Music Books
University of Massachusetts Press We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisFor a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's ""Purple Haze."" For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin's ""Chain of Fools."" And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was ""I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die,"" ""Who'll Stop the Rain,"" or the song that gives this book its title.In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans -- black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and ""grunts"" -- whose personal reflections drive the book's narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also ""solo"" pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war -- Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers -- as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers' lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories -- individual and cultural -- that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.Trade Review"Intimate and deeply informative, with a scope that encompasses both the war itself and the way that music has helped raise awareness of veterans' issues long after its end."—Rolling Stone
£65.45
University of Massachusetts Press The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music
Book SynopsisMassively popular for the past century, country music has often been associated with political and social conservatism. While such figures as George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ted Cruz have embraced and even laid claim to this musical genre over the years, country performers have long expressed bold and progressive positions on a variety of public issues, whether through song lyrics, activism, or performance style.Bringing together a wide spectrum of cultural critics, The Honky Tonk on the Left takes on this conservative stereotype and reveals how progressive thought has permeated country music from its beginnings to the present day. The original essays in this collection analyze how diverse performers, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Webb Pierce, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, O. B. McClinton, Garth Brooks, and Uncle Tupelo, have taken on such issues as government policies, gender roles, civil rights, prison reform, and labor unrest. Taking notice of the wrongs in their eras, these musicians worked to address them in song and action, often with strong support from fans.In addition to the volume editor, this collection includes work by Gregory N. Reish, Peter La Chapelle, Stephanie Vander Wel, Charles L. Hughes, Ted Olson, Nadine Hubbs, Stephanie Shonekan, Stephen A. King, P. Renee Foster, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Travis D. Stimeling, and Jonathan Silverman.
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Ten Masterpieces of Music
Book SynopsisIn this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music—works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters—Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi and Brahms; Sibelius, Prokofiev and Stravinsky—communicated their life experiences through music and through music they universalised the intimate. By expanding our perceptions of these ten pieces—composed in the years between 1784 and 1966—Sachs, in lush, exquisite prose, invites us to consider why music stimulates, disturbs, exalts and consoles us. He has lived with these masterpieces for a lifetime and his descriptions of them and the dramatic lives of the composers who wrote them bring a heightened dimension to the musical perceptions of readers who may be casual listeners, students, professional musicians or anyone in between.
£22.79
Michigan Publishing Services Open Access Musicology Volume 3
£18.44
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Interpreting Court Song in Uganda
Book SynopsisA critical interpretation of essential Kiganda royal court songs that examines how the meanings of their lyrics operate in dialogue with contemporary national politics in Uganda. Lyric interpretation, which Damascus Kafumbe defines as a process of creative renewal that infuses vitality into songs, enables interpreters and analysts to derive a collection of meanings rather than hold onto a single narrative. As he and his research collaborators demonstrate throughout Interpreting Court Song in Uganda: Musical Meaning, Power Relations, and Political Life, the process extends the life of a song by allowing new versions to proliferate from it. The book examines how lyric interpretation serves to renew the lives of twenty-one songs from the repertoires of royal court musicians of the Kingdom of Buganda, arguing that the meanings of these songs are not singular, static and monolithic but rather dynamic and multivalent. Through extensive research and within past and present contexts, Kafumbe presents a series of unique perspectives on how Kiganda court songs reflect varied meanings of power relations. These meanings, which surface via lyric interpretation, come from daily interactions among everyday Ugandans and between leaders and subjects. Highlighting the relevance of court song lyrics to contemporary national contexts, this interpretive process helps illuminate truths and clarify myths about the power dynamics that shape political life in present-day Uganda. By engaging with the book's wide range of voices, readers will learn to appreciate these songs and their accompanying stories more fully, as extensions of their composers, performers, interpreters and contexts. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.
£24.69
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Women in American Operas of the 1950s
Book SynopsisFeminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life.
£23.74
Boydell and Brewer Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Berlioz the Critic
Book SynopsisFor nearly forty years, Hector Berlioz combined writing music with lively and informed music criticism. This collection of articles, engagingly translated by Roger Nichols, covers the middle years of his critical career.Berlioz's music criticism from 1837 to 1850 covers a period when he composed some of his finest works, and travelled abroad to perform them before appreciative audiences in Germany, Russia, and England. Roger Nichols has chosen and translated extracts from fifty-eight articles of particular interest, with commentary and notes identifying people mentioned. The articles are preceded by a richly informative introduction by the Berlioz scholar Peter Bloom. Additional editorial notes are provided by musicologist Julian Rushton. In the selected articles Berlioz discusses Paris performances of early and modern music, including new operas and revivals, and concerts at the Paris Conservatoire. He comments freely but with understanding on conductors, singers and instrumentalists. The essays demonstrate the composer's concern with innovation in the design of musical instruments and assess the quality of performing venues. Berlioz writes on the musical life of London, France, and Germany, most entertainingly about the inauguration of statues of Beethoven and Rossini. The selection is framed by major articles on "Imitation in Music" and on Gluck's opera Alceste.
£76.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Clément Janequin
Book SynopsisClément Janequin's spectacular entertainment chansons jump-started French music printing, spread his fame across sixteenth-century Europe, and earned him lasting success with vocal ensembles and audiences around the world.Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth century, vocal ensembles have embraced his barking dogs, chirping birds, and thundering horse hoofs, and then moved beyond the bird and battle songs to a repertory rich in lyric beauty and Rabelaisian wit. This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation (including the first known hymn-style harmonization of what became known as Old One Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, Auch, and Angers during the period when Pierre Attaingnant made Janequin a central name in early French music publishing, and subsequently the composer's transition to Paris, where, as the first composer to make the attempt, he put his revenues from music printing (from the firms of Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard) at the core of his economic-survival strategy. Recounted with both scholarly detail and Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.
£99.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Narrative and Robert Schumanns Songs
Book SynopsisFeaturing 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles.Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long raised questions and stimulated discussion among scholars, performers, and listeners. Among the wide range of methodologies that have been used to understand and interpret his songs, one that has been conspicuously absent is an approach based on narratology (the theory and study of narrative texts).Proceeding from the premise that the performance of a Lied is a narrative act, in which the singer and pianist together function as a narrator, Andrew Weaver's groundbreaking study proposes a comprehensive theory of narratology for the German Romantic Lied and song cycle, using Schumann's complete song oeuvre as the test case. The theory, grounded in the work of narratologist Mieke Bal but also drawing upon recent work in literary theory and musicology, illuminates how music can open up new meanings for the poem, as well as how a narratological analysis of the poem can help us understand the music.Weaver's book offers new insights into Schumann's Lieder and the poetry he set while simultaneously proposing a methodology applicable to the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of works, including not only the rich treasury of German Lieder but also potentially any genre of accompanied song in any language from the Middle Ages to the present day.
£85.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Mozart Genius and the Possibilities of Art
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the concept of genius is as vitally needed as ever and can illuminate the workings of Mozart's creative imagination.Much recent, distinguished Mozart criticism has set out a critique of the concept of genius. Whether following the scientist seeking greater objectivity, the postmodernist proclaiming the death of the author, the historian concerned about anachronism, or the critic who warns about making despotic claims, this demystifying literature has taken the weakening of genius's accumulated cultural authority as an indispensable step in arriving at a clarified Mozart.Mozart, Genius, and the Possibilities of Art advances a contrary claim. It proposes that anti-Romantic accounts of Mozart's genius themselves get lost in both the infinitely big—in utopianism and millenarianism—and the infinitesimally small—in materialism and process. Throughout, the book buttresses this argument with probing readings from contemporary documents ranging from ephemeral periodical literature to Kant's Third Critique, along with original analyses of the music itself. Goehring's book goes on to detail a contrasting Romantic portrait of Mozart's genius, one that allowed for ambiguity, embraced experience, and did not scorn reason. In Mozart's day, the term genius spoke to the unquantifiable and unpredictable in human inventiveness. And it continues to do so today. Goehring shows how the persisting fascination with an ingenious Mozart wells up from the middle of things, from the particularity of human beings—their "genie"—and the visible yet complex world of human intention and action.
£90.25
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Anton Bruckner and the Reception of His Music
Book SynopsisA bold, deeply researched, and long-needed debunking of the platitudes and prejudices that have long clouded our view of the personality and compositional habits of Anton Bruckner.
£85.50
Boydell and Brewer Brahms Patriotic and Political
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£76.50
Boydell and Brewer Hungarian GypsyBand Music in Vienna 18501914 The
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music and Desire among the AustroGerman Romantics
Book SynopsisInvestigates the composition and reception of works by key representatives of Austro-German Romanticism - Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner, and the Schumanns - with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and music.Scholars have for several decades been devoting increasing attention to aspects of sexuality and desire in the music of the Austro-German Romantics. Undertaking a close analysis of the sources, the four chapters of this book show how our assumptions about what those composers desired are often in fact contingent on what we, their commentators, have wanted them to desire over the course of reception history. Beethoven's Fidelio and Schubert's Winterreise tend to be regarded as a hymn to freedom, on the one hand, and an interior monologue of an alienated lover, on the other, though in neither case does such a view correspond to what the composer intended. In contrast, Richard Wagner dismissed his own opera The Ban on Love as a youthful indiscretion extolling the "free love" of the Young German movement; but he was reinterpreting an early work to align it with his later aesthetic. The final chapter examines the chronology of the friendship of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in order to discern the likely truths about their triangular relationship before and after Robert Schumann's incarceration in a mental asylum. By adhering to the sources and placing them in the social, linguistic, and geographical contexts of their time, author Chris Walton grants all these protagonists a greater agency of desire than has hitherto been the case.
£76.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Classical and Popular Music in Israel
Book SynopsisOriginal historical and analytical research into the Israeli music scene, composers as well as broader issues such as Jewish-Arab encounters, Holocaust memorialization and post-October 7th soundscapes.Does a nation's music reflect its distinctive, definable spirit and aspirations? As this wide-ranging volume demonstrates, Israel's pluralistic musical scene offers a unique crucible in which to study transcultural processes and encounters. Through the nineteen essays by established and younger scholars and musicians, what emerges is a vivid picture of a dynamic musical culture balancing regional and global tendencies.The essays touch on a wide range of classical and popular musics. Micro-histories of individual composers highlight Arnold Schoenberg's relationship to Israel, Josef Tal's and Mordecai Seter's Israeli modernism, the neglected genius of Verdina Shlonsky, and the postmodernism of Mark Kopytman and Oded Zehavi. Broader surveys address musical responses to Jewish and Arab traditions, Holocaust memorialization, satirical cabaret, prog rock, nationalistic "folk" songs, and the soundscape of a country at war since October 7, 2023.Further insight is offered in chapters devoted to composers' perspectives, including Palestinian Arab creativity, composing in a time of war, and the inspiration of the Bible. For the scholar, performer, and music lover interested in exploring new repertoire, as well as for students of Jewish and Middle Eastern culture, the volume provides an authoritative and thought-provoking account of Israeli music in its varied guises, enhancing appreciation of the aesthetic quality and significance of a still-evolving, thriving musical culture.
£81.00
Boydell and Brewer Heinrich Schenkers Conception of Harmony
Book SynopsisThe first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.
£38.69
Boydell and Brewer Bedrich Smetana A Study of His Life and Work
Book SynopsisAn insightful and engaging biography of Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, originally written in the 1940s and meticulously reconstructed and updated for twenty-first-century readers.Czech-Jewish lawyer and music historian Jan Löwenbach (1880–1972) wrote this biography of nineteenth-century Czech composer Bedrich Smetana (1824–1884) while living in New York in the 1940s, after fleeing the Nazi occupation of his homeland. Intended to highlight Czech cultural achievements and promote national independence, the book remained unpublished following the 1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. Unlike later English-language biographies of Smetana, Löwenbach's work explicitly engages major early twentieth-century Czech scholarship on the composer and offers a uniquely informed perspective. As a "native informant," Löwenbach dispels long-standing nationalistic myths, while providing insightful commentary on Smetana's complete oeuvre, an engaging narrative of his life, and a thoughtful account of the broader social and cultural context. This edition, based on several Czech and English typescripts preserved at San Diego State University, presents a meticulous reconstruction and new translation of Löwenbach's text. With added references to recent scholarship, it stands as both an essential primary document and a rich resource for anyone interested in Czech music—scholars and general readers alike.
£85.50
Boydell and Brewer Holst and the Winds A Legacy
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Information Age Publishing Analyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making
Book SynopsisAnalyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making and the Music Education Curriculum examines influences on research in music teacher preparation, practices, and policies. These influences include administrators’ perspectives, preservice music educators’ beliefs, and in-service teachers’ practices. Invited essays offer insights into past and present trends in music teacher preparation.This collection of studies represents best thinking in the field and serves as an impetus for further research and action. Each author’s analysis on the influences affecting their specific areas provides insights into key issues affecting decision making processes. This volume is a significant addition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as an important reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of music teaching and learning.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Analyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making
Book SynopsisAnalyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making and the Music Education Curriculum examines influences on research in music teacher preparation, practices, and policies. These influences include administrators’ perspectives, preservice music educators’ beliefs, and in-service teachers’ practices. Invited essays offer insights into past and present trends in music teacher preparation.This collection of studies represents best thinking in the field and serves as an impetus for further research and action. Each author’s analysis on the influences affecting their specific areas provides insights into key issues affecting decision making processes. This volume is a significant addition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as an important reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of music teaching and learning.
£82.80
Collective Ink Clampdown – Pop–cultural wars on class and gender
Book SynopsisWhy have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? From chav-pop pantomimes to retro-chauvinist 'landfill indie', the bland, homogenous and compromised nature of the current 'alternative' sector reflects the interests of a similarly complacent and privileged political establishment. In particular, political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. This book traces the progress of this cultural clampdown over the past twenty years.Trade Review"Traces the links between politics and pop music in order to interpret why we are where we are, in terms of class, gender and representation and the wider grim political situation we find ourselves in. The book made me angry and a bit nostalgic, but probably nostalgic for something that was never fully realised." --Emmy-Kate Montrose, formerly of Kenickie
£11.77
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Bach's Famous Choir: The Saint Thomas School in
Book SynopsisThe musical, social and political history of the renowned St Thomas School and Church In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cantors of the St. Thomas School and Church in Leipzig could be counted among the most significant German composers of their times. But what attracted these artists - from Seth Calvisius to J.S. Bach to Johann Adam Hiller - to the music school and choir and inspired them to explore new repertoire of the highest standing? And how did the cantors influence the musical profile of the school - a profile that often became a bone of contention between school and city hall? The success of the St. Thomas School was not a foregone conclusion; its history is replete with challenges and setbacks as well as triumphs. The school was caughtbetween the conflicting interests of enthusiastic mayors and townspeople, who wanted to showcase the city's musical culture, and opposing parties, including jealous rectors and elitist sponsors, who argued for the traditional subordination of the cantorate to the school system. Drawing on many new, recently discovered sources, Michael Maul explores the phenomenon of the St Thomas School. He shows how cantors, local luminaries and municipal politicians overcame the School's detractors to make it a remarkable success, with a world-famous choir. Illuminating the social and political history of the cantorate and the musical life of an important German city, the book will be ofinterest to scholars of Baroque music and J.S. Bach, cultural historians, choral directors, and musicologists and performers studying historical performance practice. MICHAEL MAUL is Senior Scholar at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig and lecturer in musicology at the universities of Leipzig/Halle. He is also the artistic director of the annual Leipzig Bach Festival.Trade ReviewAn absorbing account of the development of a remarkable musical institution as well as a further insight into the environment in which Bach spent the last quarter-century of his life and during which he produced, in increasingly straitened circumstances, some of the world's greatest music. * THE CONSORT *This book should interest every serious student of Bach. Michael Maul, one of the most systematic and productive . . . of living Bach scholars, has produced a volume that fills in many gaps but also offers fascinating new information about St. Thomas School in Leipzig over the centuries. The German edition of the book appeared in 2012, but now English readers have the benefit of Richard Howe's fluent translation. -- Raymond Erickson * EARLY MUSIC AMERICA *[The] long-awaited English translation...the scope of the content is vast.Maul's eye for humour injects life...excellent. * SWEDISH JOURNAL OF MUSIC RESEARCH *[A] thorough, extensive, and meticulous examination . . . . Readers seeking an in-depth and detailed study of a remarkable institution will not be disappointed. * AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE *This is a book that was just aching to be written. Originally in German, at last we have the long-awaited English edition of it that sheds considerable light on a great institution which, by its existence, had been a catalyst for and source of musical creativity that had acquired a significant standing throughout Germany long before Bach arrived on the scene in 1723. * LONDON BACH SOCIETY *Engaging...Maul's study offers an outstanding musical, social and political history of this intriguing site of German music-making. * BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE *The English-speaking world should welcome the translation of this work . . . . It is no small accomplishment of Richard Howe not only to translate Maul's text but also to turn all the quotations from early modern documents into readable English. . . . [T]his study broadens our understanding of Bach's life by placing him within the long history of an institution that was already noteworthy before he arrived. With this volume and Maul's ongoing archival research, he is making major contributions to Bach scholarship. -- Joyce Irwin * BACH Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction From Monastery to Municipal Music School 1212-1593 How the St. Thomas School Became a Music School 1594-1640 'Famous Throughout the Whole World of Music' 1640-1701 'Odd authorities with Little Interest in Music': the St. Thomas School in Crisis 1701-1730 School for Scholars or 'Conservatory of Music'? An ongoing conflict 1730-1804 Appendices Bibliography
£52.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Sir Henry Wood: Champion of J.S. Bach
Book SynopsisSir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms, is often noted for his championing of the leading composers of the day, including Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Vaughan Williams. He also played pivotal role in advocating and performing the music of J.S. Bach. Sir Henry J. Wood (1869-1944), co-founder and chief conductor of the Proms for nearly half a century, is often noted for his championing of the leading composers of the day, including Richard Strauss, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ravel,Sibelius, and Vaughan Williams. Less known is the part Wood played in advocating and performing the music of J.S. Bach, much of which, incredibly, was unknown in England at the turn of the twentieth century. This book uncoversWood's pivotal role in the English Bach revival. Wood's performances of works such as the St Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass caused a stir; the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites became staple fixtures in the musical calendar; and his orchestral arrangements of Bach's solo works and cantata arias were key to the popularisation of the composer in England. Largely untouched, the hundreds of Bach scores individually marked up by Wood, now preservedin his archive at the Royal Academy of Music, London, reveal the minutiae of his thoughts on performance and offer a fascinating parallel to his available recordings from the period. Illuminating a significant new aspect of the musical life of England before World War II, the book also demonstrates that Wood's advocacy continues to influence perceptions of Bach even today. DR HANNAH FRENCH is an academic, broadcaster, and Baroque flautist based in London. She broadcasts regularly on Radio 3 and has appeared as a TV presenter and commentator for the BBC Proms.Trade ReviewEngaging and meticulous...provides a vivid picture of the changing public taste as well as a chronicle of Wood's passion for a composer whom he brought into the mainstream...what a heroic tale this splendidly detailed book tells. Both in its story of Henry Wood's enthusiasm to build a public for great music, and its story of the changing reception of Bach, it is a fascinating contribution to the emerging history of the early music revival. * GRAMOPHONE *Utterly absorbing...should be read by anyone with an interest in British music of the 19th and 20th centuries. * SPIRITED *[R]eaders of this book will gain a deep appreciation for the ground-breaking achievements of Sir Henry Wood. With the rich detail of his performance methodology now documented and readily available, he can be remembered not only as a promoter of Bach, but also as a conductor who helped raise the musicianship of England's orchestral performances to the high level enjoyed by 20th- and 21st-century audiences. -- Valerie Walden * EARLY MUSIC AMERICA *Meticulously researched...Wood's vital role in the English Bach revival is revealed for the first time in all its considerable glory. * FIVE STARS. BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE *The timely publication of Hannah French's well documented, researched and carefully compiled account removes all doubts as to Wood's commitment...Here in this excellent and very readable book, due credit is given generously to Sir Henry Wood and his championing of Bach's music pre-WW1 to 1944. * LONDON BACH SOCIETY *This richly drawn and approachable study contributes toward a better appreciation of the significant differences in the practices between the British musical environment of Wood's day and now. In doing so, it throws new light on Wood's own dedication to educate his audiences, and leads to a greater understanding of what his championing of Bach's music actually involved. -- David C. H. Wright * BACH Journal *The concern to document Wood's practice and aesthetic is very impressive and complemented by a clear prose style and Boydell's usual high production values. . . . [A] valuable contribution to the understanding of a neglected but significant field of study, bridging the interval between the relatively well-known aspects of British practice before 1914 and the development of historically informed performances in the post-war period. -- Paul Rodmell * Music & Letters *[P]rovides a detailed archival study of the life and work of the English... [Proms] conductor and co-founder Sir Henry Wood....The book is notable for its deep insights into English concert repertoire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition it contributes to critical biography, performance practice studies, British cultural history, and Bach reception history. -- Alannah Rebekah Franklin * BACH NOTES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wood's Role in the English Bach Revival Bach in Pre-Proms England Wood's Encounter with Bach Orchestral Bach at the Proms Wood's Bach Players Performance Scores Recordings An Editorial Project Orchestral Arrangements The Cantatas Passions and the Mass The Reception of Wood's Bach Wood's Bach Legacy Epilogue Appendix A: The Bach Choir: Performances of Bach's Orchestral works 1884-1944 Appendix B: John Sebastian Bach: The times he lived in, and his life's work Appendix C: Bach Performances at the Proms 1895-1944 Appendix D: Promenades 1941: nightly attendance and income Appendix E: Soloists in the Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos 1895-1944 Appendix F: Members of the New Queen's Hall Orchestra 1928 Appendix G: Wood's predecessors and contemporaries in the field of Bach arrangements and transcriptions Appendix H: A sample of Bach performances given in 1926 Appendix I: Performances of the Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites at the Proms 1945-2018 Bibliography
£63.00
Boydell and Brewer Brahms Symphonist
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited book situates the symphonies in their biographical context, offers text-critical investigations, presents matters of performance practice and gives an analytical overview of each work.
£103.50
Boydell and Brewer Boundaries Space and Register in Beethovens Piano Music
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Liverpool University Press Crisis Music: The Life-and-Times of Six
Book SynopsisStory-like chapters profile six twentieth-century reactive composers; not the most famous pillars of the period but lesser-known, perhaps more approachable, characters whose stories span that 1900-2000 period from decadent fin-de-siècle Vienna (Alban Berg, Alexander Zemlinsky) to war-torn Paris (Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger) to the Cold War tensions of East vs. West (Tōru Takemitsu) and late-century Communism (Arvo Pärt). Their stories were all very different crises, and they produced very different kinds of music; each very telling of their composers life and times. Crisis Music presents each brief biography almost like a detective story looking for motives, then spotlights one particular piece of music from each composer that emerged directly out of hard times maybe a political crisis at the time of composition (Hitler marching into Paris or later Communist crack-downs); or some personal angst such as illness or scandal and how that music contains and expresses crisis. In short, the subject for discussion is how context influences content. Such troubled and especially vivid composition, crisis music, can often be most compelling and meaningful for its composer and for its time. Indeed, their music also seems to have a special resonance to share with our own crisis-prone times. And meanwhile, Western music history played-out its own story from late-romantic style to Serialism and Minimalism to the anything-goes Pluralism we hear today. Crisis Music sparks the discussion about how history, biography and music intersects. At the behest of music teachers at secondary and tertiary levels, Crisis Music contains substantive Discussion Questions geared for classroom use.Trade Review‘Crisis Music poses some intriguing questions about the relationship between biography and musical creativity/output and draws attention to some composers who are distinctly interesting and diverse.’ Ralph P. Locke, Professor Emeritus of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester‘Classical music wasn’t the most popular music of the 20th century but it was the most interesting. Focusing on six of modernism’s most compelling composers, John Caps supplies historical and biographical background, as well as his own shrewd assessments for some of the most expressive composition of that era, effectively conveying both the adventure of creation and the heavy personal toll paid by such composers as Berg, Messiaen, Takemitsu. Of course, great art always exacts a heavy toll from its creators and Crisis Music offers insightful profiles of how and why six artists were willing and, in some cases, compelled, to pay the price.’ John Dutterer, American Record Guide
£40.91
Seagull Books London Ltd Orpheus in the Underworld
Book SynopsisDelves into Theodor W. Adorno's lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Comprehensive and illuminating, Orpheus in the Underworld centers on Adorno's concrete and immediate engagement with musical compositions and their interpretation in the concert hall and elsewhere. Here, Adorno registers his initial encounters with the compositions of the Second Viennese School, when he had yet to integrate them into a broad aesthetics of music. Complementarily essays on Bela Bartók, Jean Sibelius, and Kurt Weill afford insight into his understanding of composers who did not fit neatly into the dialectical schema propounded in the Philosophy of New Music. Additionally, essays on recording and broadcasting show Adorno engaging
£18.99
Liverpool University Press Liturgy Literature and History
£85.50
Liverpool University Press Articulate Sounds
£76.00
Boydell and Brewer Arthur Nikisch
Book SynopsisConsiders Nikisch as a primary link between the later nineteenth century performance practice, and the twentieth-century 'fetishisation' of the superstar conductor as a commercially driven phenomenon.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Utopia, Innovation, Tradition: Bruno Maderna's
Book SynopsisThis book, first collection of essays in English on Bruno Maderna, brings the reader closer to one of the greatest European composer and conductor of the last century. Utopia, Innovation, Tradition: Bruno Maderna's cosmos is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to one of the most multifaceted and interesting musical personalities of the 20th century, a protagonist in the development of new music after World War II. The various essays cover the most important aspects of Bruno Maderna's peculiar compositional approach and, thanks to innovative methodological perspectives based mainly on the study of archival materials, arrive at new and often completely unexpected interpretations.Table of ContentsIntroduction Staging And Performing Sounds: A Glance Through The Last Theatrical Work - Angela Ida De Benedictis, delving into Bruno Maderna's Satyricon: the looking glass world of storytelling, performance interference, and authorship - Benedetta Zucconi, "in the beginning was the word": the sung text as a unifying element in the composition of Bruno Maderna's Satyricon Building Sounds: The Composer - Carlo Ciceri, space in Maderna's last orchestral works - Pascal Decroupet, the unity of musical practice: Bruno Maderna and his "shaping form" as composer and performer of experimental orchestral music creating sound: the music beyond/without the stage - Nicola Scaldaferri, "a walk through a musical garden": compositional paths in Maderna's late works - Leo Izzo, narrating with sounds: Bruno Maderna's music for radio and film reinventing sounds: dialogues with music of every epoch and style - Michele Chiappini, the writing of the interpretation: notes on Bruno Maderna's arrangements - Benedetta Zucconi, analysis and synthesis in Bruno Maderna's creative process: Don Giovanni and other Mozart scores - Leo Izzo, Bruno Maderna and his arrangements Across Borders: The Conductor And The Interpreter - Maurizio Romito, "this Bruno looks like Fiorello" Maderna in the U.S.A. (1965-72) - Anne C. Shreffler, Maderna goes to Tanglewood: the role of American networks in the origins and reception of Venetian journal and Satyricon Searching For Roots: The Development Of A Style - Veniero Rizzardi, Venice to Europe: Bruno Maderna before and after 1948 - Christoph Neidhöfer, "la révolution dans la continuité": the presence of the past in Bruno Maderna's creative process (1948-55) Staging And Performing Texts: A Glance Through Early Dramaturgical And Vocal Works - Claudia Vincis, the studi per "il processo" Di Franz Kafka, and their stage sources - Paolo dal Molin, Maderna and the poets, 1938-48 Chronology of Bruno Maderna's works
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Composers in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisA reflection on the idea of the composer in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music.
£85.50
Boydell and Brewer ReReading the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Royal Musical Association
Book SynopsisCharting the history of the Royal Musical Association over 150 years: from scientific roots and the long resistance of British universities to music study, to bringing UK musicology to worldwide recognition.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Liszt Recomposed
Book SynopsisExplores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces.Franz Liszt (1811-86) is mostly known for his virtuosic piano works, but his compositional achievements in the genre of song have so far been neglected. Many of Liszt's Lieder exist in multiple versions, sometimes radically altered, and many with equal claims to 'authenticity'. This has sometimes been viewed as a barrier to performance and a hindrance to scholarly scrutiny. Nicolás Puyané now redresses this imbalance and draws attention to this rich and varied corpus of works.Liszt's songs contain a myriad of intertextual links, not just with the songs of other composers, but also with Liszt's own works in other genres and his own revisions. By focusing on the multi-version songs, the book uncovers how these intertextual relationships have evolved over time. Introducing the concept of "textual fluidity", the book explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision, interpreting the work as being the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces: for instance, the contemporaneous reception of Liszt's early Lieder, or the change in Liszt's performing and compositional environments from his virtuoso to his Weimar years. The book then offers close readings of selected songs, including the Goethe and Schiller Lieder, by applying the concept of textual fluidity. Its findings will impact the way in which we see Urtext editions, arguing instead for an online fluid-text edition as an ideal resource with which to study Liszt's multi-version compositions.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music in Edwardian London
Book SynopsisTraversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Transitions in MidBaroque Music
Book SynopsisFeaturing 102 music examples, this edited collection features contributions by leading scholars from the UK, United States, Australasia and Europe on what characterized the period.
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Boydell and Brewer Gabriel Faur233 Influences and Influence
Book SynopsisPresents Fauré not as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers and the first member of a French musical 'trinity', with Debussy and Ravel.A composition professor at the Paris Conservatoire since 1896, and its director from 1906 to 1920, Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was said to have created no school as Cesar Franck had before him, encouraging originality among his students rather than emulation. This collection portrays Fauré, influenced by Wolfgang Mozart, Fryderyk Chopin, and Felix Mendelssohn, plus the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, as an early Modernist who provided a reference point for Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. Casting a wide net, it explores Fauré's influence on his younger contemporaries Lili Boulanger and Frederick Delius, as well as on the later twentieth-century American composers Aaron Copland, Walter Arlen, Robert Helps, and Ned Rorem. Fauré no longer appears as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, and the first member of a French musical 'trinity' that included Debussy and Ravel.
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Boydell and Brewer Global Perspectives on Women Pianists
Book SynopsisPathbreaking study that explores the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism and mobility and what this meant for women pianists from around the world.This book surveys women pianists around the world. It focuses on the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, an era that witnessed sustained interest in piano performance against a backdrop of technological and socio-political transformation. The authors range from emerging to established scholars, from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. They take diverse approaches to the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism, class, and mobility, within women's lives. These include explorations of mapping, networks, and cultural transfer; feminist examinations of archival traces; the implications of distinctive geographies and socio-political conditions; and the links between gender and genre, including contemporary and experimental musics. The volume offers a bold account of global approaches to women in music and encourages innovative ways of rethinking piano culture. This book makes an important, original scholarly contribution that will be of great interest within and indeed beyond musicology. - Alexander Stefaniak, Professor of Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis. This impressive work [is] sure to be very impactful in the near future, and for many years to come. - Elvia Puccinelli, Professor of Collaborative Piano and Vocal Coaching, University of North Texas. Founder, International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society. Global Perspectives on Women Pianists [is] an exciting contribution ... to the fields of gender studies, historical musicology, and material history. - Erin Johnson-Williams, Associate Professor in Music Education and Social Justice, University of Southampton. JOE DAVIES is a faculty member in the Arts and Humanities Division at New York University Abu Dhabi. He previously held research and teaching positions at Maynooth University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Oxford. NATASHA LOGES is Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She was previously Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London. Contributors: Thomas Betzweiser, Anja Bunzel, Joe Davies, Ellen de Vries, Marina Frolova-Walker, Apolline Gouzi, Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik, Amanda Lalonde, Ji Liu, Natasha Loges, Margaret Lucia, Arthur Macé, Joao Martins, Nahla Mattar, Gülçin Özkisi, Li-Ming Pan, Zixi Ren, Danielle Roman, Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Reeves Shulstad, Gabriele Slizyte, Susanna Välimäki, Chanda VanderHart.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Fieldwork Essays on the Cultural History of
Book SynopsisAn absorbing study of the development and reception of musical culture in Ireland by a pioneering and deservedly renowned author.This volume is a collection of fourteen essays on the history and reception of Irish music and music in Ireland. It addresses three prevailing themes: the historiography of Irish music, the influence of music on Irish writing (and vice versa), and the cultural identity and reception of Irish music both domestically and in the world at large. Its principal protagonists include Thomas Moore, W. H. Grattan Flood, George Moore, Edward Martyn, Charles Villiers Stanford, James Joyce, Dora Pejacevic, Ina Boyle, Aloys Fleischmann and Jennifer Walshe. These essays also identify and interrogate key questions underpinning a general crisis of reception in relation to Irish music, and particularly art music, within the domain of Irish studies. Fieldwork examines this crisis in the aftermath of The Encyclopaedia of Music inIreland (published in 2013) and a major retrospective of Irish art music, Composing the Island (curated and presented in 2016). It thereby engages closely with contemporary Irish art music and the challenges which this music has faced in the early decades of the twenty-first century. This well-conceived and beautifully written work testifies to Harry White's central place in the shaping of the discourse surrounding the cultural history of Irish music over the last 40 years. White's gift for expression and memorably poetic turns of phrase allows the complexity of ideas and range of historical and literary knowledge examined in these essays to be deftly excavated and evaluated. Curiosity, provocativeness, imagination and literature are threaded through his exploration of how Irish history and experience have been imagined musically.
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Boydell and Brewer Science and the Romantic Vision in Early NineteenthCentury Opera
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Boydell and Brewer Musical Amateurs as Artistic Citizens in Schuberts Vienna
Book SynopsisDetails the wide, integral and influential role played by 'amateur' participants in early nineteenth-century Vienna's musical life.During Franz Schubert's lifetime in early nineteenth-century Vienna, amateurs and dilettantes were a vital part of the music scene, so much so that Eduard Hanslick considered it the high point of musical dilettantism in Vienna. Schubert himself participated extensively in this rich world of domestic music-making. Around 1800 terms such as "amateur" and "dilettante" had broader and more positive connotations than today, and "amateurs" could indeed often portray a high skill level. The book considers the amateurs' and dilettantes' identities and motivations for making music, and their various roles in the musical life of early nineteenth-century Vienna. It dives deeply into contexts, performance practices and spaces, as well as instruments that have so far been little explored. Musical Amateurs in Schubert's Vienna uncovers new key agents in early nineteenth-century Viennese musical life who have so far remained invisible.
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Boydell and Brewer British Choral Singing A History from Medieval Times to the Present Day
Book SynopsisCharts choral traditions in Britain, evolution, sociological composition, engagement with and place within cathedrals and secular spaces.Choirs are living organisms and ever changing. This book tells the story of British choral singing (not choral music) and deals with both sacred and secular choirs and institutions from the medieval era through to the Covid pandemic and its aftermath. A series of different choral traditions has emerged over the centuries. The oldest is that of the all-male cathedral choir, while the secular choral society evolved from the eighteenth century onwards. Although there are many histories of individual cathedrals and choral societies, this is the first general history of British choral traditions. While English matters predominate, those of Scotland, Wales and Ireland are also considered. Even though British choral traditions have penetrated many parts of the world, there has also been much cross-fertilization of late with the rich choral cultures of other nations in Europe and beyond. Choral singing inevitably involved matters of social class, and a much more nuanced story is told here than the current view of choirs as being a largely middle-class phenomenon might suggest. Scholarly in method while highly readable, the book offers invaluable background to choral practitioners. When choral activity is reviving healthily after the Covid 19 pandemic, such a volume appears timely, reminding the reader of the essentially communal and social nature of the choral experience.
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Boydell and Brewer Hanns Eisler and His Circle in Republican Spain Music Antifascism War
Book SynopsisStudies the development and impact of Hanns Eisler's music and Marxist activism in the tensions of 1930s Spain, revealing the interplay of varied influences, ideology and antifascist propaganda.Hanns Eisler in Republican Spain is the first comprehensive study to explore the political, artistic, and intellectual engagements of Hanns Eisler and his circle of Marxist musicians - including the singer Ernst Busch and the musicologist Otto Mayer-Serra - in relation to Spain between 1931 and 1939. The book reconstructs Eisler's collaborations with a broad range of Spanish antifascist organisations, examines the reception of his compositional and theoretical work in Republican Spain, and assesses the deep impact of the Spanish civil war on his vocal and symphonic music. It highlights the influence of key local, national, and international communist structures - notably the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and the Comintern (Third International) - on the musical and political projects of Eisler and his circle.Grounded in detailed analysis of an extensive corpus of textual, musical, and press materials - primarily preserved in archives in Spain, Germany, Russia, France, and the United States - this study offers new critical frameworks for understanding the role of Western modernist music in contexts of ideological conflict and war. It provides a fresh perspective on the complex entanglements between antifascist propaganda and musical modernism in the interwar period. Hanns Eisler in Republican Spain makes a vital contribution to scholarship at the intersection of music, exile, propaganda, communism, and antifascism, and more broadly, to the study of how political ideologies shaped music, aesthetics, and musical thought across national boundaries during a pivotal era in twentieth-century European history.On publication this book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC.
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Boydell and Brewer Jan225ceks Sinfonietta
Book SynopsisA definitive study of Janácek's Sinfonietta, tracing its creation, reception, and rise to international prominence.This book provides a musical 'biography' of Leoš Janácek's (1854-1928) most famous orchestral piece - his Sinfonietta - by analysing its sources, composition, reception history, recordings and musical component parts. The most up-to-date research on the genesis and performance history of the work, it considers in detail Janácek's orchestral writing, the inspiration and genesis of the Sinfonietta, a documentation of all the surviving sources for the work, the work's performance history during Janácek's lifetime and following his death until the end of the Second World War, including press reviews and relevant correspondence. The book also examines the growth in the worldwide popularity of the Sinfonietta. This evolved from cautious and hostile critical responses to the premiere recording in 1946 to its gradual acceptance as one of the key works of the 1920s, largely thanks to the advocacy of conductors whose work is considered in detail, alongside other significant recordings. Questions of performance, rehearsal, interpretation and the musical text are considered in a wide-ranging interview with the conductor Jakub Hruša, and a concluding chapter provides a detailed commentary on the music itself. The book includes a valuable appendix describing the annotated scores used by conductors such as Otto Klemperer, František Neumann and Henry Wood, as well as a comprehensive discography.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Scoring of Baroque Concertos
Book SynopsisEvidence indicates that the concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn etc were performed as chamber music, not the full orchestral works commonly assumed. The concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the most frequently performed, pieces of classical music; and the assumption has always been they were full orchestral works. This book takes issue with this orthodox opinion to argue quite the reverse: that contemporaries regarded the concerto as chamber music. The author surveys the evidence, from surviving printed and manuscript performance material, from concerts throughout Europe between 1685 and 1750 (the heyday of the concerto), demonstrating that concertos were nearly always played one-to-a-part at that time. He makes a particularly close study of the scoring of the bass line,discussing the question of what instruments were most appropriate and what was used when. The late Dr RICHARD MAUNDER was Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating book that every baroque soloist and conductor should read and I'm sure it will have a profound influence on the performance of these works in the future - -- Adrian Butterfield * EARLY MUSIC TODAY *Maunder's book is thorough, thought provoking and packed with minute, fascinating detail. - -- Andrew Manze * EARLY MUSIC *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Collected Letters of Peter Warlock Philip
Book SynopsisThese letters cover all aspects of Warlock's music, and give a vivid glimpse of the early 20th-century musical and artistic world.
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