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Clarendon Press The Music of Francis Poulenc A Catalogue
Book SynopsisCarl Schmidt's catalogue of Poulenc's works lists and describes the musical works of one of France's most important 20th-century composers. The book reveals a wealth of information about a composer whose music is heard constantly in concert halls and on record around the world, and adds the names of a small group of works to his musical canon for the first time.Trade ReviewNow we have the most complete reference source yet on the music, Carl B. Schmidt's catalogue. This monumental study provides Poulenc performers and scholars with a wealth of information about every known composition (complete or incomplete, published or unpublished) ... Schmidt has made a monumental contribution to Poulenc studies, especially because the volume is so much more than a catalogue of works. In addition, the author's scholarship is so thorough that it takes the most careful investigation to uncover even a minor error. "My music is my portrait!," Poulenc stated, and Schmidt has lovingly interpreted that portrait in this work, one likely to remain definitive for many years to come. * George Keck, Ouachita Baptist University, Notes, March 1997 *
£247.50
Oxford University Press Brahms Composers Across Cultures
Book SynopsisBrahms has long been considered an arch-conservative, the last Classical master, but modern research reveals a troubled and self-critical Romantic whose genius united the emotionalism of his times with Classical principles. Malcolm MacDonald demonstrates how the musical and personal character of this great composer are inextricably intwined: how the man speaks in his music.Trade ReviewThere is no better book on Brahms in print, and all its succesors will be deeply in its debt ... inaugurates a new era in Brahms studies. * The Musical Times *Table of ContentsPREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; 1. YOUNG KREISLER (1833-54); APPENDICES; INDEX
£37.52
Oxford University Press, USA Mendelssohn Composers Across Cultures
Book SynopsisOf crucial importance to scholars has been the re-emergence in Krakow of the large number of Mendelssohn manuscripts considered lost since their removal from Berlin for safekeeping during World War II. This title presents the composer's manuscripts.Trade Reviewuseful as a reference book ... thorough in its musical analysis. * Hi-Fi News *
£34.19
Oxford University Press Vivaldi
Book SynopsisVivaldi has emerged during the last decades as a truly major composer of the early eighteenth-century. Taking account of recent research, to which he himself has made important contributions-including the discovery in 1973 of an unknown set of violin sonatas-Michael Talbot examines the life and works of this remarkable musician in their Venetian, Italian, and international settings.Trade Reviewa very well balanced, closely researched "life and works" of Vivaldi. * The Literary Review *
£23.84
Clarendon Press Conducting Berlioz
Book SynopsisThe difficulties of interpreting Berlioz are interestingly explained by a conductor of legendary knowledge and understanding. For the students of conducting this book is nothing short of invaluable, being a guide to technique as well as to the confusions arising from Berlioz's imaginative orchestration.
£94.00
Clarendon Press Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard Clarendon Paperbacks
Book SynopsisA study of problems surrounding the interpretation of Bach's keyboard music, this work looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation and dynamics, as well as the instruments for which Bach's music was intended. It also includes a discussion of ornamentation.Trade ReviewBadura-Skoda's ability to sustain a propulsive melodic line amid wells of sound become a hallmark of his virtuosity * Benjamin Ivry, International Piano *it is a relief to turn to the passionate advocacy of Paul Badura-Skoda ... he points the way to useful conclusions, marrying musicology with performance * Gillian Weir *Table of ContentsPART 1. GENERAL PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION ; PART II. STUDIES IN ORNAMENTATION
£102.50
Oxford University Press, USA Musorgsky Master Musician Series
Book SynopsisThis is the largest life-and-works of Musorgsky ever to have appeared outside Russia. Musorgsky created stunning masterpieces in such creations as his opera Boris Godunov and piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition - yet his life was tragic. It is this pathetic tale, interlaced with critical discussion of music, that is this book's concern.Trade ReviewThe qualities of clarity and thoroughness familiar to readers of Professor Brown's earlier work are also in evidence here ... his style is straightforward and elegant without pretentiousness, apparently aimed at music lovers as much as those with a scholarly interest. * SEER *... excellent monograph ... David Brown has done an excellent job in treating Musorgsky in such a lively and yet learned manner ... His magisterial study deserves to be purchased by many music lovers who will find the narrative fluent and the musical analysis approachable. It should also attract musicians and musical scholars who will also discover some new ideas, approaches and materials in its pages. * SEER *... a no-holds barred biography ... Brown traces his entire output in a rich historical and social context. He ... gives us a new vision of the composer. * New York Times *... the general reader and specialist alike will value the breadth, clear exposition and enthusiasm in Brown's discussion. * Geoffrey Norris, BBC Music Magazine *Table of ContentsPREFACE ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; APPENDICES ; INDEX
£24.22
Clarendon Press Violin Fraud Deception Forgery Theft and Lawsuits in England and America
Book SynopsisThis text detects the background to the violin fraud and explains how the law applies to it. Much of what is said applies to the antique world generally, but there are specific and pressing problems relating to string instruments with which this book is particularly concerned.Trade ReviewEssential reading for anyone who is involved in the business of musical instruments in any way, and recommended reading for those who own or purchase instruments. * The Galpin Society Journal *This book is a praiseworthy effort to shed some light on the murkier side of the violin trade. Harvey has done a commendable job of evaluating analogous cases from the art world to determine how courts might decide cases involving instruments. Violin Fraud provides an excellent overview of the pertinent legal issues for anyone contemplating the purchase or sale of a fine instrument. * Notes *Table of ContentsPART I ; PART II (CARLA SHAPREAU)
£125.00
Oxford University Press, USA The Music of Berlioz
Book SynopsisThe Music of Berlioz offers an overall view of Berlioz's musical achievement as we approach the bicentary of his birth in 2003, and in doing so is the first such study to deal fully with the rediscovered Messe solennelle. It synthesizes previous scholarship, including the author's own, adding many new observations, together with information and insight into all the composer's works.Trade Review...magnificent study... * Andrew Thomson, Musical Times *Rushton shows his true vocation as pedagogue, for the musical detail contained within these sections forms a fine analytical study for Berlioz's major works which every university library should have on its shelves. * Clair Rowden, Nineteenth-Century Music Review *... carefully researched, often provocative ... interesting new views. * Music and Letters *Julian Rushton is well known and highly regarded as a leading Berlioz scholar ... whose detailed knowledge of Berlioz's oeuvre is astonishing. * Music and Letters *... carefully written. * Musical Times *Rushton's generous humanity and emotional maturity constantly shine through the constant stream of marvellous insights. * Musical Times *A most distinguished and penetrating study. * Musical Times *Fascinating ... Rushton has superbly perceptive pages on works he particularly admires. * BBC Music Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface ; List of Abbreviations ; I: A BIOGRAPHY OF BERLIOZ'S MUSIC ; 1. Provincial to Prize-Winner ; 2. The Romantic Decade ; 3. Damnation and After ; II: TECHNIQUES AND MEANINGS ; 4. Implications of a Musical Biography ; 5. Techniques of Composition ; 6. Signs and Evocations ; III: THE WORKS ; 7. The Lyric Berlioz ; 8. Architecture, Patriotism, and the End of the World ; 9. A Fantastic Symphonist ; 10. Berlioz Dramatist ; Bibliography ; Index of Berlioz's Works ; General Index
£160.00
Oxford University Press, USA Music Theory in SeventeenthCentury England Oxford Monographs on Music
Book SynopsisThe fundamental changes resulting in the development of the Baroque style around the turn of the 17th century had a profound effect on music theory. This work explores the metamorphosis in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was willingness to accept new ideas.Trade ReviewOn every page a complex network of filiations is traced among many English authors. It is this kind of meticulous research in which Herissone excels, and to which subsequent generations of scholars will gratefully refer ... Her meticulous account is unusually lucid ... There is no comparable account in the English language that offers such a comprehensive and detailed overview of English music theory from the seventeenth century, and her book will surely become the standard reference work on this subject. * Journal of the American Musicological Society *This welcome survey covers a great deal of ground ... Clarity of organization is only the most immediately obvious of the book's strengths. The author scrutinizes all her materials with a critical eye, and charts an astonishing number of disagreements, confusions and self-contradictions. * Early Music *A full and invaluable account of English theoretical writing over the period ... A particularly valuable contribution of the book to English music history is the four full appendices. * Musical Times *Table of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Plates ; List of Tables ; List of Examples ; Sources ; Time ; Pitch Structure ; Harmony ; Harmonic and Contraptual Compositional rules ; Tonality ; Texture and Form ; Conclusion ; Appendix I: Alphabetical List of Treatises ; Appendix II: Chronological List of Treatises ; Appendix III: Editions of Playford's Introduction to the Skill of Musick ; Appendix IV: Origins of Material ; Bibliography ; Index
£255.00
Oxford University Press BACH CANTATAS C With Their Librettos In GermanEnglish Parallel Text
Book SynopsisThis is the only English translation of this important book by the world''s most distinguished Bach scholar. This work is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the Bach cantatas. It begins with a historical survey of the seventeenth-century background to the cantatas, and performance practice issues. The core of the book is a work-by-work study in which each cantata in turn is represented by its libretto, a synopsis of its movements, and a detailed analytical commentary. This format makes it extremely useful as a reference work for anyone listening to, performing in, or studying any of the Bach cantatas.In this edition all the cantata librettos are given in German-English parallel text. The most recent (sixth) German edition appeared in 1995. For the English edition the text has been carefully revised to bring it up to date, taking account of Bach scholarship since that date.Trade ReviewFor students studying Bach's cantatas, this book is the best reading material currently available. This is a book that every university library must have on its shelf. * Bach Bibliography Book Review03/12/06 *Table of ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCTION TO BACH'S CANTATAS; PART 2 CHURCH CANTATAS; PART 3 SECULAR CANTATAS
£190.00
Oxford University Press, USA Musical Beginnings Origins and Development of Musical Competence
Book SynopsisFrom where, and by what mechanisms, does an individual's musical ability originate? Seeking an answer to this question, this study reviews such central issues as prenatal auditory experience and the developmental progress of a child's changing environment.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Prenatal auditory experience ; Chapter 2 - Musicality in infancy research: biological and cultural origins of early musicality ; Chapter 3 - Infants' auditory sensitivity towards acoustic parameters of speech and music ; Chapter 4 - Intuitive parenting: a hidden source of musical stimulation in infancy ; Chapter 5 - The development of the perception of time and temporal regulation of action in infants and children ; Chapter 6 - The development of artistic and musical competence ; Chapter 7 - The young performing musician ; Chapter 8 - Linguistic and musical development in preschool and school-age children
£100.00
Oxford University Press Spectral Analysis of Musical Sounds with Emphasis on the Piano
Book SynopsisIn this book the tools of spectral analysis are applied via graphics to musical sounds, especially those coming from a piano, with emphasis on the visualization of musical sounds rather than the mathematics behind it. The aim is to give a different and insightful view of musical instruments.Trade ReviewI recommend this remarkable book to everyone who wants to know how sounds are generated and how they can be analyzed. I am sure that this book will serve as a standard reference for the spectral analysis of musical sounds over many years * Haye Hinrichsen, Euro Piano *Table of ContentsPART 1: SOME BASIC SOUND WAVES AND SOME SIMPLE TOOLS; PART 2: A VISUAL ANALYSIS OF VIBRATING OBJECTS (STRINGS, MEMBRANES, BARS, PLATES); PART 3: THE PIANO
£75.60
Oxford University Press The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach Volume I 16951717 Volume I Music to Delight the Spirit
Book SynopsisThis first of a two-volume study deals with the earlier part of Bach's career, and examines the output of his youth and its may external influences, before moving on to study he first great masterpieces in which Bach's own personal voice begins to emerge.Table of ContentsPART I: FORMATIVE YEARS (1695-C.1709); PART II: FIRST MATURITY (C.1709-1717)
£46.07
Oxford University Press Rethinking Music
Book SynopsisThis re-evaluation of our thinking about music is in two parts. The first focuses on approaches to musical texts, covering such topics as the relationship of text and context, and concepts of unity and meaning. The second explores and reflects the nature of the discipline of musicology
£44.17
Oxford University Press Handbook of Music Adolescents and Wellbeing
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Oxford University Press, USA Shakespeares Names Oxford Shakespeare Topics Hardcover
Trade ReviewMaguire seems to have enjoyed writing Shakespeare's Names and it is correspondingly enjoyable to read. * Tom Rutter Notes and Queries *...a crucial text not only for those interested in Shakespearian drama but for anyone interetsed in language more generally... * Edel Lamb MLR *Her detailed account of performances...are hugely illuminating. This is a book as much for theatre lovers as for linguists. And anyone who tries to be both will be delighted that she has written it. * David Crystal, Around the Globe *[a] stimulating book... criticism of such distinction * Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supplement *engaging, learned, and far-reaching... Shakespeares Names is, to borrow a phrase from Loves Labours Lost, a great feast of language (5.1.36-7), both in its graceful writing and its endearing subject. * David Bevington, Modern Philology *the book's tone and level of discussion will appeal to a wide variety of readers...it evinces... the antiquary's delighted love for his or her material, a form of delight that this book communicates with intelligence and generosity. * Philip Schwyzer, Times Higher Education *[A] witty and learned study * Stratford-upon-Avon Herald *a reader-friendly delight to academics, students and Shakespeare nuts alike. * Annie Martirosyan, Huffington Post *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. What's in a name? ; 2. The patronym: Montague and Capulet ; 3. The mythological name: Helen ; 4. The diminutive name: Kate ; 5. The place name: Ephesus ; Works Cited
£65.55
Oxford University Press, USA Theatre Censorship From Walpole to Wilson
Book SynopsisUsing previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir Robert Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737 to the successful campaign to abolish theatre censorship in 1968. It concludes with an exploration of possible new forms of covert censorship.Trade Review`This book, well researched, cogently argued, and frequently revealing, is an important addition to the scholarly literature on theatrical censorship in Britain.' Jeffrey M. Richards, Comparative Drama`a lucid and thorough account' Alec Patton, Theatre JournalTable of ContentsTimeline. Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 1. Theatre Censorship under the Royal Prerogative ; 2. Statutory Theatre Censorship: 1737-1892 ; 3. The 1909 Challenge to Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 4. The Inter-War Years ; 5. The 1949 Bid to end Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 6. Further Attempts to end Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 7. The 1960s and the 1968 Theatres Act ; 8. The Aftermath: British Theatre following the Abolition of Statutory Censorship ; Conclusion
£137.50
Oxford University Press Mahlers Symphonic Sonatas Oxford Studies in Music Theory
Book SynopsisMahler's Symphonic Sonatas investigates Gustav Mahler's dynamic and career-long engagement with sonata-allegro form.Trade ReviewMahler's Symphonic Sonatas contains the most detailed, sophisticated, and insightful analytical readings of Mahler's music in existence. From every one of the book's analyses, the reader comes away with the intensely satisfying feeling of having come to know, indeed understand, a great piece of music better. If only more music theory were like this! For those reasons alone, the book is a milestone. * Steven Vande Moortele, Music Theory Spectrum *Table of ContentsContents ; Acknowledgements ; On the Accompanying Short Scores ; Introduction ; Part I ; Interpreting Mahler's Sonata Forms ; Chapter 1: Sonata Form in Mahler's Narrative Imagination ; Chapter 2: Adorno's Novel-Symphony: The Dialectic of Freedom and Determinism ; Chapter 3: Issues in Mahlerian Narrative ; Part II ; Mahler's "Classical" Sonatas ; Chapter 4: "A Demonic Haydn": Mahler's Confrontation with Tradition in the First Movement of the Sixth ; Chapter 5: "A Play within a Play": Games of Closure and Contingency in the First Movement of the Fourth ; Part III ; Mahler's "Epic" Sonatas ; Chapter 6: "The Objectification of Chaos": Epic Form and Narrative Multiplicity in Part One of the Third ; Chapter 7: "Tragedy refuses a nominalist form": "Inescapable" Coherence and the Failure of the Novel-Symphony in the Finale of the Sixth ; Works Cited
£52.25
Oxford University Press Positive Pianist How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance
Book SynopsisIn The Positive Pianist: How Flow Can Bring Passion to Practice and Performance, author Thomas J. Parente applies the concept of flow to piano playing in order to demonstrate how student musicians can experience enjoyment and confidence from succeeding at something that challenges them to an engaging level.Trade ReviewThis is a well-written, thoughtful treatise on a vital part of our profession, and the language Parente employs befits the intelligence and integrity of the author and his targeted audience. I recommend it for all piano majors. * Tony Caramia, Professor of Piano, Eastman School of Music *Thomas Parente's focus on research-based learning and positive flow makes The Positive Pianist a unique and welcome addition to the field of piano pedagogy. * Scott McBride Smith, Cordelia Brown Murphy Professor of Piano Pedagogy, School of Music, University of Kansas *Table of ContentsContents ; Chapter 1. Loving What You Do, Doing What You Love ; Chapter 2. Flow Experience ; Chapter 3. Building Skills ; Chapter 4. Combining Flow and Skills ; Chapter 5. Learning a Simple Piece ; Chapter 6. Learning a More Complex Piece ; Chapter 7. Developing the Confidence to Perform ; Chapter 8. Teaching to Flow ; References ; Index
£24.99
Oxford University Press Ungoverning Dance Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Book SynopsisUngoverning Dance examines recent contemporary dance in continental Europe. Placing this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, it argues that dancers are developing an ethico-aesthetic approach that uses dance practices as sites of resistance against dominant ideologies. It attests to the persistence of alternative ways of thinking and living.Trade ReviewIt provides an overview of some of the most important contemporary philosophical discourses in relation to dance. Above all, it makes an irresistible and convincing claim for the importance of dance as a critical tool. * Dance Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Contemporary dance and the commons Chapter 2. Transatlantic comparisons Chapter 3. Rethinking virtuosity Chapter 4. Dance and post-fordism Chapter 5. Responsible for laughter Chapter 6. Alone to the world: the solo dancer Chapter 7. Performing friendship Chapter 8. Responsibility without obligation, dancing relationality Chapter 9. History and collective memory in contemporary dance. Chapter 10. Memory, imagination, and the virtual in dance. Chapter 11. Conclusion: keywords Bibliography Index
£40.49
Oxford University Press Cinema of Poetry
Book SynopsisSince the publication of his foundational work, Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney has been considered one of our most eloquent and insightful interlocutors on the relationship between American film and poetry. His latest study, The Cinema of Poetry, emphasizes the vibrant world of European cinema in addition to incorporating the author''s long abiding concerns on American avant-garde cinema. The work is divided into two principal parts, the first dealing with poetry and a trio of films by Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ingmar Bergman, and Andrei Tarkovsky; the second part explores selected American verse with American avant-garde films by Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, and others. Both parts are linked by Pier Paolo Pasolini''s theoretical 1965 essay Il cinema di poesia where the writer/director describes the use of the literary device of free indirect discourse, which accentuates the subjective point-of view as well as the illusion of functioning as if without a camera. In other words, the camera is abTrade Reviewpassionate, deeply informed ... Sitney's style is at once erudite and accessible, and his insights into the works of these gifted artists are continually illuminating ... an elegantly crafted and carefully considered book. * W. W. Dixon, Choice *P. Adams Sitney offers a monumental, enchanting account of poetry as cinema, turning the analogy upside-down, vividly and deftly tracing nuanced concepts of narrative versus lyric film, psychoanalysis, dreams, and social realities in European filmmakers as well as in cinema of the American avant-garde. Those familiar with Sitney's earlier 'visionary' scholarship will exult in the coming together of multiple strands; those unfamiliar, will be treated to a distilled, layered overview of a significant nexus in the history of film. * Susan McCabe, author of Cinematic Modernism *The Cinema of Poetry probes the vital questions of poetic narrative and lyric filmmaking in Europe and the United States. Sitney holds film theory and biographical detail in eloquent balance and lets the films & filmmakers speak for themselves. It is as rare in film studies as in filmmaking to encounter the flame of early enthusiasms sustained and matured over decades as it is found in The Cinema of Poetry.-Robert Beavers, filmmakerThere is no other book that I know of that treats the cinema of poetry in both its European and American manifestations, and no other work that has offered the depth of insight into the European cinema of poetry that Sitney has. The Cinema of PoetryR is simply an outstanding piece of work-it is elegant, lucid, taut, and penetrating. * R. Bruce Elder, author of Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: An Autobiography of Enthusiasms ; I ; Pier Paolo Pasolini and "The Cinema of 'Poetry'" ; Dimitri Kirsanoff's Menilmontant ; Ingmar Bergman's Primal Scene ; Andrey Tarkovsky's Concept of Poetry ; II ; Poetry and the American Avant-garde Cinema ; The Dialectict of Experience in Joseph Cornell's Films ; Lawrence Jordan's Magical Instructions ; Stan Brakhage's Poetics ; Nathaniel Dorsky, Jerome Hiler, and the Polyvalent Film ; Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos
£41.32
Oxford University Press, USA Albions Dance British Ballet During the Second World War
Book SynopsisExploring the ballet boom in Britain during WWII, this book asks how art and artists thrive during conflict. Author Karen Eliot shows how ballet in Britain flourished during war, exhibiting a surprising heterogeneity and vibrant populism. The book focuses especially on the roles of dance critics, male and female dancers, producers, audiences, and choreographers.Trade Review"An enthralling story of how diverse groups of unsung dancers and choreographers changed the landscape of British ballet through their courageous work during the war. With her rigorous and deft handling of the sources, Eliot makes a major contribution to dance scholarship."--Geraldine Morris, Reader in Dance University of Roehampton "A detailed, insightful account of ballet in Britain during World War II, Albion's Dance probes the complexities and paradoxes of wartime - its socio-political and artistic realignments; its grittiness and transcendences - and how ballet contributed to reshaping the cultural landscape. The book is essential reading for dance students, teachers and scholars, and for all of us interested in new histories of ballet and its place on the world stage today."--Angela Kane, Professor of Dance, University of Michigan "Eliot bases much of her study on her extensive investigation of dancers>' memoirs and writings of dance critics, and the result is a book that is both well-researched and fascinating." --L.K. Rosenberg, Miami University, ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One: The British Ballet and its Critics at the Onset of War Chapter Two: Making Ballet Central to British Wartime Experience Chapter Three: The Dancers' Experience Chapter Four: Propaganda, Publicity, and Social Pressure: Ballet in Discourse and Deed Chapter Five: The Function of the Classics in Wartime Chapter Six: Programming the Repertoire Chapter Seven: British Choreography during the War Afterword Index
£87.40
Oxford University Press Music as Creative Practice Studies in Musical Perf as Creative Prac
Book SynopsisNot long ago, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the idea of genius. In the last decade there has been a sea change in thinking: musical creativity is seen in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt to synthesise both perspectives.Trade Review...highly informative insights... * Anna Falkenau, Ethnomusicology Ireland *This is a most valuable volume ... it tackles some fundamental issues that are largely becoming ignored in our current populist political and social environment ... As in all his writing, Nicholas Cook goes a very long way in this book to clarify these issues, along with many other intriguing musicological concepts, and to stimulate debate in a most lucid and informative manner. * Sinan Carter Savaskan, Notes *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: creativity in context 1 Making music together 1 Listening together 2 From the inside out 3 You do an up-bow, I do a down-bow 4 Beyond real time 5 Production as relational practice 6 Assemblages in action 7 Creativity on the other side 2 Imagining music 1 Cultures of imagination 2 Composition by stages 3 Improvisations on paper 4 Seeing through the myths 5 Sonic ontology 6 The extended musical mind 7 Talking back 3 Creative in a different sort of way 1 The ghost in the machine 2 Significant others 3 The composer's alter ego 4 Traditions of creative learning 5 Pathways to creative performance 6 Owning creativity 7 A culture of creative repetition Conclusion: creativity everywhere References Index
£93.10
Oxford University Press Tracing Tangueros Argentine Tango Instrumental Music Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
Book SynopsisTracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. It first establishes parameters for tango scholarship and then offers ten in-depth profiles of representative tangueros within the genre's historical and stylistic trajectory.Trade ReviewThis book will perhaps be of most value and interest to practitioners seeking to understand better how to perform, arrange, or create tango music. * Music and Letters *Taken in conjunction with material on its website, Tracing Tangueros enriches understanding of a uniquely Argentine cultural phenomenon. * Dance Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction. Argentine Tango: A Multidimensional Art Form Part One: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music I. What Makes It an Argentine Tango? II. Trajectory of Argentine Tango Instrumental Music III. Arranging and Performance Techniques Part Two: Representative Argentine Tangueros and Their Orchestras from the Guardia Nueva to Today IV. The Guardia Nueva and the Golden Age (1925-55) Julio De Caro Aníbal Troilo Osvaldo Pugliese Cafecito Interlude: Juan D'Arienzo and Carlos Di Sarli V. Post-Golden Age (1955-1990) Horacio Salgán Astor Piazzolla Julián Plaza Leopoldo Federico Cafecito Interlude: Rodolfo Mederos and Néstor Marconi VI. The "Music of Buenos Aires" (1990-present) Damián Bolotin Sonia Possetti Juan Pablo Navarro Postre: Part Two Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of Titles and Translations General Index
£42.74
Oxford University Press Viennese MinorKey Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart
Book SynopsisIn late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos make them a unique phenomenon.Trade Review"[R]eaders should be grateful for this groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of an era characterized by non-uniform stylistic heterogeneity and change. Riley opens up an important repertoire that has heretofore lacked a coherent theoretical treatment. In the process, he presents a plausible set of compositional options within the constraints of his proposed subgenre, in which rhetorical strategies may be interpreted as helping create marked expressive effects."--Music Theory Online "Riley has prompted a rethinking of our knowledge of the use of minor keys in the Classical era, and that is high praise indeed considering how much time scholars have invested in these works already...The fact that Riley was able to find all of these works and digest them in a meaningful way is impressive in its own right. Read Riley's first chapter; if you are still skeptical of his argument, read the rest of the book and watch as his preponderance of evidence piles upon you."--Fontes artis musicaeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Tables, figures and music examples ; 1 The Viennese minor-key symphony ; 2 Imperial court composers: Wagenseil, Gassmann, Ordonez ; 3 Va?hal to 1771: five first movements ; 4. Two subgeneric conventions: the contrapuntal minuet, the stormy finale ; 5. Studies in Haydn's minor-key symphonies 1763-1772 ; 6. Va?hal's new paths: four later symphonies ; 7. Modal reversal and characteristic symphonies ; 8. Mozart and the minor-key symphony ; Glossary of analytical terms ; Appendix 1 Thematic catalogues consulted for the information in Table 1.1 ; Appendix 2 Sources of the symphonies used for analysis; CD recordings ; Bibliography ; Index
£92.15
Oxford University Press Baton Basics Communicating Music Through Gestures
Book SynopsisIn Baton Basics, conductor Diane Wittry offers a unique approach to teaching conducting through weight, resistance, and energy. In doing so she gives readers new tools for effective and ultimately musical forms of conducting, forms based on conveying energy.Trade ReviewAfter her singularly successful exploration of what a modern conductor needs to know about all aspects of professional life in Beyond the Baton, Diane Wittry has written another essential book. In this lucid, comprehensive study of conducting gesture and technique, Wittry has managed to distill and clarify the essence of the conductor's craft. * Alan Gilbert, Music Director, New York Philharmonic *Diane Wittry's Baton Basics is an extraordinary addition to the art of conducting pedagogy. With impressive clarity, she dissects the physical science of gesture and motion, and she tackles the less easily defined skills of leadership with sensitivity and understanding. Diane has explored the intricacies of our profession with great imagination and insight. * JoAnn Falletta, Music Director and Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony *Diane Wittry has proven herself as an exceptional conductor and conducting teacher whose new book Baton Basics tackles the issue of conducting from more than just a gestural aspect. Her concentration in this book for conductors is one which uses not only a systematic approach to building a gesture, but also deals with the issues of conducting without tension. Weight, resistance, intensity and the character of the musical phrase are all dealt with in clear and concise language. This book is a valuable tool for those teaching conducting in choral or instrumental courses. * Jo-Michael Scheibe, Chair, Choral and Sacred Music, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California *Diane Wittry's new book is a welcome contribution to the library of conducting texts. Her holistic approach, especially her most useful ways to imagine various hand and arm motions, will help innumerable young conductors better employ their bodies in expressing music. A must for every conductor's shelf. * Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensembles, New England Conservatory and Music Director, Glens Falls Symphony *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Section 1. The Body ; Section 2. Motion and Gestures ; Section 3. Connecting with the Sound ; Section 4. Applying and Combining Gestures ; Section 5. Controlling Tempo and Volume ; Section 6. Becoming Centered ; Section 7. Making Music ; Appendix ; Index
£38.47
Oxford University Press Composition in the Digital World Conversations with 21st Century American Composers
Book SynopsisIn a series of intimate conversations with some of the most influential composers of concert music currently working on the American music scene, composer and educator Robert Raines covers subjects ranging from the source of inspiration to work habits, the business of music, and the impact of technology on music and life in the 21st century.Trade ReviewWhat a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on personal conversations with such a diverse and impressive group of American composers. Robert Raines masterfully engages each artist to share insights, reflections, and experiences * a collection that will surely change how you view contemporary composition.Darla S. Hanley, PhD, Dean of the Professional Education Division, Berklee College of Music *This fascinating book will make a valuable addition to a course in contemporary music for music majors and non-majors alike, as well as a springboard for one-on-one discussion in the composition studio. * Peter Spencer, DMA, Professor Emeritus, Music Theory and Composition, Florida State University *Raines (himself a composer) provides an impressive compilation of interviews ... The selected works will be especially useful for those who wish to learn more about 21st-century music. A good resource for those interested in the intersection of creativity and technology. * M. Goldsmith, CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ; Steve Reich ; Christopher Rouse ; Martin Bresnick ; Joan Tower ; William Averitt ; Michael Torke ; Libby Larsen ; Aaron J. Kernis ; Jennifer Higdon ; John Anthony Lennon ; David T. Little ; Kevin Puts ; Michael Daugherty ; Mohammed Fairouz ; Tania Leon ; Bright Sheng ; Ladislav Kubik ; Chen Yi ; Jose Bevia ; Daniel Wohl ; Eve Beglarian ; Glen Branca ; Marcus Roberts ; Luke DuBois ; Greg Wilder ; Pamela Z ; Eric Whitacre ; About Robert Raines ; Index
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Oxford University Press Beyond Score Music as Performance C
Book SynopsisIn Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches.Table of ContentsContents ; About the companion web site ; List of figures ; List of media examples ; Introduction ; 1 Plato's curse ; Sounded writing ; Performative turns? ; 2 Page and stage ; Theorist's analysis ; Performer's analysis ; Performance analysis ; 3 What the theorist heard ; Affecting the sentiment ; Spoken melody, or sung speech ; Schenker vs. Schenker ; 4 Beyond structure ; Structure in context ; Mozart's miniature theatre ; Rhetoric old and new ; In time and of time ; 5 Close and distant listening ; Reinventing style analysis ; Forensics vs. musicology ; Performing Poland ; The savour of the Slav ; 6 Objective expression ; Nature's nuance ; Phrase arching in history ; Phrase arching in culture ; 7 Playing somethin' ; Referents and reference ; The work as performance ; 8 Social scripts ; An ethnographic turn ; Sociality in sound ; Performing complexity ; 9 The signifying body ; 31 August 1970, 3.30 am ; The white man's black man ; 10 Everything counts ; Pleasures of the body ; Bodies in sound ; Building bridges ; 11 The ghost in the machine ; Music everywhere ; Original and copy ; Signifying sound ; 12 Beyond reproduction ; The best seat in the hall ; Acoustic choreography ; Rethinking the concert ; Making music together ; List of references
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Oxford University Press Fanny Hensel The Other Mendelssohn
Book SynopsisGranddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In this book, Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music.Trade ReviewAn authoritative new biography. * Forward.com *Todd's exhaustively researched and engaging biography will probably remain the authoritative source into the foreseeable future. It has helped to life the curtain of silence" that kept Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's works in the dark for well over a century. * Chamber Music *At last an authoritative account of Hensel's life and music. Todd accords Hensel the creative recognition that is long overdue, and builds on his Mendelssohnian expertise to trace the mutually influential relationship between Fanny and Felix. A scholarly tour de force!-Marcia J. Citron, Author of Gender and the Musical Canon (1993) and Editor of Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn (1987)The author of an acclaimed biography of Felix Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd has now written what will surely be the authoritative life-and-works study of Fanny Hensel for a long time to come. With his superb insights into the workings of her music, he brings her out of her brother's shadow and enables her to take her rightful place in the sun. This book is an event, one that enlarges our picture of a woman, a family, a place, an era, and an important body of music. * Susan Youens, author of Heinrich Heine and the Lied (2008) and Hugo Wolf and his Morike Songs (2006) *It is hard to believe that once again Larry Todd has made history with scholarship. Close on the heels of his authoritative biography of Felix Mendelssohn, for the first time we have a comprehensive biography of Fanny Mendelssohn. The biography is magisterial and pathbreaking, replete with a useful thematic catalog of Fanny's compositions. This book represents an indispensable piece of social and cultural history concerning German-speaking Europe before 1848. * Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Note On the Website ; Genealogical Tree of the Itzig and Mendelssohn Families ; Preface ; I. Fugal Fingers (1805-1818) ; II. Musical Ornaments (1819-1821) ; III. Sibling Rivalry and Separation (1822-1824) ; IV. Leipzigerstrasse No. 3 (1825-1828) ; V. Becoming Frau Hensel (1828-1830) ; VI. Secret Aspirations (1830-1833) ; VII. Youthful Decrepitude (1834-1835) ; VIII. Demonic Influences (1836-1839) ; IX. Italian Intermezzo (1839-1840) ; X. Domestic Tranquility (1840-1842) ; XI. The Joys of Dilettantism (1843-1845) ; XII. Engraver's Ink and Heavenly Songs (1846-1847) ; Epilogue ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index of Fanny Hensel's Compositions ; General Index
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Oxford University Press Theories of the Soundtrack
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Oxford University Press Growing Musicians Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond
Book SynopsisGrowing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond focuses on teaching adolescents within the context of a music classroom. It considers the impact of music education on adolescents as they transition from child to adult as well as encourages music educators to mindfully examine their own teaching practice.Trade ReviewReading Sweets book makes one feel as though these colleagues are sitting with us, reading along and commenting. This feature, along with the authors clear writing style, make this a valuable volume, not just for middle school teachers, but for those teaching any level. * John Devorick, ACDA Choral Journal *Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter 1: The Adolescent Musician ; Chapter 2: The Music Teacher ; Chapter 3: Establishing Music Classroom Climate ; Chapter 4: Establishing the Framework for Successful Music Classes ; Chapter 5: The Humanity of Teaching Music ; Chapter 6: Humor in the Music Classroom ; Appendix A: Teacher participant extended bios ; References ; Index
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OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education
Book SynopsisIn The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucía Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from a global who's who of scholars. Rather than relegating philosophical inquiry to moot questions and abstract situations, the contributors to this volume address everyday concerns faced by music educators everywhere. Emphasizing clarify, fairness, rigor, and utility above all,Trade ReviewOf special interest is the inclusion of a variety of practices in music education from a global perspective...Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors ; 1. Introduction ; Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega ; I. The Nature and Value of Philosophical Inquiry in Music Education ; 2. What Should the Music Education Profession Expect of Philosophy? ; Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega ; 3. Rethinking Philosophy, Re-Viewing Musical-Emotional Experiences ; David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman ; 4. Voicing imbas: Performing a Philosophy of Music Education ; Helen Phelan ; 5. Philosophy of Music Education as Art of Life: A Deweyan View ; Lauri Vakeva ; 6. Uncomfortable with Immanence: The Nature and Value of Music and Music Education as Singular or Supplemental ; Bennett Reimer ; II. The Nature and Values of Music ; 7. Learning to Live Music: Musical Education as the Cultivation of a Relationship between Self and Sound ; Randall Pabich ; 8. The Grain of the Music: Does Music Education 'Mean' Something in Japan? ; Tadahiko Imada ; 9. Musical Education: From Identity to Becoming ; Michael Szekely ; 10. Teaching practices in Persian Art Music ; Erum Naqvi ; 11. Understanding Music's Therapeutic Efficacy: Implications for Music Education ; Diane Thram ; III. The Aims of Education ; 12. The Impossible Profession ; Christopher Higgins ; 13. Education in Latin American Music Schools: A Philosophical Perspective ; Luis Alfonso Estrada ; 14. Must Music Education Have an Aim? ; V. A. Howard ; 15. Cultivating Virtuous Character: The Chinese Traditional Perspective of Music Education ; Yuhwen Wang ; 16. Ethical Dimensions of School-Based Music Education ; Thomas A. Regelski ; IV. Philosophical Inquiry Directed to Curricular and Instructional Concerns ; 17. Engaging Student Ownership of Musical Ideas ; Harold Fiske ; 18. Understanding Music as the Philosophical Focus of Music Education ; Keith Swanwick ; 19. Musical Heuristics: Contributions to the Understanding of Musical Creative Processes ; Ricardo Mandolini ; 20. Nurturing the Songcatchers: Philosophical Issues in Creativity and Music Education ; John Kratus ; 21. Avoiding the Dangers of Postmodern Nihilist Curricula in Music Education ; Robert Walker ; V. Challenges to Philosophical Practice in Music Education ; 22. Good for What, Good for Whom?: Decolonizing Music Education Philosophies ; Deborah Bradley ; 23. Place, Music Education, and the Practice and Pegagogy of Philosophy ; Sandra Stauffer ; 24. On Informalities in Music Education ; Estelle Jorgensen ; 25. Music Education for <"All My Relations>" ; Charlene Morton ; VI. Afterword ; 26. But is it philosophy? ; Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega ; Index
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Oxford University Press Rock n Film
Book SynopsisRock 'N' Film presents a cultural history of films about US and British rock music during the period when biracial popular music was fundamental to progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic.Trade ReviewCovering rock n roll filmmaking in its entirety, this accomplished volume is readily accessible and written (as James himself notes) without the jargon that often mars film studies Illustrated with a host of frame blowups, this informed, sharp, inviting, and absolutely authoritative book will be the source to beat on the subject of rock n roll movies for quite some time Summing Up: Essential. All readers. * G. A. Foster, CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; 1. Introduction: Rock 'n' Film ; 2. Absolute Beginnings: Blackboard Jungle ; 3. Jukebox Musicals ; 4. Dirty Stars: Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth Anger ; 5. Rock 'n' Roll Noir: Elvis Before the Army ; 6. Sunshine Elvis: The Devil in Disguise ; (inc Morphology of the Elvis Movie) ; 7. Back in the UK: The English Elvises ; 8. Beatles I: Richard Lester and A Hard Day's Night ; 9. Beatles II: Next Morning ; 10. Bringing It All Back Home: Toward the Folk Documentary ; 11. D. A. Pennebaker: Documentary from Folk to Folk Rock and Rock ; 12. Utopia and Its Discontents: Woodstock ; 13. The Rolling Stones I: The Greatest Rock 'n' Film Band in the World ; 14. Mick Jagger, Demon Brother ; 15. The Rolling Stones II: The U.S. Tours, From Concert Film to Film Concert: ; 16. Back To Black ... : Soul ; 17... And White: Country ; 18. Retrospection and Reflexivity: Rock 'n' Film Suicide ; Index
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Oxford University Press AvantDoc
Book SynopsisOver the past fifty years, a unique hybrid genre of nonfiction cinema called the avant-doc has emerged in the world of independent film. Combining the unconventional techniques of avant-garde auteurs like Stan Brakhage with the verisimilitude of traditional documentaries, the avant-doc expands the way cinema captures and chronicles events. Drawing on firsthand interviews with nineteen of the form''s chief practitioners and participants, Avant-Doc constructs an oral history that provides the first insider''s perspective on the phenomenon.Trade ReviewA compelling achievement, Avant-Doc diagrams a new fluid geography of cinema, where traditional categories such as experimental,"documentary," and "fiction" dissolve. The insightful, probing conversations assembled so deftly here vaporize fixed cinematic modes. These filmmakers describe cinema as a living organism, pulsating in networks of politics, arts, philosophies, teachers, literature, communities, technologies, and aesthetics. * Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracy *Scott MacDonald's groundbreaking and seminal new volume, Avant-Doc, illuminates correspondences between avant-garde cinema and documentary through a series of compelling interviews with major independent filmmakers and noted scholar Annette Michelson. This intimate and probing follow-up to MacDonald's Critical Cinema series creates a lively and deeply personal oral history. Avant-Doc broadens our understanding of connections between avant-garde and documentary film, while providing a rich treasure trove of research material that current and future scholars will find invaluable. * J.J. Murphy, author of The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol *Table of ContentsTable of Contents: ; Introduction ; Annette Michelson ; Robert Gardner ; Ed Pincus (and Jane Pincus, Lucia Small) ; Alfred Guzzetti ; Ross McElwee ; Nina Davenport ; Leonard Retel Helmrich ; Jonathan Caouette ; Pawel Wojtasik ; Michael Glawogger ; Susana de Sousa Dias ; Alexander Olch (on The Windmill Movie) ; Amie Siegel (on DDR/DDR) ; Arthur and Jennifer Smith (on Ice Bears of the Beaufort) ; Betzy Bromberg (on Voluptuous Sleep) ; Jen Proctor (on A Movie by Jen Proctor) ; Jane Gillooly (on Suitcase of Love and Shame) ; Godfrey Reggio (on Visitors) ; Todd Haynes ; Sensory Ethnography ; Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (on In and Out of Africa and Sweetgrass) ; Lucien Castaing-Taylor (on his installation work and on Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab) ; Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (on Leviathan) ; Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez (on Manakamana) ; Filmographies ; Bibliographies
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Oxford University Press Discoveries from the Fortepiano A Manual for Beginning and Seasoned Performers
Book SynopsisDiscoveries from the Fortepiano meets the demand for a manual on authentic Classical piano performance practice that is at once accessible to the performer and accurate to the scholarship.Trade Review"This carefully researched book offers a collection of intriguing and applicable strategies that will encourage and enable performers of all abilities to speak the language of both composer and period -- with authenticity and creativity." - Joan Reist, Past President, Music Teachers National Association "...a detailed manual for avid historical instrument buffs and modern performers...Gunn presents a practical approach on how to look at a score from the time of Mozart and create a convincing performance on any instrument. She is far more than an enthusiast in her desire to bring the ideas of early performance practices to life in a modern world. Useful as reference work or a college text." - Choice "[A] landmark book...This is a book that should be in every classical pianist's library."--American Music TeacherTable of ContentsAbout the Companion Website ; Foreword ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Urgency: Why Bother? ; 2. Affekt and Good Taste ; 3. Formal Structure and Harmonic Function ; 4. Technique-Execution ; 5. Rhythm ; 6. Dynamics ; 7. Accents and Other Expression Marks ; 8. Articulation and Touch ; 9. Staccato Dots and the Other Usual Suspects Ornaments ; 10. Ornaments ; 11. Repeats ; 12. Damper Pedal ; 13. Indicated Tempo ; 14. Final Words
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Oxford University Press, USA Nicolas Nabokov A Life in Freedom and Music
Book SynopsisThis first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as a postwar cultural force, notably as secretary general of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s, and the contribution to twentieth-century music of this collaborator of Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and Balanchine.Trade ReviewConductor, author, translator, multi-lingual cosmopolite, Nicolas Nabokov was one of the most versatile intellectuals of the past century. Vincent Giroud, a brilliant musicologist and Nabokov's very first biographer, narrates his subject's multi-faceted life with unusual clarity and vigor. * Francine du Plessix Gray *They just don't make cultured, quadrilingual, cosmopolitans of this sort anymore. Nicolas Nabokov managed to hit every artistic and intellectual high note of the 20th century, missing no one, from Auden and Balanchine to Virgil Thomson and Edmund Wilson. The genius went equally into the life and the music; Vincent Giroud elegantly captures both in his joyous, star-studded, beautifully modulated biography. - Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Vera: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)Nicolas Nabokov is our most famous unknown composer. At last there is a book that sheds light on this extraordinary composer's life and work. * Ned Rorem, composer and author *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Note on transliteration of Russian names and phrases ; Chapter 1: The Lubcza Years ; Chapter 2: The Petersburg Years ; Chapter 3: The Road to Exile ; Chapter 4: In Stuttgart and Berlin ; Chapter 5: Paris Debuts ; Chapter 6: Successes and Frustrations ; Chapter 7: New Exile ; Chapter 8: Engagement and Americanization ; Chapter 9: In Wartime Washington ; Chapter 10: In Postwar Germany ; Chapter 11: Music and the Cold War ; Chapter 12: Moving Center Stage ; Chapter 13: Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century ; Chapter 14: Culture Generalissimo ; Chapter 15: The Rasputin Years ; Chapter 16: Disenchantment and New Departure ; Chapter 17: Berlin, Don Quixote, and the CIA ; Chapter 18: Love's Labours Won ; Epilogue ; Checklist of Nabokov's Works and Writings ; Works Consulted ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press Sounds
Book SynopsisVision dominates philosophical thinking about perception, and theorizing about experience in cognitive science has traditionally focused on a visual model. In a radical departure from established practice, Casey O''Callaghan provides a systematic treatment of sound and sound experience, and shows how thinking about audition and appreciating the relationships between multiple sense modalities can enrich our understanding of perception and the mind. Sounds proposes a novel theory of sounds and auditory perception. Against the widely accepted philosophical view that sounds are among the secondary or sensible qualities, O''Callaghan argues that, on any perceptually plausible account, sounds are events. But this does not imply that sounds are waves that propagate through a medium, such as air or water. Rather, sounds are events that take place in one''s environment at or near the objects and happenings that bring them about. This account captures the way in which sounds essentially are creaTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Sounds is impressive. It is carefully argued and well-written. . . . In addition to presenting a novel theory of sounds, he sets a stage on which other theorists must perform by articulating challenges that any account of sounds must meet. This book will be of interest to anyone working in the philosophy of perception. . . . Philosophers have a lot to learn by attending to distinct sense modalities and how they interact, and O'Callaghan's book is an excellent place to start. * John Kulvicki, Mind *The prose and arguments are very clearly framed and the book reads well ... There is much to tweak one's interest. * Don Ihde, International Journal of Philosophical Studies *A great deal of effort has been expended within both of these excellent books in order to contribute to the transformation of the philosophical study of sound and auditory perception ... as an exercise of paradigm-shifting and consciousness-raising, the potential impact of Sounds is huge. * Anthony Gritten, British Journal of Aesthetics, (Review of Sounds and Sounds and Perception) *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Sonic realism ; 2. What is a sound? ; 3. The locations of sounds ; 4. The argument from vacuums ; 5. Sounds as events ; 6. Audible qualities ; 7. Sound-related phenomena ; 8. The argument from echoes ; 9. Echoes ; 10. Hearing recorded sounds ; 11. Cross-modal illusions ; References ; Index
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Oxford University Press (UK) Antithetical Arts On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music
Book SynopsisPeter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music. He argues against 'literary' interpretation in terms of representational or narrative content, and defends musical formalism. Along the way he discusses interpretations of a range of works in the canon of absolute music.Trade ReviewAntithetical Arts, like Kivy's earlier books, is a model of clarity and shows great historical sensitivity and engagement with the issues under discussion. * Jeanette Bicknell, Mind *Kivy's writing style happily shares many of the characteristics of good literature - wit, elegance, clarity, clear narrative development and readability. In short, his book, apart from anything else, is a good read. To the aesthetician, it is also of great philosophical interest, amd places the current debates on musical expression within a historical context. * Elisa Galgut, Philosophical Quarterly *Table of ContentsPART I: THE FOUNDING OF FORMALISM; PART II: THE FORTUNES OF FORMALISM; PART III: THE FATE OF FORMALISM
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Oxford University Press (UK) Music Art and Metaphysics Essays in Philosophica Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis is a long-awaited reissue of Jerrold Levinson's 1990 book which gathers together the writings that made him a leading figure in contemporary aesthetics. These highly influential essays are essential reading for debates on the definition of art, the ontology of art, emotional response to art, expression in art, and the nature of art forms.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART ONE: ART AND HISTORY ; 1. Defining Art Historically ; 2. Hybrid Art Forms ; 3. Refining Art Historically ; PART TWO: METAPHYSICS OF ART ; 4. What a Musical Work Is ; 5. Autographic and Allographic Art ; 6. Aesthetic Uniqueness ; 7. Aesthetic Supervenience ; 8. Titles ; 9. Artworks and the Future ; 10. What a Musical Work Is, Again ; PART THREE: MUSICAL MATTERS ; 11. The Concept of Music ; 12. Truth in Music ; 13. Music and Negative Emotion ; 14. Hope in The Hebrides ; 15. Evaluating Musical Performance
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Oxford University Press, USA Mignons Afterlives Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisBy tracing the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe''s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Terence Cave explores a phenomenal success story in the history of literature and music, and more broadly of cultural history. Mignon steps out of the shadow of its protagonist Wilhelm and fashions a destiny of her own: she becomes the object of an obsessive interest that reached its peak in the later nineteenth century but continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century. Mignon reappears - often as a character bearing a different name but sharing an unmistakable family resemblance with her - in a wide range of different literary works from Goethe himself via the German Romantic Novel, Mme de Staël, George Sand, Nerval and Baudelaire, Walter Scott and George Eliot to Gerhart Hauptmann and Angela Carter. Her songs, set by dozens of composers from Reichardt and Beethoven to Wolf, reverberated through the drawing-rooms and concert-halls of nineteenth-century Europe. She is the heroine of the most popular French opera of the late nineteenth century, and she has featured in a number of films. She is fascinating because she is poised on the threshold between childhood and adolescence, aphasia and expressive power, words and music; she is a wanderer who has lost her home, an exile who has been abducted and abused; and the many stories in which her life is reenacted provide a litmus test for key cultural values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Trade Reviewdelightfully informative, leisurely, and sophisticated ... the scope of the investigation is impressively broad * David Baguley, French Studies *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Singing
Book SynopsisSinging has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing. The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity. In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciTable of ContentsPART 1: The Anatomy and Physiology of Singing 1: Gillyanne Kayes: Structure and Function of the Singing Voice 2: Tara K Stadelman-Cohen and Robert E Hillman: Voice Dysfunction and Recovery 3: John S Rubin and Ruth Epstein: The Healthy Voice, Lifestyle and Voice Protection (including Exercise, Body Work and Diet) 4: Filipa M B Lã and Brian P Gill: Physiology and its Impact on the Performance of Singing PART 2: The Acoustics of Singing 5: Alan Watson: Breathing in Singing 6: Christian T Herbst, David M Howard and Jan G Svec: The Sound Source in Singing: Basic Principles and Muscular Adjustments for Fine-tuning Vocal Timbre 7: Brad Story: The Vocal Tract in Singing 8: Johan Sundberg: The Acoustics of Different Genres of Singing 9: Desmond Sergeant: The Developing Voice 10: David M Howard and Eric J Hunter: Perceptual Features of Singing 11: Harald Jers: The Impact of Location on the Singing Voice PART 3: The Psychology of Singing 12: Boris A Kleber and Jean Mary Zarate: The Neuroscience of Singing 13: Johan Sundberg: Intonation in Singing 14: Eduardo Coutinho, Klaus R Scherer and Nicola Dibben: Singing and Emotion 15: Evangelos Himonides: Perceived Quality of a Singing Performance: The Importance of Context 16: Karen Wise: Defining and Explaining Singing Difficulties in Adults 17: Simone Dalla Bella: Vocal Performance in Occasional Singers 18: Graham F Welch and Costanza Preti: Singing as Inter- and Intra-personal Communication 19: Annabel J Cohen and Karen M Ludke: Digital Libraries for Singing: The Example of the AIRS Project PART 4: The Development of Singing across the Lifespan 20: Robert Walker: Socio-cultural, Acoustic, and Environmental Imperatives in the World of Singing 21: Sheila C Woodward: Fetal, Neonatal and Early Infant Experiences of Maternal Singing 22: Sandra E Trehub and Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir: Mothers as Singing Mentors for Infants 23: Margaret S Barrett: Singing and Invented Song-making in Infants and Young Children's Early Learning and Development: from Shared to Independent Song-making 24: Valentine Harding: Children Singing: Nurture, Creativity, and Culture. A Study of Children's Music-making in London, UK, and in West Bengal, India 25: Graham F Welch: Singing and Vocal Development 26: Jenevora Williams and Scott Harrison: Boys' Singing Voice Change in Adolescence 27: Lynne Gackle: Adolescent Girls' Singing Development 28: Diana Parkinson: The Effects of Gender on the Motivation and Benefits Associated with Community Singing in the UK 29: Jane Davidson and Lynne Murray: Voice Management and the Older Singer PART 5: Singing Pedagogy 30: John Nix: Systematic Development of Vocal Technique 31: Susan Knight: Addressing the Needs of the Adult "Non-Singer" ("NS") 32: Jean Callaghan: Teaching the Professional Singer 33: Alma Thomas: Mental Preparation for the Performer 34: Mary King and John Nix: Conservatory Teaching and Learning 35: Jeremy Fisher, Gillyanne Kayes and Lisa Popeil: Pedagogy of Different Sung Genres 36: Michael Edward Edgerton: The Extra-normal Voice 37: Yang Yang, Aaron Carter-Enyi, Nandhu Radhakrishnan, Sophie Grimmer, and John Nix: Vocal Music and Pedagogy of Chinese, African and Indian Genres PART 6: The Collective 'Choral' Voice 38: Ursula Geisler and Karin Johansson: Contemporary Concepts and Practices of Choral Singing 39: Joy Hill: The Youth Choir 40: Timothy Day: Cultural History and a Singing Style: "The English Cathedral Tradition" 41: Colin Durrant and Maria Varvarigou: Perspectives on Choral Conducting: Theory and Practice 42: Jane Davidson and Robert Faulkner: Group Singing and Social Identity 43: David M Howard: Intonation and Staying in Tune in A Cappella Choral Singing 44: Dag Jansson: Choral Singers' Perceptions of Musical Leadership PART 7: The Wider Benefits of Singing 45: Stephen Clift and Rebekah Gilbert: Can Singing have a Beneficial Effect on Lung Function and Breathing for People with Respiratory Illness? 46: Jane W Davidson and Sandra Garrido: Singing and Psychological Needs 47: Töres Theorell: The Effects and Benefits of Singing Individually and in a Group 48: June Boyce-Tillman: Unchained Melody: The Rise of Orality and Therapeutic Singing PART 8: Singing and Technology 49: Harm K Schutte: Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing Voice, Part 1 50: Harm K Schutte: Historical Approaches in Revealing the Singing Voice, Part 2 51: Evangelos Himonides: Ave Verum Pentium: Singing, Recording, Archiving and Analysing within the Digital Domain 52: Garyth Nair (decd), David M Howard, and Graham F Welch: Practical Voice Analyses and their Application in the Studio 53: Peter Pabon, David M Howard, Sten Ternström, Malte Kob and Gerhard Eckel: Future Perspectives
£999.99
Oxford University Press Music Health and Wellbeing
Book SynopsisMusic has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel, yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing.This book brings together research from a number of disciplines to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing.Trade ReviewI really enjoyed this book as an opportunity to learn more about a field that is almost entirely unknown to me. If the book is anything to go by, the future of research into the interplay between music, health and wellbeing promises to be very interesting indeed. * Counselling Resource, Feb 2013 *This book should be of general interest to all psychologists and, specifically, to music therapists and those with an interest in behavioral medicine. This volume is a useful compendium of a vast and diverse body of international research that is beginning to identify the mechanisms by which music has a profound effect on cognitive and emotional states.,, it contains many fascinating ideas. * PsycCritiques *Table of ContentsSECTION 1 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS; SECTION 2: COMMUNITY MUSIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH; SECTION 3 CLINICAL AND THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS; SECTION 4 EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS; SECTION 5: EVERYDAY USES
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Oxford University Press, USA Frontier Club Popular Westerns and Cultural Power 18801924
Book SynopsisThe Frontier Club is Christine Bold''s name for the network of eastern aristocrats who created the western as we now most commonly know it. At the turn of the twentieth century, they yoked this most popular formula to their own elite causes-from big-game hunting to conservation, immigration restriction to Jim Crow segregation-and aligned themselves with cattle kings and quality publishers. This book tells the story of that cultural sleight-of-hand. It delves into institutional archives and personal papers to excavate the hidden social, political, and financial interests in the making of the modern western. It re-reads frontier club fiction in relation to the federal policies and cultural spaces (from exclusive gentlemen''s clubs to national parks to zoos) with which it was intimately connected; the centerpiece is Owen Wister''s bestselling novel The Virginian. It casts new light on nine key clubmen, both the famous and the forgotten-in addition to Wister, the network included Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, Silas Weir Mitchell, Henry Cabot Lodge, Madison Grant, Caspar Whitney, Winthrop Chanler, and Frederic Remington-while recovering the women on whom these men depended and without whom this version of the popular West would not exist. Bold also considers some of the costs of the frontier club formula, in terms of its impact on Indigenous peoples and its marginalization of other popular voices, including western writings by African Americans, white women, and non-elite white men. The book ends by briefly charting the frontier club''s enduring impression on western movies.Trade ReviewBased on archival research as well as the rich body of secondary material pertinent to the topic, The Frontier Club adds several new layers of insight into those who produced the 'western' and those who, from the beginning, noted its serious limitations. This, too, is a story too important to ignore. * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; The Frontier Club Western: An Introduction ; Frontier Clubmen ; Vigilante Clubmen ; The Virginian ; Chapter 1: Boone and Crockett Writers ; The Boone and Crockett Club, 1893 ; Boone and Crockett Clubmen ; Theodore Roosevelt ; George Bird Grinnell ; Owen Wister ; Winthrop Chanler ; Madison Grant ; Henry Cabot Lodge ; Caspar Whitney ; Frederic Remington ; The Books of the Boone and Crockett Club ; Shaping the Voice ; Clearing the Enclave ; Writing the Frontier Club Western ; Lobbying the Federal Government ; Conclusion ; Chapter 2: Cowboys and Publishers ; A Very Proper Philadelphian ; Frontier Club Neurasthenia ; A Man's Gotta Do ... ; Aristocrats Out West ; Frontier Club Investments ; The Cheyenne Club ; Cowboys and Vigilantes ; Showdown on Publishers' Row ; Frontier Club Investments ; The Frontier Club Western and the Literary Marketplace ; Conclusion: The Frontier Club vs Alkali Ike ; Chapter 3: Women in the Frontier Club ; Frontier Club Women and Families ; The Wister Women ; Molly Wister ; Women's Space in the Frontier Club Western ; Conclusion ; Chapter 4: Jim Crow and the Western ; Wister: "white for a hundred years" ; Roosevelt's Rough Riders ; Remington: With the Eye of the Mind ; Black Rough Riders Redux ; Conclusion ; Chapter 5: Immigrants and "Indians" ; Vanishing Acts ; Immigration Restriction ; Owen Wister ; Madison Grant ; Another Hank ; American Indian Assimilation ; George Bird Grinnell ; Jack the Young Frontier Clubman ; Conclusion ; Chapter 6: Outside the Frontier Club ; Princess Chinquilla ; Cheek by Jowl ; Rewriting 1902 ; Conclusion: Frontier Club Fingerprints
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Oxford University Press, USA The Making of Cabaret
Book SynopsisA handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood''s Berlin stories, into John van Druten''s stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.Trade ReviewEntertaining and knowledgeable, [Cabaret] adds usefully to our understanding of creative processes - and it's a thoroughly good read. * Arthur Pritchard, Journal of Theatre Research International *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Sally Bowles and Berlin ; 2. Prince of Broadway ; 3. Curtain of Light, Tilted Mirror ; 4. Cabaret Ambience ; 5. Kander and Ebb ; 6. Casting ; 7. Rehearsals and Boston ; 8. Broadway Opening ; 9. Reincarnations and Revisions ; The Future: A Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Agnes de Mille Telling Stories in Broadway Dance Broadway Legacies
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Oxford University Press Inc Performing Pain Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe
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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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