also for Telemann scholarship worldwide. * Michael Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Liverpool *Steven Zohn's excellent and engaging study should put to rest, once and for all, any view that Telemann was a habitual composer of wallpaper music. Zohn gives us a comprehensive, nuanced, and discerning picture of the Telemann whose music Bach and Handel so greatly admired. * Michael Marissen, Professor of Music, Swarthmore College, and author of The Social and Religious Designs of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos *Zohn takes Telemann well beyond Bach's shadow, revealing not only Telemann's original voice and uncanny fluency in any number of national styles, but also transforming our basic conceptions about music in eighteenth-century Germany. An invaluable contribution. * Wendy Heller, Professor of Music, Princeton University *If any music-lovers, performers, or scholars still doubt the beauty and richness of Telemann's music or the importance of his industrious life for the course of music history, let them now read this new study by Steven Zohn, which is extraordinarily well researched, meticulously argued, and original in both content and approach. In one bound, Zohn sets new standards not only for literature in English on Telemann, but also for Telemann scholarship worldwide. * Michael Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Liverpool *Zohn takes Telemann well beyond Bach's shadow, revealing not only Telemann's original voice and uncanny fluency in any number of national styles, but also transforming our basic conceptions about music in eighteenth-century Germany. An invaluable contribution. * Wendy Heller, Professor of Music, Princeton University *Steven Zohn's excellent and engaging study should put to rest, once and for all, any view that Telemann was a habitual composer of wallpaper music. Zohn gives us a comprehensive, nuanced, and discerning picture of the Telemann whose music Bach and Handel so greatly admired. * Michael Marissen, Professor of Music, Swarthmore College, and author of The Social and Religious Designs of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ; List of Music Examples ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Prologue: Styles and Sources ; Part I: The Overture-Suites ; One: Acquiring a Mixed Taste: Telemann as "Great Partisan of French Music" ; Two: Telemann's Mimetic Art: The Characteristic Overture-Suites ; Part II: The Concertos ; Three: Never from the Heart? Telemann's Concertos ; Four: Bach's Debt Repaid with Interest: A Cast Study of Transformative Imitation ; Part III: The Sonatas ; Five: "Something for Everyone's Taste": Telemann's Sonatas to 1725 ; Six: Telemann and the Sonata auf Concertenart ; Part IV: The Hamburg Publications ; Seven: Telemann in the Marketplace: The Composer as Self-Publisher ; Eight: Telemann fur Kenner und Liebhaber: The Music of the Hamburg Publications ; Nine: Telemann's Polish Style and the "True Barbaric Beauty" of the Musical Other ; Afterword ; Glossay ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index of Telemann's Compositions ; General Index
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Oxford University Press Understanding Italian Opera
Book SynopsisOpera has long fascinated creative artists and audiences alike. It is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art, yet it is also shrouded in mystique. Understanding Italian Opera unravels its many layers by looking closely at five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas from Monteverdi to Puccini.Trade ReviewRequired reading. * C. A. Traupman-Carr, CHOICE *[Carter's] book provides a splendid corrective that makes it recommended reading for anyone seeking a more complete 'understanding' of one of the most successful genres in Western culture. * Kenneth Chalmers, Opera *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1: What is Opera? ; Some definitions ; In praise of librettists ; Italian versification ; Poetic structures and musical consequences ; Two examples from Mozart ; An "exotic and irrational entertainment"? ; 2: Giovanni Francesco Busenello and Claudio Monteverdi, ; L'incoronazione di Poppea (Venice, 1643) ; Monteverdi in Venice ; The first operas ; "But here the matter is represented differently" ; "Speaking" and "singing" ; Seductive Poppea ; Seneca's death ; Ottavia in exile ; Ecstasies of love ; 3: Nicola Francesco Haym and George Frideric Handel, ; Giulio Cesare in Egitto (London, 1724) ; Arcadian reforms ; Adapting Bussani ; Recitatives and arias ; Some alternatives ; "Fly, my heart, to the sweet enchantment" ; Taming Cleopatra ; Cesare returns ; All's well... ; 4: Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ; Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna, 1786) ; ... these Italian gentlemen are very civil to your face ; Translating Beaumarchais ; Aria forms ; A duet, a trio, and a sextet ; Finales ; Readings and messages ; 5: Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi, ; Rigoletto (Venice, 1851) ; "Le Roi s'amuse" ; Cantabiles and cabalettas ; Duets ; Arias and monologues ; A quartet ... a storm ... and a death ; 6: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, and Giacomo Puccini, ; La Boheme (Turin, 1896) ; Bohemian rhapsodies ; A publisher, two librettists, and a rival ; A missing act ; Verse and music ; Formless forms? ; Operatic realisms ; Mimi dies ; 7: Afterthoughts
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Oxford University Press Show Boat Performing Race in an American Musical Broadway Legacies
Book SynopsisShow Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.Trade ReviewA fascinating look at how Show Boat helped shape the American musical form and the significant role it continues to play in our conversation about race. Todd Decker has compiled an exhaustive, engaging, and immensely readable cultural history that resonates with the same vibrant emotional impact of the musical itself. * Susan Stroman, Director & Choreographer *Traveling through seemingly familiar territory, one makes startling new discoveries on every page about American music, theater, identity, and racial history. Decker demonstrates forcefully and conclusively why Show Boat was and remains the 'most important [American] musical ever made.' * Thomas L. Riis, Director, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder *Todd Decker opens a wide window on the extraordinary cultural reach of Show Boat, with special focus on its racial complexities. For Decker, Show Boat is not a fixed text but rather a fascinating and fluid performance object that shifts with the social codes and commercial demands of its many eras. * Carol J. Oja, Professor, Harvard University, and author of Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s *A well written, thoroughly researched and cogently presented new study on one of the most studied and, for that matter, most deserving of study musicals of the twentieth century. * Brad Hathaway - Theater Shelf *An excellent overview of all aspects of the show...Decker demonstrates a fine command of sources, furnishes good documentation, and includes some photos, illustrations, and musical examples...Recommended. * Choice *Decker offers a persuasive argument for the continued relevance of this classic musical, [demonstrating] the productive potential for historiographies of American musical theatre written across rather than 'along divided racial lines.' * Theatre Journal *[A] fascinating read about one of the true classics of the American stage. * Studies in Musical Theatre *...There is a great deal to ponder in it. * JAMS *Table of ContentsForeword by Geoffrey Block ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Magnolia's Black Voice ; Part One: Making ; 1. A Ferber Plot ; 2. The Robeson Plan ; 3. The Morgan Plan ; 4. A Ziegfeld Soprano and a Shubert Tenor ; 5. Colored Chorus Curtains ; Part Two: Remaking ; 6. Featuring Robeson: 1928-1940 ; 7. Broadway Black, Hollywood White: 1943-1957 ; 8. Landmark Status: 1954-1989 ; 9. Queenie's Laugh: 1966-1998 ; Epilogue ; Appendix 1 Cast of Characters ; Appendix 2 Archival Sources for the 1927 Broadway Production ; Appendix 3 Select Stage and Screen Versions (1928-1998) ; References ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press Charles Munch
Book SynopsisIn Charles Munch, D. Kern Holoman provides the first full biography of this giant of twentieth-century music, tracing his dramatic survival in occupied Paris, his triumphant arrival at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his later years, when he was a leading cultural figure in the United States, a man known and admired by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.Trade ReviewA fascinating read. Holoman's passion for and knowledge of his subject is quite compelling. In contemporary discussions of the great conductors of that era, Munch tends to be relatively overlooked. Holoman makes a persuasive historical case for Munch's importance, both to musical life in France and to the evolution of the Boston Symphony. Along the way, he also provides a detailed look at what life was like for conductors (and orchestras) in the middle part of the twentieth century. * Aaron Sherber, Music Director and Conductor, Martha Graham Dance Company *A joy to read: well-conceived, well-executed, well-written. Holoman's combination of musical and literary skill brings twentieth-century culture to life throughout, on both sides of the Atlantic. 'Ah, qu'il était beau!' and he still is, in Holoman's vivid biography. * Thomas Kelly, Harvard University *Charles Munch * the musical icon. When you played a concert with Charles Munch or attended one of his performances as a listener, it was not just a concert. It was an event. He never used the same palette twice. As a player, you had to give 110% of yourself, or be left out of the music. This book is an excellent portrayal of this musical phenomenon!Vic Firth *The qualities that marked D. Kern Holoman's biography of Berlioz and his epic The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire * the grand sweep combined with the minute attention to detail, the narrative flair, the breadth of human sympathy, the evocation of the musician's existence, which, as himself a conductor and organiser of concerts, he understands so wellshine out in this new book. Charles Munch's life, spanning three continents and two world wars, raises fascinating issuespersonal, social, political, as well as musical. Reading it, we learn both about the teeming, intricate world of mid-twentieth-century music and about the struggles and achievements of one of its best-loved and most committed practitioners. Holoman has a remarkable story to tell and he tells it superbly.David Cairns *Among its other virtues, D. Kern Holoman's warmly sympathetic new biography sheds necessary light on an already forgotten chapter from the history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Few readers of this book will be prepared to discover what was expected of a Boston Symphony music director as of 1949, when Charles Munch took over from Serge Koussevitzky * Munch was to stay put in Boston; guest conductors were a rarity. And there was new music on virtually every subscription concert. A lot has changed since then.Joseph Horowitz, author of Classical Music in America: A History *A book such as this has been needed for quite a while...Very strongly recommended: it is a masterly study. * Musical Opinion *Beautifully written and arranged in every respect...Accessible to a wide audience...Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1 Strasbourg, Paris, Leipzig : September 1891 - October 1932 ; 2 Paris : November 1932 - May 1938 ; 3 The Societe des Concerts : June 1938 - May 1945 ; 4 Leaving France : June 1945 - September 1949 ; 5 Winning Boston : October 1949 - June 1951 ; 6 Boston after Koussevitzky : July 1951 - July 1956 ; 7 The Iron Curtain and Beyond : August 1956 - August 1958 ; 8 Shifting Perspectives in Boston : September 1958 - April 1962 ; 9 Paris, Again : May 1962 - August 1966 ; 10 The Orchestre de Paris : September 1966 - November 1968 ; 11 An Eternal Smile ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media
Book SynopsisContributers from image and sound studies explore the history and the future of moving-image media across a range of formats including blockbuster films, video games, music videos, social media, experimental film, documentaries, video art, pornography, theater, and electronic music.Trade Review"This is an assemblage of monumentally impressive scholarly thought on timely issues and will undoubtedly stand up to repeated readings, analysis, and dialogue."--Association for Recorded Sound Collections JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: ; 1. Carol Vernallis and Amy Herzog ; Cinema in the Realm of the Digital: Foundational Approaches ; 2. Thomas Elsaesser, Digital Cinema: Convergence or Contradiction? ; 3. Jean-Pierre Geuens, Angels of Light ; 4. William Whittington, Lost in Sensation-Reevaluating the Role of Cinematic Sound in the Digital Age ; Dialogue: Screens and Spaces ; 5. Sean Cubitt, Large Screens, Third Screens, Virtuality and Innovation" ; 6. Will Straw, Public Screens and Urban Life" ; Glitches, Noise, and Interruption: Materiality and Digital Media ; 7. Laura U. Marks, A Noisy Brush with the Infinite: Noise in Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics" ; 8. Lisa Coulthard, Dirty Sound: Haptic Noise in New Extremism" ; 9. Caetlin Benson-Allott, "Going Gaga for Glitch: Digital Failure @nd Feminist Spectacle in Twenty-F1rst Century Music Video" ; 10. Joanna Demers, "Discursive Accents in Some Recent Digital Media Works" ; 11. Melissa Ragona, "Doping the Voice" ; Uncanny Spaces and Acousmatic Voices ; 12. William Cheng, "Monstrous Noise: Silent Hill and the Aesthetic Economies of Fear" ; 13. Amy Herzog, "'Charm the Air to Give a Sound': The Uncanny Soundscape of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More>" ; 14. George Toles, "A Gash in the Portrait: Martin Arnold's Deanimated" ; 15. Warren Buckland, "The Acousmatic Voice and Metaleptic Narration in Inland Empire" ; Dialogue: Visualization and Sonification ; 16. Lev Manovich, "Visualization Methods for Media Studies" ; 17. Jake Smith, "Explorations in Cultureson" ; Virtual Worlds, Paranoid Structures, and States of War ; 18. Dale Chapman, "Music and the State of Exception in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men" ; 19. Matthew Sumera, "Understanding the Pleasures of War's Audiovision" ; 20. James Buhler and Alex Newton, "Outside the Law of Action: Music and Sound in the Bourne Trilogy" ; 21. Eleftheria Thanouli, "Debating the Digital: Film and Reality in Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog" ; 22. Theo Cateforis, "Between Artifice and Authenticity: Music and Media in Wag the Dog" ; Blockbusters! Franchises, Remakes, and Intertextual Practices ; 23. Jessica Aldred, "'I Am Beowulf! Now, It's Your Turn': Playing With (And As) the Digital Convergence Character" ; 24. Carol Donelan and Ron Rodman, "Lion and Lambs: Industry-Audience Negotiations in the Twilight Saga Franchise" ; 25. Aylish Wood, "Sonic Times in Watchmen and Inception" ; 26. Miguel Mera, "Inglo(u)rious Basterdization? Tarantino and the War Movie Mashup" ; Dialogue: De-Coding Source Code ; 27. Garrett Stewart, "Sound Thinking: Looped Time, Duped Track" ; 28. Sean Cubitt, "Source Code: Eco-Criticism and Subjectivity" ; 29. James Buhler, "Notes to Source Code's Soundtrack" ; Rethinking Audiovisual Embodiment ; 30. Kiri Miller, "Virtual and Visceral Experience in Music-Oriented Videogames" ; 31. David McCarthy and Maria Zuazu, "A Gaga-World Pageant: Channeling Difference and the Performance of Networked Power" ; 32. Paul Morris and Susanna Paasonen, "Coming to Mind: Pornography and the Mediation of Intensity" ; Sounds and Images of the New Digital Documentary ; 33. John Belton, "The World in the Palm of Your Hand: Agnes Varda, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and the Digital Documentary" ; 34. Selmin Kara, "The Sonic Summons: Meditations on Nature and Anempathetic Sound in Digital Documentaries" ; 35. Jennifer Peterson, "Workers Leaving the Factory: Witnessing Industry in the Digital Age" ; Modes of Composition: Digital Convergence and Sound Production ; 36. Eric Lyon, "The Absent Image in Electronic Music" ; 37. Jann Pasler, "Hugues Dufourt's Cinematic Dynamism: Space, Timbre, and Time in L'Afrique d'apres Tiepolo" ; 38. Ron Sadoff, "Scoring for Film and Video Games: Collaborative Practices and Digital Post-Production" ; 39. Nicola Dibben, "Visualising the App Album with Bjork's Biophilia" ; Digital Aesthetics Across Platform and Genre ; 40. Carol Vernallis, "Accelerated Aesthetics: a New Lexicon of Time, Space and Rhythm" ; 41. Jay Beck, "Acoustic Auteurs and Transnational Cinema" ; 42. Allan Cameron, "Instrumental Visions: Electronica, Music Video, and the Environmental Interface" ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc In the Process of Becoming Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early NineteenthCentury Music Oxford Studies in Music Theory
Book SynopsisWith their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt''s ground-breaking account of the development of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term form some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and their listeners, and when music itself-in particular, instrumental music-became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. Precedents for Adorno''s and Dahlhaus''s concept of form as process arise in the Athenäum Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel and in the Encyclopaedia Logic of Hegel. The metaphor common to all these sources is the notion of becoming; it is the idea of form coming into being that this study explores in respect to music by BeTrade ReviewWinner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory Winner, ASCAP Deems Taylor AwardIt is hard to imagine a more generously inclusive approach to the various doings of composers, performers, analysts, and music-minded philosophers. Vivid strands of modern musical thought are brilliantly reflected and refracted throughout Janet Schmalfeldt's much awaited book. Upon reaching her moving final chapter, we realize that In the Process of Becoming has from the outset enacted a gratifying homecoming for both its subjects and its readers."-Scott Burnham, Princeton UniversityWhat stands out for me in reading Janet Schmalfeldt's In the Process of Becoming is the pleasure of experiencing canonic piece after canonic piece through the exceptionally insightful and musical mind of a seasoned musician - one who has lived with, pondered, taught, and in many cases, played these pieces for years."-Patrick McCreless, Yale UniversityWill make for a rewarding study, and one that brings us into intimate contact with the many wonders of nineteenth-century musical form and its expressive powers. * Society of Music Theory *Schmalfeldt's book is a glorious example of how to write animated analytical prose...the range of topics throughout the book is a profound statement about how early nineteenth-century music continues to ignite far-reaching questions in music theory. * Music Theory Spectrum *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction: The Idea of Musical Form as Process Chapter 2 The Beethoven-Hegelian Tradition and the "Tempest" Sonata - Formation of the Tradition - Dahlhaus and the "Tempest" Sonata - Post-Dahlhausian Critiques - The question of a secondary theme - Introduction or main theme - ST2 and the final cadence of the exposition Chapter 3 The Processual Legacy of the Late Eighteenth Century - Haydn-String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (Hob. III:39), first movement - Haydn-Piano Trio in C Major (Hob. XV:27), finale - Clementi-Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 13, No. 6, first movement - Mozart-Le nozze di Figaro, Act I, No. 7, Trio in B-flat Chapter 4 Beethoven's "Bridgetower" Sonata, Op. 47 Chapter 5 On Performance, Analysis, and Schubert - Schubert-Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 42, D. 845 Chapter 6 Music that Turns Inward: New Roles for Interior Movements and Secondary Themes - Schubert-Allegro in A Minor for Four Hands, "Lebensstürme," D. 947 - Schubert-Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929 Chapter 7 Mendelssohn the "Mozartean" - String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13: opening of the finale - The Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49, first movement: opening of the exposition - The Octet, Op. 20 - The finale - The opening of the first movement - More on Mendelssohn's codas: Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream and the Scherzo of the D-minor Piano Trio Chapter 8 sed non eodem modo: Chopin's Ascending-Thirds Progression and his Cello Sonata, Op. 65 - Overview with respect to Chopin's genres - First movement of the Cello Sonata: Allegro moderato -Third movement of the Cello Sonata: Largo Chapter 9 Coming Home - Robert Schumann-"Mondnacht," from Liederkreis, Op. 39 - Robert Schumann-"Widmung," from Myrthen, Op. 25 - Clara Schumann-"Die stille Lotosblume," Op. 13, No. 6 - Robert Schumann-Arabeske, Op. 18 - Robert Schumann-Fantasie, Op. 17 Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Unlimited Replays Video Games and Classical Music Oxford MusicMedia Series
Book SynopsisClassical music is everywhere in video games. But what does it reveal about the cultural value we place on entertainment? Replay Value offers a new perspective on the possibilities and challenges of trying to distinguish between art and pop culture in contemporary society.Trade ReviewUnlimited Replays occupies a significant place in game music scholarship. It is the first book devoted to ever-intriguing instances of classical music in video games, and through addressing that topic, it seeks to build a bridge from ludomusicology toward more longstanding fields of enquiry ... an accessible, thoughtful, and thought-provoking work on a topic of interest across academic disciplines, and beyond -- classical-music concert programmers and critics might find much to consider here in regard to the music's future, for instance. Indeed, the book could be recommended to almost anybody with an interest in its topic. * Jonathan Godsall, Journal of Sound and Music in Games *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Press Start to Replay Chapter 1: Terms and Conditions Chapter 2: Playing with Music History Chapter 3: A Requiem for Schrödinger's Cat Chapter 4: Allusions of Grandeur Chapter 5: A Clockwork Homage Chapter 6: Remixed Metaphors Chapter 7: Love in Many Monstrous Forms Chapter 8: Violent Offenders and Violin Defenders Chapter 9: Playing Chopin Chapter 10: Gamifying Classical Music Chapter 11: Classifying Game Music Conclusion
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality
Book SynopsisThe book is a compendium of thinking on virtuality and its relationship to reality from the perspective of a variety of philosophical and applied fields of study. Topics covered include presence, immersion, emotion, ethics, utopias and dystopias, image, sound, literature, AI, law, economics, medical and military applications, religion, and sex.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Mark Grimshaw ; I. The Foundations of Virtuality ; 1. The Virtuality and Reality of Avatar Cyberspace ; Bruce Damer and Randy Hinrichs ; 2. The Physical and Social Reality of Virtual Worlds ; Philip Brey ; 3. Envisioning the Virtual ; Brian Massumi ; 4. Being More Than Yourself: Virtuality and Human Spirit ; Andre Nusselder ; 5. Mythologies of Virtuality: "Other Space" and "Shared Dimension" from Ancient Myths to Cyberspace ; Maria Beatrice Bittarello ; 6. The Paradox of Virtuality ; Michael R. Heim ; II. Psychology and Perception ; 7. Avatar Psychology ; James K. Scarborough and Jeremy N. Bailenson ; 8. Not Quite Human: What Virtual Characters Have Taught Us about Person Perception ; Elizabeth J. Carter and Frank E. Pollick ; 9. Emotions and Altered States of Awareness: The Virtuality of Reality and the Reality of Virtuality ; Jean-Claude Martin ; 10. Applying Psychological Plausibility to the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon ; Angela Tinwell ; 11. The Psychology of Addiction to Virtual Environments: The Allure of the Virtual Self ; Deborah Abdel Nabi and John P. Charlton ; 12. Being Present in a Virtual World ; Giuseppe Riva and John A. Waterworth ; 13. Immersion in Virtual Worlds ; Gordon Calleja ; III. Culture and Society ; 14. Communication in Virtual Worlds ; Paul C. Adams ; 15. So Good, They Named It Twice? A Lacanian Perspective on Virtual Reality from Literature and the Other Arts ; David Rudd ; 16. History and Cultural Heritage in Virtual Environments ; Erik Champion ; 17. Flirting, Cheating, Dating, and Mating in a Virtual World ; Julie M. Albright and Eddie Simmens ; 18. Cybersex ; Stale Stenslie ; 19. A Virtual Assembly: Constructing Religion out of Zeros and Ones ; Robert M. Geraci ; 20. Acoustemologies of the Closet ; William Cheng ; IV. Sound ; 21. Breaking the Fourth Wall? User-Generated Sonic Content in Virtual Worlds ; Karen Collins ; 22. Sonic Virtuality: Understanding Audio in a Virtual World ; Tom A. Garner and Mark Grimshaw ; 23. Virtual Worlds: An Ethnomusicological Perspective ; Trevor S. Harvey ; 24. The Music That's Not There ; Martin Knakkergaard ; V. Image ; 25. Through the Looking Glass: Philosophical Reflections on the Art of Virtual Worlds ; Gary Zabel ; 26. Recreating Visual Reality in Virtuality ; Anthony Steed ; 27. The Translation of Art in Virtual Worlds ; Patrick Lichty ; 28. Painting, the Virtual, and the Celluloid Frame ; Simon J. Harris ; VI. Economy and Law ; 29. Virtual Law ; Greg Lastowka ; 30. Virtuality in the Sphere of Economics ; Vili Lehdonvirta ; VII. A-Life and Artificial Intelligence ; 31. On the Role of "Digital Actors" in Entertainment-Based Virtual Worlds ; Phil Carlisle ; 32. Evolution in Virtual Worlds ; Tim Taylor ; 33. Virtual Ecologies and Environments ; David G. Green and Tom Chandler ; 34. Computational Modeling of Brain Function and the Human Haptic System at the Neural Spike Level: Learning the Dynamics of a Simulated Body ; Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre ; VIII. Technology and Applications ; 35. Distributed Embodiment: Real Presence in Virtual Bodies ; John A. Waterworth and Eva L. Waterworth ; 36. Level of Realism: Feel, Smell, and Taste in Virtual Environments ; Alan Chalmers ; 37. Developing Handheld Augmented Reality Interfaces ; Mark Billinghurst, Huidong Bai, Gun Lee, and Robert Lindeman ; 38. Avoidable Pitfalls in Virtual-World Learning Design ; Keysha I. Gamor ; 39. Medical Clinical Uses of Virtual Worlds ; Giuseppe Riva ; 40. Military Simulations Using Virtual Worlds ; Roger Smith ; IX. Utopia and Dystopia ; 41. Ethics at the Boundaries of the Virtual ; Charles M. Ess ; 42. The Social Imaginary of Virtual Worlds ; Patrice Flichy ; 43. Virtuality and Humanity ; David Kreps ; 44. Virtual Dystopia ; Andrea Hunter and Vincent Mosco ; An Afterword in Four Binarisms ; Tom Boellstorff ; Index
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Oxford University Press Henry Purcells Dido and Aeneas
Book SynopsisIn this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Ellen Harris provides a detailed consideration of the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, a detailed reexamination of the musical sources, and a comprehensive performance history.Trade ReviewHarris' comprehensive, concise, and well-organized volume will prove a durable, invaluable guide for musicologist, conductor, singer, stage director, dramaturg, or opera fan. * Ryan James Brandau, Early Music America *The first edition is a fine study, but the renewal of interest in both scholarship and performance of Purcell's works in general and of Dido and Aeneas in particular make the second edition a welcome contribution. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * M. J. Duffy IV, CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents List of Plates I. Background to the Music Introduction to Part I 1. Synopsis: Literary and Textual Antecedents 2. Premiere: Place, Date, and Meaning II. The Music Introduction to Part II 3. The Tenbury Manuscript: Discrepancies and Omissions 4. Musical and Dramatic Structure 5. Musical Declamation 6. Ground Bass Techniques III. Performance History Introduction to Part III 7. The Late Eighteenth Century: Revival and Adaptation 8. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: Scholarly Editions and Added Accompaniments 9. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Interpretations: The Early Music Movement and Postmodernism Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Verdi
Book SynopsisIn this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy.Table of ContentsIllustrations ; Key to Sigla ; PART I THE LIFE ; 1. Early Life at Busseto ; 2. Success and Failure in Milan ; 3. The Journeyman ; 4. Florence, London and Paris ; 5. Return to Busseto ; 6. Viva V.E.R.D.I. ; 7. The New Order ; 8. The Dark Decade ; 9. Indian Summer ; 10. The Last Years ; 11. Verdi as Man and Artist ; PART II THE MUSIC ; 12. The Background ; 13. From Oberto to Ernani ; Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Un giorno di regno, Nabucco, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Ernani ; 14. The Prison Years ; I due Foscari, Giovanna d'Arco, Alzira, Attila, Macbeth, I masnadieri, Jerusalem, Il corsaro, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller ; 15. The High Noon ; Stiffelio, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata ; 16. Towards Grand Opera ; Les vepres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Aroldo, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos, Aida ; 17. The Final Masterpieces ; Otello, Falstaff ; 18. Miscellaneous Operatic Compositions ; 19. Chamber Compositions ; 20. Choral and Religious Works ; Appendices ; A. Calendar ; B. List of Works ; C. Personalia ; D. Select Bibliography ; E. Glossary of Nineteenth-Century Operatic Terms ; Index
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Oxford University Press Critical Nexus ToneSystem Mode and Notation in Early Medieval Music AMS Studies in Music
Book SynopsisThrough a detailed examination of the major musical treatises from the sixth through the twelfth centuries, this text establishes a central dichotomy between classical harmonic theory and the practices of the Christian church.Trade ReviewThe Critical Nexus is a milestone in every respect, which appeals to specialists and novices alike. It deserves to be ranked among the classic studies on the subject and will be of lasting value to anybody interested in the formation of music thought in the Middle Ages. * Fontes Artis Musicae *The Critical Nexus will become required reading for musicologists, music theorists, and medievalists interested in the reception of ancient texts. * Speculum *A meticulously researched survey of early medieval theory and its application to plainsong, it will form the starting point for future research in the field. * James Grier, Professor of Music History, University of Western Ontario *A comprehensive study, fine-tuning our understanding of the challenges faced by medieval theorists as they adopted terminology and concepts from Antiquity to make sense of the music of their own time - the chant repertory of the Christian church. Professor Atkinson brings a unique perspective to this history of tone-system, mode, and notation through his command of Greek and Latin text sources, combined with his forage into the chant repertory itself. The scholarly community will prize this contribution for years to come. * Dolores Pesce, Professor of Music, Washington University in St. Louis *In this meticulous examination of the texts on music that were the most widely read from the ninth to the eleventh century, Charles Atkinson reveals how medieval theorist musicians reinterpreted the tone systems of ancient Greece and the writings of Latin grammarians to explain and notate the new practice of plainchant. His elegant and remarkably lucid argument is the crowning achievement of decades of scholarship: it not only explains early medieval tonality but resolves the longstanding problem of the derivation of the earliest Carolingian notations. It truly transforms our understanding of medieval music. Every musician and medievalist will benefit from reading it. * Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Professor of Music, University of Maryland, College Park *This important book is of a kind to stimulate one's thoughts about the inherent nature of medieval chant and to provoke discussions about contested issues; above all, however, it presents in al its wealth of detail the evidence for the remarkable story of the earliest developments in the history of Western art music. * Music & Letters *All readers, regardless of their level of specialization, will find their understanding both broadened and deepened. To be sure, this is a work that merits to become a classic, that deserves to be read and reread, studied and discussed among students and scholars time and again, and is therefore highly recommended to all musicologists and libraries. * Notes *Table of ContentsNote on Abbreviations and Nomenclature for Ptich ; Prologue ; 1. The Heritage of Antiquity ; Part I. The Eighth and Ninth Centuries ; 2. The Reception of Ancient Texts in the Carolingian Era ; 3. The Heritage of the Church ; Part II. The Synthesis of Ancient Greek Theory and Medieval Practice ; 4. Hucbald of St. Amand and Regino of Prum ; 5. Alia musica ; 6 Pseudo-Bernelinus, Bern of Reichnau, Pseudo-Odo, and Guido d'Arezzo ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index of Chants and Manuscripts ; General Index
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Oxford University Press Audible States Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
Trade ReviewThis book is a major contribution to Europeanist ethnomusicology, and an excellent read for any scholar interested in the political economy of music or in cultural histories of the Cold War. * Ljerka V. Rasmussen, Slavic Review Fall 2018 *Audible States offers a provocative analysis of musical political economy, and it will become essential reading on Eastern Europe and cultural policy. * Matthew Knight, Ethnomusicology 67.3 *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Administering Music 2 Debating Song 3 Cultivating Individuality 4 Voicing Transition 5 Promoting Albania Epilogue: Hearing Like A State Appendix: Research Materials Notes References
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Oxford University Press Schoenberg
Book SynopsisIn this fully updated edition of his long-indispensable study, Malcolm MacDonald takes advantage of 30 years of recent scholarship, new biographical information, and deeper understanding of Schoenberg's aims and significance to produce a superb guide to Schoenberg's life and work.Trade ReviewThe Master Musicians are the classics of the repertoire. * Nicholas Kenyon, The Sunday Times *Malcolm MacDonald, an eloquent advocate for Arnold Schoenberg, has done away with the dry and cerebral bogeyman of modernism. In his place is a complex, multi-faceted, and often contradictory personality whose music pulses with wit, passion, and spiritual depth. MacDonald ably guides us past the 'how' of technical procedures to the 'what' of expressive substance, toward a vast universe of human thought and emotion, at once challenging and entrancing, terrifying and breathtakingly beautiful. This is a Schoenberg of vital relevance to our own fractured world. * Christopher Hailey *No general survey of Schoenberg is more alert than this one to the paradoxical yet productive tensions between tradition and innovation, secular and spiritual in the composer's life and work. Returning to his original text after three decades, Malcolm MacDonald has not only updated the narrative but also intensified his interpretation in ways which fit the book's governing qualities of enthusiasm and admiration for Schoenberg's special capacity to transcend the negative. The result is an absorbing and accessible tribute to one of musical modernism's greatest masters. * Arnold Whittall, author of Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century and Exploring Twentieth-Century Music *The Master Musicians are the classics of the repertoire. * Nicholas Kenyon, The Sunday Times *Malcolm MacDonald, an eloquent advocate for Arnold Schoenberg, has done away with the dry and cerebral bogeyman of modernism. In his place is a complex, multi-faceted, and often contradictory personality whose music pulses with wit, passion, and spiritual depth. MacDonald ably guides us past the 'how' of technical procedures to the 'what' of expressive substance, toward a vast universe of human thought and emotion, at once challenging and entrancing, terrifying and breathtakingly beautiful. This is a Schoenberg of vital relevance to our own fractured world. * Christopher Hailey *No general survey of Schoenberg is more alert than this one to the paradoxical yet productive tensions between tradition and innovation, secular and spiritual in the composer's life and work. Returning to his original text after three decades, Malcolm MacDonald has not only updated the narrative but also intensified his interpretation in ways which fit the book's governing qualities of enthusiasm and admiration for Schoenberg's special capacity to transcend the negative. The result is an absorbing and accessible tribute to one of musical modernism's greatest masters. * Arnold Whittall, author of Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century and Exploring Twentieth-Century Music *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; 1. Peripeteia (1908-13) ; 2. The Past (1874-1907) ; 3. Consolidation (1914-1933) ; 4. In the Wilderness (1933-51) ; 5. Heart and Brain ; 6. Style ; 7. Choral Music ; 8. Orchestra and Chamber Music ; 9. Chamber Music ; 10. Solo Keyboard Music ; 11. The Songs ; 12. Three Stage Works ; 13. Miscellany ; 14. Unfinished Torsos ; 15...and Idea ; Epilogue ; Appendices ; A. Calendar ; B. List of Works ; C. Personalia ; D. Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Bright Star of the West
Book SynopsisBright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nós (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984).Trade ReviewAn engaging and exhaustive study of the historical developments and social realities that impacted Heaney's attitudes, performance styles, and his eventual rise to prominence as the sean-nós ("old-style") singer par excellence...an intimate and important look at the life of a major figure in Irish folk music. It is a significant work for ethnomusicologists, folklorists, and scholars of Irish culture, and a fitting tribute to the life and art of Joe Heaney.: * Journal of Folklore Research *In Bright Star of the West, Williams and Ó Laoire have written a text that contextualizes and gives further meaning to the music and life of Joe Heaney. * The New Hibernia Review *Authors Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire [deliver] a book that is layered, beautifully non-teleological, and intimate, like loosely-sutured memories that do not strive to tell the complete social fact, but which instead subtly connect illuminating moments of performance and interpretation. * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Singing the Dark Away ; Part One: Sean-nos Singing ; 1. Sean-nos Singing in Theory and Practice ; 2. The Performance of Sean-nos in Connemara ; Part Two: The Iconic Repertoire ; 3. Singing the Famine ; 4. The Religious Laments ; 5. The Medieval Transformed ; Part Three: Masculinity in a Musical Context ; 6. Irish Masculinities: The Irish Tenor and the Sean-nos Singer ; 7. Fighting Words, Fighting Music: The Performative Male ; Part Four: Joe Heaney in America ; 8. The Irishman at the Threshold ; 9. The Folk Revival and the Search for Authenticity ; Guide to Pronunciation ; References ; Discography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Brian Enos Ambient 1 Music for Airports The Oxford Keynotes Series
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