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Taylor & Francis Ltd Female Composers Conductors Performers
Book SynopsisDrawing upon extensive archival research, interview material, and musical analysis, Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 19191939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities, achievements, and reception of women composers, conductors, and performers against a contemporary socio-political climate that was largely hostile to female professionalism. The musical styles and techniques of Marguerite Canal, Jeanne Leleu, Germaine Tailleferre, Yvonne Desportes, Elsa Barraine, and Claude Arrieu are discussed with reference to significant works dating from the interwar period. Hamer highlights the activities of Jane Evrard and her Orchestre féminin de Paris as well as the reception of the Orchestra of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique, a contemporary pro-suffrage organisation that was dedicated to defending the collective intereTable of ContentsList of Music Examples. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part 1:The Contested Boundaries of Interwar musiciennes. Chapter 1: Conservative Politics and Domestic Ideals: The Social Position of musiciennes in Interwar France. Chapter 2:The Challenge of Professional musiciennes: The Education, Career Opportunities, and Reception of Women Musicians. Part 2: Women as Composers. Chapter 3: Early Female Winners of the Prix de Rome: Marguerite Canal and Jeanne Leleu. Chapter 4: In Les Six: The Case of Germaine Tailleferre. Chapter 5: Paul Dukas’s Female Composition Students: Elsa Barraine, Yvonne Desportes, and Claude Arrieu. Part 3: Women as Performers. Chapter 6:Women Conductors and All-Woman Orchestras. Chapter 7: On the Concert Platform: Women as Perfomers. Chapter 8: Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Music of Michael Nyman
Book SynopsisNyman''s rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world''s most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers'' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap SiÃn places Nyman''s writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman''s musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman''s musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depTrade Review�This book tells the story of Nyman�s work, it reveals the sources and explains the processes of his compositional methodology. It uncovers and displays some of the items in his musical curiosity cabinet and ... presents us with the extended and eccentric ears that hear those enigmatic harmonies.� Robert Worby �Ap Siôn outlines large themes in this book with such mastery and clarity, and the sections on the experimental music tradition are handled extremely well.� Michael Nyman �Ap Siôn's line of argument is overall very clear, his research culture is oriented at the highest standard of both classical and critical musicology at the same time... The book has indeed the potential to become a standard work in the Nyman bibliography and will surely be a basis for further research and elaboration on the oeuvre of this authentic British composer.� NABMSA Newsletter �This is an illuminating and eminently interesting addition to the literature on the music of recent times, as well as a fine introduction to both Nyman and the issues associated with his work.� Music Theory Online �... [a] ground-breaking study ... it represents a substantial contribution to musicology ... the study succeeds in its illustration of the subtlety and sophistication of Nyman�s art of reworking. It also illuminates intertextuality, a topic as relevant to currents in postmodern music as it is to compositional strategies stretching back centuries across musical history.� Music and LettersTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction; Nyman 'on trial'; Man and boy: the early years; Texts in context; Mapping intertextuality in Nyman; Parallel universes: the Nyman-Greenaway soundtracks; Quotation in Nyman's neurological opera; Unchained melodies: intertextuality and inter-referentiality in the string quartets; The author returns: music at The Piano; Gene sequences and musical sequences: Facing Goya; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Blixa Bargeld and Einsturzende Neubauten German
Book SynopsisAt the end of his life, Pierre Schaeffer commented that his musical and sound experiments had attempted to go beyond ''do-re-mi''. This had a direct bearing on EinstÃrzende Neubauten''s musical philosophy and work, with the musicians always striving to extend the boundaries of music in sound, instrumentation and purpose. The group are one of the few examples of ''rock-based'' artists who have been able to sustain a breadth and depth of work in a variety of media over a number of years while remaining experimental and open to development. Jennifer Shryane provides a much-needed analysis of the group''s important place in popular/experimental music history. She illustrates their innovations with found- and self-constructed instrumentation, their Artaudian performance strategies and textual concerns, as well as their methods of independence. EinstÃrzende Neubauten have also made a consistent and unique contribution to the development of the independent German Language Contemporary MusicTrade Review'... this book is an important contribution to the research of German popular music.' Popular MusicTable of ContentsPart I Context for Destruction; prologue1 Prologue: Being There/Not Being There; Chapter 1 Architecture, Angels and Utopia; Chapter 2 Kattrin’s Drum: Germany & Music – Identity, Politics & Memory; Chapter 3 Free to Make Noise; Chapter 4 Demonic Berlin; Part II Performing Destruction; prologue2 Prologue: ‘They were always quoting Artaud’; Chapter 5 Strategies against the Body; Chapter 6 Strategies against the Corner; Chapter 7 Strategies against the Voice; Chapter 8 Strategies against the Scream; Chapter 9 Strategies against the Text; Part III Performing Reconstruction; prologue3 Prologue: ‘We know we have witnesses’; Chapter 10 ‘A Small Utopia’; conclusion Conclusion ‘To infect others’ Einstürzende Neubauten Warten auf die Barbaren Jo Mitchell’s Reconstruction of Concerto for Voice and Machinery ‘She is Happy like Roadworks’;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching the Beatles
Book SynopsisTeaching the Beatles is designed to provide ideas for instructors who teach the music of the Beatles. Experienced contributors describe varied approaches to effectively convey the group's characteristics and lasting importance. Some of these include: treating the Beatles' lyrics as poetry; their influence on the world of art, film, fashion and spirituality; the group's impact on post-war Britain; political aspects of the Fab Four; Lennon and McCartney's songwriting and musical innovations; the band's use of recording technology; business aspects of the Beatles' career; and insights into teaching the Beatles in an online format. Trade ReviewTeaching the Beatles to Undergraduates is a thoroughgoing study of contemporary approaches to post-secondary courses devoted to the Act You’ve Known for All These Years. With chapters related to music theory, ethnomusicology, the social sciences, librarianship, business, and literary scholarship, Teaching the Beatles to Undergraduates offers a vital window into the wide-ranging possibilities of a Beatles-centric pedagogy. With its dual accents upon learning outcomes and Fab Four wisdom alike, Teaching the Beatles to Undergraduates is the kind of book that readers will find themselves coming back to - whether they’re preparing their next syllabus or simply in need of another fascinating anecdote about those four lads from Liverpool.Kenneth Womack, Monmouth University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction (Hugh Jenkins and Paul O. Jenkins) Interdisciplinary Approaches 1.I’m Looking Through You: Experiments in Learning and the Beatles (Gordon R. Thompson) 2.More Than Just Their Music (Paul O. Jenkins) 3.The Beatles Against Machiavelli: Is it Better to Be Loved or Feared? (Robert Hislope) 4.Getting Better All the Time: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Beatles Mythology (John McCombe) 5.Teaching Beatles Business (David Rezak) Traditional Approaches 6.Lennon-McCartney and the Art of Songwriting in Two Days: An Intensive Honors Primetime Workshop (Donna S. Parsons) 7.Unlocking the Mysteries of the Beatles’ Musical Magic (Mark Morton) Pedagogical Approaches 8.Building a Time Capsule: the Beatles and Library Technology. (Reed and Zaghloul) 9.Team Teaching the Beatles (Wes Davis) 10.Writing the Beatles (Hugh Jenkins) 11.Teaching the Beatles to Non-Traditional Students (John Keene) 12.Teaching the Beatles as an Online Course (Douglas Babb) Appendix: The Beatles: Will You Read My Book (Paul O. Jenkins)
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Amsterdam University Press The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky
Book Synopsis‘I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole’, Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between ‘early’ and ‘late’ Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into ‘Russian’, ‘neoclassical’ and ‘serial’. In an essay which continually shifts in its approach, style and perspective, the authors elaborate on their insight that a single, immutable compositional attitude underlies the whole of Stravinsky’s oeuvre. By this token the book not only offers an analysis of the composer’s protean work and artistry but takes example by it as well.Trade Review"If you have any abiding interest in 20th-century music, buy this book and read it at once. If music as culture means anything to you, buy this book. It made so little splash the first time around that I've hardly run into anyone who's aware of it. But any composer living would give his left arm to be assured that so witty, wise, creative, simpatico, and insightful a book would be written about him after his death. Richard Taruskin has aptly called it "The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked." And, thanks to an editorial miracle, it has reappeared after some 15 years' unforgivable absence." Kyle Gann - Village VoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements - 10 Contents - 14 Translator's Note - 16 Preface - 18 Chapter I - 20 Chapter II - 82 Chapter III - 156 Chapter IV - 221 Chapter V - 274 List of Sources - 296 Index - 306
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Cambridge University Press Camb Comp to the String Quartet Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Mozart on the Stage Composers on the Stage
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Cambridge University Press Handels Oratorios 18C Thought
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's works as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. She provides a full picure of Handel's librettists and shows how their oratorio texts express key moral-political preoccupations and engage with contemporary ideological debate. British identity, the need for national unity, the conduct of war, the role of government, the authority of the Bible, the purpose of literature, the effect of art - these and many more concerns are addressed in the librettos. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.Trade Review'Ruth Smith's stimulating and instructive study of Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought offers a sweeping recontextualization of the repertory for which Handel is best known ... demonstrates the potential rewards of a truly crossdisciplinary study of Handel's oeuvre that takes into account the immensely dynamic world in which he lived. We can hope future studies will, like this one, draw on aesthetics, history, literature, politics, religion, and of course music to explore the full contexts and meanings of Handel's works.' Eighteenth-Century Studies'... a wealth of potential meaning is uncovered here which will enrich the work of future scholars.' Early Music Review'This is a book which, like the oratorios themselves, will both delight and instruct, bringing a new and fuller understanding of what those extraordinary works meant to their first audiences.' Kenneth Nott Musical Times'If ever there was a body of work which needed a fresh look, surely this is it, and this is what Ruth Smith offers in her lively and challenging book.' Musical Times'… highly interesting and suggestive book.' British Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. English Origins of English Oratario: 1. Artistic norms; 2. The purpose of art; 3. Music, morals and religion; 4. The biblical sublime; 5. The survival of the epic; 6. The defence of Christianity; 7. Towards oratorio; Part II. The Patriot Libretto from the Excise Bill to the Jew Bill: Israelite Oratarios and English Politics: 8. Political events and political thought; 9. Allegorical politics; 10. Moral politics; 11. Esther to Athalia; 12. In time of war; 13. Images of government; 14. The conflict of public and private interests; 15. Coda: the end of Handel's Israelite oratorios; Appendices; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Mozarts Piano Sonatas
Book SynopsisMozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Issues such as the conflicts of the works, their genesis and rhetoric are examined, resulting in a comprehensive cross-section of Mozart's comprehensive strategies.Trade Review'Irving's book functions in part as a ready reference guide. As well as a rundown on the sources for each sonata, particularly noteworthy for its attention to the evidence provided by ink shadings for Mozart's manner of compsoing, there is some interesting prefatory material that considers possible stylistic models for the Mozart sonatas.' W. Dean Sutcliffe, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. Contexts: 1. The solo sonata in context; 2. Stylistic models for Mozart's sonatas; Part II. Sources: 3 Six sonatas, K.279–84; 4. Three sonatas, K.309–11; 5. Four sonatas, K.330–2, K.333; 6. Fantasia and Sonata in C minor, K.475 and 457; 7. Later Viennese sonatas: K.533 and 494, K.545, K.570, K.576; 8. Fragments: Part III. Style: 9. Eighteenth-century views of sonata form; 10. Pre-compositional choices - the rhetorical inventio; 11. Dispositio: rhetoric and design; 12. The rhetorical elocutio; Notes, Select bibliography; Index.
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