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WW Norton & Co Symphony in B Minor Unfinished Rev NCS Paper
Book SynopsisAn original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.
£20.00
WW Norton & Co Symphony in G Minor K. 550
Book SynopsisAn original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.
£19.95
WW Norton & Co On My Way
Book SynopsisA revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero.
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Beethoven
Book SynopsisBeethoven’s political ideals, inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon, radiate through his ground-breaking compositions.Trade Review"Clubbe’s biography is a thorough account of Beethoven’s inspirations, collaborators, and his turbulent times. It frames his work with political events and makes a compelling argument for their impact on the man." -- New Statesman"A thoughtful cultural history that takes into account the times in which Beethoven lived and worked—and they were times of revolution." -- Tim Page - The Washington Post
£28.79
WW Norton & Co Artie Shaw King of the Clarinet
Book Synopsis"The two sides of Shaw…are at the center of…[this] compulsively readable biography." —Daniel Akst, Wall Street JournalTrade Review"Makes sense of a turbulent life that even Artie Shaw himself had given up on explaining." -- Ted Gioia - San Francisco Chronicle"Tom Nolan proves himself valiantly…It’s not simply the first-hand research, the careful investigation of the facts, the easy, approachable prose style…The portrait is thorough, providing a deep study of a man both complicated and coarse, creating beauty through his clarinet and creating turmoil through his actions." -- Michael Steinman - Jazz Lives"Compelling…scented with understanding and charm." -- Michael D. Langan - Buffalo News"A beautifully measured, unforgiving account…an exemplary work of jazz biography." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Every great artist deserves a great biography, and Swing Era bandleader and clarinetist Artie Shaw finally has one.…Nolan has crafted a well-written, highly entertaining, and informative biography." -- Peter Thornell - Library Journal"Enthralling…[Artie Shaw] gives the satisfactions of a true rags-to-riches story…and plausibly accounts for Shaw’s huge character faults without obscuring his charm and prodigious talent." -- Ray Olson - Booklist"At last, the lively, continually imaginative life of the most creative clarinetist in jazz history." -- Nat Hentoff, author of At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years at the Jazz Scene
£13.29
WW Norton & Co Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock n Roll
Book SynopsisA vibrant biography of one of the greatest rock 'n' rollers, the America that made him, and the America he made.Trade Review"A riveting profile of New Jersey's great bard. Dolan, the ultimate Springsteen fan, has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject. And his infectious love of American popular music is nothing short of awesome. The best book on Bruce ever written!" -- Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite "Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll endeavors to get to the heart of its subject by viewing him through the economic, social, political, religious and family turmoil that formed a musician who found out early on how to make his guitar talk but spent painful decades refining what he needed to make it say. Springsteen's creative evolution and endurance as a populist American rock 'n' roll hero is, according to Dolan, "a slantwise way of telling the history of our times, how we have come together and divided over the last half-century, how we have changed what we think of ourselves as a people." -- Robin Finn "Those who are interested in the shaping of an American icon-and, more significantly, the creation of some lasting American music-may be directed safely to this book." -- Tim Page "The definitive Springsteen biography/musical analysis, finely written and meticulously researched... by an academic who can write for a popular audience... For fans, Dolan's book is a necessary addition to the Springsteen library. For more casual listeners, who often wonder just what the fuss is all about, this volume is a good place to start." -- Michael Riley "In an appreciative study that at times verges on the academic, Dolan traces Springsteen's journey through a song-by-song and album-by-album development..." "A unique biography of a great rock 'n roll artist drawn from 40 years of thrilling performances. If you're a Springsteen fan, this will deepen your appreciation. And if you're not a fan, what the hell is wrong with you?" -- William McKeen, author of Rock 'n Roll is Here to Stay: An Anthology "With the notable exception of Bob Dylan, no other singer-songwriter still active in the 21st Century has spawned as many academic studies as The Boss, and Dolan's book is among the very best. As a chronicler of our times, Springsteen has few equals... and the author's examination of an extraordinary body of work is as clear-headed and accessible as the music itself... By necessity, his book also serves as a history of America, outlining a nation's political conflicts, class disparity, prejudices and shortcomings... [T]he author is especially evocative in his descriptions of working class New Jersey in the 60s and early 70s. Where he scores his most emphatic bullseyes, however, is in his assessment of how Springsteen handled his wealth and stardom; of how his conscience and politics adapted to being one of the most famous men in the world without losing sight of the struggles of his core audience, the 'little' man on the street." -- Terry Staunton, record Collector "Readable and engrossing." "Marc Dolan has written a book of rock criticism at its finest. He brings to the story of Bruce Springsteen an encyclopedic knowledge, a clean, fast-moving prose style, and an irrepressible love of his subject. The Boss deserves no less, and he could ask for no better." -- John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lives of Margaret Fuller "Dolan makes a point of telling more than just the Boss' personal history, putting his putting his musical contributions in context with the country's political state." "Readable and engrossing."
£13.29
WW Norton & Co Summertime
Book SynopsisThe life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings and letters.Trade Review"The author offers many such evocative descriptions in his scholarly account of Gershwin’s tragically short life. The works are covered in exhaustive detail, with in-depth analysis, plots and character summaries…" -- The Economist"Summertime is a genial and enthusiastic book..." -- Times Literary Supplement
£16.14
WW Norton & Co The Lives of Isaac Stern
Book SynopsisA centennial inventory of the career and legacy of one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians, the first made-in-America violin virtuoso.
£19.94
WW Norton & Co Prelude Transfiguration of Wagners Tristan
Book SynopsisAn original concept: in one volume, a study-size score of a major musical work, and a comprehensive body of tools for the study of that work.
£19.95
WW Norton & Co Symphony No. 4 in E Minor Op. 98
Book SynopsisThe Norton Critical Score of Brahm's Fourth Symphony is the latest volume in this highly-regarded series, in which an authoritative score--here the first edition as corrected by the composer--is combined with illuminating essays and documents for an in-depth study of the work.
£20.00
LUP - University of Michigan Press Lee Konitz Conversations on the Improvisers Art
Book SynopsisThe preeminent altoist associated with the ""cool"" school of jazz, Lee Konitz was one of the few saxophonists of his generation to forge a unique sound independent of the influence of Charlie Parker. Based on numerous interviews, this book offers a look at the story of Lee Konitz's life and music.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched, detailed and documented this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition - a genius as rare as Bird himself. - John Zorn ""Experiencing the music of Lee Konitz in the flesh and in different settings is a reminder of what a unique musician he is. This is an equally unique book which, by contrast with some as-told-to autobiographies, beneficially lays bare the subject's thought processes, thanks to the skillful interviewing of Andy Hamilton."" - Brian Priestley, author of Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker and co-author of The Rough Guide to Jazz
£22.75
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Beatles through a Glass Onion Reconsidering
Book SynopsisThe Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length.
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Fascinating Rhythm
Book SynopsisA full-scale examination of the amazing range of works resulting from the creative collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin.Trade ReviewPacked with terrific insights that will delight those who care about this music." —New York Times Book Review
£999.99
University of California Press Gioia T West Coast Jazz
Book SynopsisHow could it when the same critics asking the question could hardly agree on a definition of jazz itself? Was West Coast jazz the last regional style or merely a marketing fad? Was there really ever any such thing as West Coast jazz? If so, was it better or worse than East Coast jazz? This title deals with this queries.Table of ContentsONE Central Avenue Breakdown TWO The Bird in the Basket THREE The Chase FOUR Dave Brubeck and Modern Jazz in San Francisco FIVE The San Francisco Scene in the 195os SIX Central Avenue Survivors SEVEN Big Bands out West EIGHT City of Glass NINE Chet Baker and the Pianoless Quartet TEN From the Lighthouse ELEVEN A Ring-tail Monkey TWELVE Martians Go Home THIRTEEN The Anti-drummer FOURTEEN Straight Life FIFTEEN LA Hard Bop SIXTEEN Something Else! SEVENTEEN West Coast Jazz: Final Considerations POSTSCRIPT: A Stroll Through California Jazz Nightspots APPENDIX: Fifty Representative West Coast Jazz Recordings 1945-1960 Notes Index
£24.30
University of California Press Wagner Beyond Good and Evil
Book SynopsisPresents a different view of Richard Wagner based on research that does not shy away from some truths about this controversial composer. This book tells what Wagner did, said, and wrote. It suggests that an estimation of Wagner does not lie in an all too easy condemnation of his many provocative actions and ideas.Trade Review"Essential reading for all who take an intelligent, informed interest in Wagner." Wagner Journal "Engaging." Australian Book Rev "A solid and stimulating read." -- George Hall Opera "Wide-ranging and eclectic, this volume presents the latest Wagner scholarship and criticism." -- S. Edwards Choice "An engaging portrait" Music Educators JournalTable of ContentsPreface part i. a few beginnings 1. Wagner Lives Issues in Autobiography 2. "Pale" Senta Female Sacrifice and the Desire for Heimat 3. Wagner the Progressive Another Look at Lohengrin part ii. der ring des nibelungen 4. Fairy Tale, Revolution, Prophecy Preliminary Evening: Das Rheingold 5. Symphonic Mastery or Moral Anarchy? First Day: Die Walkure 6. Siegfried Hero Second Day: Siegfried 7. Finishing the End Third Day: Gotterdammerung part iii. the elusiveness of tragedy 8. Don Carlos and Gotterdammerung Two Operatic Endings and Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel 9. Wagner's Greeks, and Wieland's Too Contents part iv. tristan und isolde 10. Dangerous Fascinations 11. Public and Private Life Reflections on the Genesis of Tristan and Isolde and the Wesendonck Lieder 12. Postmortem on Isolde part v. mature polemics 13. Strange Love, Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parsifal 14. Mendelssohn and the Strange Case of the (Lost) Symphony in C 15. Unfinished Symphonies part vi. Operatic Futures 16. Configurations of the New 17. Wagner and Beyond List of Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
£42.50
University of California Press Leonard Bernstein
Book SynopsisFrom his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. This biography examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950 and voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted.Trade Review"Almost two decades after Bernstein's death, this is the first in-depth look at the man with his politics. It was worth the wait." -- Carol Iaciofano Boston Globe Book Section "The book's greatest value ... lies not simply in shedding new and more nuanced light on the story of 'Our Lenny', but in its consistent demonstration-in accordance with Bernstein's own ideas-that any attempt to separate the musical sphere from the moral and political comes at an unconscionably high price." The Economist "A rich, thoroughly researched and immensely readable study." -- Stephen Brown Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "A major contribution." -- William R. Braun Opera News "A useful, revealing, and genuinely fascinating discussion of Leonard Bernstein's role in the melee of 20th-century American Politics." -- Eric A. Gordon Jewish Currents: A Progressive Monthly "[Bernstein's] legacy is one of struggle and engagement that will serve as an example for others who are sure to follow him. Seldes' work is a valuable contribution to understanding that legacy." -- Fred Mazelis World Socialist Web Site "In this insightful and creative study, Barry Seldes, a political scientist with a deep understanding of musicology, grapples with this powerful public artist by examining the lifelong interactions of his art with his politics." -- Michael Fellman Vancouver Sun "Compelling... Immaculately researched and extensively annotated... This is a really important book." Musical Opinion "A remarkable new book." -- Raphael Mostel Forward "The most enlightening portrait yet of the often romanticised American conductor and composer." -- Philip Clark The Wire "Seldes is insightful." -- Eric A. Gordon Today in HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Young American: Bernstein at Harvard 2. The Forties: Ascent and Blacklist 3. American Biedermeier 4. The Long Sixties 5. Norton Lectures 6. Bernstein at Sea 7. Understanding Bernstein Epilogue: A Man in Dark Times Notes Index
£34.00
University of California Press Brass Diva
Book SynopsisBroadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary. This detailed biography tells the story of how the stenographer from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical in its golden age.Trade Review"This well-written and psychologically astute portrait will satisfy musical theater fans and anyone who loves a snappy comeback." The Advocate "Masterfully analyzes Merman's work on stage, screen and TV with a sophisticated eye for detail that will delight theater buffs." Publishers WeeklyTable of Contentspreface vii 1 / Beginnings 1 2 / From Stenographer to Star 30 3 / The Early Thirties 67 4 / To Hollywood and Back Again 90 5 / Broadway's Brightest: The Early Forties 113 6 / Forging a Family 138 7 / What Comes Natur'lly: Annie Get Your Gun 150 8 / Call Me Madam 177 9 / A More Complex Image 192 10 / Madam in Hollywood 218 11 / Life with Six 239 12 / There's No Business Like Show Business 255 13 / From Mrs. Six to Mama Rose 278 14 / Gypsy: Ethel Merman's Musical Fable 293 15 / It's a Mad, Mad Schedule 333 16 / The Sixties and the Art of Love 347 17 / After the Big Stem--the Seventies 374 18 / Twilight and Transformation 401 19 / Afterlife 415 acknowledgments 429 a word on the scrapbooks 433 discography 437 stage work 443 filmography 463 notes 473 index 000
£27.00
University of California Press Clark The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Book SynopsisTells the story of Clark Terry, one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters. This title takes us from his impoverished childhood in St Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim.Trade Review"'Clark' chronicles, in endearing prose, Terry's personal and professional journey... Onstage and in the backroom, Terry and his trumpet shared a front-row seat to jazz history. "Clark" is nothing short of that remarkable story." -- Alexander Heffner San Francisco Chronicle "Terry's wonderful book is a true labor of love." -- Peter Vacher Jazzwise "Informative, detailed, intimate, and throughly absorbing, "Clark" is very strongly recommended." The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface by Quincy Jones Foreword by Bill Cosby Introduction by David Demsey 1. Big Dreams 2. First Instruments 3. Kicked Out 4. The Vashon High Swingsters 5. First Road Gig 6. Nigga 7. Ida Cox 8. Stranded 9. Lincoln Inn 10. On the Road Again 11. Tennis Shoe Pimp 12. Jailed 13. Len Bowden 14. Navy Days 15. Gray Clouds 16. The Big Apple 17. George Hudson 18. The Club Plantation 19. Galloping Dominoes 20. Tempting Offers 21. Lionel Hampton 22. Road Lessons 23. Pauline 24. Charlie Barnet 25. Count Basie 26. Big Debt 27. Duke Ellington 28. Leaving Basie 29. The University of Ellingtonia 30. Working with Duke 31. Duke's Team 32. Duke's Management Arts 33. Miles and Bird 34. Billy Strayhorn 35. Endurances 36. Flugelhorn 37. Europe 38. Norman Granz 39. Norman's Battles 40. Q 41. NBC 42. Jim and Andy's 43. Johnny and Ed 44. Mumbles 45. First House 46. Big Bad Band 47. Carnegie Hall 48. Etoile 49. Jazz Education Arena 50. Those NBC Years 51. Storms 52. Black Clouds 53. Keep on Keepin' On 54. New Love 55. Whirlwinds 56. Through the Storm 57. Second Chance 58. The Biggest Surprise Acknowledgments Honors and Awards Original Compositions Selected Discography Index Photographs follow page 186
£32.30
University of California Press Weills Musical Theater
Book SynopsisPresents the study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works. This title shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres - from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera - became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career.Trade Review"Eminently readable, with or without his music playing in the background. Professor Hinton is a fine writer who conveys what he knows and feels in terms insightful, intuitive and nuanced, yet accessible to those of us who are musically marginalized." Washington Ind Rev Of Bks "An in-depth view of the entire oeuvre of Weill's stage compositions... A scholarly and thoroughly researched work... Highly Recommended." -- E. C. Skiles, Lone Star College-Kingwood Choice "This is essential reading not only for Weill scholars but also those interested in twentieth-century opera and the history of the American musical... Its achievement will not soon be surpassed." Journal of the American Musicological Society "A majestic study." Journal of the Society for American MusicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Biographical Notes 2. The Busoni Connection 3. One-Act Operas 4. "Songspiel" 5. Plays with Music 6. Epic Opera 7. Didactic Theater ("Lehrstuck") 8. Stages of Exile 9. Musical Plays 10. Stage vs. Screen 11. American Opera 12. Concept and Commitment Coda Appendix: Weill's Works for Stage or Screen Abbreviations Notes Credits Index
£38.25
University of California Press Listening for the Secret The Grateful Dead and
Book SynopsisWith roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, this book provides a lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. It examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation.Trade Review"...presents a complex but rounded picture of a band that was both deeply traditional yet genuinely avant-garde, fiercely independent yet—at least in its latter years—undeniably mainstream, apolitical yet politically challenging." * All About Jazz *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Popular Avant-Garde? Renegotiating Tradition 2. Wave That Flag: An Apolitical Band 3. Crashes in Space: Aspects of Improvisation Coda: Listening for the Secret Discography Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of California Press Clark The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Book SynopsisTakes you behind the scenes of jazz history and introduces scores of legendary greats -Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others.Trade Review"'Clark' chronicles, in endearing prose, Terry's personal and professional journey... Onstage and in the backroom, Terry and his trumpet shared a front-row seat to jazz history. "Clark" is nothing short of that remarkable story." -- Alexander Heffner San Francisco Chronicle "Terry's wonderful book is a true labor of love." -- Peter Vacher Jazzwise "Informative, detailed, intimate, and throughly absorbing, "Clark" is very strongly recommended." The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface by Quincy Jones Foreword by Bill Cosby Introduction by David Demsey 1. Big Dreams 2. First Instruments 3. Kicked Out 4. The Vashon High Swingsters 5. First Road Gig 6. Nigga 7. Ida Cox 8. Stranded 9. Lincoln Inn 10. On the Road Again 11. Tennis Shoe Pimp 12. Jailed 13. Len Bowden 14. Navy Days 15. Gray Clouds 16. The Big Apple 17. George Hudson 18. The Club Plantation 19. Galloping Dominoes 20. Tempting Offers 21. Lionel Hampton 22. Road Lessons 23. Pauline 24. Charlie Barnet 25. Count Basie 26. Big Debt 27. Duke Ellington 28. Leaving Basie 29. The University of Ellingtonia 30. Working with Duke 31. Duke's Team 32. Duke's Management Arts 33. Miles and Bird 34. Billy Strayhorn 35. Endurances 36. Flugelhorn 37. Europe 38. Norman Granz 39. Norman's Battles 40. Q 41. NBC 42. Jim and Andy's 43. Johnny and Ed 44. Mumbles 45. First House 46. Big Bad Band 47. Carnegie Hall 48. Etoile 49. Jazz Education Arena 50. Those NBC Years 51. Storms 52. Black Clouds 53. Keep on Keepin' On 54. New Love 55. Whirlwinds 56. Through the Storm 57. Second Chance 58. The Biggest Surprise Acknowledgments Honors and Awards Original Compositions Selected Discography Index Photographs follow page 186
£20.70
University of California Press Nostalgia for the Future
Book SynopsisNostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono's most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (19481989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono's words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.Trade Review"The appeal of what the English music historian Harriet Boyd-Bennett called Nono's 'sonic hubub' is elucidated in this long overdue collection of the composer's writings and interviews. A comparable French edition of this material appeared back in 1993, which indicates how belated, albeit still timely, its insights are for opera lovers undeterred by avant garde sounds." * Opera Now *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction EXERGO: Clarifications (1956) EXCURSUS I. An Autobiography of the Author Recounted by Enzo Restagno (1987) PART ONE. MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION 1. Luigi Dallapiccola and the Sex Carmina Alcaei (ca. 1948) 2. On the Development of Serial Technique (1956) 3. The Development of Serial Technique (1957) 4. Text—Music—Song (1960) 5. [About Il canto sospeso] (1976) EXCURSUS II. A Letter from Los Angeles (1965) PART TWO. MUSIC ONSTAGE: FROM A "THEATER OF IDEAS" TO THE "TRAGEDY OF LISTENING" 1. Some Clarifications on Intolleranza 1960 (1962) 2. Possibility and Necessity of a New Music Theater (1962) 3. Play and Truth in the New Music Theater (1962) 4. Die Ermittlung: A Musical and Theatrical Experience with Weiss and Piscator [Music and Theater] (1966) 5. Toward Prometeo: Journal Fragments (1984) EXCURSUS III. Interview with Renato Garavaglia (ca. 1979–80) PART THREE. "CONSCIENCE, FEELINGS, COLLECTIVE REALITY" 1. Historical Presence of Music Today (1959) 2. Music and Resistance (1963) 3. Replies to Seven Questions by Martine Cadieu (1966) 4. Music and Power (1969) 5. In the Sierra and in the Parliament (1971) EXCURSUS IV. Technology to Discover a Universe of Sounds: Interview with Walter Prati and Roberto Masotti (1983) PART FOUR. PORTRAITS AND DEDICATIONS 1. Josef Svoboda (1968) 2. Remembering Two Musicians (1973) 3. Victor Jara’s Song (1974) 4. Preface to Arnold Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre (1977) 5. Bartók the Composer (1981) 6. For Helmut (1983) 7. For Marino Zuccheri (1986) EXCURSUS V. Interview with Michelangelo Zurletti (1987) PART FIVE. THE "POSSIBLE INFINITIES" 1. Error as a Necessity (1983) 2. Other Possibilities for Listening (1985) 3. Lecture at the Chartreuse in Villeneuve-les-Avignon (1989) EXCURSUS VI. “Proust” Questionnaire (1986) Notes and Abbreviations Bibliographical Notes and Comments to the Texts Chronology of Nono’s Works Index
£64.00
University of California Press Nostalgia for the Future
Book SynopsisNostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono's most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (19481989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono's words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.Trade Review"The appeal of what the English music historian Harriet Boyd-Bennett called Nono's 'sonic hubub' is elucidated in this long overdue collection of the composer's writings and interviews. A comparable French edition of this material appeared back in 1993, which indicates how belated, albeit still timely, its insights are for opera lovers undeterred by avant garde sounds." * Opera Now *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction EXERGO: Clarifications (1956) EXCURSUS I. An Autobiography of the Author Recounted by Enzo Restagno (1987) PART ONE. MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION 1. Luigi Dallapiccola and the Sex Carmina Alcaei (ca. 1948) 2. On the Development of Serial Technique (1956) 3. The Development of Serial Technique (1957) 4. Text—Music—Song (1960) 5. [About Il canto sospeso] (1976) EXCURSUS II. A Letter from Los Angeles (1965) PART TWO. MUSIC ONSTAGE: FROM A "THEATER OF IDEAS" TO THE "TRAGEDY OF LISTENING" 1. Some Clarifications on Intolleranza 1960 (1962) 2. Possibility and Necessity of a New Music Theater (1962) 3. Play and Truth in the New Music Theater (1962) 4. Die Ermittlung: A Musical and Theatrical Experience with Weiss and Piscator [Music and Theater] (1966) 5. Toward Prometeo: Journal Fragments (1984) EXCURSUS III. Interview with Renato Garavaglia (ca. 1979–80) PART THREE. "CONSCIENCE, FEELINGS, COLLECTIVE REALITY" 1. Historical Presence of Music Today (1959) 2. Music and Resistance (1963) 3. Replies to Seven Questions by Martine Cadieu (1966) 4. Music and Power (1969) 5. In the Sierra and in the Parliament (1971) EXCURSUS IV. Technology to Discover a Universe of Sounds: Interview with Walter Prati and Roberto Masotti (1983) PART FOUR. PORTRAITS AND DEDICATIONS 1. Josef Svoboda (1968) 2. Remembering Two Musicians (1973) 3. Victor Jara’s Song (1974) 4. Preface to Arnold Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre (1977) 5. Bartók the Composer (1981) 6. For Helmut (1983) 7. For Marino Zuccheri (1986) EXCURSUS V. Interview with Michelangelo Zurletti (1987) PART FIVE. THE "POSSIBLE INFINITIES" 1. Error as a Necessity (1983) 2. Other Possibilities for Listening (1985) 3. Lecture at the Chartreuse in Villeneuve-les-Avignon (1989) EXCURSUS VI. “Proust” Questionnaire (1986) Notes and Abbreviations Bibliographical Notes and Comments to the Texts Chronology of Nono’s Works Index
£28.90
University of California Press Treatise on Musical Objects Essays Across
Book SynopsisThe "Treatise on Musical Objects" by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, this book summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition.Trade Review"[Christine North and John Dack's] English translation is as effective as Schaeffer’s text, which in turn exercises its full correlative power to English readers to the extent that the translators have rendered it." * Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal *Table of ContentsThe Treatise on Musical Objects and the GRM, by Daniel TeruggiTranslators’ Introduction, by Christine NorthPierre Schaeffer’s Treatise on Musical Objects and Music Theory, by John Dack Acknowledgments Preface Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music Book One. Making Music 1. The Instrumental Prerequisite 2. Playing an Instrument 3. Capturing Sounds 4. Acousmatics Book Two. Hearing 5. "What Can Be Heard" 6. The Four Listening Modes 7. Scientific Prejudice 8. The Hearing Intention Book Three. Correlations Between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object 9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics 10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches 11. Threshold and Transients 12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics 13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument 14. Time and Duration Book Four. Objects and Structures 15. Reduction to the Object 16. Perceptual Structures 17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language 18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority 19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening 20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism 21. Musical Research Book Five. Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects 22. Morphology of Sound Objects 23. The Laboratory 24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria 25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects 26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds 27. Working at Our Instrument Book Six. Theory of Musical Objects 28. Musical Experience 29. Generalizing Music Theory 30. Theory of Homogenous Sounds: Criterion of Mass 31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion 32. Theory of Sustainment 33. Theory of Variations 34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears Book Seven. Music as a Discipline 35. Implementation 36. The Meaning of Music Penultimate Chapter: In the Search of Music Itself Postscript Index
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University of California Press Confessions of a Radical Chicano DooWop Singer 51
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a fresh and intriguing, heartfelt and insightful cruise through the main thoroughfares, side streets, and alleyways of Chicano rock ’n’ roll, performance art, and Los Angeles cultures, past, present, and beyond, seamlessly written by this first-time author." * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl, by Josh Kun and George Lipsitz 1 Prologue 16 La Veinte: A Santa Monica Barrio 17 Rubén Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914–2006 21 Superman in Ese Eme 26 Music and Movie Moments 32 Miss Las Vegas 36 La Gatita 38 Las Vegas and the Breakup of Our Family 43 Sue Dean 49 Miss Hollywood 52Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley 56 The Sunset Strip Riots and My Second Marriage 62 The Southern Belle 64 LACC and the New Revelations Gospel Choir 68 Miss Santa Barbara and the Summer of 1971 75 Frank Zappa and Ruben and the Jets, 1972–1974 80 Miss Pamela and the GTOs 85 Miss Claremont 87 Miss Chino 89 The Mutiny 91 The Movie Star and Miss Blue Eyes 94 Opening for Zappa at San Francisco’s Winterland 97Con Safos: The Album 99 Pilgrimage to Mexico 105 La Gypsy 114 From “The Star Spangled Banner” to Punk 116 The Whisky and a New Band: Con Safos 120 Miss Aztlán 124Gotcha! 126 Zyanya Records 128 Cristina, Día de Los Muertos, and Chicano Heaven 130Born in East L.A.: The Movie 138Caliente y Picante 147 Performance Art 152 To France with Aztlán, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues 154 Validation Crisis 170 Jammin’ with John Valadez 174 Arts 4 City Youth and Trying Again 180 UCLA 182 Journey to New Aztlán 187 The Enchantress 196América Tropical 200 Miss Mongolia 203 Teaching Poetry 207 Inner City Lessons 212 Teaching at UCLA 217 The Neo-Chicano Tantrik Funk Monk 220 Lust to Art: Mexamérica and Performing at the Getty 223The Eastside Revue: 1932–2002, A Musical Homage to Boyle Heights 228L.A. Times Profile of Boyle Heights 231 Funkahuatl’s Absurd Chronicles 234 The Iraq War 236 Cross-cultural Friendships and Protests 238 Manzanar Pilgrimage 246Yellow Pearl Remix 253 Saving the Toypurina Monument 257Rock ’n’ Rights for the Mentally Disabled 260 Resistance and Respect: Los Angeles Muralism and Graff Art 262 Miss Bogotá and the X Festival Ibéroamericano del Teatro 264Word Up! A Word, Performance, and Theater Summit 267 Meeting My Brothers from the Westbank First Nation, British Columbia 270 Epiphany at Joshua Tree 274 Miss Altar in the Sky 276 Rubén Guevara & The Eastside Luvers 289The Tao of Funkahuatl 292 Release of the Tao of Funkahuatl CD in L.A. and Japan 294MEX/LA 296 Rockin’ the House of Dues and Grand Performances 299 Fifty Years in Show Biz 303 Miss Beijing 306 Miss Monterey Park 309 End of the Ten-Year Sex Drought 313 Seventy and Still Running 315 Platonic Homegirls 317 Joseph Trotter 318 A Boyle Heights Cultural Treasure 320 Boyle Heights Por Vida 322¡Angelin@s Presente! 325 Sara Casillas-Gutiérrez Guevara, 1923–2015 327 Staged Confessions 329 The Fall 332 Take Me Higher, Mi Reina 334
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University of California Press Confessions of a Radical Chicano DooWop Singer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...a fresh and intriguing, heartfelt and insightful cruise through the main thoroughfares, side streets, and alleyways of Chicano rock ’n’ roll, performance art, and Los Angeles cultures, past, present, and beyond, seamlessly written by this first-time author." * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl, by Josh Kun and George Lipsitz 1 Prologue 16 La Veinte: A Santa Monica Barrio 17 Rubén Ladrón de Guevara Sr., 1914–2006 21 Superman in Ese Eme 26 Music and Movie Moments 32 Miss Las Vegas 36 La Gatita 38 Las Vegas and the Breakup of Our Family 43 Sue Dean 49 Miss Hollywood 52Shindig! with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley 56 The Sunset Strip Riots and My Second Marriage 62 The Southern Belle 64 LACC and the New Revelations Gospel Choir 68 Miss Santa Barbara and the Summer of 1971 75 Frank Zappa and Ruben and the Jets, 1972–1974 80 Miss Pamela and the GTOs 85 Miss Claremont 87 Miss Chino 89 The Mutiny 91 The Movie Star and Miss Blue Eyes 94 Opening for Zappa at San Francisco’s Winterland 97Con Safos: The Album 99 Pilgrimage to Mexico 105 La Gypsy 114 From “The Star Spangled Banner” to Punk 116 The Whisky and a New Band: Con Safos 120 Miss Aztlán 124Gotcha! 126 Zyanya Records 128 Cristina, Día de Los Muertos, and Chicano Heaven 130Born in East L.A.: The Movie 138Caliente y Picante 147 Performance Art 152 To France with Aztlán, Babylon, Rhythm & Blues 154 Validation Crisis 170 Jammin’ with John Valadez 174 Arts 4 City Youth and Trying Again 180 UCLA 182 Journey to New Aztlán 187 The Enchantress 196América Tropical 200 Miss Mongolia 203 Teaching Poetry 207 Inner City Lessons 212 Teaching at UCLA 217 The Neo-Chicano Tantrik Funk Monk 220 Lust to Art: Mexamérica and Performing at the Getty 223The Eastside Revue: 1932–2002, A Musical Homage to Boyle Heights 228L.A. Times Profile of Boyle Heights 231 Funkahuatl’s Absurd Chronicles 234 The Iraq War 236 Cross-cultural Friendships and Protests 238 Manzanar Pilgrimage 246Yellow Pearl Remix 253 Saving the Toypurina Monument 257Rock ’n’ Rights for the Mentally Disabled 260 Resistance and Respect: Los Angeles Muralism and Graff Art 262 Miss Bogotá and the X Festival Ibéroamericano del Teatro 264Word Up! A Word, Performance, and Theater Summit 267 Meeting My Brothers from the Westbank First Nation, British Columbia 270 Epiphany at Joshua Tree 274 Miss Altar in the Sky 276 Rubén Guevara & The Eastside Luvers 289The Tao of Funkahuatl 292 Release of the Tao of Funkahuatl CD in L.A. and Japan 294MEX/LA 296 Rockin’ the House of Dues and Grand Performances 299 Fifty Years in Show Biz 303 Miss Beijing 306 Miss Monterey Park 309 End of the Ten-Year Sex Drought 313 Seventy and Still Running 315 Platonic Homegirls 317 Joseph Trotter 318 A Boyle Heights Cultural Treasure 320 Boyle Heights Por Vida 322¡Angelin@s Presente! 325 Sara Casillas-Gutiérrez Guevara, 1923–2015 327 Staged Confessions 329 The Fall 332 Take Me Higher, Mi Reina 334
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University of California Press The Faure Song Cycles Poetry and Music 18611921
Book SynopsisGabriel Fauré's mélodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that havemade them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Fauré composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Fauré moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He would set nine poems by Armand Silvestre in swift succession (1878-84), seventeen by Paul Verlaine (1887-94), and eighteen by Charles Van Lerberghe (1906-14). As an artist deeply engaged with some of the most important cultural issues of the period, Fauré reimagined his musical idiom with each new poet and school, and his song cycles show the same sensitivity to the poetic material. Far more than Debussy, Ravel, or Poulenc, he crafted his song cycles as integrated works, reordering poems freely and using narratives, key schemes, and even leitmotifs to unify the individual songs. The Fauré Song Cycles explores the peculiar vision behind each synthesis of music and verse, revealing the astonishing imagination and insight of Fauré's musical readings. This book offers not only close readings of Fauré's musical works but an interdisciplinary study of how he responded to the changing schools and aesthetic currents of French poetry.Table of ContentsList of Music Examples Preface Acknowledgments 1. Romancing the mélodie A Hugo Cycle? 2. Ascending Parnassus Poème d’un jour, op. 21 3. The Discovery of MusicCinq mélodies "de Venise," op. 58 4. Wagnerian correspondancesLa bonne chanson, op. 61 5. Theatrical SongLa chanson d’Ève, op. 95 6. Writing in the SandLe jardin clos, op. 106 7. Neoclassical VoyagesMirages, op. 113 and L’horizon chimérique, op. 118 Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Middlebrow Modernism
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics,Middlebrow Modernismuses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the great divide between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the middlebrow, Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how Britten's works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, this study offers a powerful model for recovering shades of grey in the traditionally black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music.Trade Review“…an insightful study on the elusive concept of the middlebrow in the critical reception of Benjamin Britten’s stage works. … Importantly, Chowrimootoo confronts the ambiguities inherent in conceptions of the middlebrow, yet he does not seek to resolve them. Instead, he accepts that Britten identified as both a composer who valued accessibility and public service, and as one who advocated for the serious study and interpretation of his music.” * North American British Music Studies Association Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Middlebrow Modernism 2. Sentimentality under Erasure in Peter Grimes 3. The Timely Traditions of Albert Herring 4. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Gothic Melodrama of Modernism 5. The Burning Fiery Furnace and the Redemption of Religious Kitsch 6. Death in Venice and the Aesthetics of SublimationNotes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Stravinsky in the Americas
Book SynopsisStravinsky in the Americas explores the pre-Craft period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period that began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky's rise to famecatapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim's lively narrative records the composer's larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky's personal and professional life collided in often-dramatic ways.Trade Review"This meticulously documented book sheds new light on the first two decades of Stravinsky's association with America, from the time of his first concert tour in 1925 to the premiere of the Symphony in Three Movements at Carnegie Hall in Janunary 1946. . . . This is not only a book to delight lovers of Stravinskian minutiae but also one that provides a richly documented study of a period in Stravinsky's life that has received relatively little attention." * Gramophone *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Richard Taruskin Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: FIVE TRANSATLANTIC TOURS (1925–1940) 1. Tour I (1925) 2. Tour II (1935) 3. Tour III (1936) 4. Tour IV (1937) 5. Tour V (October 1939–Late May 1940) PART II: DOMESTIC EXCURSIONS FROM WARTIME LOS ANGELES (1940–1946) 6. Excursions (1940–1941) 7. Excursions (1942) 8. Excursions (1943) 9. Excursions (1944) 10. Excursions (1945–Early 1946) Appendix: Stravinsky and “Neoclassicism” Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Zoltan Kodalys World of Music 27 California
Book SynopsisHungarian composer and musician Zoltán Kodály (18821967)is best known for his pedagogical system, the Kodály Method, which has been influential in the development of music education around the world. Author Anna Dalos considers, for the first time in publication, Kodály's career beyond the classroom and provides a comprehensive assessment of his works as a composer. A noted collector of Hungarian folk music, Kodály adapted thetraditional heritage musics inhis own compositions, greatly influencing the work of his contemporary, Béla Bartók. Highlighting Kodály's major music experiences, Dalos shows how his musical works were also inspired by Brahms, Wagner, Debussy, Palestrina, and Bach. Set against the backdrop of various oppressive regimes of twentieth-century Europe, this study of Kodály's careeralso explores decisive, extramusical impulses,such as hisbitter experiences of World War I, Kodály's reception of classical antiquity, and his interpretation of the male and female roles in his music. Written by the leading Kodály expert, this impressive work of historical and musical insight provides a timely and much-needed English-language treatment of the twentieth-century composer.Trade Review"This book is a major contribution to the growing English-language literature on Hungarian music-history . . . Dalos, with her excellent command of English and expansive knowledge of Kodály’s role in Hungarian music-history, is an ideal scholar to re-introduce Kodály to the English-speaking world as one of the great classical composers and minds of the twentieth century." * Hungarian Cultural Studies *"The great merit of Dalos’s extremely informative and readable book is to bring Kodály out of his shadowy existence as 'Bartók’s little-known, almost mysterious companion'... Since the book not only represents an enormous scholarly gain but is also eminently suitable for pedagogical purposes, it is certain to be widely received." * Studia Musicologica *"This book will be of particular interest to musicologists and those interested in aspects of Kodály’s life that are not yet as celebrated internationally, but which remained a major impetus for his commitment to a better music education in Hungary." * Journal of the History of Music Education *Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Zoltán Kodály's Path 2. Kodály the Brahmin: The Beginning of the Composer's Career 3. A Paradigm Shift: The Reinterpretation of the Folk Song Concept 4. Finding the Voice of His "Deepest Inner Self": The Case of String Quartet No. 1 5. Commentaries on Debussy: Kodály's Turn toward Western Modernity 6. Nausicaa, Sappho, and Other Women in Love: Women and Modernism in Kodály's Songs 7. "From These Times of War": The Case of String Quartet No. 2 8. Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man: Kodály after the Trianon Treaty (1920) 9. An Encounter with a Young Man: The Peacock Variations 10. Palestrina in Budapest: Kodály's Views on Church Music 11. Why Jeppesen?: Kodály's Readings on Counterpoint 12. Hungarian Counterpoint: Contrapuntal Technique in Kodály's Works 13. The Art of Fugue: About Kodály's Concerto 14. A Symphonic Self-Portrait: The Last Years Epilogue Chronology of the Life of Zoltán Kodály Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Kodály's Works
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University of California Press Composition and Cognition Reflections on
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fred Lerdahl’s engaging new book is an example of something music theory might do more of: letting composers to talk seriously and personally about the ideas animating their music." * Music Theory Online *
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University of California Press Terrible Freedom
Book SynopsisFrom her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (19252000) lived a life of relentless creativity as a poet and writer, composer for dance, theater, and film, and, eventually, choreographer. Forging her own path after briefly studying with John Cage and Edgard Varèse, Dlugoszewski tackled the musical issues of her time. She expanded sonic resources, invented instruments, brought new focus to timbre and texture, collaborated with artists across disciplines, and incorporated spiritual, psychological, and philosophical influences into her work. Remembered today almost solely as the musical director for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Dlugoszewski's compositional output, writings on aesthetics, creative relationships, and graphic poetry deserve careful examination on their own terms within the history of American experimental music.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Margins, Shadows, and Footnotes: An Introduction 1 • Lucille in Detroit (1925–48) 2 • Letters from New York (1949–51) 3 • New York Beginnings: A Broader View (1950–53) 4 • Expanding Creativity and Collaboration (1953–60) 5 • The Disparate Element (1960–70) 6 • Aesthetic Immediacy (1970–80) 7 • Rage (1980–87) 8 • Losses (1988–2000) Out from the Shadows: A Conclusion Appendix 1: Selected Works List Appendix 2: Lucia Dlugoszewski–Erick Hawkins Collaborations Appendix 3: Discography Notes Sources and Bibliography Index
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Inner Song A Biography of Margaret Sutherland
Book SynopsisMargaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In the first half of the twentieth century, her desire to be both serious composer and mother was atypical, and she faced significant challenges. This book tells her remarkable story, laying bare something of Sutherland’s inspiring ‘inner song’.
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Harvard University Press Orpheus in the Marketplace Jacopo Peri and the
Book SynopsisThis record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism.Trade ReviewHow did Renaissance musicians balance their creative and practical lives? Drawing on Peri's many unpublished account books and letters, this exemplary collaborative study explores how one famous Florentine composer-performer successfully combined business, finance, and family management with a musical career at the Medici court. Fascinating and original, it will delight social and cultural historians as well as those of music and the economy. -- Suzanne B. Butters, University of ManchesterQuietly thrilling…[Carter and Goldthwaite] offer a sustained analysis of a recently discovered trove of account books belonging to Jacopo Peri (1561-1633), one of the earliest opera composers. What they reveal has implications for both music history and our understanding of an economy and society in transition, and is a model of interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities…Even ordinary music lovers will find the exploration of the still underrated Peri intriguing. -- Zachary Woolfe * New York Times *In this bravura example of interdisciplinary history at its finest, two scholars of matchless erudition use the remarkably well-preserved traces of one man's life to provide a fascinating account of economic and musical practice in Florence at the turn of the seventeenth century. Through Jacopo Peri's story, Carter and Goldthwaite indispensably show how social status and wealth might contribute to a musician's aesthetic stance, reputation, and, eventually, canonicity. -- Suzanne G. Cusick, New York UniversityWhat is known about the circumstances of composers living and working in Italy during this period is often disarmingly skeletal. Through their detailed exploration of the 'Peri Archive' from different historical perspectives--musical, social, and, above all, economic--the authors have fascinatingly illuminated the interlocking spheres of the complex existence of one of the most significant composers of the time. -- Iain Fenlon, University of Cambridge
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Princeton University Press Aaron Copland and His World
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Princeton University Press Jean Sibelius and His World
Book SynopsisPerhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). This book focuses on the position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition.Trade Review"The connection between Sibelius and the Russian tradition--an influence that went in both directions--is the subject of an excellent essay by Philip Ross Bullock in the book accompanying the festival, Jean Sibelius and His World, from Princeton University Press."--Zachary Woolfe, New York Times "As this collection shows, there is a resurgence of interest in the music of Jean Sibelius... [T]he book is full of useful information."--Choice "Jean Sibelius and His World ends with English translations of a number of important primary documents... Perhaps the most important document is Theodor Adorno's critique 'Goss on Sibelius.' I have read about these documents in many Sibelius essays, here and elsewhere, so we owe a debt of gratitude to Daniel Grimley for making them available in translation. This book represents the high level of current Sibelius scholarship and should be a welcome addition to academic music libraries."--Carl Rafikonen, Notes "[T]his is a fine collection of essays that advances Sibelius research significantly. It bears the title Sibelius and his World, but it also does an excellent job of alerting the reader to Sibelius's relevance to our world."--Derek B. Scott, Music and LettersTable of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions vii Sibelius, Finland, and the Idea of Landscape ix PART I: ESSAYS Sibelius and the Russian Traditions by PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK 3 From Heaven's Floor to the Composer's Desk: Sibelius's Musical Manuscripts and Compositional Process by TIMO VIRTANEN 58 Theatrical Sibelius: The Melodramatic Lizard by JEFFREY KALLBERG 74 The Wings of a Butterfly: Sibelius and the Problems of Musical Modernity by TOMI MAKELA 89 "Thor's Hammer": Sibelius and British Music Critics, 1905-1957 by BYRON ADAMS 125 Jean Sibelius and His American Connections by GLENDA DAWN GOSS 158 Art and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno by MAX PADDISON 173 Storms, Symphonies, Silence: Sibelius's Tempest Music 186 and the Invention of Late Style by DANIEL M. GRIMLEY 186 Waving from the Periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish Pavilions SARAH MENIN 227 Old Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century by LEON BOTSTEIN PART II: DOCUMENTS 256 Selections from Adolf Paul's A Book About a Human Being 307 TRANSLATED BY ANNIKA LINDSKOG INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Some Viewpoints Concerning Folk Music and Its Influence on the Musical Arts by JEAN SIBELIUS 315 TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY MARGARETA MARTIN INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Selection from Erik Furuhjelm's Jean Sibelius: A Survey of His Life and Music 326 TRANSLATED BY MARGARETA MARTIN INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Adorno on Sibelius 331 TRANSLATED BY SUSAN H. GILLESPIE INTRODUCED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy 338 INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY DANIEL M. GRIMLEY Index 355 Notes on the Contributors 368
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Princeton University Press Stravinsky and His World
Book SynopsisBrings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in intellectual and musical contexts, this title includes essays that focuses on one of the important composers of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Framed by Jonathan Cross's stylish response to the theme 'Stravinsky in exile', and Leon Botstein's thoughts on the rewards of considering the composer alongside fellow Russian exile Vladimir Nabokov, the book seeks new angles on Stravinsky and Russia in the years after 1912, and on the role of Russians ... during Stravinsky's time in France... [L]evitz herself can be unsparing in drawing a detailed, warts-and-all portrait of the great composer."--Arnold Whittall, Musical TimesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works xiv Credits and Permissions xv Stravinsky in Exile JONATHAN CROSS 3 Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ; TRANSLATIONS BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, LAUREL E. FAY, ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK, AND TAMARA LEVITZ 21 Stravinsky's Russian Library TATIANA BARANOVA MONIGHETTI 61 The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus GRETCHEN HORLACHER 79 Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourie's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism KLARA MORICZ 105 Arthur Lourie's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY KLARA MORICZ; TRANSLATION BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN, KATYA ERMOLAEV, YASHA KLOTS, TAMARA LEVITZ, KLARA MORICZ, AND BORIS WOLFSON 127 Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection TAMARA LEVITZ 141 Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World INTRODUCTION BY LEONORA SAAVEDRA; INTERVIEWS TRANSLATED BY MARIEL FIORI IN COLLABORATION WITH TAMARA LEVITZ; DOCUMENT NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 177 The Poetique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices VALERIE DUFOUR; TRANSLATED BY BRIDGET BEHRMANN AND TAMARA LEVITZ225 Stravinsky: The View from Russia SVETLANA SAVENKO; TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA 255 Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960-1963 LETTERS TRANSLATED BY PHILIPP PENKA WITH ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK; INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES BY TAMARA LEVITZ 273 "The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": The Parallel Lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky LEON BOTSTEIN 319 Index 349 Notes on Contributors 365
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Princeton University Press Franz Schubert and His World
Book SynopsisDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and ovTrade Review"The historical background provided by these essays often sheds light on the music. A thorough index makes this a valuable reference work as well as a good read."--Stephen Matthews, The SchubertianTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Permissions and Credits xvii Schubert: The Nonsense Society Revisited 1 RITA STEBLIN Excerpts from Beytrage zur Bildung fur Junglinge, 1817-1818 39 ANTON VON SPAUN AND JOHANN MAYRHOFER TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID GRAMIT "Those of us who found our life in art": The Second-Generation 67 Romanticism of the Schubert-Schober Circle, 1820-1825 JOHN M. GINGERICH Schubert's Kosegarten Settings of 1815: A Forgotten Liederspiel 115 MORTEN SOLVIK The Queen of Golconda, the Ashman, and the Shepherd on a Rock: Schubert and the Vienna Volkstheater 157 LISA FEURZEIG Liszt on Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella 183 INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED BY ALLAN KEILER Schubert's Freedom of Song, If Not Speech 201 KRISTINA MUXFELDT Schubert's Tombeau de Beethoven: Decrypting the Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100 241 CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS Schubert in History 299 LEON BOTSTEIN Index 349 Notes on Contributors 363
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Princeton University Press Giacomo Puccini and His World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The collection is an amazing potpourri of Puccini scholarship."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Permissions viii Introduction: Puccini, His World, and Ours 1 EMANUELE SENICI PART I: Essays Realism and Skepticism in Puccini's Early Operas 29 ARMAN SCHWARTZ Madama Butterfly Between East and West 49 ARTHUR GROOS Laggiu nel Soledad: Indexing and Archiving the Operatic West 85 ELLEN LOCKHART The Swallow and the Lark: La rondine and Viennese Operetta 111 MICAELA BARANELLO Puccini's Things: Materials and Media in Il trittico 133 ALESSANDRA CAMPANA AND CHRISTOPHER MORRIS Puccini, Fascism, and the Case of Turandot 159 BEN EARLE Music, Language, and Meaning in Opera: Puccini and His Contemporaries 183 LEON BOTSTEIN PART II: Documents Puccini on His Interpreters 229 INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY BY EMANUELE SENICI The Verismo Debate 261 INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY BY ARMAN SCHWARTZ Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Modern-Realistic Opera 273 by Hans Merian INTRODUCTION BY WALTER FRISCH, TRANSLATION AND NOTES BY ELAINE FITZ GIBBON Albert Carre's Staging Manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) 291 INTRODUCTION BY MICHELE GIRARDI, TRANSLATION BY DELIA CASADEI; STAGING MANUAL TRANSLATION BY STEVEN HUEBNER Selections from Fausto Torrefranca's Giacomo Puccini and International Opera 323 INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDRA WILSON, TRANSLATION BY DELIA CASADEI Index 337 Notes on Contributors 347
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Princeton University Press Schumann and His World
Book SynopsisWe know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In PartTrade Review"The seven studies of [Robert Schumann] and his music cover the composer's inspirations, his sources, and his relations with numerous interesting people... [a] well-rounded and interesting picture of the composer and his times."--Library Journal "This volume ... edited by the American scholar Larry R. Todd, contains a substantial essay on the composer's cultural background, ... a comparably comprehensive piece ... linking sociological to psychological motives, ... and a fascinating account by the editor of Schumann's use of quotation and self-quotation... Parts 2 and 3 of the book reprint letters, memoirs and critical commentaries by Schumann's contemporaries and successors."--Times Literary Supplement "Rich in new ideas."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHistory, Rhetoric, and the Self: Robert Schumann and Music Making in German-Speaking Europe, 1800-18603Schumann's Homelessness47On Quotation in Schumann's Music80Schumann's Symphonic Finales113Schumann's "New Genre for the Concert Hall": Das Paradies und die Peri in the Eyes of a Contemporary129The Intentional Tourist: Romantic Irony in the Eichendorff Liederkreis of Robert Schumann156"Actually, Taken Directly from Family Life": Robert Schumann's Album fur die Jugend171The Correspondence between Clara Wieck Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn205Reminiscences of Robert Schumann (1878)233Robert Schumann in Endenich (1899)268Schumanniana (1925)288On Robert Schumann's Piano Compositions (1844)303Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General (1845)317Robert Schumann (1855)338Schumanniana No. 4: The Present Musical Epoch and Robert Schumann's Position in Music History (1861)362On Schumann as Symphonist (1904-1906)375Index of Names and Compositions385List of Contributors395
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MB - Cornell University Press The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished
Book Synopsis"If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite Wahnfried, the home of his daughter Cosima and his...Trade ReviewA macabre little classic. -- Alex Ross * The New Yorker *The Death of Franz Liszt brings you into the closest possible proximity to this much idolized pianist, thanks to a detailed diary kept by his pupil and caregiver, one Lina Schmalhausen. The closer you get to Liszt, the more you admire him as a singular example of one whose talent and fame spawned generosity and wisdom in a world ruled by self-serving pettiness. -- David Patrick Stearns * Philadelphia Inquirer *
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Mapping Woody Guthrie
Book SynopsisTo map Woody Guthrie’s movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist’s considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives. This trove of primary documents deepens Kaufman’s intriguing portrait of a unique American artist.
£15.26
Louisiana State University Press Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians
Book SynopsisLouisiana's unique multicultural history has led to the development of more styles of American music than anywhere else in the country. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians compiles over 1,600 native creators, performers, and recorders of the state's indigenous musical genres.
£40.80
Louisiana State University Press Slim Harpo
Book SynopsisAs Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In this biography of the renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo’s rural upbringing, his professional development, and his national success.
£31.89
University of Pennsylvania Press Closure and Mahlers Music Role of Secondary
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University Press of Florida Good Day Sunshine State How the Beatles Rocked
Book SynopsisIn 1964 The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America - and they spent more time in Florida than anywhere else. Good Day Sunshine State dives into this momentous time and place, exploring the band’s seismic influence on the people and culture of the state.Trade Review“[Kealing’s] sources come from outside the Beatles camp, adjacent observers offering reflective testimony on a moment when The Beatles were not yet fully draped in myth.”—Uncut Magazine
£21.56
University Press of Florida The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Graham Jackson (1903-1983), a musician whose life story displays the complexities of being a Black professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jackson navigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career and highlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century.
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University Press of Florida The Life and Music of Graham Jackson
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Graham Jackson (1903-1983), a musician whose life story displays the complexities of being a Black professional in the segregated South. David Cason discusses how Jackson navigated a web of racial and social negotiations throughout his long career and highlights his little-known role in events of the twentieth century.
£22.46
