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Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane (Book)Title: Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane
Author: Franya Berkman
Abstract: Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues, bebop, free jazz, Indian devotional song, and Western art music. Her childhood experiences playing for African-American congregations in Detroit, the ecstatic and avant-garde improvisations she performed on the bandstand with her husband John Coltrane, and her religious pilgrimages to India reveal themselves on more than twenty albums of original music for the Impulse and Warner Brothers labels.
In the late 1970s Alice Coltrane became a swami, directing an alternative spiritual community in Southern California. Exploring her transformation from Alice McLeod, Detroit church pianist and bebopper, to guru Swami Turiya Sangitananda, Monument Eternal illuminates her music and, in turn, reveals the exceptional fluidity of American religious practices in the second half of the twentieth century. Most of all, this book celebrates the hybrid music of an exceptional, boundary-crossing African-American artist.
Year: 2010
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Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8195-69
Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz (Book)Title: Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz
Author: Todd Decker
Abstract: Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer —particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines the full range of Astaire’s work in filmed and recorded media, from a 1926 recording with George Gershwin to his 1970 blues stylings on television, and analyzes Astaire’s creative relationships with the greats, including George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. He also highlights Astaire’s collaborations with African American musicians and his work with lesser known professionals—arrangers, musicians, dance directors, and performers.
Year: 2011
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http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520268906Primary URL Description: Publisher's web site
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520268883
Schoenberg’s New World: The American Years (Book)Title: Schoenberg’s New World: The American Years
Author: Sabine Feisst
Abstract: Arnold Schoenberg was a polarizing figure in twentieth century music, and his works and ideas have had considerable and lasting impact on Western musical life. A refugee from Nazi Europe, he spent an important part of his creative life in the United States (1933-1951), where he produced a rich variety of works and distinguished himself as an influential teacher. However, while his European career has received much scholarly attention, surprisingly little has been written about the genesis and context of his works composed in America, his interactions with Americans and other emigres, and the substantial, complex, and fascinating performance and reception history of his music in this country.
Author Sabine Feisst illuminates Schoenberg's legacy and sheds a corrective light on a variety of myths about his sojourn. Looking at the first American performances of his works and the dissemination of his ideas among American composers in the 1910s, 1920s and early 1930s, she convincingly debunks the myths surrounding Schoenberg's alleged isolation in the US. Whereas most previous accounts of his time in the US have portrayed him as unwilling to adapt to American culture, this book presents a more nuanced picture, revealing a Schoenberg who came to terms with his various national identities in his life and work. Feisst dispels lingering negative impressions about Schoenberg's teaching style by focusing on his methods themselves as well as on his powerful influence on such well-known students as John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Dika Newlin. Schoenberg's influence is not limited to those who followed immediately in his footsteps-a wide range of composers, from Stravinsky adherents to experimentalists to jazz and film composers, were equally indebted to Schoenberg, as were key figures in music theory like Milton Babbitt and David Lewin. In sum, Schoenberg's New World contributes to a new understanding of one of the most important pioneers of musical modernism.
Year: 2011
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780195372380
Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (Book)Title: Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila
Author: David R. M. Irving
Abstract: In this groundbreaking study, D. R. M. Irving reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For some two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were firmly interlinked to Latin America and Spain through transoceanic relationships of politics, religion, trade, and culture. The city of Manila, founded in 1571, represented a vital intercultural nexus and a significant conduit for the regional diffusion of Western music. Within its ethnically diverse society, imported and local musics played a crucial role in the establishment of ecclesiastical hierarchies in the Philippines and in propelling the work of Roman Catholic missionaries in neighboring territories. Manila's religious institutions resounded with sumptuous vocal and instrumental performances, while an annual calendar of festivities brought together many musical traditions of the indigenous and immigrant populations in complex forms of artistic interaction and opposition.
Multiple styles and genres coexisted according to strict regulations enforced by state and ecclesiastical authorities, and Irving uses the metaphors of European counterpoint and enharmony to critique musical practices within the colonial milieu. He argues that the introduction and institutionalization of counterpoint acted as a powerful agent of colonialism throughout the Philippine Archipelago, and that contrapuntal structures were reflected in the social and cultural reorganization of Filipino communities under Spanish rule. He also contends that the active appropriation of music and dance by the indigenous population constituted a significant contribution to the process of hispanization. Sustained "enharmonic engagement" between Filipinos and Spaniards led to the synthesis of hybrid, syncretic genres and the emergence of performance styles that could contest and subvert hegemony.
Year: 2010
Primary URL:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/WorldMusicEthnomusicology/?view=usa&ci=9780195378269Primary URL Description: Publisher's web site
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780195378269
Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia (Book)Title: Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
Author: Richard Jankowsky
Abstract: In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North African Muslim saints to heal humans through ritualized trance. Based on nearly two years of participation in the musical, ritual, and social worlds of stambeli musicians, Jankowsky’s study explores the way the music evokes the cross-cultural, migratory past of its originators and their encounters with the Arab-Islamic world in which they found themselves. Stambeli, Jankowsky avers, is thoroughly marked by a sense of otherness—the healing spirits, the founding musicians, and the instruments mostly come from outside Tunisia—which creates a unique space for profoundly meaningful interactions between sub-Saharan and North African people, beliefs, histories, and aesthetics.
Part ethnography, part history of the complex relationship between Tunisia’s Arab and sub-Saharan populations, Stambeli will be welcomed by scholars and students of ethnomusicology, anthropology, African studies, and religion.
Year: 2010
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo9299440.htmlPrimary URL Description: Publisher's web site
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-226-392
Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007 (Book)Title: Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007
Author: Laura Lohmann
Abstract: In 1967 Egypt and the Arab world suffered a devastating defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War. Though long past the age at which most singers would have retired, the sexagenarian Egyptian singer Umm Kulth m launched a multifaceted response to the defeat that not only sustained her career, but also expanded her international fame and shaped her legacy. By examining biographies, dramas, monuments, radio programming practices, and recent recordings, Laura Lohman delves into Umm Kulth m’s role in fashioning her image and the conflicting ways that her image and music have been interpreted since her death in 1975.
Year: 2010
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http://www.upne.com/0819570710.htmlPrimary URL Description: Publisher's web site
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8195-70
Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth Century America (Book)Title: Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth Century America
Author: Nancy Newman
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In Good Music for a Free People, author Nancy Newman examines the activities and reception of the Germania Musical Society, an orchestra whose members emigrated from Berlin during the Revolutions of 1848. These two dozen "Forty-Eighters" gave nearly a thousand concerts in North America during the ensuing six-year period, possibly reaching a million listeners. Drawing on a memoir by member Henry Albrecht, Newman provides insights into the musicians' desire to bring their music to the audiences of a democratic republic at this turbulent time. Eager to avoid the egotism and self-promotion of the European patronage system, they pledged to work for their mutual interests both musically and socially. "One for all, and all for one" became their motto. Originally published in German, Albrecht's memoir is presented here in for the first time in translation.
Year: 2010
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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580463454
Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits (Book)Title: Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Author: Benjamin Piekut
Abstract: In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman’s Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the emergence of Iggy Pop. Drawing together a colorful array of personalities, Piekut argues that each of these examples points to a failure and marks a limit or boundary of canonical experimentalism. What emerges from these marginal moments is an accurate picture of the avant-garde, not as a style or genre, but as a network defined by disagreements, struggles, and exclusions.
Year: 2011
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http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520268517Primary URL Description: Publisher's web site
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520268500
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (Book)Title: A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
Author: George E. Lewis
Abstract: Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images.
Year: 2008
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo5504497.htmlPrimary URL Description: Publisher web site
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226476957
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Music in American Culture Award
Date: 11/1/2009
Organization: American Musicological Society
Abstract: The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context. The goal of this award is to recognize the best writing on music in American culture, regardless of the source or intended audience of that writing; hence work by a broad range of authors—including performing musicians, journalists, and music critics, as well as academic scholars—will be considered.
Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Book)Title: Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Author: Robin D. G. Kelley
Abstract: THELONIOUS MONK is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of “bebop” and establishing Monk as one of America’s greatest composers. Elegantly written and rich with humor and pathos, Thelonious Monk is the definitive work on modern jazz’s most original composer.
Year: 2009
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http://books.simonandschuster.com/Thelonious-Monk/Robin-Kelley/9781439190463Primary URL Description: Publisher web site
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781439190463
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Music in American Culture Award
Date: 11/1/2010
Organization: American Musicological Society
Abstract: The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context. The goal of this award is to recognize the best writing on music in American culture, regardless of the source or intended audience of that writing; hence work by a broad range of authors—including performing musicians, journalists, and music critics, as well as academic scholars—will be considered.
I Don’t Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America (Book)Title: I Don’t Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America
Author: Albin J. Zak III
Abstract: The 1950s marked a radical transformation in American popular music as the nation drifted away from its love affair with big band swing to embrace the unschooled and unruly new sounds of rock 'n' roll.
The sudden flood of records from the margins of the music industry left impressions on the pop soundscape that would eventually reshape long-established listening habits and expectations, as well as conventions of songwriting, performance, and recording. When Elvis Presley claimed, "I don't sound like nobody," a year before he made his first commercial record, he unwittingly articulated the era's musical Zeitgeist.
The central story line of I Don't Sound Like Nobody is change itself. The book's characters include not just performers but engineers, producers, songwriters, label owners, radio personalities, and fans—all of them key players in the decade's musical transformation.
Written in engaging, accessible prose, Albin Zak's I Don't Sound Like Nobody approaches musical and historical issues of the 1950s through the lens of recordings and fashions a compelling story of the birth of a new musical language. The book belongs on the shelf of every modern music aficionado and every scholar of rock 'n' roll.
Year: 2010
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-472-116
Prizes
Music in American Culture Award
Date: 11/1/2011
Organization: American Musicological Society
Abstract: The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context. The goal of this award is to recognize the best writing on music in American culture, regardless of the source or intended audience of that writing; hence work by a broad range of authors—including performing musicians, journalists, and music critics, as well as academic scholars—will be considered.
Quintette for Piano and String Quartet (Book)Title: Quintette for Piano and String Quartet
Author: Leo Ornstein
Editor: Michael Broyles
Editor: Denise Von Glahn
Abstract: Leo Ornstein was a wildly famous Russian-American pianist-composer who in the late 1910s simultaneously outraged and riveted audiences with his unprecedented dissonant piano works and then unexpectedly surprised them when he dropped out of sight to pursue a quieter life of composition and teaching. In 1927 Ornstein returned to the spotlight with a new work, his Quintette for Piano and Strings (Op. 92). Here was a piece of breadth and scope reflective of a mature musical mind. Its lyricism and super-charged expressivity seemed to be in sharp contrast to the hammering physicality of Danse Sauvage or Suicide in an Airplane, two of the show-stoppers from his days as a touring virtuoso. But what many perceived to be a regression in style was in fact an expansion of that earlier voice, now more reflective, more thoughtful, and more finished. Ornstein’s Quintette for Piano and Strings is an impassioned work that reveals the raw emotions of a proudly intuitive composer. It is a worthy companion to the quintets of Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, Frank, Fauré, and Bloch, and like them it will stand the test of time.
Year: 2005
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895795700
American Victorian Choral Music (Book)Title: American Victorian Choral Music
Author: Dudley Bock
Editor: N. Lee Orr
Abstract: This MUSA volume makes an important contribution to American music studies by presenting a scholarly edition of selected choral works by Dudley Buck (1839–1909). Buck was arguably the finest composer of choral music among the group of musicians who had come of age by the end of the Civil War. The works chosen for this volume, some of which became icons of American Victorian culture, represent the three most popular choral genres during the Gilded Age: the anthem, the sacred and secular cantata, and the partsong. All of the works included here found immediate publication and stayed in print well into the twentieth century. Buck's works became the standards, not only by their intrinsic merit, but owing to their widespread performance throughout the country. His services, canticles, anthems, and hymns—musically engaging, well-crafted, and often genuinely moving—were considerably more professional than the homegrown music in use when he began his work. Included here are three works, a hymn anthem ("Rock of Ages"), a liturgical text ("Festival Te Deum No. 7 in E-flat"), and a late, through-composed work ("Grant to Us Thy Grace"). Buck's sacred and secular cantatas along with his partsongs also enjoyed widespread success among the growing number of church choirs and community choral groups. The two partsongs come from his earliest and latest periods. "In Absence" represents the early Victorian partsong, and the second, "The Signal Resounds from Afar" is both Buck's longest partsong and the one showing the greatest contrapuntal complexity. Both The Centennial Meditation of Columbia, written for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and the Forty-Sixth Psalm, from 1872, are in full score and typify some of the finest cantata writing in Victorian America.
Year: 2005
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Single author monograph
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895795731
Selected Piano Solos, 1928-1941 (Book)Title: Selected Piano Solos, 1928-1941
Author: Earl "Fatha" Hines
Editor: Jeffrey Taylor
Abstract: As accompanist, ensemble player, and soloist, Earl “Fatha” Hines (1903–83) revolutionized the role of the piano in jazz. This publication focuses on his solo artistry and includes complete transcriptions of twelve solo recordings made by Hines between 1928 and 1941. These pieces show how Hines integrated stride, blues, novelty piano, and Western classical music with the work of other improvising soloists (especially trumpeter Louis Armstrong) to develop an innovative and highly personal style that continues to influence jazz pianists today. The thirteen-year span of the edition will allow scholars to trace the development of Hines's improvisational approach and evaluate how Hines adapted to the changing stylistic language of the 1930s and early 1940s. Alternate versions of two improvisations are included to show how Hines approached the same tune in subsequent performances. A tune history, discography, and stylistic commentary for each piece is provided, as well as a prefatory essay examining Hines's life and career, his piano style, and his role in the development of the jazz piano solo as a genre.
Year: 2006
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895795809
Complete Wind Chamber Music (Book)Title: Complete Wind Chamber Music
Author: David Moritz Michael
Editor: Nola Reed Knouse
Abstract: The Complete Wind Chamber Music of David Moritz Michael includes sixteen multi-movement works in this volume that are based on manuscript sources and edited by Nola Reed Knouse, who has been director of research of programs for the Moravian Music Foundation since 1992. Scorings for the works (as with the familiar Harmoniemusik) begin with paired clarinets, horns, and one or two bassoon parts, and to this basic ensemble a single trumpet or flute is sometimes added. Michael (1751-1827) trained as a bandsman in Westphalia before he joined the Moravian Church and moved to the USA, where he spent most of life teaching in and composing music for various Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania. As Knouse states in her introductory essay, Moravian music in general is noteworthy because of its craftsmanship, musicality, and sincere portrayal of spiritual values, and these works are representative of this standard. Written for capable amateurs, these works generally avoid virtuosic display, but they are never simplistic or condescending.
Year: 2006
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895795991
Surviving Orchestral Music (Book)Title: Surviving Orchestral Music
Author: Charles Hommann
Editor: Joanne Swenson-Eldridge
Abstract: Charles Hommann (1803–ca. 1872) was a Philadelphia-born musician and composer during the years in which instrumental music, especially European classical music, became increasingly prominent in the United States. He was encouraged by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, an organization founded in 1820, to aid its aging musician members and dedicated to “the cultivation of skill and diffusion of taste in music.” Hommann's surviving orchestral compositions—two overtures and a symphony—seem a fitting response to the musical environment created by the Society and its members.
None of Hommann’s orchestral works was published. This edition of Hommann's three extant orchestral works, accompanied by an essay that discusses his cultural and historical milieu, will bring deserved attention to the enterprising Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and make accessible for study and performance the earliest known products of an emerging tradition of notable orchestral works by native-born American composers.
Year: 2007
Publisher: A-R Editions
ISBN: 9780895796196
Four Saints in Three Acts (Book)Title: Four Saints in Three Acts
Author: Gertrude Stein
Author: Virgil Thomson
Editor: Charles Fussell
Editor: H. Wiley Hitchcock
Abstract: With music by Virgil Thomson and a libretto by Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts was completed in 1928 but waited almost six years for its first performances. After a week’s run in Hartford, Connecticut, in February 1934, it moved to New York where--with some sixty performances in six weeks--it became the longest-running opera that Broadway up to that time had experienced.
This critical edition by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Charles Fussell features the scenario by Maurice Grosser and is based on the full score that Thomson commissioned from copyist Ben Weber for his 1947-48 revision; it includes the 32-measure orchestral prelude to the Act II "Dance of the Angels," and it makes comparisons primarily to the manuscript scores held at the Library of Congress and Yale University. The critical apparatus applies as much to the music as to the Stein text, the principal source for which is the 1929 first publication.
Year: 2008
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895796295
Symphonies nos. 1 and 3 (Book)Title: Symphonies nos. 1 and 3
Author: Florence Price
Editor: Wayne Shirley
Editor: Rae Linda Brown
Abstract: Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953), who settled in Chicago in 1927, was the most widely known African-American woman composer from the 1930s until her death. This edition presents two important unpublished orchestral works: the Symphony no. 1 in E Minor (1932) and the Symphony no. 3 in C Minor (1940). The style of these works is quite different. Price's Symphony in E Minor is squarely in the nationalist tradition, and it may be more fully considered in the context of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Cultural characteristics are borne out in the pentatonic themes, call-and-response procedures, syncopated rhythms of the third movement's Juba dance, the preponderance of altered tones, and the timbral differentiation of instrumental choirs (the juxtaposition of the brass and woodwind choirs, for example).
The Symphony in C Minor was inspired by new philosophical, political, and social currents, stemming from the Chicago Renaissance, underway from 1935-1950. The Great Migration (of blacks from the south to Chicago), the Depression, and the adjustment to urban life provided vivid life experiences as subject matter for Chicago Renaissance writers and artists (including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Margaret Bonds). Price's third symphony, which omits overtly black themes and simple dance rhythms, presents a modern approach to composition–a synthesis, rather than a retrospective view, of African-American life and culture.
Year: 2008
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895796387
Songs from "A New Circle of Voices": The Sixteenth Annual Pow-wow at UCLA (Book)Title: Songs from "A New Circle of Voices": The Sixteenth Annual Pow-wow at UCLA
Editor: Tara Browner
Abstract: Along with an introductory essay and explanatory notes, this volume contains transcriptions by ethnomusicologist Tara Browner of thirteen songs performed in May 2001 by the Cedartree Singers (from Falls Church, Va.) and Native Thunder (from Thunder Valley, S. Dak.) at the sixteenth annual pow-wow sponsored by UCLA’s American Indian Student Association. The transcriptions are complete in that they feature not only vocal lines for lead singers and ensembles, but also lines for drums and--with notation invented especially for this edition--movement patterns for both male and female dancers; the vocal material (including vocables and texts in the Lakota and Pawnee languages) are presented in full, with translations offered in the explanatory notes for each song.
Year: 2009
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895796578
Six Marches (Book)Title: Six Marches
Author: John Philip Sousa
Editor: Patrick Warfield
Abstract: The marches of John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) remain staples of the band repertoire, but our knowledge of Sousa’s music rests largely on modern editions designed for school (rather than professional) bands, or on reprintings of the original editions, which because of their small size and rushed publication contain countless inconsistencies and omissions. This volume contains full band scores for six Sousa marches, each prepared from the first printing of the band parts and informed by Sousa’s holograph and the original performance materials. The six marches—The Washington Post (1889), The Liberty Bell (1893), El Capitan (1896), The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896), Sabre and Spurs (1918), and George Washington Bicentennial (1930)—span Sousa’s career, from his tenure as leader of the United States Marine Band (1880-92) to his years conducting his own, commercial ensemble (1892-1932). Also included in the volume is an essay reexamining Sousa’s biography, source materials, performance practice, and place in American culture.
Year: 2010
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895796752
The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook (Book)Title: The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook
Editor: Dale Cockrell
Abstract: The eight Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), anchored in her family’s history and filled with memories of frontier life, are cornerstone classics in American children’s literature. Embedded in them are citations to 127 pieces of music--from parlor songs, stage songs, minstrel show songs, patriotic songs, Scottish and Irish songs, hymns and spirituals, to fiddle tunes, singing school songs, play party songs, folk songs, broadside ballads, catches and rounds. No books in American literature of comparable standing and popularity feature America’s vernacular music so centrally, assign it such a major narrative role, and index it in such rich abundance.
This edition is a reconstruction of "the family songbook," based on the music referenced in Wilder’s books. Although no such object ever existed, her representations of music-making have likely informed the imaginations of more Americans than many a paper-and-bindings anthology, for what millions of readers have come to know about America’s musical heritage is what they learned from the Little House books—the titles and lyrics to songs; how songs and tunes functioned; where they were heard; what they meant; the importance of music to individuals, families, and communities. Wilder’s references and her evocative images of music-making thus form the basis of understanding about "American music" to many readers. The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook is an effort to give fresh voice and sound to the music inscribed in these great books and new appreciation about how music functioned during a place and time important in American history and mythology.
Year: 2011
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895796875
Symphony no. 2 in D Minor, op. 24 (Jullien) (Book)Title: Symphony no. 2 in D Minor, op. 24 (Jullien)
Author: George Frederick Bristow
Editor: Katherine K. Preston
Abstract: George Frederick Bristow (1825–98), American composer, conductor, teacher, and performer, was a pillar of the New York musical community for the second half of the nineteenth century. His participation in an important mid-century battle-of-words (between William Henry Fry and the journalist Richard Storrs Willis and concerning a lack of support for American composers by the Philharmonic Society) has unfortunately overshadowed his accomplishments as a composer, which were significant. Bristow is remembered today primarily for his opera Rip van Winkle (1855) and oratorio Daniel (1866), but he was also a skillful and productive composer of orchestral music—one of only a handful of American orchestral composers active at mid-century.
Bristow wrote his Symphony no. 2 (Jullien) in 1853. It is a substantial work in four movements, scored for the standard orchestra of the early nineteenth century, and strongly influenced by the personal styles of Beethoven and Mendelssohn (whose works were performed regularly by the Philharmonic Society). The symphony is skillfully crafted, melodious, and an intrinsically worthy work of musical artistry. It was named to honor the French conductor Louis Jullien, who visited the United States in 1853–54 with an unparalleled orchestra. While in the United States Jullien both commissioned and performed American works (including this symphony); his support served as the catalyst for the Fry/Willis battle. The introductory essay to this symphony examines Bristow’s career, the composition of orchestral music in America at mid-century, and Jullien’s role in the musical battle; the edition makes available for the first time an important work that has been undeservedly forgotten for over 150 years.
Year: 2011
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895796844
The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle (Book)Title: The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Author: Georgia J. Cowart
Abstract: Prominent components of Louis XIV’s propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.
With bold revisionist strokes, Cowart traces this strain of artistic dissent through the comedy-ballets of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Molière, the late operatic works of Lully and the operas of his sons, the opera-ballets of André Campra and his contemporaries, and the related imagery of Antoine Watteau’s well-known painting The Pilgrimage to Cythera. She contends that through a variety of means, including the parody of old-fashioned court entertainments, these works reclaimed traditional allegories for new ideological aims, setting the tone for the Enlightenment. Looking at all these festive arts from the perspective of spectacle as it emerged from the court into the Parisian public sphere, Cowart ultimately situates the ballet and related genres as the missing link between an imagery of propaganda and an imagery of political protest.
Year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226116389
Vanishing Sensibilities Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (Book)Title: Vanishing Sensibilities Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann
Author: Kristina Muxfeldt
Abstract: Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, which included such topics as the role of consent in marriage, same-sex relationships, freedom of the press, and the freedom to worship (or not). Among the most common vehicles for stimulating debate about pressing social concerns were the genres of historical drama, and legend or myth, whose stories became inflected in fascinating ways during the Age of Metternich. Interior and imagined worlds, memories and fantasies, were called up in purely instrumental music, and music was privately celebrated for its ability to circumvent the restrictions that were choking the verbal arts.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199782420
Special Sound The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Book)Title: Special Sound The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Author: Louis Niebur
Abstract: Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions with experimental sounds "neither music nor sound effect." Quickly, however, a popular kind of electronic music emerged in the form of quirky jingles, signature tunes such as Doctor Who, and incidental music for hundreds of programs. These influential sounds and styles, heard by millions of listeners over decades of operation on television and radio, have served as a primary inspiration for the use of electronic instruments in popular music.
Using in-depth research in the studio's archives and papers, this book tells the history of the many engineers, composers, directors, and producers behind the studio to trace the shifting perception towards electronic music in Britain. Combining historical discussion of the people and instruments in the workshop with analysis of specific works, Louis Niebur creates a new model for understanding how the Radiophonic Workshop fits into the larger history of electronic music.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195368406
Songs in Motion Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied (Book)Title: Songs in Motion Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied
Author: Yonatan Malin
Abstract: Qualities of motion and emotion in song come from poetic images, melody, harmony, and voice leading, but they also come from rhythm and meter-the flow and articulation of words and music in time. This book explores rhythm and meter in the nineteenth-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel nee Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf.
The Lied, as a genre, is characterized especially by the fusion of poetry and music. Poetic meter itself has expressive qualities, and rhythmic variations contribute further to the modes of signification. These features often carry over into songs, even as they are set in the more strictly determined periodicities of musical meter. A new method of declamatory-schema analysis is presented to illustrate common possibilities for setting trimeter, tetrameter, and pentameter lines. Degrees of rhythmic regularity and irregularity are also considered.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195340051
Listening through the Noise The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music (Book)Title: Listening through the Noise The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Author: Joanna Demers
Abstract: Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres, communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic, popular, and avant-garde electronic musicians, is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And is there even a place for aesthetics in twenty-first-century culture? This book explores genres ranging from techno to electroacoustic music, from glitch to drone music, and from dub to drones, and maintains that culturally and historically informed aesthetic theory is not only possible but indispensable for understanding electronic music.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195387650
Songs, Scribes, and Society The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers (Book)Title: Songs, Scribes, and Society The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers
Author: Jane Alden
Abstract: A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre.
The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right.
This book places the physical objects at center, investigating the means by which they were produced and the broader culture in which they circulated. Jane Alden performs a codicological autopsy upon the manuscripts and reveals the hitherto unrecognized role of scribes in shaping the transmission and reception of the chanson repertory. Alden also challenges the long-held belief that the Loire Valley Chansonniers were intended for royal or noble patrons. Instead, she argues that a rising class of bureaucrats--notaries, secretaries, and other court officials--commissioned these exquisite objects. Active as writers and participants in poetry competitions, these individuals may even have written some of the chansons' texts.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195381528
Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Book)Title: Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds
Author: Vanessa Agnew
Abstract: The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Agnew persuasively connects the English traveler and music scholar Charles Burney with the ancient myth of Orpheus. She uses Burney as a guide through wide-ranging discussions of eighteenth-century musical travel, views on music's curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity, Agnew adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the aural. She also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in generating knowledge at the time.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195336665
Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz (Book)Title: Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz
Author: Todd Decker
Abstract: Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer —particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines the full range of Astaire’s work in filmed and recorded media, from a 1926 recording with George Gershwin to his 1970 blues stylings on television, and analyzes Astaire’s creative relationships with the greats, including George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. He also highlights Astaire’s collaborations with African American musicians and his work with lesser known professionals—arrangers, musicians, dance directors, and performers.
Year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520268883
A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League (Book)Title: A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League
Author: Lily E. Hirsch
Abstract: The Jewish Culture League was created in Berlin in June 1933, the only organization in Nazi Germany in which Jews were not only allowed but encouraged to participate in music, both as performers and as audience members. Lily E. Hirsch's A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany is the first book to seriously investigate and parse the complicated questions the existence of this unique organization raised, such as why the Nazis would promote Jewish music when, in the rest of Germany, it was banned. The government's insistence that the League perform only Jewish music also presented the organization's leaders and membership with perplexing conundrums: what exactly is Jewish music? Who qualifies as a Jewish composer? And, if it is true that the Nazis conceived of the League as a propaganda tool, did Jewish participation in its activities amount to collaboration?
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780472034970
Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (Book)Title: Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy
Author: Ellen Rosand
Abstract: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works—Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642)—from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, Le nozze d'Enea (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their specifically Venetian context and as the creations of an old master. A thorough review of manuscript and printed sources of Ritorno and Poppea, in conjunction with those of their erstwhile silent companion, offers new possibilities for resolving the questions of authenticity that have swirled around Monteverdi's last operas since their discovery in the late nineteenth century. Le nozze d'Enea also helps to explain the striking differences between the other two, casting new light on their contrasting moral ethos: the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520249349
The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Book)Title: The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Author: David Schulenberg
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The first-born of the four composer sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann was often considered the most brilliant. Yet he left relatively few works and died in obscurity. This monograph, the first on the composer in nearly a century, identifies the unique features of Friedemann's music that make it worth studying and performing. It considers how Friedemann's training and upbringing differed from those of his brothers, leading to a style that diverged from that of his contemporaries.
Central to the book are detailed discussions of all Friedemann's extant works: the virtuoso sonatas and concertos for keyboard instruments, the extraordinary chamber compositions (especially for flute), and the hitherto-neglected vocal music, including sacred cantatas and a remarkable work in honor of King Frederick the Great of Prussia. Special sections consider performance questions unique to Friedemann's music and provide a handy list of his works and their sources. Numerous musical examples provide glimpses of many little-known compositions, including a concerto ignored by previous students of Friedemann's music, here restored to his list of works.
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580463591
Opera's Orbit: Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome (Book)Title: Opera's Orbit: Musical Drama and the Influence of Opera in Arcadian Rome
Author: Stefanie Tcharos
Abstract: Exploring the dynamic yet problematic context of musical drama in Rome, this study probes opera's relationship to modernity during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Opera instigated a range of discourses, most notably among Rome's Academy of Arcadians, whose apprehension towards opera refracted larger aesthetic and cultural debates, and socio-political tensions. Tcharos presents a unique perspective, engaging opera as a historical force that established a sphere of influence across several genres and matrices of culture. The juxtaposition of opera against the prominent forms of the oratorio, serenata and cantata illustrates opera's constitutive role in a trans-genre cultural matrix, where the dialogical connections between musico-dramatic forms vividly capture the historicism, nostalgia, contradiction and cultural reform that opera inspired. By illuminating other genres as reactionary sites of music and drama, Opera's Orbit boldly reconstructs opera's eighteenth-century critical turn.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521116657
Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (Book)Title: Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III
Author: Andrew H. Weaver
Abstract: Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in re-establishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands, and yet he remains one of the most neglected of all Habsburg emperors. The underlying premise of Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III is that Ferdinand's accomplishments came not through diplomacy or strong leadership but primarily through a skillful manipulation of the arts, through which he communicated important messages to his subjects and secured their allegiance to the Catholic Church. An important locus for cultural activity at court, especially as related to the Habsburgs' political power, was the Emperor's public image.
Ferdinand III offers a fascinating case study in monarchical representation, for the war necessitated that he revise the image he had cultivated at the beginning of his reign, that of a powerful, victorious warrior. Weaver argues that by focusing on the patronage of sacred music (rather than the more traditional visual and theatrical means of representation), Ferdinand III was able to uphold his reputation as a pious Catholic reformer and subtly revise his triumphant martial image without sacrificing his power, while also achieving his Counter-Reformation goal of unifying his hereditary lands under the Catholic church.
Drawing upon recent methodological approaches to the representation of other early modern monarchs, as well as upon the theory of confessionalization, this book places the sacred vocal music composed by imperial musicians into the rich cultural, political, and religious contexts of mid-seventeenth-century Central Europe. The book incorporates dramatic productions such as opera, oratorio, and Jesuit drama.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Ashgate
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781409421191
Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Book)Title: Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum
Author: Daniel Cavicchi
Abstract: Listening and Longing explores the emergence of music listening in the United States, from its early stages in the antebellum era, when entrepreneurs first packaged and sold the experience of hearing musical performance, to the Gilded Age, when genteel critics began to successfully redefine the cultural value of listening to music. In a series of interconnected stories, American studies scholar Daniel Cavicchi focuses on the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and commercialization in shaping practices of music audiences in America. Grounding our contemporary culture of listening in its seminal historical moment—before the iPod, stereo system, or phonograph—Cavicchi offers a fresh understanding of the role of listening in the history of music.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819571618
Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Book)Title: Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani
Author: Roger Freitas
Abstract: This book explores the fascinating life of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century. Born in 1626 into a bourgeois family in Pistoia, Italy, Atto Melani was castrated to preserve his singing voice and soon rose to both artistic and social prominence. His extant letters not only depict the musical activities of several European centers, they reveal the real-life context of music and the musician: how a singer related to patrons and colleagues, what he thought about his profession, and the role music played in his life. Whether Atto was singing, spying, having sex, composing, or even rejecting his art, his life illustrates how music-making was always also a negotiation for power. Providing a rare glimpse of the social and political contexts of seventeenth-century music, Roger Freitas sheds light on the mechanisms that generated meaning for music, clarifying what music at this time actually was.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521885218
Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Book)Title: Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Nancy Newman
Abstract: In Good Music for a Free People, author Nancy Newman examines the activities and reception of the Germania Musical Society, an orchestra whose members emigrated from Berlin during the Revolutions of 1848. These two dozen "Forty-Eighters" gave nearly a thousand concerts in North America during the ensuing six-year period, possibly reaching a million listeners. Drawing on a memoir by member Henry Albrecht, Newman provides insights into the musicians' desire to bring their music to the audiences of a democratic republic at this turbulent time. Eager to avoid the egotism and self-promotion of the European patronage system, they pledged to work for their mutual interests both musically and socially. "One for all, and all for one" became their motto. Originally published in German, Albrecht's memoir is presented here in for the first time in translation.
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580463454
Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs: Aesthetics and Survival (Book)Title: Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs: Aesthetics and Survival
Author: Ann Morrison Spinney
Abstract: Based on extensive research across several disciplines, this book examines the songs and dances involved in public ceremonies of the Wabanaki Confederacy, a coalition of five Algonquian First Nations that figured importantly in the political history of New England and the Maritimes from the seventeenth century on. Ethnomusicologist Ann Morrison Spinney analyzes these ceremonial performances as they have been maintained in one of those nations, the Passamaquoddy community of Maine. She compares historical accounts with forms that have persisted to the present, showing how versions of the same songs, dances, and ritual speeches have continued to play a vital role in Passamaquoddy culture over time. A particular focus of the study is the annual Sipayik Indian Day, a public presentation of the dances associated with the protocols of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Spinney interprets these practices using melodic analysis and cultural contextual frameworks, drawing on a variety of sources, including written documents, sound and video recordings, interviews with singers, dancers, and other cultural practitioners, and her own fieldwork observations. Her research shows that Passamaquoddy techniques of song composition and performance parallel both the structure of the Passamaquoddy language and the political organizations that these ceremonies support.
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781558497184
The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence (Book)Title: The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence
Author: Timothy J. McGee
Abstract: The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence follows the development of Florentine musical ensembles, describing their duties and repertories, placing them in their political and social context, and tracing their changes through the years of the Florentine Republic. From the 13th through the 16th centuries, the city of Florence was the most powerful in Europe. It was a center of finance and trade, as well as art and music. The Republic employed musicians to perform for the enormous number of ceremonial events each year. These musicians were the most visible (and audible) symbols of Florence, playing a major role in displaying the majestic image of the city. Their story, repertory, high-profile involvement in the daily life of the city, and close involvement with the Medici add a new dimension to the history of late-medieval Florence.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780253353047
The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London (Book)Title: The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London
Author: Christina Bashford
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This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union [1845-81], an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much fêted across Europe in its day. It combines a biography of Ella with a social-economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, and sets them against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural life. Ella's extraordinary life story, which began in provincial, artisan-class obscurity and ended in the upper echelons of London society, shapes the narrative. Such themes as entrepreneurship, concert management, taste shaping, music appreciation and elite social networks are discussed throughout, as is the curious interplay between the desire to 'sacralize' chamber music, especially Beethoven's, on the one hand, and the need to survive amid the increasing commercial imperatives of London concert life on the other.
CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781843832980
Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach's Partitas and Suites (Book)Title: Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach's Partitas and Suites
Author: David W. Beach
Abstract: Musicians -- listeners, performers, and scholars alike--have often felt a profound connectedness between various movements in multimovement works by the great composers. But sensing musical unity is one thing; showing it is another.
In Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach's Partitas and Suites, David Beach examines many of the forty-four works by Bach in this genre-for keyboard, orchestra, and solo instruments, including the beloved solo works for violin and for cello-from this perspective.
Through careful attention to motivic and harmonic repetitions at various structural levels, made plain to the eye in numerous annotated musical examples and diagrams, Beach establishes that Bach often did link several movements of a suite in various ways, sometimes by overt but often by more subtle means. Aspects of Unity in J. S. Bach's Partitas and Suites thus provides new insight into the inner workings of these great works.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462020
Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom (Book)Title: Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom
Author: Jonathan D. Bellman
Abstract: Chopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood--disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade is a reexamination and close analysis of this famous work, revealing the Ballade as a piece with a powerful political story to tell.
Through the general musical styles and specific references in the Ballade, which use both operatic strategies and approaches developed in programmatic piano pieces for amateurs, author Jonathan Bellman traces a clear narrative thread to contemporary French operas. His careful historical exegesis of previously ignored musical and cultural contexts brings to light a host of new insights about this remarkable piece, which, as Bellman shows, reflects the cultural preoccupations of the Polish emigres in mid-1830s Paris, pining with bitter nostalgia for a homeland now under Russian domination. This vital connection to the extramusical culture of its day forms the basis for a plausible relationship with the nationalistic poetry of Mickiewicz. Chopin's Polish Ballade also solves the long-standing conundrum of the two extant versions of the Ballade, making an important point about the flexible notion of "work" that Chopin embraced.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195338867
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory (Book)Title: Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Abstract: This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory.
Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last century who approached medieval music as if it were no different from music of the nineteenth century. But Medieval Music and the Art of Memory deftly demonstrates that the fact that a piece was written down does not necessarily mean that it was conceived and transmitted in writing. Busse Berger's new model, one that emphasizes the interplay of literate and oral composition and transmission, deepens and enriches current understandings of medieval music and opens the field for fresh interpretations.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520240285
Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125 (Book)Title: Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125
Author: Susan Boynton
Abstract: During the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the imperial abbey of Farfa was one of the most powerful institutions on the Italian peninsula. In this period many of the lands of central Italy fell under its sway, and it enjoyed the protection of the emperor until the 1120s, when it passed gradually into the control of the papacy. At the same time, the monastery was an influential religious center, and the monks of Farfa filled their days with the celebration of the liturgy through prayers, processions, sermons, chants, and hymns.
Susan Boynton, a historian of medieval music, addresses several of the major themes of present-day medieval historiography through a close study of the liturgical practices of the abbey of Farfa. Boynton's findings are a striking demonstration of the local nature of liturgical practices in the centuries before church ritual was controlled and codified by the papacy. Boynton shows that the liturgy was highly flexible, continually adapting to the monastery's changing circumstances. The monks regularly modified traditional forms to reflect new realities, often in the service of Farfa's power and prestige. Equally fascinating is Boynton's examination of the process by which Farfa, like other monasteries, cathedral chapters, and royal houses, constantly rewrote its history—particularly the stories of its founding—as part of the continuous negotiation of power that was central to medieval politics and culture.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780801443817
Playing Across a Divide Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters (Book)Title: Playing Across a Divide Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters
Author: Benjamin Brinner
Abstract: In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region. During this tumultuous time, numerous collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian musicians coalesced into a significant musical scene informed by these extremes of hope and despair on both national and personal levels.
Following the bands Bustan Abraham and Alei Hazayit from their creation and throughout their careers, as well as the collaborative projects of Israeli artist Yair Dalal, Playing Across a Divide demonstrates the possibility of musical alternatives to violent conflict and hatred in an intensely contested, multicultural environment. These artists' music drew from Western, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and Afro-diasporic musical practices, bridging differences and finding innovative solutions to the problems inherent in combining disparate musical styles and sources. Creating this new music brought to the forefront the musicians' contrasting assumptions about sound production, melody, rhythm, hybridity, ensemble interaction, and improvisation.
Author Benjamin Brinner traces the tightly interconnected field of musicians and the people and institutions that supported them as they and their music circulated within the region and along international circuits. Brinner argues that the linking of Jewish and Arab musicians' networks, the creation of new musical means of expression, and the repeated enactment of culturally productive musical alliances provide a unique model for mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence in a chronically disputed land.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195395945
The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo (Book)Title: The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
Author: Lorenzo Candelaria
Abstract: The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the year 1500. In an engaging and richly interdisciplinary essay, Lorenzo Candelaria approaches the Rosary Cantoral as a cultural artifact, unlocking the secrets behind its images and music to reveal the social history and rituals of an elite brotherhood dedicated to the rosary and aspects of the religious community it served: the Dominicans of San Pedro Mártir de Toledo.
The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo presents a model for realizing the fuller significance of illuminated music manuscripts as cultural artifacts and offers unprecedented insights into the social and devotional life of Toledo, Spain, around the turn of the sixteenth century. After solving the mystery of the Rosary Cantoral's origins, subsequent essays probe the meaning and cultural significance of the manuscript's iconography (including a border decoration after Albrecht Dürer), its rare Spanish chants for the Mass, and two striking musical works for multiple voices (one by Josquin Desprez and another on "L'homme armé"). Ultimately, this book focuses on the extraordinary circumstances that engendered the compilation of the Rosary Cantoral around 1500: a system of patronage between a brotherhood of suspected heretics and a religious house that was a key supporter of the Inquisition in Toledo.
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580463546
Terry Riley's In C (Book)Title: Terry Riley's In C
Author: Robert Carl
Abstract: Unquestionably the founding work of minimalism in musical composition, Terry Riley's In C (1964) challenges the standards of imagination, intellect, and musical ingenuity to which "classical" music is held. Only one page of score in length, it contains neither specified instrumentation nor parts. Its fifty-three motives are compact, presented without any counterpoint or evident form. The composer gave only spare instructions and no tempo. And he assigned the work a title that's laconic in the extreme. At the same moment of its composition, Elliott Carter was working on his Concerto for Piano, a work Stravinsky was to hail as a masterpiece. Having almost completed Laborinthus II, Luciano Berio would soon start the Sinfonia. Karlheinz Stockhausen had just finished Momente. In context of these other works, and of the myriad of compositional styles and trends which preceded them, In C stands the whole idea of musical "progress" on its head.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195325287
Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage (Book)Title: Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage
Author: Caryl Clark
Abstract: This fascinating study of ethnic theatrical representation provides original perspectives on the cultural milieu, compositional strategies, and operatic legacy of Joseph Haydn. The portrayal of Jews changed markedly during the composer's lifetime. Before the Enlightenment, when Jews were treated as a people apart, physical infirmities and other markers of 'difference' were frequently caricatured on the comedic stage. However, when society began to debate the 'Jewish Question' - understood in the later eighteenth century as how best to integrate Jews into society as productive citizens - theatrical representations became more sympathetic. As Caryl Clark describes, Haydn had many opportunities to observe Jews in his working environments in Vienna and Eisenstadt, and incorporated Jewish stereotypes in two early works. An understanding of Haydn's evolving approach to ethnic representation on the stage provides deeper insight into the composer's iconic wit and humanity, and to the development of opera as a cultural art form across the centuries.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521455473
Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature (Book)Title: Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature
Author: Richard Cohn
Abstract: Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical tonality, and have accordingly unified the two repertories under a single mode of representation. Post-structuralist musicologists have challenged this belief, advancing the view that many romantic triadic progressions exceed the reach of classical syntax and are mobilized as the result of a transgressive, anti-syntactic impulse. In Audacious Euphony, author Richard Cohn takes both of these views to task, arguing that romantic harmony operates under syntactic principles distinct from those that underlie classical tonality, but no less susceptible to systematic definition. Charting this alternative triadic syntax, Cohn reconceives what consonant triads are, and how they relate to one another. In doing so, he shows that major and minor triads have two distinct natures: one based on their acoustic properties, and the other on their ability to voice-lead smoothly to each other in the chromatic universe. Whereas their acoustic nature underlies the diatonic tonality of the classical tradition, their voice-leading properties are optimized by the pan-triadic progressions characteristic of the 19th century. Audacious Euphony develops a set of inter-related maps that organize intuitions about triadic proximity as seen through the lens of voice-leading proximity, using various geometries related to the 19th-century Tonnetz. This model leads to cogent analyses both of particular compositions and of historical trends across the long nineteenth century. Essential reading for music theorists, Audacious Euphony is also a valuable resource for music historians, performers and composers.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199772698
The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (Book)Title: The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Author: Nicholas Cook
Abstract: Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deeply troubled age in which he lived. This book aims to explain Schenker's project through reading his key works within a series of period contexts. These include music criticism, the field in which Schenker first made his name; Viennese modernism, particularly the debate over architectural ornamentation; German cultural conservatism, which is the source of many of Schenker's most deeply entrenched values; and Schenker's own position as a Galician Jew who came to Vienna just as fully racialized anti-semitism was developing there. As well as presenting an unfamiliar perspective on the cultural and political ferment of fin-de-siecle Vienna, this book reveals how deeply Schenker's theory is permeated by the social and political. It also raises issues concerning the meaning and value of music theory, and the extent to which today's music-theoretical agenda unwittingly reflects the values and concerns of a very different world.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199744299
Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy (Book)Title: Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy
Author: Jeremy Day-O'Connell
Abstract: Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy offers the first comprehensive account of a widely recognized aspect of music history: the increasing use of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in nineteenth-century Western art-music.
Pentatonicism in nineteenth-century music encompasses hundreds of instances, many of which predate by decades the more famous examples of Debussy and Dvorák. This book weaves together historical commentary with music theory and analysis in order to explain the sources and significance of an important, but hitherto only casually understood, phenomenon.
The book introduces several distinct categories of pentatonic practice -- pastoral, primitive, exotic, religious, and coloristic -- and examines pentatonicism in relationship to changes in the melodic and harmonic sensibility of the time.
The text concludes with an additional appendix of over 400 examples, an unprecedented resource demonstrating the individual artistry with which virtually every major nineteenth-century composer (from Schubert, Chopin, and Berlioz to Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler) handled the seemingly "simple" materials of pentatonicism.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580462488
Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism (Book)Title: Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism
Author: Mary E. Davis
Abstract: Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched. Yet little attention has been paid to the association of sound and style in the early twentieth century—a period of remarkable and often parallel developments in both high fashion and the arts, including music. This beautifully written book, lavishly illustrated with fashion plates and photographs, explores the relationship between music and fashion, elegantly charting the importance of these arts to the rise of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on the emergence of the movement known as Neoclassicism, Mary E. Davis demonstrates that new aesthetic approaches were related to fashion in a manner that was perfectly attuned to the tastes of jazz-age sophisticates. Looking in particular at three couturiers—Paul Poiret, Germaine Bongard, and Coco Chanel—and three breakthrough fashion magazines—La Gazette du Bon Ton, Vanity Fair, and Vogue—Davis illuminates for the first time the ways in which fashion's imperatives of originality and constant change influenced composers such as Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, and Les Six. She also considers the role played by the Ballets Russes, and explores the contributions of artists including costume and set designer Léon Bakst, writer and director Jean Cocteau, Amédée Ozenfant, and Pablo Picasso. The first study to situate music in this rich context, Classic Chic demonstrates the profound importance of the linked endeavors of composition and couture to modernist thought. In addition to its innovative approach to this important moment in history, Davis's focus on the social aspects of the story makes the book a tremendously engaging read.
Year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520256217
Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together (Book)Title: Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together
Author: Kay Dickinson
Abstract: In Off Key, Kay Dickinson offers a compelling study of how certain alliances of music and film are judged aesthetic failures. Based on a fascinating and wide-ranging body of film-music mismatches, and using contemporary reviews and histories of the turn to post-industrialization, the book expands the ways in which the union of the film and music businesses can be understood.
Moving beyond the typical understanding of film music that privileges the score, Off Key also incorporates analyses of rock 'n' roll movies, composer biopics, and pop singers crossing over into acting. By doing this, it provides a fuller picture of how two successful entertainment sectors have sought out synergistic strategies, ones whose alleged "failures" have much to tell about the labor practices of the creative industries, as well as our own relationship to them and to work itself. A provocative and politically-conscious look at music-image relations, Off Key will appeal to students and scholars of film music, cinema studies, media studies, cultural studies, and labor history.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195326635
Music and the Performance of Identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles (Book)Title: Music and the Performance of Identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles
Author: Ron Emoff
Abstract: Marie-Galante is a small island situated in the Caribbean to the south of Guadeloupe. The majority of Marie-Galantais are descendants of the slave era, though a few French settlers also occupy the island. Along with its neighbours Guadeloupe and Martinique, Marie-Galante forms an official département of France. Marie-Galante historically has never been an independent polity. Marie-Galantais express sentiments of being 'deux fois colonisé', or twice colonized, concomitant with their sense of insularity from a global organization of place. Dr Ron Emoff translates this pervasive sense of displacement into the concept of the 'non-nation'. Musical practices on the island provide Marie-Galantais with a means of re-connecting with other significant distant places. Many Marie-Galantais display a 'split-subjectivity', embracing an African heritage, a French association and a Caribbean regionalism. This book is unique, in part, with regard to its treatment of a particular mode of self-consciousness, expressed musically, on a virtually forgotten Caribbean island. The book also combines literary, narrative, historical and musical sources to theorize a postcolonial subsurreal in the French Antilles.
The focus of the book is upon kadril dance and gwo ka drumming, two prevalent musical practices on the island with which Marie-Galantais construct unique perceptions of self in relation, specifically, to Africa and France. Based on several extended periods of ethnographic research, the book evokes unique Marie-Galantais views on tradition, historicity, esclavage, nationalism (and its absence) and the local significance of occupying a globally out-of-the-way place. The book will be of interest not only to ethnomusicologists, but also to those interested in cultural and linguistic anthropology, postcolonial studies, performance studies, folklore and Caribbean studies.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Ashgate
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780754665656
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair (Book)Title: Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Author: Annegret Fauser
Abstract: The 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris has become famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. For the first time, Debussy and his fellow composers could be inspired by Javanese gamelan music, while the Russian concerts conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov brought recent music by the Mighty Five to Parisian ears.
But the 1889 World's Fair had much wider musical and cultural ramifications; one contemporary described it as a "gigantic encyclopedia, in which nothing was forgotten." Music was so pervasive at the 1889 Exposition Universelle that newspaper journalists compared the sonic side of the affair to a "musical orgy." Musical encounters at the fair ranged from bandstand marches to folk and non-Western ensembles to symphonic and operatic premieres by Massenet to the mass-marketed Edison phonograph.
A rich and vivid literature (from newspaper columns to memoirs that are plumbed here for the first time) comments about this sonic landscape, reflecting the reactions and responses of composers (Saint-Saëns), writers (Judith Gautier), and journalists (Gaston Calmette).
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the Exposition Universelle. It thereby also reveals the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580461856
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific (Book)Title: Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
Author: Heidi Feldman
Abstract: In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate--and to some extent recreate--Black culture in Peru. In this groundbreaking study of the Afro-Peruvian revival and its aftermath, Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the "Black Pacific," a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America's Pacific coast. Feldman's "ethnography of remembering" traces the memory projects of charismatic Afro-Peruvian revival artists and companies, including Jose Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and Peru Negro, culminating with Susana Baca's entry onto the global world music stage in the 1990s. Readers will learn how Afro-Peruvian music and dance genres, although recreated in the revival to symbolize the ancient and forgotten past, express competing modern beliefs regarding what constitutes "Black Rhythms of Peru."
Year: 2006
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819568144
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy (Book)Title: Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Author: Martha Feldman
Abstract: Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals.
Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and
how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226241128
Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice (Book)Title: Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Author: Robert Fink
Abstract: Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American repetitive music exemplified by composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. Fink juxtaposes repetitive minimal music with 1970s disco; assesses it in relation to the selling structure of mass-media advertising campaigns; traces it back to the innovations in hi-fi technology that turned baroque concertos into ambient "easy listening"; and appraises its meditative kinship to the spiritual path of musical mastery offered by Japan's Suzuki Method of Talent Education.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520245501
Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores (Book)Title: Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores
Author: Peter Franklin
Abstract: Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of it and aspired to produce more 'serious' works that would enhance their artistic reputation.
In fact the criticism of film music as slavishly descriptive or manipulatively over-emotional has a history that is older than film - it had even been directed at the relatively popular operatic and concert music written by some of the emigre Hollywood composers themselves before they had left Europe. There, as subsequently in America, such criticism was promoted by the developing project of Modernism, whose often high-minded opposition to mass culture used polarizing language that drew, intentionally or not, upon that of gender difference. Regressive, late-romantic music, the old argument ran, was -- as women were believed to be -- emotional, irrational, and lacking in logic.
This book seeks to level the critical playing field between film music and "serious music," reflecting upon gender-related ideas about music and modernism as much as about film. Peter Franklin broaches the possibility of a history of twentieth-century music that would include, rather than marginalize, film music -- and, indeed, the scores of a number of the major Hollywood movies discussed here, like The Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Rebecca, Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane and Psycho. In doing so, he brings more detailed music-historical knowledge to bear upon cinema music, often discussed as a unique and special product of film, and also offers conclusions about the problematic aspects of musical modernism and some arguably liberating aspects of "late-romanticism."
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195383454
Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture (Book)Title: Music Divided: Bartók’s Legacy in Cold War Culture
Author: Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Abstract: Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary’s most renowned twentieth-century composer, Béla Bartók. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bartók’s music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist state. Her fascinating investigation of Bartók’s reception outside of Hungary demonstrates that Western composers, too, formulated their ideas about musical style under the influence of ever-escalating cold war tensions.
Music Divided surveys Bartók’s role in provoking negative reactions to “accessible” music from Pierre Boulez, Hermann Scherchen, and Theodor Adorno. It considers Bartók’s influence on the youthful compositions and thinking of Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and it outlines Bartók’s legacy in the music of the Hungarian composers András Mihály, Ferenc Szabó, and Endre Szervánszky. These details reveal the impact of local and international politics on the selection of music for concert and radio programs, on composers’ choices about musical style, on government radio propaganda about music, on the development of socialist realism, and on the use of modernism as an instrument of political action.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520249653
Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden (Book)Title: Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden
Author: Mary E. Frandsen
Abstract: Shortly after assuming the Saxon throne in 1656, Lutheran Elector Johann Georg II (r. 1656-80) replaced the elder Kapellmeister Heinrich Schutz with younger Italian Catholic composers. Seemingly overnight, sacred music in the most modern Italian style, first by Vincenzo Albrici (1631-90/96) and later by Giuseppe Peranda (ca. 1625-75) supplanted the more traditional Schutzian sacred concerto and Spruchmotette, effecting a change in musical and spiritual life both within the walls of the Dresden court and beyond.
Drawing on extensive research in primary source materials, Frandsen explores the elector's "Italianization" of the Hofkapelle with castrati and other Italian virtuosi, and examines the larger confessional conflict that gripped the city of Dresden and its implications for the Catholic-leaning elector's musical agenda. She then examines the Latin texts set by Albrici and Peranda, a body of works dominated by expressions of mystical devotion typical of the repertoire then heard in Italy. However, drawing upon recent studies of the phenomenon of "new piety" in seventeenth-century Lutheranism, Frandsen locates these texts squarely within the realm of contemporary Lutheran spirituality, and demonstrates their congruity with devotional materials used by Lutherans since the mid-sixteenth century. In her discussion of the sacred concertos of Albrici and Peranda, she takes the concept of musica pathetica as a point of departure, and also explores the formal and stylistic relationships between the Roman motet and the new sacred concerto in Dresden. Finally, with the help of liturgies recorded in court diaries, she reintegrates this music into its original performance environment, and demonstrates how tightly the works of these Italians were woven into the Gospel-determined thematic fabric of the services celebrated during the church year.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195178319
Music in the Galant Style (Book)Title: Music in the Galant Style
Author: Robert Gjerdingen
Abstract: Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository of compositional methods into confrontation with a set of schemata distilled from an enormous body of eighteenth-century music, much of it known only to specialists, formative of the "galant style."
Year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195313710
Music in Chopin's Warsaw (Book)Title: Music in Chopin's Warsaw
Author: Halina Goldberg
Abstract: Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth--largely unknown to the English-speaking world--and places Chopin's early works in the context of this milieu. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and musical circumstances. Chopin's Warsaw emerges as a vibrant European city that was home to an opera house, various smaller theaters, one of the earliest modern conservatories in Europe, several societies which organized concerts, musically active churches, spirited salon life, music publishers and bookstores, instrument builders, and for a short time even a weekly paper devoted to music.
Warsaw was aware of and in tune with the most recent European styles and fashions in music, but it was also the cradle of a vernacular musical language that was initiated by the generation of Polish composers before Chopin and which found its full realization in his work. Significantly, this period of cultural revival in the Polish capital coincided with the duration of Chopin's stay there--from his infancy in 1810 to his final departure from his homeland in 1830. An uncanny convergence of political, economic, social, and cultural circumstances generated the dynamic musical, artistic, and intellectual environment that nurtured the developing genius. Had Chopin been born a decade earlier or a decade later, Goldberg argues, the capital--devastated by warfare and stripped of all cultural institutions--could not have provided support for his talent. The young composer would have been compelled to seek musical education abroad and thus would have been deprived of the specifically Polish experience so central to his musical style.
A rigorously-researched and fascinating look at the Warsaw in which Chopin grew up, this book will appeal to students and scholars of nineteenth century music, as well as music lovers and performers.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195130737
Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland (Book)Title: Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
Author: Glenda Dawn Goss
Abstract: One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening, Sibelius will be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come. Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, Goss explores the composer’s formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority. She goes on to trace Sibelius’s relationships with his creative contemporaries, with whom he worked to usher in a golden age of music and art that would endow Finns with a sense of pride in their heritage and encourage their hopes for the possibilities of nationhood. Skillfully evoking this artistic climate—in which Sibelius emerged as a leader—Goss creates adazzling portrait of the painting, sculpture, literature, and music it inspired. To solve the deepest riddles of Sibelius’s life, work, and enigmatic silence, Goss contends, we must understand the awakening in which he played so great a role.
Year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226304779
Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era (Book)Title: Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era
Author: Larry Hamberlin
Abstract: Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of American popular music culture, and familiarity with opera was still a part of American "cultural literacy." During the Ragtime era, hundreds of humorous Tin Pan Alley songs centered on operatic subjects-either directly quoting operas or alluding to operatic characters and vocal stars of the time. These songs brilliantly captured the moment when popular music in America transitioned away from its European operatic heritage, and when the distinction between low- and high-brow "popular" musical forms was free to develop, with all its attendant cultural snobbery and rebellion.
Author Larry Hamberlin guides us through this large but oft-forgotten repertoire of operatic novelties, and brings to life the rich humor and keen social criticism of the era. In the early twentieth-century, when new social forces were undermining the view that our European heritage was intrinsically superior to our native vernacular culture, opera-that great inheritance from our European forebearers-functioned in popular discourse as a signifier for elite culture. Tin Pan Opera shows that these operatic novelty songs availed this connection to a humorous and critical end. Combining traditional, European operatic melodies with the new and American rhythmic verve of ragtime, these songs painted vivid images of immigrant Americans, liberated women, and upwardly striving African Americans, striking emblems of the profound transformations that shook the United States at the beginning of the American century.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195338928
Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence (Book)Title: Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence
Author: Kelley Harness
Abstract: Aristocratic women exerted unprecedented political and social influence in Florence throughout the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During this period, female members of the powerful Medici family governed the city for the first and only time in its history. These women also helped shape the city's artistic life, commissioning works of music, art, and theater that were inscribed with their own concerns and aspirations. Echoes of Women's Voices examines the patronage of individuals and institutions, particularly convents, which have remained, until now, largely neglected by scholars. Through commissions, patrons sought to promote a vision of the world and their place in it. The unique social norms, laws, educational backgrounds, and life experiences of female patrons meant the expression of a worldview that differed significantly from that of their male counterparts. Joining exceptional archival research with telling analysis of significant examples of music, art, and drama, Kelley Harness challenges the prevailing view that Florence saw a political and artistic decline during this period. She argues convincingly that the female domination of these years brought forth artistic patronage that was both continuous and well-conceived.
Year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226316598
The Charles Ives Tunebook Second Edition (Book)Title: The Charles Ives Tunebook Second Edition
Author: Clayton W. Henderson
Abstract: Since the celebration of his centennial in 1974, Charles Ives has become an iconic figure in the history of music; his name and compositions are widely recognized, and his influence has been felt throughout the world. One of the most striking features of Ives's music is his use of the borrowed melodies that pervade his scores. Ives drew extensively from a large historical repertoire, some of it little known today, including hymns, military and patriotic music, college and popular songs, instrumental music, and "classical" music models. By cataloging these sources and including musical examples of their incorporation into Ives's music, Clayton W. Henderson provides important insights into the composer's body of work.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780253350909
Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky (Book)Title: Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky
Author: Gretchen Horlacher
Abstract: A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the twentieth century to achieve an entirely new and truly modern aesthetic. Striking a remarkable concurrence of stasis and discontinuity, Stravinsky crafted large-scale compositions out of short repeating melodies, juxtaposed these primary motives with contrasting and varying fragments, and layered on fixed ostinati which repeated at their own rates throughout the piece. Previous scholarship on Stravinsky focuses on the disparate and independent nature of such textures, conceiving them as separated and deadlocked, unable to escape their repetitions, and having no goal. This connects Stravinsky's procedures with the more radical music of subsequent composers for whom disconnection has served as a primary aesthetic.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195370867
Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz (Book)Title: Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
Author: John Howland
Abstract: The story of the African American contributions to the symphonic jazz vogue of the 1920s through the 1940s.
During the early decades of the twentieth century symphonic jazz involved an expansive family of music that emulated, paralleled, and intersected the jazz tradition. Though now largely forgotten, symphonic jazz was both a popular music—arranging tradition and a repertory of hybrid concert works, both of which reveled in the mildly irreverent interbreeding of white and black and high and low music. While the roots of symphonic jazz can be traced to certain black ragtime orchestras of the teens, the idiom came to maturation in the music of 1920s white dance bands.
Through a close examination of the music of Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson, Ellington Uptown uncovers compositions that have usually fallen in the cracks between concert music, jazz, and popular music. It also places the concert works of these two iconic figures in context through an investigation both of related compositions by black and white peers and of symphonic jazz—style arrangements from a diverse number of early sound films, Broadway musicals, Harlem nightclub floor shows, and select interwar radio programs.
Year: 2009
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780472116058
Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Book)Title: Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace
Author: Deborah Kapchan
Abstract: A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including details of enactment, the role of gesture and the body, and the use of the senses, and how they both construct authentic Gnawa identity and reconstruct historically determined relations of power. Traveling Spirit Masters is a captivating and elucidating demonstration of how and why trance—and indeed all sacred music—is fast becoming a transnational sensation.
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Year: 2007
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819568519
The String Quartets of Beethoven (Book)Title: The String Quartets of Beethoven
Author: William Kinderman
Abstract: "We do not understand music--it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's The String Quartets of Beethoven stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. It collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention. This volume also includes an appendix with updated information on the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.
Year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252030369
Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy (Book)Title: Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy
Author: Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Abstract: The musical writings of the German philosopher and theorist Ernst Bloch are extraordinarily rich, but also unusually dense, at times even cryptic. Bloch, a profoundly heterodox thinker, brilliantly wove cultural criticism into a larger project of what he termed 'revolutionary gnosis'. Listening for Utopia is both an explication of Bloch's musical thought and a critical development of it. Ultimately, the book seeks to reanimate Bloch's philosophy of music in ways that connect with current musicology. The work begins with a detailed study of concepts crucial to Bloch's aesthetics that situates them within both his philosophical system and German critical theory of the early twentieth century. The second half of the book comprises a series of essays that take up key ideas from Bloch, decipher them through contextual and close reading, and develop them through critical application to salient musical masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Bruckner and Brahms.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521896153
Interpreting Music (Book)Title: Interpreting Music
Author: Lawrence Kramer
Abstract: Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—“interpreting music” in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning—even the very concept of music—while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. Kramer argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. The book illustrates the many dimensions of interpreting music through a series of case studies drawn from the classical repertoire, but its methods and principles carry over to other repertoires just as they carry beyond music by working through music to wider philosophical and cultural question
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520267053
Unfinished Music (Book)Title: Unfinished Music
Author: Richard Kramer
Abstract: Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin that serves as its epigraph: "the work is the death mask of its conception." The work in its finished, perfected state conceals the enlivening process engaged in its creation. An opening chapter of this book examines some explosive ideas from the mind of J. G. Hamann, eccentric figure of the anti-rationalist Enlightenment, on the place of language at the seat of thought. These ideas are pursued as an entry into the no less radical mind of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose bold idiosyncrasies, like Hamann's, disrupted the discourse of Enlightenment aesthetics. Bach is a central player here, his late music the subject of fresh inquiry. In several chapters on the late music of Beethoven, Bach reappears, now something of a spiritual alter ego in the search for a new voice. The improvisatory as a mode of thought figures prominently here, and then inspires a new hearing of the envisioning of Chaos at the outset of Haydn's Creation, aligned with Herder's efforts to come to an understanding of logos at the origin of thought. The improvisatory is at the heart of a chapter on Beethoven's brazen cadenzas for the Concerto in D minor by Mozart, another ghost in Beethoven's machine.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195326826
Shostakovich in Dialogue : Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 (Book)Title: Shostakovich in Dialogue : Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7
Author: Judith Kuhn
Abstract: A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue. Although they can justifiably lay claim to being the most significant and frequently performed twentieth-century oeuvre for that ensemble, there has been no systematic English-language study of the entire cycle. Judith Kuhn's book begins such a study, undertaken with the belief that, despite a growing awareness of the universality of Shostakovich's music, much remains to be learned from the historical context and an examination of the music's language.
Much of the controversy about Shostakovich's music has been related to questions of meaning. The conflicting interpretations put forth by scholars during the musicological 'Shostakovich wars' have shown the impossibility of fixing a single meaning in the composer's music. Commentators have often heard the quartets as political in nature, although there have been contradictory views as to whether Shostakovich was a loyal communist or a dissident. The works are also often described as vivid narratives, perhaps a confessional autobiography or a chronicle of the composer's times. The cycle has also been heard to examine major philosophical issues posed by the composer's life and times, including war, death, love, the conflict of good and evil, the nature of subjectivity, the power of creativity and the place of the individual - and particularly the artist - in society. Soviet commentaries on the quartets typically describe the works through the lens of Socialist-Realist mythological master narratives. Recent Western commentaries see Shostakovich's quartets as expressions of broader twentieth-century subjectivity, filled with ruptures and uncertainty.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Ashgate
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780754664062
Re-reading Poetry: Schubert's Multiple Settings of Goethe (Book)Title: Re-reading Poetry: Schubert's Multiple Settings of Goethe
Author: Sterling Lambert
Abstract: One of the most important aspects of Franz Schubert's song production has remained relatively neglected: the many occasions on which he set poetry to music more than once. This practice of returning to poems, and responding to them anew, is unusual and suggests a greater degree of literary sensitivity on the part of Schubert than is often ascribed to him. In contrast to his similarly frequent tendency to produce revised versions of songs, Schubert's resetting of poetry results in completely new songs. The presence of residues of earlier settings in later ones prompts consideration of the degree to which resettings are to some extent 'radical revisions' of their predecessors. It also raises questions as to what those residues might signify about how and why Schubert reset poetry. Nowhere are such issues more fascinatingly and comprehensively illustrated than in Schubert's multiple settings of the poet who was more important to him than any other: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In recent years, a renewed interest in the relationship between Goethe and Schubert has demonstrated that the two men had more in common than has historically been supposed. A specific bond between them lies in Goethe's recognition that his poems could be read in more than one way. Re-reading Poetry uncovers an important shared outlook between composer and poet.
Year: 2009
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781843834748
To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick (Book)Title: To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
Author: Philip Lambert
Abstract: n fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959). With their charm, humor, and boundless musical invention, their musicals have won eighteen Tony Awards and continue to capture the imaginations of millions around the world.
To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is the first complete book about these creative figures, one of Broadway's most important songwriting teams. Drawing from extensive archival sources, and from personal interviews and communications with Bock and Harnick themselves and their most important collaborators, author Philip Lambert explores the essence of a Bock-Harnick show-how it is put together, and what makes it work. The book includes discussion of songs such as "Sunrise, Sunset" and "If I Were a Rich Man" that have long been favorites in the public consciousness, and it also explores a vast catalogue of lesser-known songs from their many other shows and works, including a musical puppet show on Broadway, music for the 1964 World's Fair, and a made-for-television musical. Here too is the first look at the little-known youthful professional beginnings of Bock and Harnick in revues and television shows and summer retreats in the 1950s, and the careers they have forged for themselves with new collaborators in the decades since their partnership dissolved in 1970.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195390070
Studies in Music with Text (Book)Title: Studies in Music with Text
Author: David Lewin
Abstract: Hailed by the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2nd edition) as "the most original and far-ranging theorist of his generation," David Lewin (1933-2003) explored for over four decades how composers in the German tradition set poetry and drama to music. He conceived Studies in Music with Text as a unified collection, reproducing papers on music by Mozart, Schubert, Wagner, Schoenberg, and Babbitt, many of which have become classics in the fields of music theory and historical musicology. He also included new analytical essays on Mozart, Wagner, and Schubert, and provided fresh readings of selected songs by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
The analyses collected here focus on how the music, from its small details to its large formal schemes, engages the poetic and dramatic dynamics of the works at hand, and how music and text enact each other reciprocally. A recurrent topic is the theatricality of texted music for the concert as well as operatic stage, and Lewin's perspectives offer many interpretive insights and conceptual perspectives for the musical performer. A methodological eclectic, Lewin cultivated a magisterial command of historical theories and thought deeply about how those theories could inform contemporary understanding. Analytical models by Zarlino, Schenker, Riemann, Rameau, and Babbitt are brought into play, and the range of poetic and dramatic questions that emerge are explored, concerning inter alia psychological and social identity, the relation of psychological inner worlds to phenomenal reality, and the narrowly biographical and broadly historical conditions of artistic creation. As it illuminates the richness and profundity of the language/music partnership, Studies in Music with Text offers incisive thinking about the scope--and limitations--of descriptive and analytical discourse about music.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195182088
Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Book)Title: Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Author: Alejandro L. Madrid
Abstract: Sounds of the Modern Nation explores the development of modernist and avant-garde art music styles and aesthetics in Mexico in relation to the social and cultural changes that affected the country after the 1910-1920 revolution. Alejandro Madrid argues that these modernist works provide insight into the construction of individual and collective identities based on new ideas about modernity and nationality. Instead of depicting a dichotomy between modernity and nationalism, Madrid reflects on the multiple intersections between these two ideas and the dialogic ways through which these notions acquired meaning.
Madrid challenges the view that Latin American modernist music and other art were mere imitations of European trends, advancing instead the argument that Latin American artists resignified European ideas according to their specific historical and cultural circumstances. His work shows how microtonal and futurist music, modernist and avant-garde aesthetics, as well as indigenist and indianist ideas, entered a process of negotiation that ultimately shaped the ideological framework of twentieth-century Mexico.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Temple University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781592136940
Charles Ives Reconsidered (Book)Title: Charles Ives Reconsidered
Author: Gayle Sherwood Magee
Abstract: Charles Ives Reconsidered reexamines a number of critical assumptions about the life and works of this significant American composer, drawing on many new sources to explore Ives's creative activities within broader historical, social, cultural, and musical perspectives. Gayle Sherwood Magee offers the first large-scale rethinking of Ives's musical development based on the controversial revised chronology of his music. Using as a guide Ives's own dictum that "the fabric of existence weaves itself whole," Magee portrays Ives's life, career, and posthumous legacy against the backdrop of his musical and social environments from the Gilded Age to the present. The book includes contemporary portraits of the composer, his peers, and his teachers, as seen through archival materials, published reviews, and both historical and modern critical assessments.
Year: 2008
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252033261
Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (Book)Title: Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission
Author: Rebecca Maloy
Abstract: The offertory has played a crucial role in recent vigorous debates about the origins of Gregorian chant. Its elaborate solo verses are among the most splendid of chant melodies, yet the verses ceased to be performed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, making them among the least known and studied members of the repertory. Rebecca Maloy now offers the first comprehensive investigation of the offertory, drawing upon its music, texts, and liturgical history to shed new light on its origins and chronology. Maloy addresses issues that are at the very heart of chant scholarship, such as the relationship between the Gregorian and Old Roman melodies, the nature of oral transmission, the presence of non-Roman pieces in the Gregorian repertory, and the influence of theoretical thought on the transmission of the melodies.
Although the Old Roman chant versions were not recorded in writing until the eleventh century, it has long been assumed that they closely reflect the eighth-century state of the melodies. Maloy illustrates, however, that rather than preserving a pristine earlier version of the melodies, the prolonged period of oral transmission from the eighth to the eleventh centuries instead enforced a formulaic trend. Demonstrating that certain musical and textual traits of the offertory are distributed in distinct patterns by liturgical season, she outlines new chronological layers within the repertory, and along the way, explores the presence and implications of foreign imports into the Roman and Gregorian repertories. Carefully weighing questions surrounding the origins of elaborate verse melodies, Maloy deftly establishes that these melodies reached their final form at a relatively late date.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195315172
Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia (Book)Title: Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts: The Wangga of North Australia
Author: Allan Marett
Abstract: Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly Region of Northern Australia. This work is a labor of love, the culmination of nearly 20 years of field work and research by renowned ethnomusicologist Allan Marett, and represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. With first-hand, in-depth knowledge of Northwest Australia’s Aboriginal cultures, Marett provides the reader with a penetrating description and analysis of this compelling musical practice. This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Aboriginal studies, and provides a rare glimpse into relatively unknown traditions and cultures. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and a CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819566171
Schubert in the European Imagination: Volume 1, The Romantic and Victorian Eras (Book)Title: Schubert in the European Imagination: Volume 1, The Romantic and Victorian Eras
Author: Scott Messing
Abstract: In Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras, Scott Messing examines the historical reception of Franz Schubert as conveyed through the gendered imagery and language of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European culture.
The concept of Schubert as a feminine type vaulted into prominence in 1838 when Robert Schumann described the composer's Mädchencharakter ("girlish" character), by contrast to the purportedly more masculine, more heroic Beethoven. What attracted Schumann to Schubert's music and marked it as feminine is evident in some of Schumann's own works that echo those of Schubert's in intriguing ways.
Schubert's supposedly feminine quality acted upon the popular consciousness also through the writers and artists -- in German-speaking Europe but also in France and England -- whose fictional characters perform and hear Schubert's music. The figures discussed include Musset, Sand, Nerval, Maupassant, George Eliot, Henry James, Beardsley, Whistler, Storm, Fontane, and Heinrich and Thomas Mann.
Over time, Schubert's stature became inextricably entwined with concepts of the distinct social roles of men and women, especially in domestic settings. For a composer whose reputation was principally founded upon musical genres that both the public and professionals construed as most suitable for private performance, the lure to locate Schubert within domestic spaces and to attach to him the attributes of its female occupants must have been irresistible.
Year: 2006
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580462334
Schubert in the European Imagination: Volume 2, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Book)Title: Schubert in the European Imagination: Volume 2, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Author: Scott Messing
Abstract: Schubert in the European Imagination: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna examines the composer's historical and cultural reception by Viennese modernists. By 1900, issues of gender had crossed with those of nationalism, especially in the city that came to consider Schubert as its favorite musical son. As Messing here explains and explores in rich detail, composers, writers, and visual artists manipulated the conventions of the composer and gender in ways that critiqued the very culture that had created this image.
In order to expose the hypocrisy of social relationships, painter Gustav Klimt and writers Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Peter Altenberg exploited the collision between innocence and sexuality, and Schubert was a readily familiar sign for the former.
The composer Arnold Schoenberg substituted his own formulation of Schubert in place of the older, popular conceptions of the composer, adding him to an illustrious list of figures whose significance he sought to redesign.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580462136
Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean (Book)Title: Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean
Author: Rebecca S. Miller
Abstract: Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S. Miller examines the varying impact that factors such as cultural ambivalence, globalization, and technology have had on the performance of Carriacou's folk and traditional music and dance forms. Using historical sources and current ethnography, she illuminates the enduring significance of the Parang Festival to illustrate the social and political history of Carriacou as well as this culture’s contemporary process of modernization. The book includes a web link allowing the reader to listen to a variety of musical examples.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819568588
Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791 (Book)Title: Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791
Author: Danuta Mirka
Abstract: Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart makes a significant contribution to music theory and to the growing conversation on metric perception and musical composition. Focusing on the chamber music of Haydn and Mozart produced during the years 1787 to 1791, the period of most intense metric experimentation in the output of both composers, author Danuta Mirka presents a systematic discussion of metric manipulations in music of the late 18th-century. By bringing together historical and present-day theoretical approaches to rhythm and meter on the basis of their shared cognitive orientations, the book places the ideas of 18th-century theorists such as Riepe, Sulzer, Kirnberger and Koch into dialogue with modern concepts in cognitive musicology, particularly those of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, David Temperley, and Justin London. In addition, the book puts considerations of subtle and complex meter found in 18th-century musical handbooks and lexicons into point-by-point contact with Harald Krebs's recent theory of metrical dissonance. The result is an innovative and illuminating reinterpretation of late 18th-century music and music perception which will have resonance in scholarship and in analytical teaching and practice. Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart will appeal to students and scholars in music theory and cognition/perception, and will also have appeal to musicologists studying Haydn and Mozart.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195384925
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa (Book)Title: Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Author: Ingrid Monson
Abstract: n insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African Independence, and Black Power movements shaped aesthetic debates and exerted a moral pressure on musicians to take action. Throughout, her arguments show how jazz musicians' quest for self-determination as artists and human beings also led to fascinating and far reaching musical explorations and a lasting ethos of social critique and transcendence.
Across a broad body of issues of cultural and political relevance, Freedom Sounds considers the discursive, structural, and practical aspects of life in the jazz world in the 1950s and 1960s. In domestic politics, Monson explores the desegregation of the American Federation of Musicians, the politics of playing to segregated performance venues in the 1950s, the participation of jazz musicians in benefit concerts, and strategies of economic empowerment. Issues of transatlantic importance such as the effects of anti-colonialism and African nationalism on the politics and aesthetics of the music are also examined, from Paul Robeson's interest in Africa, to the State Department jazz tours, to the interaction of jazz musicians such Art Blakey and Randy Weston with African and African diasporic aesthetics.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195128253
The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years (Book)Title: The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years
Author: Simon Morrison
Abstract: Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries. Indeed, Morrison was the first scholar to gain access to the composer's sealed files in the Russian State Archives, where he uncovered a wealth of previously unknown scores, writings, correspondence, and unopened journals and diaries. The story he found in these documents is one of lofty hopes and disillusionment, of personal and creative upheavals. Morrison shows that Prokofiev seemed to thrive on uncertainty during his Paris years, stashing scores in suitcases, and ultimately stunning his fellow emigres by returning to Stalin's Russia. At first, Stalin's regime treated him as a celebrity, but Morrison details how the bureaucratic machine ground him down with corrections and censorship (forcing rewrites of such major works as Romeo and Juliet), until it finally censured him in 1948, ending his career and breaking his health.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195181678
Shembe Hymns (Book)Title: Shembe Hymns
Editor: Carol Muller
Abstract: Composed by Isaiah and Galilee Shembe between 1910 and 1940, Izihlabelelo zama Nazaretha - Shembe Hymns is one of the earliest known books in the isiZulu language. Drawing on the poetic traditions of Izibongo (Praises), Biblical Psalms, and local renditions of African American Spirituals, these texts speak to conditions of oppression and suffering, but also to the will of joy and hopefulness in such moments. The texts are brought to life with an accompanying CD of song, story, and interview excerpts. These include details about a seminal moment of change and controversy in the 1990s, when the organ was introduced by ethnomusicologist, Bongani Mthethwa, to accompany the Shembe hymnal repertory. The initiative gave birth to dozens of youth choirs who sang the hymns in a new style, and began to compose their own repertory about Shembe in a more 'gospel-inflected' musical version of their faith. The hymns were translated by the late Bongani Mthethwa, and are edited and introduced by Carol Muller, who also produced the accompanying CD.
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781869141363
Translator: Bongani Mthethwa
The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 (Book)Title: The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938
Author: Gayle Murchison
Abstract: One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century.
In The American Stravinsky , Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.
Year: 2010
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780472099849
Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (Book)Title: Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
Author: Jann Pasler
Abstract: In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its "public utility," music became an object of public policy as integral to modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice conflicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future.
Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler's rich interdisciplinary work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and practices of amateurs as well as professionals. A fascinating history of the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive tensions between the political and the aesthetic. Highly evocative and deeply humanistic, Composing the Citizen ignites broad debates about music's role in democracy and its meaning in our lives.
Year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520257405
Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig (Book)Title: Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig
Author: Judith A. Peraino
Abstract: In this fresh and innovative study, Judith A. Peraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with a close examination of the mythology surrounding the sirens—whose music seduced Ulysses into a state of mind in which he would gladly sacrifice everything for the illicit pleasures promised in their song—Peraino goes on to consider the musical creatures, musical gods and demigods, musical humans, and music-addled listeners who have been associated with behavior that breaches social conventions. She deftly employs a sophisticated reading of Foucault as an organizational principle as well as a philosophical focus to survey seductive and transgressive queerness in music from the Greeks through the Middle Ages and to the contemporary period. Listening to the Sirens analyzes the musical ways in which queer individuals express and discipline their desire, represent themselves, build communities, and subvert heterosexual expectations. It covers a wide range of music including medieval songs, works by Handel, Tchaikovsky and Britten, women's music and disco, performers such as Judy Garland, Melissa Etheridge, Madonna, and Marilyn Manson, and the movies The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520215870
George Gershwin: His Life and Work (Book)Title: George Gershwin: His Life and Work
Author: Howard Pollack
Abstract: This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created some of the most beloved music of the twentieth century and, along with Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, helped make the golden age of Broadway golden. Howard Pollack draws from a wealth of sketches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, books, articles, recordings, films, and other materials—including a large cache of Gershwin scores discovered in a Warner Brothers warehouse in 1982—to create an expansive chronicle of Gershwin’s meteoric rise to fame. He also traces Gershwin’s powerful presence that, even today, extends from Broadway, jazz clubs, and film scores to symphony halls and opera houses.
Pollack’s lively narrative describes Gershwin’s family, childhood, and education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships and romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; and his tragic death at the age of 38. Unlike Kern, Berlin, and Porter, who mostly worked within the confines of Broadway and Hollywood, Gershwin actively sought to cross the boundaries between high and low, and wrote works that crossed over into a realm where art music, jazz, and Broadway met and merged. The author surveys Gershwin’s entire oeuvre, from his first surviving compositions to the melodies that his brother and principal collaborator, Ira Gershwin, lyricized after his death. Pollack concludes with an exploration of the performances and critical reception of Gershwin's music over the years, from his time to ours.
Year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520248649
Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Book)Title: Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Author: Hilary Poriss
Abstract: This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia.
The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195386714
Música Norteña: Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations (Book)Title: Música Norteña: Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations
Author: Cathy Ragland
Abstract: Música norteña, a musical genre with its roots in the folk ballad traditions of northern Mexico and the Texas-Mexican border region, has become a hugely popular musical style in the U.S., particularly among Mexican immigrants. Featuring evocative songs about undocumented border-crossers, drug traffickers, and the plight of immigrant workers, música norteña has become the music of a "nation between nations." Música Norteña is the first definitive history of this transnational music that has found enormous commercial success in norteamérica.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Temple University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781592137466
Tuning in: American Narrative Television Music (Book)Title: Tuning in: American Narrative Television Music
Author: Ron Rodman
Abstract: Music has always been at the heart of American television. Amongst the many roles it plays in broadcasting, music entertains viewers with live and videotaped performances, evokes moods and identifies characters and settings, and sells products through commercial jingles. Most importantly, television music steers viewers through the continuous stream of daily programming.
Tuning In looks at and listens to the first fifty years of American narrative television music as a unique art form. Drawing on music in a wide variety of television genres - from westerns to science-fiction thrillers to police dramas to sitcoms and commercials - author Ron Rodman develops a new theory of television music to explain how it conveys meaning to American viewing audiences. Music in television, Rodman argues, finds its origins both in radio and in cinema, and is thus a unique multimedia form that demands its own methods of analysis. From The Dick van Dyke Show and I Love Lucy to Twin Peaks and The X-Files, Rodman's arguments are grounded in a fascinatingly historically wide-ranging and diverse selection of shows.
The book also crosses media genres, looking at how the Broadway stage and the Hollywood film musical have influenced television variety shows and situation comedies. Drawing on music analysis and narrative and semiotic theories, this stimulating book illustrates how music forms part of the code that makes television broadcasts culturally meaningful.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195340242
The "Menuet de la cour" (Book)Title: The "Menuet de la cour"
Author: Dominique Bourassa
Author: Tilden A. Russell
Abstract: e “Menuet de la cour,” or “Court Minuet,” may have been the most popular social dance of all time. This choreographed dance, with its tune, originated in the ancien régime and lasted as a living tradition until the “Roaring Twenties”- a 150-year saga that can be traced through numerous sources of international provenance.
The “Menuet de la cour,” written from the dual perspectives of historical musicology and dance history by Tilden Russell and Dominique Bourassa, is unprecedented in dance-history scholarship. It is primarily a full-length study of this extraordinary minuet and how it changed in terms of style, technique, notation, iconography, social context, and rhetorical meaning. At the same time, it examines these developments against the backdrop of the history of the minuet as a dance, and the history of dance as an art form and recreational medium. For the breadth and quality of its scholarship, this study should interest dance historians, historical dancers, choreographers, musicologists, costume historians, and social historians, and it marks a new direction in the way dance history is written.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9783487132648
Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life (Book)Title: Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life
Author: Lynn M. Sargeant
Abstract: Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a unique driving force behind the institutionalization of music and a representative of the growing importance of voluntary associations in public life. Sustained simultaneously by private initiative and cooperative relationships with the state, the Russian Musical Society played a key role in the creation of Russia's infrastructure for music and music education.
Author Lynn M. Sargeant explores the fluid nature of Russian social identity through the broad scope of musical life, including not only the "leading lights" of the era but also rank-and-file musicians, teachers, and students. Although Russian musicians longed for a secure place within the new hierarchy of professions, their social status remained ambiguous throughout the nineteenth century. Traditional reliance on serf musicians and foreigners left lasting scars that motivated musicians' efforts to obtain legal rights and social respectability. And women's increasing visibility in the musical world provoked acrimonious debates that were, at heart, efforts by male musicians to strengthen their claims to professional status by denying the legitimacy of female participation. Sargeant demonstrates that the successful development of a Russian musical infrastructure salved persistent anxieties about Russia's place vis-a-vis its European cultural competitors. Remarkably, the institutions developed by the Russian Musical Society survived the upheavals of war and revolution to become the foundation for the Soviet musical system.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199735266
Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw (Book)Title: Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw
Author: Peter J Schmelz
Abstract: Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this, and in no realm of the arts was this perhaps more true than in music. Students at Soviet conservatories were at last able to use various channels--many of questionable legality--to acquire and hear music that had previously been forbidden, and visiting performers and composers brought young Soviets new sounds and new compositions. In the 1960s, composers such as Andrey Volkonsky, Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Valentin Silvestrov experimented with a wide variety of then new and unfamiliar techniques ranging from serialism to aleatory devices, and audiences eager to escape the music of predictable sameness typical to socialist realism were attracted to performances of their new and unfamiliar creations.
This "unofficial" music by young Soviet composers inhabited the gray space between legal and illegal. Such Freedom, If Only Musical traces the changing compositional styles and politically charged reception of this music, and brings to life the paradoxical freedoms and sense of resistance or opposition that it suggested to Soviet listeners. Author Peter J. Schmelz draws upon interviews conducted with many of the most important composers and performers of the musical Thaw, and supplements this first-hand testimony with careful archival research and detailed musical analyses. The first book to explore this period in detail, Such Freedom, If Only Musical will appeal to musicologists and theorists interested in post-war arts movements, the Cold War, and Soviet music, as well as historians of Russian culture and society.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195341935
Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna (Book)Title: Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna
Author: Derek B. Scott
Abstract: he phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. He explains the popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise, which ultimately resulted in a polarization between musical entertainment (or "commercial" music) and "serious" art. He focuses on the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at that time, and that continued to have an impact upon popular music in the next century. By the end of the nineteenth century, popular music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques, forms, and devices. As Scott shows, "popular" refers here, for the first time, not only to the music's reception, but also to the presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning of "popular" provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore the signs of the popular-which they regarded as fashionable and facile, rather than progressive and serious. A fresh and persuasive consideration of the genesis of popular music on its own terms, Sounds of the Metropolis breaks new ground in the study of music, cultural sociology, and history.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195309461
Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria (Book)Title: Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
Author: Jonathan Holt Shannon
Abstract: How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in depth by Western scholars. Music plays a key role in the process of self-imaging by virtue of its ability to convey feeling and emotion, and Shannon explores a variety of performance genres, Sufi rituals, song lyrics, melodic modes, and aesthetic criteria. Shannon shows that although the music may evoke the old, the traditional, and the local, these are re-envisioned as signifiers of the modern national profile. A valuable contribution to the study of music and identity and to the ethnomusicology of the modern Middle East, Among the Jasmine Trees details this music and its reception for the first time, offering an original theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Arab culture, music, and society.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819567987
William Grant Still (Book)Title: William Grant Still
Author: Catherine Parsons Smith
Abstract: n this compact introduction to the life and work of eminent African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), Catherine Parsons Smith tracks the composer's interrelated careers in popular and concert music. Still merged both musical traditions in his work, studying composition with George W. Chadwick at the New England Conservatory, collaborating with Langston Hughes on Troubled Island, and working as a commercial arranger and composer on Broadway and radio during the Harlem Renaissance. Still also played in the pit band for Shuffle Along, served as recording director for the first black-owned record label, Black Swan, and arranged music for artists such as Sophie Tucker, Paul Whiteman, and Artie Shaw. Best known for his Afro-American Symphony and other works that drew heavily on black American musical heritage, Still struggled against financial hardship and declining attention to his work, which he attributed to political and racist conspiracies. This "dean of Afro-American composers" created his own, unique version of musical modernism, influencing commercial music, symphonic music, and opera in the process.
Year: 2008
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252033223
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (Book)Title: Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater
Author: Larry Stempel
Abstract: Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Larry Stempel traces the growth of musicals from minstrel shows and burlesques, through the golden age of Show Boat and Oklahoma!, to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.
Stempel describes the Broadway stage with vivid accounts of the performers drawn to it, and detailed portraits of the creators who wrote the music, lyrics, and stories for its shows, both beloved and less well known. But Stempel travels outside the theater doors as well, to illuminate the wider world of musical theater as a living genre shaped by the forces of American history and culture. He reveals not only how musicals entertain their audiences but also how they serve as barometers of social concerns and bearers of cultural values.
Showtime is the culmination of decades of painstaking research on a genre whose forms have changed over the course of two centuries. In covering the expansive subject before him, Stempel combines original research-including a kaleidoscope of primary sources and archival holdings-with deft and insightful analysis. The result is nothing short of the most comprehensive, authoritative history of the Broadway musical yet published.
Year: 2010
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780393067156
Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene (Book)Title: Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene
Author: Travis D. Stimeling
Abstract: Country music of the late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the emerging counterculture. But starting around 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to merge it with countercultural ideals to forge a distinctly Texan counterculture. Progressive country music-a hybrid of country music and rock-blossomed in this growing Austin community, as it played out the contradictions at work among its residents. The music was at once firmly grounded in the traditional Texan culture in which they had been raised, and profoundly affected by their newly radicalized, convention-flouting ways.
In Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene, Travis Stimeling connects the local Austin culture and the progressive music that became its trademark. He presents a colorful range of evidence, from behavior and dress, to newspaper articles, to personal interviews of musicians. Along the way, Stimeling uncovers parodies of the cosmic cowboy image that reinforce the longing for a more peaceful way of life, but that also recognize an awareness of the muddled, conflicted nature of this counterculture identity. Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks provides new insight into the inner workings of Austin's progressive country music scene-by bringing the music and musicians brilliantly to life.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199747474
The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms (Book)Title: The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms
Author: Russell Stinson
Abstract: In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that this quadrumvirate not only borrowed from Bach's organ works in creating their own masterpieces, whether for keyboard, voice, orchestra, or chamber ensemble, but that they also reacted significantly to the music as performers, editors, theorists, and teachers. Furthermore, the book reveals how these four titans influenced one another as "receptors" of this repertory and how their mutual acquaintances--especially Clara Schumann--contributed as well.
As the first comprehensive discussion of this topic ever attempted, Stinson's book represents a major step forward in the literature on the so-called Bach revival. He considers biographical as well as musical evidence to arrive at a host of new and sometimes startling conclusions. Filled with fascinating anecdotes, the study also includes detailed observations on how these composers annotated their personal copies of Bach's organ works.
Stinson's book is entirely up-to-date and offers much material previously unavailable in English. It is meticulously annotated and indexed, and it features numerous musical examples and facsimile plates as well as an exhaustive bibliography. Included in an appendix is Brahms's hitherto unpublished study score of the Fantasy in G Major, BWV 572. Engagingly written, this study should be read by anyone at all interested in the music of Bach or the music of the nineteenth century.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195171099
Twelve-Tone Music in America (Book)Title: Twelve-Tone Music in America
Author: Joseph N. Straus
Abstract: Most histories of American music have ignored the presence of twelve-tone music before and during the Second World War, and virtually all have ignored its presence after 1970, even though so many major composers continued (and continue) to compose serially. This book provides the first comprehensive history of twelve-tone music in America, and compels a revised picture of American music since 1925 as a dynamic steady-state within which twelve-tone serialism has long been, and still remains, a persistent presence: a vigorous and unbroken tradition for more than eighty years. Straus outlines how, instead of a rigid orthodoxy, American twelve-tone music is actually a flexible, loosely-knit cultural practice. The book provides close readings of thirty-seven American twelve-tone works by composers including Copland, Babbitt, Stravinsky and Carter, among many others, who represent a typically American diversity of background and life circumstances, and strips away the many myths surrounding twelve-tone music in America.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521899550
How Sondheim Found His Sound (Book)Title: How Sondheim Found His Sound
Author: Steve Swayne
Abstract: Stephen Sondheim has made it clear that he considers himself a "playwright in song." How he arrived at this unique appellation is the subject of How Sondheim Found His Sound—an absorbing study of the influences on Sondheim's work not normally associated with musical composition, such as theater and film. The book also traces the development of Sondheim's musical language, showing how that language, forged before Sondheim had a successful Broadway show, appears throughout his career.
Taking Sondheim's own comments and music as a starting point, author Steve Swayne offers a biography of the artist's style, pulling aside the curtain on Sondheim's creative universe to reveal the many influences—from classical music to theater to film—that have established Sondheim as one of the greatest dramatic composers of the twentieth century.
Sondheim has spoken often and freely about the music, theater, and films he likes, and on occasion has made explicit references to how past works crop up in his own work. He has also freely acknowledged his eclecticism, seeing in it neither a curse nor a blessing but a fact of his creative life.
Among the many forces influencing his work, Sondheim has readily pointed to a wide field: classical music from 1850 to 1950; the songs of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood; the theatrical innovations of Oscar Hammerstein II and his collaborators; the cinematic elements found in certain film schools; and the melodramatic style of particular plays and films. Ultimately, Sondheim found his sound by amalgamating these seemingly disparate components into his unique patois.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780472114979
Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion (Book)Title: Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion
Editor: Paul Beaudoin
Editor: Judith Tick
Abstract: Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs of the United States, and Charles Ives extolling Emerson. But many other selections offer uncommon sources, including a satirical story about a Yankee music teacher; various columns from 19th-century German American newspapers; the memoirs of a 19th-century diva; Lottie Joplin remembering her husband Scott; a little-known reflection of Copland about Stravinsky; an interview with Muddy Waters from the Chicago Defender; a letter from Woody Guthrie on the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song; a press release from the Country Music Association; and the Congressional testimony around "Napster." "Sidebar" entries occasionally bring a topic or an idea into the present, acknowledging the extent to which revivals of many kinds of music play a role in American contemporary culture. This book focuses on the connections between theory and practice to enrich our understanding of the diversity of American musical experiences. Designed especially to accompany college courses which survey American music as a whole, the book is also relevant to courses in American history and American Studies.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195139877
Music and Wonder at the Medici Court: The 1589 Interludes for La pellegrina (Book)Title: Music and Wonder at the Medici Court: The 1589 Interludes for La pellegrina
Author: Nina Treadwell
Abstract: On May 2, 1589, the Medici court staged the most elaborate entertainment yet produced in Florence. The intermedii (interludes) performed during Girolamo Bargagli's comedy La pellegrina were the high point of a series of celebrations mobilized by the newly proclaimed Grand Duke of Florence—Ferdinando I de' Medici—for his wedding to Christine of Lorraine. These interludes were arguably the most well documented multimedia entertainment of the Medici principate. CD included.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780253352187
Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Book)Title: Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
Author: Michael Veal
Abstract: When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee “Scratch” Perry began crafting “dub” music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during reggae’s “golden age” of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Dub involves remixing existing recordings—electronically improvising sound effects and altering vocal tracks—to create its unique sound. Just as hip-hop turned phonograph turntables into musical instruments, dub turned the mixing and sound processing technologies of the recording studio into instruments of composition and real-time improvisation. In addition to chronicling dub’s development and offering the first thorough analysis of the music itself, author Michael Veal examines dub’s social significance in Jamaican culture. He further explores the “dub revolution” that has crossed musical and cultural boundaries for over thirty years, influencing a wide variety of musical genres around the globe.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780819565716
Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997—2001 (Book)Title: Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997—2001
Author: Jeremy Wallach
Abstract: What happens to "local" sound when globalization exposes musicians and audiences to cultural influences from around the world? Jeremy Wallach explores this question as it plays out in the eclectic, evolving world of Indonesian music after the fall of the repressive Soeharto regime. Against the backdrop of Indonesia's chaotic and momentous transition to democracy, Wallach takes us to recording studios, music stores, concert venues, university campuses, video shoots, and urban neighborhoods.
Integrating ground-level ethnographic research with insights drawn from contemporary cultural theory, he shows that access to globally circulating music and technologies has neither extinguished nor homogenized local music-making in Indonesia. Instead, it has provided young Indonesians with creative possibilities for exploring their identity in a diverse nation undergoing dramatic changes in an increasingly interconnected world. Ultimately, he finds, the unofficial, multicultural nationalism of Indonesian popular music provides a viable alternative to the religious, ethnic, regional, and class-based extremism that continues to threaten unity and democracy in that country.
Year: 2008
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780299229009
The Music of Joni Mitchell (Book)Title: The Music of Joni Mitchell
Author: Lloyd Whitesell
Abstract: Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late twentieth century. Yet despite her reputation, influence, and cultural importance, a detailed appraisal of her musical achievement is still lacking. Whitesell presents a through exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her songs from a musicological perspective. His analyses are conceived within a holistic framework that takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career.
Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. The Music of Joni Mitchell offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation.
Previous accounts of Mitchell's songwriting have tended to favor her poetic vision, expansive verse structures, and riveting vocal delivery. Whitesell fills out this account with special attention to musical technique, showing how such traits as complex or conflicting sonorities, dualities of harmonic mode, dialectical tensions of texture and register, intricately layered instrumental figuration, and a variable vocal persona are all essential to her distinctive identity as a songwriter. The Music of Joni Mitchell develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs, in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195307573
Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations (Book)Title: Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations
Author: Iannis Xenakis
Abstract: This important work fills a major lacuna in the literature by bringing together for the first time all the texts relating to architecture by the multi-faceted Xenakis who worked with Le Corbusier for 12 years. Sharon Kanach assisted the composer in gathering the texts for this his last ambitious project. Her commentary throughout the book seeks to bridge the reciprocal influences between music and architecture in the Xenakis oeuvre.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781576471974
Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works (Book)Title: Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works
Author: Steven Zohn
Abstract: Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death. Yet these works are now among the most popular in the baroque repertory. In Music for a Mixed Taste, Steven Zohn considers Telemann's music from stylistic, generic, and cultural perspectives. He investigates the composer's cosmopolitan "mixed taste"--a blending of the French, Italian, English, and Polish national styles-and his imaginative expansion of this concept to embrace mixtures of the old (late baroque) and new (galant) styles. Telemann had an equally remarkable penchant for generic amalgamation, exemplified by his pioneering role in developing hybrid types such as the sonata in concerto style ("Sonate auf Concertenart") and overture-suite with solo instrument ("Concert en ouverture"). Zohn examines the extramusical meanings of Telemann's "characteristic" overture-suites, which bear descriptive texts associating them with literature, medicine, politics, religion, and the natural world, and which acted as vehicles for the composer's keen sense of musical humor. Zohn then explores Telemann's unprecedented self-publishing enterprise at Hamburg, and sheds light on the previously unrecognized borrowing by J.S. Bach from a Telemann concerto. Music for a Mixed Taste further reveals how Telemann's style polonaise generates musical and social meanings through the timeless oppositions of Orient-Occident, urban-rural, and serious-comic.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195169775
Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West (Book)Title: Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West
Author: Beth E. Levy
Abstract: Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520267763
Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire (Book)Title: Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire
Author: Michael J. Puri
Abstract: The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars. The traditional stylistic categories of impressionism, symbolism, and neoclassicism, while relevant, have offered too little purchase on this fascinating but enigmatic work. In Ravel the Decadent, author Michael Puri provides an innovative and productive solution by locating the aesthetic origins of this music in the French Decadence and demonstrating the extension of this influence across the length of his oeuvre. From an array of Decadent topics Puri selects three--memory, sublimation, and desire--and uses them to delineate the content of this music, pinpoint its overlap with contemporary cultural discourse, and link it to its biographical context, as well as to create new methods altogether for the analysis and interpretation of music.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199735372
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s (Book)Title: Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s
Author: Andrew S. Berish
Abstract: Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound.
Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226044941
Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works (Book)Title: Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works
Author: Barbara Heyman
Abstract: Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works is the first publication to list the entire musical output of Samuel Barber, one of the most beloved and frequently performed American composers. In this exhaustive study, renowned Barber biographer Barbara Heyman chronologically lists and details hundreds of core repertory and the most recently published works, as well as numerous works previously unknown and unpublished.
Each entry includes information about first performances, commissions, and the circumstances and inspiration of the composition; the texts of songs; a musical extract containing the opening measures of each work, movement, or major aria; duration, revisions, editions, arrangements, and a select discography of historical and contemporary performances. The descriptions of manuscript sources provide details about the hundreds of holograph manuscripts, sketches, drafts, and significant publisher's proofs with Barber's corrections. Entries are enhanced by Heyman's extensive commentary, which draws from Barber's correspondence, interviews, and diaries. Useful appendices to the catalogue comprise a register of works by genre; an alphabetical directory of works; an index of first lines of vocal works; a listing by nationality of authors and translators of texts set by Barber; and a comprehensive discography.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199744640
Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Book)Title: Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater
Author: Jeffrey Magee
Abstract: From patriotic "God Bless America" to wistful "White Christmas," Irving Berlin's songs have long accompanied Americans as they fall in love, go to war, and come home for the holidays. Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater is the first book to fully consider this songwriter's immeasurable influence on the American stage. Award-winning music historian Jeffrey Magee chronicles Berlin's legendary theatrical career, providing a rich background to some of the great composer's most enduring songs, from "There's No Business Like Show Business" to "Puttin' on the Ritz." Magee shows how Berlin's early experience singing for pennies made an impression on the young man, who kept hold of that sensibility throughout his career and transformed it into one of the defining attributes of Broadway shows. Magee also looks at darker aspects of Berlin's life, examining the anti-Semitism that Berlin faced and his struggle with depression. Informative, provocative, and full of colorful details, this book will delight song and theater aficionados alike as well as anyone interested in the story of a man whose life and work expressed so well the American dream.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195398267
The Music Library of a Noble Florentine Family (Book)Title: The Music Library of a Noble Florentine Family
Editor: Susan Parisi
Abstract: The University of Louisville Music Library is the repository of some 400 manuscripts and prints of music, and a number of music books, collected between about 1750 and 1860 by three branches of the Ricasoli family of the high nobility of Florence. Largely a performing collection, the scores and pedagogical books were used in the Ricasoli residences and chapels by family members and the musicians they employed. Amounting to over 1,400 compositions, there are operas, oratorios, masses, organ toccatas, sacred and secular songs, ballet music, sinfonias, concertos, violin and keyboard sonatas, sonatas, variations, character pieces, and opera transcriptions for keyboard alone, works for piano four-hands, and harp compositions. Many scores are by Tuscan composers, and a considerable number are autographs. In several of the manuscripts alterations and performance indications are visible.
Principal composers represented in the collection include Handel, Marcello, Pergolesi, Jommelli, J. C. Bach, Pleyel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek, Guglielmi, Myslivecek, Paisiello, Rossini, Mayr, Paer, Cimarosa, Cherubini, Kozeluch, Schroeter, Vanhal, and Wagenseil, among others. Some of the Tuscan composers are Barbieri, Buccioni, Campion, Favier, B. Felici, A. Felici, Giuliani, Ligniville, Mabellini, Magnelli, Meucci, Moneta, Panerai, Pelleschi, G. M. Rutini, Gaspero Sborgi, Gaetano Sborgi, Sodi, and Valenti.
The present volume brings together important documentary studies on the Ricasoli music by Robert Lamar Weaver and a comprehensive catalogue of the complete contents, arranged by category: Secular Music; Sacred Music; and Method, Theory, and History Books. Weaver’s two essays trace the history of the collection and its cultural background, and examine liturgical services and music in the Ricasoli chapels and residences. Both the catalogue and the essays draw on a wealth of contemporaneous documents from the Ricasoli archives in Florence.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Harmonie Park Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780899901589
Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition (Book)Title: Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition
Author: Shay Loya
Abstract: Some of Franz Liszt's most renowned pieces - most famously his Hungarian Rhapsodies - are written in a nineteenth-century Hungarian style known as verbunkos. Closely associated with the virtuosic playing tradition of the Hungarian-Gypsy band, the meaning and uses of this style in Liszt's music have been widely taken for granted and presented as straightforward. Taking a novel transcultural approach to nineteenth-century modernism, Shay Loya presents a series of critiques and sensitive music analyses that demonstrate how the verbunkos idiom, rich and artful in itself, interacted in a myriad of ways with Liszt's multiple cultural identities, compositional techniques, and modernist aesthetics. Even supposedly familiar works, such as the above mentioned Rhapsodies, emerge in a new light, and more startlingly, we find out how the idiom inhabits and shapes works that bear no outward marks of nationality or ethnicity. Particularly surprising is its role in the famously enigmatic compositions of Liszt's old age, such as Nuages gris and Bagatelle sans tonalité.
Year: 2011
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580463232
Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz (Book)Title: Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz
Author: Sathima Bea Benjamin
Author: Carol Muller
Abstract: Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for Europe, where they met and recorded with Duke Ellington. Benjamin and Ibrahim spent their lives on the move between Europe, the United States, and South Africa until 1977, when they left Africa for New York City and declared their support for the African National Congress. In New York, Benjamin established her own record company and recorded her music independently from Ibrahim. Musical Echoes reflects twenty years of archival research and conversation between this extraordinary jazz singer and the South African musicologist Carol Ann Muller. The narrative of Benjamin’s life and times is interspersed with Muller’s reflections on the vocalist’s story and its implications for jazz history.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780822349143
The Ellington Century (Book)Title: The Ellington Century
Author: David Schiff
Abstract: Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately--classical, jazz, and popular--this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer's lifetime in terms of broad ideas such as rhythm, melody, and harmony. He shows how composers and performers across genres shared the common pursuit of representing the rapidly changing conditions of modern life. The Ellington Century demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520245877
Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young (Book)Title: Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young
Author: Jeremy Grimshaw
Abstract: Recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement-Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"--La Monte Young remains an enigma within the music world, one of the most important and yet most elusive composers of the late twentieth century. Early in his career Young almost completely eschewed the conventional musical institutions of publishers, record labels, and venues, in order to create compositions completely unfettered by commercial concerns. Yet at the same time he exercised profound influence on such varied figures as Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, David Lang, The Velvet Underground, and entire branches of electronica and drone music. For half a century, he and his partner and collaborator, Marian Zazeela, have worked in near-seclusion in their Tribeca loft, creating works that explore the furthest extremes of conceptual audacity, technical sophistication, acoustical complexity, and overt spirituality.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199740208
Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Book)Title: Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Author: Susan Boynton
Abstract: Silent Music explores the importance of music and liturgy in an eighteenth-century vision of Spanish culture and national identity. From 1750 to 1755, the Jesuit Andr�s Marcos Burriel (1719-1762) and the calligrapher Francisco Xavier Santiago y Palomares (1728-1796) worked together in Toledo Cathedral for the Royal Commission on the Archives, which the government created to obtain evidence for the royal patronage of church benefices in Spain. With Burriel as director, the Commission transcribed not only archival documents, but also manuscripts of canon law, history, literature, and liturgy, in order to write a new ecclesiastical history of Spain. At the center of this ambitious project of cultural nationalism stood the medieval manuscripts of the Old Hispanic rite, the liturgy associated with Toledo's Mozarabs, or Christians who had continued to practice their religion under Muslim rule. Burriel was the first to realize that the medieval manuscripts differed significantly from the early-modern editions of the Mozarabic rite. Palomares, building on his work with Burriel, wrote a history of the Visigothic script in which he noted the indecipherability of the music notation in manuscripts of the Old Hispanic rite. Palomares not only studied manuscripts, but also copied them, producing numerous drawings and a full-size, full-color parchment facsimile of the liturgical manuscript Toledo, Biblioteca Capitular 35.7 (from the late eleventh or early twelfth century),which was presented to King Ferdinand VI of Spain. Another product of this antiquarian concern with song is Palomares's copy (dedicated to B�rbara de Braganza) of the Toledo codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199754595
Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (Book)Title: Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II
Author: Christina L. Baade
Abstract: To serve the British nation in World War II, the BBC charged itself with mobilizing popular music in support of Britain's war effort. Radio music, British broadcasters and administrators argued, could maintain civilian and military morale, increase industrial production, and even promote a sense of Anglo-American cooperation. Because of their widespread popularity, dance music and popular song were seen as ideal for these tasks; along with jazz, with its American associations and small but youthful audience, these genres suddenly gained new legitimacy at the traditionally more conservative BBC.
In Victory through Harmony, author Christina Baade both tells the fascinating story of the BBC's musical participation in wartime events and explores how popular music and jazz broadcasting helped redefine notions of war, gender, race, class, and nationality in wartime Britain. Baade looks in particular at the BBC's pioneering Listener Research Department, which tracked the tastes of select demographic groups including servicemen stationed overseas and young female factory workers in order to further the goal of entertaining, cheering, and even calming the public during wartime. The book also tells how the wartime BBC programmed popular music to an unprecedented degree with the goal of building national unity and morale, promoting new roles for women, virile representations of masculinity, Anglo-American friendship, and pride in a common British culture. In the process, though, the BBC came into uneasy contact with threats of Americanization, sentimentality, and the creativity of non-white "others," which prompted it to regulate and even censor popular music and performers.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195372014
Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut (Book)Title: Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut
Author: Judith A. Peraino
Abstract: Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut investigates French and Occitan "courtly love" songs from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries and explores the paradoxical relationship of music and self-expression in the Middle Ages. While these love songs conceived and expressed the autonomous subject - the lyric "I" represented by a single line of melody - they also engaged highly conventional musical and poetic language, and required performers and scribes for their transmission. This paradox was understood by the poets and became the basis for irony, parody, and intertextual referencing, which instilled the lyrics with a characteristic self-consciousness that reflected the unstable conditions for self-expression.
Author Judith Peraino reveals similar operations at work in musical settings. Examining moments where voice, melody, rhythm, form, and genre come dramatically to the fore and seem to comment on music itself, Giving Voice to Love strives not only to hear self-expression in these love songs, but to understand how musical elements give voice to the complex issues of self and subjectivity encoded in medieval love.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199757244
The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Book)Title: The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Author: David J. Rothenberg
Abstract: There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular--both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms--Marian prayer derived from earlier Gregorian chant, and love songs and lyrics from medieval courtly song. Yet despite their obvious similarities, the two musical and poetic traditions have rarely been studied together. Author David J. Rothenberg takes on this task with remarkable success, producing a useful and broad introduction to Marian music and liturgy, and then coupling that with an incisive comparative analysis of these devotional forms and the words and music of secular love songs of the period.
The Flower of Paradise examines the interplay of Marian devotional and secular poetics within polyphonic music from ca. 1200 to ca. 1500. Through case studies of works that demonstrate a specific symbolic resonance between Marian devotion and secular song, the book illustrates the distinctive ethos of this period in European culture. Rothenberg makes use of an impressive command of liturgical and religious studies, literature and poetry, and art history to craft a study with wide application across disciplinary boundaries. With its broad scope and unique, incisive analysis, this book will open up new ways of thinking about the history and development of secular and sacred music and the Marian tradition for scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance religious culture.
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Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195399714
Tonality and Transformation (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) (Book)Title: Tonality and Transformation (Oxford Studies in Music Theory)
Author: Steven Rings
Abstract: Tonality and Transformation is a groundbreaking study in the analysis of tonal music. Focusing on the listener's experience, author Steven Rings employs transformational music theory to illuminate diverse aspects of tonal hearing - from the infusion of sounding pitches with familiar tonal qualities to sensations of directedness and attraction. In the process, Rings introduces a host of new analytical techniques for the study of the tonal repertory, demonstrating their application in vivid interpretive set pieces on music from Bach to Mahler. The analyses place the book's novel techniques in dialogue with existing tonal methodologies, such as Schenkerian theory, avoiding partisan debate in favor of a methodologically careful, pluralistic approach. Rings also engages neo-Riemannian theory-a popular branch of transformational thought focused on chromatic harmony-reanimating its basic operations with tonal dynamism and bringing them into closer rapprochement with traditional tonal concepts.
Written in a direct and engaging style, with lively prose and plain-English descriptions of all technical ideas, Tonality and Transformation balances theoretical substance with accessibility: it will appeal to both specialists and non-specialists. It is a particularly attractive volume for those new to transformational theory: in addition to its original theoretical content, the book offers an excellent introduction to transformational thought, including a chapter that outlines the theory's conceptual foundations and formal apparatus, as well as a glossary of common technical terms. A contribution to our understanding of tonal phenomenology and a landmark in the analytical application of transformational techniques, Tonality and Transformation is an indispensible work of music theory.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195384277
Music & Politics in San Francisco: From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War (Book)Title: Music & Politics in San Francisco: From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War
Title: Songs, Scribes, and Society: The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers (The New Cultural History of Music Series)
Author: Jane Alden
Author: Leta E. Miller
Abstract: A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre.
The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right.
This book places the physical objects at center, investigating the means by which they were produced and the broader culture in which they circulated. Jane Alden performs a codicological autopsy upon the manuscripts and reveals the hitherto unrecognized role of scribes in shaping the transmission and reception of the chanson repertory. Alden also challenges the long-held belief that the Loire Valley Chansonniers were intended for royal or noble patrons. Instead, she argues that a rising class of bureaucrats--notaries, secretaries, and other court officials--commissioned these exquisite objects. Active as writers and participants in poetry competitions, these individuals may even have written some of the chansons' texts.
The unique integration of image, text, and music found in chansonniers extends their appeal to a broad readership. But for the nineteenth-century scholars who rediscovered these manuscripts, the larger literary and visual resonances were not of primary interest. Alden documents the tangle of motivations--national identity, populist politics, and the rise of the musical masterwork--that informed the earliest writings on these books. Only now is their multifaceted structure the inspiration for a new generation of readers.
Abstract: This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws on primary source material and first-hand knowledge of the music to argue that a utopian vision counterbalanced partisan interests and inspired cultural endeavors, including the San Francisco Conservatory, two world fairs, and America's first municipally owned opera house. Miller demonstrates that rampant racism, initially directed against Chinese laborers (and their music), reappeared during the 1930s in the guise of labor unrest as WPA music activities exploded in vicious battles between administrators and artists, and African American and white jazz musicians competed for jobs in nightclubs.
Year: 2010
Year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520268913
ISBN: 9780195381528
New Josquin Edition: Volume 18, Motets on Texts from the Old Testament: Texts from the Psalms 4 (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez) (Book)Title: New Josquin Edition: Volume 18, Motets on Texts from the Old Testament: Texts from the Psalms 4 (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Editor: Willem Elders
Editor: Leeman L. Perkins
Abstract: New Josquin Edition: Volume 18, Motets on Texts from the Old Testament: Texts from the Psalms 4 (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Koninklijke Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9789063750695
Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 (California Studies in 20th-Century Music - Book 12) (Book)Title: Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 (California Studies in 20th-Century Music - Book 12)
Author: Eric Drott Eric Drott
Abstract: In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the "long" 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott's detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in response to 1968 and his pathbreaking reflections on the nature and significance of musical genre come together to provide insights into the relationships that link music, identity, and politics.
Year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520268975
New Josquin Edition: Volume 5, Masses Based on Secular Monophonic Songs (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez) (Book)Title: New Josquin Edition: Volume 5, Masses Based on Secular Monophonic Songs (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Editor: Martin Just
Abstract: New Josquin Edition: Volume 5, Masses Based on Secular Monophonic Songs (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Year: 2010
Publisher: Koninklijke Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9789063750565
ISBN: 9789063751180
RASA: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: RASA: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Marc Benamou
Abstract: The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics?
In this first book on the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable. Following several years performing and researching Javanese music in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia, Benamou untangles the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and court-derived gamelan traditions. While acknowledging that certain universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how culturally specific such accrued, shared meanings can be.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195189438
Katerina's Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun (Book)Title: Katerina's Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun
Author: Volker Schier
Author: Corine Schleif
Abstract: The wealthy Katerina Lemmel entered the Maria Mai monastery in 1516—and rebuilt it. In Katerina's Windows, readers can observe how stained glass was donated and commissioned and witness spectators reaction to it, ranging from critical aesthetic assessments to iconoclastic acts.
The book presents historical texts and interpretive analysis. Katerina Lemmel and those around her are given voice through translations of seventy-three sources, including personal and business letters, chronicle accounts, and legal documents, most of which have never been transcribed or published before. Necessary explanations as well as theoretical considerations and critical insights are provided through the voices of the authors.
Katerina Lemmel's letters allow glimpses into the materiality of monastic life; views of the interconnected workings of art, music, liturgy, and literature; evidence of the persuasive powers of a nun who functioned as negotiator; accounts of one woman s struggles on behalf of other women; and data on women s networks. The sources provide insiders insights into the spiritual economies later scorned by Protestant reformers. They also offer an eyewitness account of the social challenges to this system that erupted in violent clashes during the Revolution of 1525.
The material offers a fresh look at art and music made by and for nuns. Much previous literature has focused on nuns as mystics and visionaries, and on their art as primitive or mundane. This book demonstrates the roles of nuns as active agents for sophisticated art and innovative liturgical music.
Year: 2009
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780271033693
New Josquin Edition: Volume 25, Motets on Non-Biblical Texts (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez) (Book)Title: New Josquin Edition: Volume 25, Motets on Non-Biblical Texts (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Editor: Willem Elders
Abstract: New Josquin Edition: Volume 25, Motets on Non-Biblical Texts (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Year: 2009
Publisher: Koninklijke Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9789063750763
New Josquin Edition: Volume 17, Motets on Texts from the Old Testament (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez) (Book)Title: New Josquin Edition: Volume 17, Motets on Texts from the Old Testament (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Editor: Eric Jas
Abstract: New Josquin Edition: Volume 17, Motets on Texts from the Old Testament (The Collected Works of Josquin Des Prez)
Year: 2008
Publisher: Koninklijke Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9789063750688
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Kevin Karnes
Abstract: More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital questions surrounding musicology's disciplinary identities today-the relationship between musicology and criticism, the role of the subject in analysis and the narration of history, and the responsibilities of the scholar to the listening public-originate in these conflicted and largely forgotten beginnings.
Karnes lays bare the nature of music study in the late nineteenth century through insightful readings of long-overlooked contributions by three of musicology's foremost pioneers-Adler, Eduard Hanslick, and Heinrich Schenker. Shaped as much by the skeptical pronouncements of the likes of Nietzsche and Wagner as it was by progressivist ideologies of scientific positivism, the new discipline comprised an array of oft-contested and intensely personal visions of music study, its value, and its future. Karnes introduces readers to a Hanslick who rejected the call of positivist scholarship and dedicated himself to penning an avowedly subjective history of Viennese musical life. He argues that Schenker's analytical experiments had roots in a Wagner-inspired search for a critical alternative to Adler's style-obsessed scholarship. And he illuminates Adler's determined response to Nietzsche's warnings about the vitality of artistic and cultural life in an increasingly scientific age. Through sophisticated and meticulous presentation, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History demonstrates that the new discipline of musicology was inextricably tied in with the cultural discourse of its time.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195368666
The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Charles M. Atkinson
Abstract: The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a broad framework that moves from Greek harmonic theory to the various stages in the transmission of Roman chant, citing numerous music treatises from the sixth to the twelfth century. Out of this examination emerges the central point behind the problem: the tone-system advocated by writers coming from the Greek harmonic tradition was not suited to the notation of chant and that this basic incompatibility led to the creation of new theoretical constructs. By tracing the path of subsequent adaptation at the nexus of tone-system, mode, and notation, Atkinson promises new and far-reaching insights into what mode meant to the medieval musician and how the system responded to its inherent limitations.
Through a detailed examination of the major musical treatises from the sixth through the twelfth centuries, this text establishes a central dichotomy between classical harmonic theory and the practices of the Christian church. Atkinson builds the foundation for a broad and original reinterpretation of the modal system and how it relates to melody, grammar, and notation. This book will be of interest to all musicologists, music theorists working on mode, early music specialists, chant scholars, and medievalists interested in music.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195148886
Jewish Music and Modernity (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: Jewish Music and Modernity (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Abstract: Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V. Bohlman imparts these questions with a new light that transforms the very historiography of Jewish culture in modernity.
Based on decades of fieldwork and archival study throughout the world, Bohlman intensively examines the many ways in which music has historically borne witness to the confrontation between modern Jews and the world around them. Weaving a historical narrative that spans from the end of the Middle Ages to the Holocaust, he moves through the vast confluence of musical styles and repertories. From the sacred and to the secular, from folk to popular music, and in the many languages in which it was written and performed, he accounts for areas of Jewish music that have rarely been considered before. Jewish music, argues Bohlman, both survived in isolation and transformed the nations in which it lived. When Jews and Jewish musicians entered modernity, authenticity became an ideal to be supplanted by the reality of complex traditions. Klezmer music emerged in rural communities cohabited by Jews and Roma; Jewish cabaret resulted from the collaborations of migrant Jews and non-Jews to the nineteenth-century metropoles of Berlin and Budapest, Prague and Vienna; cantors and composers experimented with new sounds. The modernist impulse from Felix Mendelssohn to Gustav Pick to Arnold Schoenberg and beyond became possible because of the ways music juxtaposed aesthetic and cultural differences.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195178326
Juan Bautista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela (Book)Title: Juan Bautista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela
Author: Marie Elizabeth Labonville
Abstract: Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965) was one of the most important musicians in the history of Venezuela. In addition to composing in a variety of genres and styles, he was the leading figure in Venezuelan music education and musicology at a time when his compatriots were seeking to solidify their cultural identity. Plaza's compositions in the emerging nationalist style and his efforts to improve musical institutions in his home country parallel the work of contemporaneous Latin American musicians including Carlos Chávez of Mexico, Amadeo Roldán of Cuba, and Camargo Guarnieri of Brazil.
Plaza's life and music are little studied, and Labonville's ambitious book is the first in English to be based on his extensive writings and compositions. As these and other documents show, Plaza filled numerous roles in Venezuela's musical infrastructure including researcher, performer, teacher, composer, promoter, critic, chapel master, and director of national culture. Labonville examines Plaza's many roles in an attempt to assess how the nationalist spirit affected art music culture in Venezuela, and what changes it brought to Venezuela's musical landscape.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780253348760
Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (Book)Title: Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo
Author: Claire Fontijn
Abstract: One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.1640 - c.1720) was active in both Venice and Paris. Her work provides a unique cross-cultural window into the rich musical cultures of these cities, yet owing to her clandestine existence in France, for almost three centuries Bembo's life was shrouded in mystery. In this first-ever biography, Clare Fontijn unveils the enthralling and surprising story of a remarkable woman who moved in the musical, literary, and artistic circles of these European cultural centers.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195135381
Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism (Book)Title: Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism
Author: Margaret Notley
Abstract: Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is.
In pursuit of an historical Brahms, Notley focuses on the later chamber music, drawing on various documents and perspectives, but with particular emphasis on the relevance of Western Marxist critical traditions.
Year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195305470
Lou Harrison (Book)Title: Lou Harrison
Author: Frederic Lieberman
Author: Leta E. Miller
Abstract: Music's inclusivity--its potential to unite cultures, disciplines, and individuals--defined the life and career of Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Beyond studying with leading composers of the avant-garde such as Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, conducting Charles Ives's Pulitzer Prize-winning Third Symphony, and staging high-profile percussion concerts with John Cage, Harrison has achieved fame for his distinctive blending of cultures--from the Chinese opera, Indonesian gamelan, and the music of Native Americans to modernist dissonant counterpoint. Miller and Lieberman also pull readers into Harrison's rich world of cross-fertilization through an exploration of his outspoken stance on pacifism, gay rights, ecology, and respect for minorities--all of which directly impacted his musical works. Though Harrison was sometimes accused by contemporaries of "cultural appropriation," Miller and Lieberman's brisk study makes it clear why he is now lauded as an imaginative pioneer for his integration of Asian and Western musics, as well as for his work in the development of the percussion ensemble, his use of found and invented instruments, and his explorations of alternative tuning systems. Harrison's compositions are examined in detail through reference to an accompanying CD of representative recordings.
Year: 2006
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252031205
Boccherini: An Essay in Carnal Musicology (Book)Title: Boccherini: An Essay in Carnal Musicology
Author: Elisabeth Le Guin
Abstract: In this elegant study of the works of the undeservedly neglected composer Luigi Boccherini, Elisabeth Le Guin uses knowledge gleaned from her own playing of the cello as the keystone of her original approach to the relationship between music and embodiment. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music—its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects—Le Guin develops a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer. In the process, she redefines the temperament of the musical Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. A CD of sound examples, performed by the author and her string quartet, is included with the book.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520240179
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz (Book)Title: The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
Author: Jeffrey Magee
Abstract: If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Not only did Henderson arrange the music that powered Goodman's meteoric rise, he also helped launch the careers of Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, among others. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of this pivotal bandleader, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it.
Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings, obscure stock arrangements, and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s and '30s, assembled the era's best musicians, simultaneously preserving jazz's distinctiveness and performing popular dance music that reached a wide audience. Magee reveals how, in Henderson's largely segregated musical world, black and white musicians worked together to establish jazz, how Henderson's style rose out of collaborations with many key players, how these players deftly combined improvised and written music, and how their work negotiated artistic and commercial impulses. And we see how, in the depths of the Depression, record producer John Hammond brought together Henderson and Goodman, a fortuitous collaboration that changed the face of American music.
Whether placing Henderson's life in the context of the Great Migration or the Harlem Renaissance or describing how the savvy use of network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Jeffrey Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195090222
Robert Schumann and the Piano Concerto (Book)Title: Robert Schumann and the Piano Concerto
Author: Claudia Macdonald
Abstract: Robert Schumann was a unique personality in nineteenth century music. A celebrated music critic and champion of new composers, he was also a talented performer and composer who did much to modernize the literature and performance style for the piano. This book explores how the generation that came after Beethoven was central in reshaping and refining the conception of concerto style, and particularly the piano concerto, focusing on the key period of 1845-55. It relates Schumann's own compositional development to his musical environment, recreating the exciting milieu in which Schumann and his contemporaries lived and worked. Written by one of the leading new generation of scholars on nineteenth century music, and Schumann in particular, this book will be of great interest to college and conservatory teachers, and students as well as music connoisseurs.
Year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780415972475
Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (Book)Title: Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France
Author: Kate van Orden
Abstract: In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in early modern French society. She constructs a fresh account of music's importance in promoting the absolutism that the French monarchy would fully embrace under Louis XIV, uncovering many hitherto unpublished ballets and royal ceremonial performances.
The great pressure on French noblemen to take up the life of the warrior gave rise to bellicose art forms such as sword dances and equestrian ballets. Far from being construed as effeminizing, such combinations of music and the martial arts were at once refined and masculine-a perfect way to display military prowess. The incursion of music into riding schools and infantry drills contributed materially to disciplinary order, enabling the larger and more effective armies of the seventeenth century. This book is a history of the development of these musical spheres and how they brought forth new cultural priorities of civility, military discipline, and political harmony. Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France effectively illustrates the seminal role music played in mediating between the cultural spheres of letters and arms.
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226849768
Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Jonathan E. Glixon
Author: Beth L. Glixon
Abstract: In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercial operas were elaborate spectacles, featuring ornate costumes and set design along with dancing and music. As ambitious works of theater, these productions required not only significant financial backing, but also strong managers to oversee several months of rehearsals and performances. These impresarios were responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at season's end. The systems they created still survive, in part, today.
Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, from 1637 to 1677, when theater owners and impresarios established Venice as the operatic capital of Europe. Drawing on extensive new documentation, the book studies all of the components necessary to opera production, from the financial backing and the issue of patronage to the commissioning and creation of the libretto and the score; the recruitment and employment of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists; the production of the scenery and the costumes; and the nature of the audience. The authors examine the challenges faced by four separate Venetian theaters during the seventeenth century, and focus particularly on the progress of Marco Faustini, the impresario most well known today. Faustini made his way from one of Venice's smallest theaters to one of the largest, and his advancement provides a personal view of an impresario and his partners, who ranged from Venetian nobles to artisans. Throughout the book, Venice emerges as a city that prized novelty over economy, with new repertory, scenery, costumes, and expensive singers the rule rather than the exception.
Year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195154160
Monarch of the Flute: The Life of Georges Barrère (Book)Title: Monarch of the Flute: The Life of Georges Barrère
Author: Nancy Toff
Abstract: Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.
Barrère's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium.
Year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195170160
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (Book)Title: Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
Author: Mark Katz
Abstract: There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. This is the clear message of Capturing Sound, a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet.
In a series of case studies, Mark Katz explores how recording technology has encouraged new ways of listening to music, led performers to change their practices, and allowed entirely new musical genres to come into existence. An accompanying CD, featuring thirteen tracks from Chopin to Public Enemy, allows readers to hear what Katz means when he discusses music as varied as King Oliver's "Dippermouth Blues," a Jascha Heifetz recording of a Brahms Hungarian Dance, and Fatboy Slim's "Praise You."
Year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520241961
Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) (Book)Title: Monteverdi's Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)
Author: Bonnie Gordon
Abstract: Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Monteverdi's music demanded trained, female voices to make dramatic and expressive statements. At a time when singing was not entirely acceptable for respectable women his music allowed women to use their voices to gain power. Bonnie Gordon also explores the social and musical environment in which the singers lived and worked. Using key primary source material such as singing treatises and Renaissance writings on medicine and acoustics, Gordon contributes to two distinct disciplines: she brings an increased engagement with medical and literary representations of the female body to the growing field of scholarship treating gender and music, and adds to a well-established industry of scholarship devoted to the perception of gender and the body in early modern Europe.
Year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521845298
Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul (Eastman Studies in Music) (Book)Title: Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul (Eastman Studies in Music)
Author: Erika Reiman
Abstract: Erika Reiman
Year: 2004
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580461450
A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Genre in Country Music (American Made Music Series) (Book)Title: A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Genre in Country Music (American Made Music Series)
Editor: Kristine M. McCusker
Editor: Diane Pecknold
Abstract: From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper male and female roles have influenced the kinds of sounds and images that could be included in country music; preconceptions of gender have helped to determine the songs and artists audiences would buy or reject; and gender has shaped the identities listeners made for themselves in relation to the music they revered.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays is the first book-length effort to examine how gender conventions, both masculine and feminine, have structured the creation and marketing of country music. The essays explore the uses of gender in creating the personas of stars as diverse as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Shania Twain. The authors also examine how deeply conventions have influenced the institutions and everyday experiences that give country music its image: the popular and fan press, the country music industry in Nashville, and the line dance crazes that created the dance hall boom of the 1990s.
From Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue," from Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" to Loretta Lynn's ode to birth control, "The Pill," A Boy Named Sue demonstrates the role gender played in the development of country music and its current prominence.
Year: 2004
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781578066773
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (Book)Title: The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity
Author: Raymond Knapp
Abstract: The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity.
Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American burlesque and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, and other song types. It then proceeds thematically, focusing primarily on fifteen mainstream shows from the twentieth century, with discussions of such notable productions as Show Boat (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Pacific Overtures (1976), and Assassins (1991).
The shows are grouped according to their treatment of themes that include defining America, mythologies, counter-mythologies, race and ethnicity, dealing with World War II, and exoticism. Each chapter concludes with a brief consideration of available scholarship on related subjects; an extensive appendix provides information on each show discussed, including plot summaries and song lists, and a listing of important films, videos, audio recordings, published scores, and libretti associated with each musical.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780691118642
Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu (Book)Title: Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu
Author: Cristina Magaldi
Abstract: This resource is an interesting look at how European culture, particularly European music, related to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of ninteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. The focus is on how Cariocas (residents of Rio de Janeiro) responded to and often imitated different musical styles imported from Europe.
After introducing the local musical setting and showing how musical life in imperial Rio de Janeiro reflected Parisian models, the author discusses the importation of operatic repertory, the use of German classical music as the basis of an elite social class, the role of European music in Brazilian theater, and finally, the emergence of a "national" music.
Overall, this study reveals European music as a powerful force in the internal processes of political, cultural, social, and ethnic negotiations during the 19th century government of Emperor Pedro II. Musicologists, Latin American historians, and anyone with an interest in urban studies will find much of interest in this book.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780810850255
Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter (Book)Title: Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
Author: Justin London
Abstract: Our sense that a waltz is "in three" or a blues song is "in four with a shuffle" comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores musical meter from the point of view of cognitive theories of perception and attention. London explores how our ability to follow musical meter is simply a specific instance of our more general ability to synchronize our attention to regularly recurring events in our environment. As such, musical meter is subject to a number of fundamental perceptual and cognitive constraints, which form the cornerstones of London's account. Because listening to music, like many other rhythmic activities, is something that we often do, London views it as a skilled activity for performers and non-performers alike. Hearing in Time approaches musical meter in the context of music as it is actually performed, rather than as a theoretical ideal. Its approach is not based on any particular musical style or cultural practice, so it uses familiar examples from a broad range of music--Beethoven and Bach to Brubeck and Ghanaian drumming. Taking this broad approach brings out a number of fundamental similarities between a variety of different metric phenomena, such as the difference between so-called simple versus complex or additive meters. Because of its accessible style--only a modest ability to read a musical score is presumed--Hearing in Time is for anyone interested in rhythm and meter, including cognitive psychologists, musicologists, musicians, and music theorists.
Year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195160819
Tosca's Prism: Three Moments in Western Cultural History (Book)Title: Tosca's Prism: Three Moments in Western Cultural History
Editor: Agostina Ziino
Editor: Deborah Burton
Editor: Simonetta Puccini
Editor: Julian Budden
Editor: Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Abstract: Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, which premiered in Rome in 1900, is one of the most popular operas in the repertory. Based on Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca, the enduring tale of love, lust, jealousy, and politics takes place in the specific setting and time of the Eternal City in June 1800, and draws on the historical events following the fall of the Roman republic. This extraordinary collection provides multidimensional images of each period from a wide range of perspectives.
Year: 2005
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781555536169
Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style (Book)Title: Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style
Editor: Bernard Sherman
Editor: Michael Musgrave
Abstract: Although the music of Brahms is central to the lives of classical performers and listeners, few know how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. This study brings most of the available evidence into a single volume, along with commentary by leading Brahms experts. Most importantly, the book contains an unique CD of historic recordings--including an actual performance by Brahms--which provides tangible insight and a greater appreciation of the composer.
Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521652735
Metaphor and Musical Thought (Book)Title: Metaphor and Musical Thought
Author: Michael Spitzer
Abstract: "The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats the topic of metaphor in a new and extremely convincing manner."-Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
The experience of music is an abstract and elusive one, enough so that we're often forced to describe it using analogies to other forms and sensations: we say that music moves or rises like a physical form; that it contains the imagery of paintings or the grammar of language. In these and countless other ways, our discussions of music take the form of metaphor, attempting to describe music's abstractions by referencing more concrete and familiar experiences.
Michael Spitzer's Metaphor and Musical Thought uses this process to create a unique and insightful history of our relationship with music—the first ever book-length study of musical metaphor in any language. Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, Spitzer offers an evaluation, a comprehensive history, and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music. And as he brings these discussions to bear on specific works of music and follows them through current debates on how music's meaning might be considered, what emerges is a clear and engaging guide to both the philosophy of musical thought and the history of musical analysis, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Spitzer writes engagingly for students of philosophy and aesthetics, as well as for music theorists and historians.
Year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226769721
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (Book)Title: Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
Author: David Yearsley
Abstract: This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings attached to them. Intricate musical devices were crucial to the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, to alchemy, to Enlightenment philosophies of stylistic change and musical progress, to musical representations of political power, and to the legacy of Bach into our own time.
Year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521803465
Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (Book)Title: Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity
Editor: Lloyd Whitesell
Editor: Sophie Fuller
Abstract: "Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity" approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950 - a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae.On one end of the spectrum are intense, private connections and tantalizing details of musical expression: romantic correspondence between Eugenie Schumann (a daughter of Clara and Robert) and the singer Marie Fillunger; John Ireland's confessional letters to a close friend of an illicit passion for young choristers; 'closet formations' in the music of composers such as Maurice Ravel, Edward Elgar, and Camille Saint-Sens.At the other extreme are public, often flamboyant intimations of deviance and their repercussions: the craze for male impersonators in American vaudeville between 1870 and 1930; the politics of appropriation implicit in showy transcriptions by pianists such as Liberace; the increasingly homophobic reception accorded Tchaikovsky's music in the early twentieth century. The authors also explore how traces of queerness can mark communities, such as groups of German men who fashioned homosexual identities by way of the cult of Wagner or women musicians who were assigned suspect or deviant status by virtue of being jazz instrumentalists.
Year: 2002
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252027406
Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise: A Translation and Commentary (Book)Title: Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise: A Translation and Commentary
Editor: Hugh MacDonald
Abstract: Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise (1843) is a classic textbook by a master of the orchestra, which has not been available in English translation for over a century. This is a book by and about Berlioz, since it provides not only a new translation but also an extensive commentary on his text, dealing with the instruments of Berlioz's time and comparing his instruction with his practice. It is thus a study of the high craft of the most distinctive orchestrator of the nineteenth century.
Year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521239530
Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Lawrence Zbikowski
Abstract: This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and explores the part these play in theories of musical organization.
The first part of the book provides a detailed overview of the relevant work in cognitive science, framed around specific musical examples. The second part brings this perspective to bear on a number of issues with which music scholarship has often been occupied, including the emergence of musical syntax and its relationship to musical semiosis, the problem of musical ontology, the relationship between words and music in songs, and conceptions of musical form and musical hierarchy.
The book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists, as well as those with a professional or avocational interest in the application of work in cognitive science to humanistic principles.
Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195140231
Manuscripts from Mannheim, ca. 1730-1778: A Study in the Methodology of Musical Source Research (Series: Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mannheimer Hofkapelle - Volume 9) (Book)Title: Manuscripts from Mannheim, ca. 1730-1778: A Study in the Methodology of Musical Source Research (Series: Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mannheimer Hofkapelle - Volume 9)
Author: Eugene Wolf
Abstract: The extraordinary renown of Mannheim in the eighteenth century came to a jarring end in 1778 with the reluctant transfer of the court to Munich. One of the many consequences of this move was the apparent disappearance of all the music used by the famed Mannheim Kapelle. This book establishes precisely what happened to this invaluable collection, demonstrating through intensive documentary study that over 350 manuscripts from the electoral court have in fact survived. Complete details of these manuscripts are furnished in an exhaustive catalogue raisonné and three related appendices. In addition to providing an indispensable basis for future research on music at the Mannheim court, the book gives extensive attention throughout to the methodology of documentary research; it may thus serve as a comprehensive introduction to the study of music manuscripts of the period.
Year: 2002
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9783631397268
The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France (Eastman Studies of Music) (Book)Title: The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France (Eastman Studies of Music)
Author: Richard Freedman
Abstract: This book aims to enrich our understanding of the French secular music of Orlando di Lasso, using those songs as a means of understanding a particular community of Renaissance readers and the music books they created. Lasso's secular songs figured quite prominently in a number of collections of devotional songs issued by Protestant printers in the late sixteenth century. Lasso's profane lyrics were changed to convey spiritual meanings. This study uses the example of such reworkings as a means of discovering how such a repertory was heard and understood by a particular community of listeners, and in so doing, it explores the history of these chansons in print, and the history of the spiritual attitudes that shaped their reception among the Huguenots.Richard Freedman is Associate Professor of Music, Haverford College
Year: 2001
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781580460750
Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture) (Book)Title: Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture)
Editor: Joseph Auner
Editor: Judy Lochhead
Abstract: Combined as a single volume for the first time, these essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, cover a wide range of musical styles including concert music, jazz, film scores and popular music. Topics include the importance of technology and marketing in postmodern music; the appropriation and reworking of Western music by non-Western bands; postmodern characteristics in the music G
Year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780815338192
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation (Book)Title: Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
Author: Rebecca Wagner Oettinger
Abstract: This volume is a revision of a dissertation in musicology, completed in 1999, on the role of popular music in the German Reformation. In the first four decades of the Reformation in Germany, hundreds of songs written in a popular style and set to familiar tunes, appeared in German territories. Some of these songs expressed the high ideals and deep faith of 16ht century German Christians, while others were scandalous, slanderous cries of anger at the papacy, the clergy, merchants who benefited from the Catholic Church's downfall, at Luther or other theologians whose specific articles of faith were at odds with those of a song's composer. This volume assess the power of these songs and others, and the relationship between music and morality in shaping the popular movement of the German Reformation. It looks at how popular songs spread ideas through all levels of German society and focuses on the lower strata of the population, the uneducated who had limited access to the polemic of the printed word.
Year: 2001
Publisher: Ashgate
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780754603634
Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (Book)Title: Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Jeanice Brooks
Abstract: n the late sixteenth century, the French royal court was mobile. To distinguish itself from the rest of society, it depended more on its cultural practices and attitudes than on the royal and aristocratic palaces it inhabited. Using courtly song-or the air de cour-as a window, Jeanice Brooks offers an unprecedented look into the culture of this itinerant institution.
Brooks concentrates on a period in which the court's importance in projecting the symbolic centrality of monarchy was growing rapidly and considers the role of the air in defining patronage hierarchies at court and in enhancing courtly visions of masculine and feminine virtue. Her study illuminates the court's relationship to the world beyond its own confines, represented first by Italy, then by the countryside. In addition to the 40 editions of airs de cour printed between 1559 and 1589, Brooks draws on memoirs, literary works, and iconographic evidence to present a rounded vision of French Renaissance culture.
The first book-length examination of the history of air de cour, this work also sheds important new light on a formative moment in French history.
Year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226075877
Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (Book)Title: Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
Author: Carol J. Oja
Abstract: New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920s left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century.
Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Var�se, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, Marion Bauer, George Antheil-these were the leaders of a talented new generation of American composers whose efforts made New York City the center of new music in the country. They founded composer societies--such as the International Composers' Guild, the League of Composers, the Pan American Association, and the Copland-Sessions Concerts--to promote the performance of their music, and they nimbly negotiated cultural boundaries, aiming for recognition in Western Europe as much as at home. They showed exceptional skill at marketing their work. Drawing on extensive archival material--including interviews, correspondence, popular periodicals, and little-known music manuscripts--Oja provides a new perspective on the period and a compelling collective portrait of the figures, puncturing many longstanding myths.
Year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195058499
Patterns in Play: A Model for Text Setting in the Early French Songs of Guillaume Dufay (American Musicological Society Monographs) (Book)Title: Patterns in Play: A Model for Text Setting in the Early French Songs of Guillaume Dufay (American Musicological Society Monographs)
Author: Graeme Boone
Abstract: The relationship between text and music is a central issue in fifteenth-century music studies. Decades of research and performance have failed to provide clear answers to the most basic questions, such as which notes go with which syllables and why. Patterns in Play focuses on the early French songs of Guillaume Dufay and proposes a basis for determining some rules of common procedure for interpreting both underlay and style.
Graeme M. Boone examines questions of rhythm and declamation, considering mensuration, linguistic and poetic prosody, and prosody in song. The first three chapters comprise a set of discussions preliminary to close rhythmic analysis of Dufay’s texted song melodies. Beginning with mensural rhythm and proceeding to poetics and the relationship between Dufay’s poetic and musical rhythms and musical declamation, Boone examines the musical features of rhythm, melody, tonal organization, counterpoint, text setting, and text expression. Offering fresh insight into the issues he raises, Boone clarifies the relationship between underlay and style and provides a better understanding of the technical and aesthetic issues that Dufay and other composers faced in weaving their patterns of song.
Year: 1999
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780803212350
Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera (Book)Title: Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera
Author: John A. Rice
Abstract: Many know Antonio Salieri only as Mozart's envious nemesis from the film Amadeus. In this well-illustrated work, John A. Rice shows us what a rich musical and personal history this popular stereotype has missed.
Bringing Salieri, his operas, and eighteenth-century Viennese theater vividly to life, Rice places Salieri where he belongs: no longer lurking in Mozart's shadow, but standing proudly among the leading opera composers of his age. Rice's research in the archives of Vienna and close study of his scores reveal Salieri to have been a prolific, versatile, and adventurous composer for the stage. Within the extraordinary variety of Salieri's approaches to musical dramaturgy, Rice identifies certain habits of orchestration, melodic style, and form as distinctively "Salierian"; others are typical of Viennese opera in general. A generous selection of excerpts from Salieri's works, most previously unpublished, will give readers a fuller appreciation for his musical style—and its influence on Mozart—than was previously possible.
Year: 1999
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226711256
Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 146 (Book)Title: Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 146
Editor: Margaret Bent
Editor: Andrew Wathey
Abstract: The manuscript Paris, Bibliothe'que Nationale, fonds francais 146, one of the most sumptuous and important of the fourteenth century, stands as an unparalleled witness to the politics, society, and culture of the French royal court in the early fourteenth century. It contains an interpolated version of the Roman de Fauvel, completed by Gerve's de Bus in 1314, that uniquely combines the Old French text with music setting poetry in French and Latin, high-quality illuminations (including early depictions of the architecture of medieval Paris), and further literary elaborations and additions. The narrative finds a place within several literary traditions, serving both as a satire on a fallen minister, Philip IV (d. 1314), Enguerran de Marigny, and as admonition or advice for the new King Philip V (crowned 1317). Alongside the Roman de Fauvel, fr. 146 also includes French and Latin narrative dits (the latter edited here for the first time), the complete known works of Jehannot de Lescurel, and an important French verse chronicle. It invites complementary works by such shoalrs in several disciplines.
This volume assembles papers by leading medievalists and younger scholars in different fields that reflect a period of interchange and collaboration viewing the same material from different perspectives. It is generously illustrated and includes essential new reference material for medievalists in political, social, and urban history, art and architecture history, musicology, the history of the book and codicology, and medieval languages and literatures, principally Old French and Latin. This interdisciplinary collection presents a wealth of new material for medievalists working in a number of fields.
Year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780198165798
Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest (Book)Title: Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest
Author: Judit Frigyesi
Abstract: Bartók's music is greatly prized by concertgoers, yet we know little about the intellectual milieu that gave rise to his artistry. Bartók is often seen as a lonely genius emerging from a gray background of an "underdeveloped country." Now Judit Frigyesi offers a broader perspective on Bartók's art by grounding it in the social and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Hungary and the intense creativity of its modernist movement. Bartók spent most of his life in Budapest, an exceptional man living in a remarkable milieu. Frigyesi argues that Hungarian modernism in general and Bartók's aesthetic in particular should be understood in terms of a collective search for wholeness in life and art and for a definition of identity in a rapidly changing world. Is it still possible, Bartók's generation of artists asked, to create coherent art in a world that is no longer whole? Bartók and others were preoccupied with this question and developed their aesthetics in response to it. In a discussion of Bartók and of Endre Ady, the most influential Hungarian poet of the time, Frigyesi demonstrates how different branches of art and different personalities responded to the same set of problems, creating oeuvres that appear as reflections of one another. She also examines Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, exploring philosophical and poetic ideas of Hungarian modernism and linking Bartók's stylistic innovations to these concepts.
Year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520207400
The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice (Book)Title: The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice
Author: Giorgio Sanguinetti
Abstract: At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with unprecedented swiftness and elegance using the partimento, an instructional tool derived from the basso continuo that encouraged improvisation as the path to musical fluency. Although the practice vanished in the early nineteenth century, its legacy lived on in the music of the next generation. In The Art of Partimento, performer and music-historian Giorgio Sanguinetti chronicles the history of this long-forgotten Neopolitan art. Sanguinetti has painstakingly reconstructed the oral tradition that accompanied these partimento manuscripts, now scattered throughout Europe. Beginning with the origins of the partimento in the circles of Corelli, Pasquini, and Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome and tracing it through the peak of the tradition in Naples, The Art of Partimento gives a glimpse into the daily life and work of an eighteenth century composer.
The Art of the Partimento is also a complete practical handbook to reviving the tradition today. Step by step, Sanguinetti guides the aspiring composer through elementary realization to more advanced exercises in diminution, imitation, and motivic coherence. Based on the teachings of the original masters, Sanguinetti challenges the reader to become a part of history, providing a variety of original partimenti in a range of genres, forms, styles, and difficulty levels along the way and allowing the student to learn the art of the partimento for themselves at their own pace.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195394207
The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330 (The New Cultural History of Music) (Book)Title: The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330 (The New Cultural History of Music)
Author: Emma Dillon
Abstract: Among the most memorable innovations of music and poetry in thirteenth-century France was a genre that seemed to privilege sound over sense. The polytextual motet is especially well-known to scholars of the Middle Ages for its tendency to conceal complex allegorical meaning in a texture that, in performance, made words less, rather than more, audible. It is with such musical sound that this book is concerned. What did it mean to create a musical effect so potentially independent from the meaning of words? Is it possible such supermusical effects themselves had significance? The Sense of Sound offers a radical recontextualization of French song in the heyday of the motet c.1260-1330, and makes the case for listening to musical sound against a range of other potently meaningful sonorities, often premised on non-verbal meaning. In identifying new audible interlocutors to music, it opens our ears to a broad spectrum of sounds often left out of historical inquiry, from the hubbub of the medieval city; to the eloquent babble of madmen; to the violent clamor of charivari; to the charismatic chatter of prayer. Drawing on a rich array of artistic evidence (music, manuscripts, poetry, and images) and contemporary cultural theory, it locates musical production in this period within a larger cultural environment concerned with representing sound and its emotional, ethical, and social effects. In so doing, The Sense of Sound offers an experiment in how we might place central the most elusive aspect of music's history: sound's vibrating, living effect.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199732951
Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe (Book)Title: Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in Eastern Europe
Author: Maria Cizmic
Abstract: Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. In Performing Pain, author Maria Cizmic focuses on the late 20th century in Eastern Europe as she uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a cultural preoccupation in this region with the meanings of historical suffering, particularly surrounding the Second World War and the Stalinist era. Journalists, historians, writers, artists, and filmmakers frequently negotiated themes related to pain and memory, truth and history, morality and spirituality during glasnost and the years leading up to it. Performing Pain considers how works by composers Alfred Schnittke, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo P�rt, and Henryk G�recki musically address contemporary concerns regarding history and suffering through composition, performance, and reception.
Taking theoretical cues from psychology, sociology, and literary and cultural studies, Cizmic offers a set of hermeneutic essays that demonstrate the ways in which people employ music in order to make sense of historical traumas and losses. Seemingly postmodern compositional choices--such as quotation, fragmentation, and stasis--create musical analogies to psychological and emotional responses to trauma and grief, and the physical realities of their embodied performance focus attention on the ethics of pain and representation. Furthermore, as film music, these works participate in contemporary debates regarding memory and trauma. A comprehensive and innovative study, Performing Pain will fascinate scholars interested in the music of Eastern Europe and in aesthetic articulations of suffering.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199734603
Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women" (Book)Title: Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"
Author: Joshua D. Pilzer
Abstract: In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system-those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war-lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years, author Joshua Pilzer worked with these now-elderly women, smoking with them, eating with them, singing and playing with them, trying to understand and document their worlds of song. During four decades of secrecy and the subsequent decades of the "comfort women" protest movement, singing served these women as a means of coping with and expressing their experiences, forging and sustaining identities and social relationships, and recording and conveying their struggles and philosophies of life. Through these intimate portraits, Hearts of Pine illustrates the personal and social power of music, other expressive media, models a humanistic history of modern Korean music, and presents heretofore unrecorded histories of the "comfort women" system and postwar South Korean public culture written in women's song.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780199759569
Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ (Book)Title: Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Author: Mark Katz
Abstract: It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ.
Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner of the world. But hip-hop was born in the streets of New York in the 1970s when a handful of teenagers started experimenting with spinning vinyl records on turntables in new ways. Although rapping has become the face of hip-hop, for nearly 40 years the DJ has proven the backbone of the culture. In Groove Music, Katz (an amateur DJ himself) delves into the fascinating world of the DJ, tracing the art of the turntable from its humble beginnings in the Bronx in the 1970s to its meteoric rise to global phenomenon today. Based on extensive interviews with practicing DJs, historical research, and his own personal experience, Katz presents a history of hip-hop from the point of view of the people who invented the genre. Here, DJs step up to discuss a wide range of topics, including the transformation of the turntable from a playback device to an instrument in its own right, the highly charged competitive DJ battles, the game-changing introduction of digital technology, and the complex politics of race and gender in the DJ scene.
Exhaustively researched and written with all the verve and energy of hip-hop itself, Groove Music will delight experienced and aspiring DJs, hip-hop fans, and all students or scholars of popular music and culture.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780195331110
Harry Partch: A Biography (Book)Title: Harry Partch: A Biography
Author: Bob Gilmore
Abstract: This engaging book is the first biography of one of the great ""originals"" of American classical music. It provides a full portrait of Harry Partch (1901-1974), a composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments whose life and works were marginalized and unconventional, yet who had an enormous influence on later experimental composers.
Year: 1998
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780300065213
Bonfire songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy (Oxford Monographs on Music) (Book)Title: Bonfire songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy (Oxford Monographs on Music)
Author: Patrick Macey
Abstract: An underground tradition of sacred songs--Italian laude--thrived in Italy during the sixteenth century. The texts of many were written by the condemned heretic Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was burned at the stake in Florence in 1498. This study explores the religious and social functions of these laude during Savonarola's time in Florence. It also reconstructs music for laude written to venerate the friar after his death. Savonarola's meditations on Psalms 30 and 50 were also set to music as motets by some of the leading composers of the 16th century, in a style of "high art" music remarkably distinct from the more popular tone of the lauda. These complex motets were often the result of networks of patronage at courts in Ferrara, France, and England. The book includes a CD with a generous selection of performances of the music discussed.
Year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780198166696
Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860 (Book)Title: Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860
Editor: Cyrilla Barr
Editor: Ralph Locke
Abstract: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern music" in the 1920s, and activists in African American communities, while others focus on the work of a single, strikingly individual patron such as Isabella Stewart Gardner or Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Primary sources such as private letters and autobiographies are utilized, and documentary vignettes scattered throughout the book bring to life important events and reminiscences. Among these are an interview with Betty Freeman, noted patron of avant-garde music, and advice from Mildred Bliss to Nadia Boulanger. Extensive opening and closing chapters provide conceptual and factual background on music in America and draw out the larger implications of women's patronage in the past, present, and future.
Year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520083950
Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant: An Anthology. Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, Volume 1 (Book)Title: Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant: An Anthology. Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, Volume 1
Editor: Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Editor: Peter Jeffery
Abstract: This three-volume anthology introduces the Ethiopian Christian musical tradition to performers, music scholars, and liturgists, while addressing general problems of notation and oral tradition. Ethiopian Christian chant has been passed down both in an indigenous notational system and through oral transmission. This edition presents a selection of liturgical portions from the annual cycle in facsimiles of notated sources and in transcriptions from modern performances. Supplementing the edition is a complete dictionary of notational signs, with equivalents in modern notation, and a set of charts tracing the notational history of each liturgical portion through a sample of Ethiopian manuscripts.
Year: 1997
Publisher: A-R Editions
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780895792853
Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music (Book)Title: Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music
Editor: Paula Higgins
Abstract: This volume brings together twenty original essays by distinguished scholars on the life, works, and cultural context of Antoine Busnoys (c.1430-1492), musician to Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and one of the most celebrated composers of the fifteenth century. The chapters offer a wealth of new information about musical culture in the late middle ages.
Year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780198164067
Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan (Book)Title: Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan
Author: Robert L. Kendrick
Abstract: The most famous musicians of early modern Milan were its cloistered nuns, despite the efforts of church officials to limit their musical lives. This book details the cultural context, religious traditions, musical styles, and personal meaning of the music written by and for them from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century, and outlines the ways in which their status as female virgins was--and was not--central to the musical expression of their piety.
Year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780198164081
Béla Bartók: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources (Ernest Bloch Lectures) (Book)Title: Béla Bartók: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources (Ernest Bloch Lectures)
Author: László Somfai
Abstract: This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music.
For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role.
These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartók's oeuvre; of careful analysis of some 3,600 pages of sketches, drafts, and autograph manuscripts; and of the study of documents reflecting the development of Bartók's compositions. Included as well are corrections preserved only on recordings of Bartók's performances of his own works. Somfai also provides the first comprehensive catalog of every known work of Bartók, published and unpublished, and of all extant draft, sketch, and preparatory material. His book will be basic to all future scholarly work on Bartók and will assist performers in clarifying the problems of Bartók notation. Moreover, it will be a model for future work on other major composers.
Year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520084858
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through "Mavra" (Book)Title: Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through "Mavra"
Author: Richard Taruskin
Abstract: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.
During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsky's relationship to the musical and artistic traditions of his native land and gives us a dramatically new picture of one of the major figures in the history of music.
Taruskin draws directly on newly accessible archives and on a wealth of Russian documents. In Volume One, he sets the historical scene: the St. Petersburg musical press, the arts journals, and the writings of anthropologists, folklorists, philosophers, and poets. Volume Two addresses the masterpieces of Stravinsky's early maturity--Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and Les Noces. Taruskin investigates the composer's collaborations with Diaghilev to illuminate the relationship between folklore and modernity. He elucidates the Silver Age ideal of "neonationalism"--the professional appropriation of motifs and style characteristics from folk art--and how Stravinsky realized this ideal in his music.
Taruskin demonstrates how Stravinsky achieved his modernist technique by combining what was most characteristically Russian in his musical training with stylistic elements abstracted from Russian folklore. The stylistic synthesis thus achieved formed Stravinsky as a composer for life, whatever the aesthetic allegiances he later professed.
Written with Taruskin's characteristic mixture of in-depth research and stylistic verve, this book will be mandatory reading for all those seriously interested in the life and work of Stravinsky.
Year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520070998
City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (Book)Title: City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice
Author: Martha Feldman
Abstract: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies of equilibrium, justice, peace, and good judgment. Feldman explains how Venetian literary theorists conceived variety as a device for tempering linguistic extremes and thereby maintaining moderation. She further shows how the complexity of sacred polyphony was adapted by Venetian music theorists and composers to achieve similar ends.
At the same time, Feldman unsettles the kinds of simplistic alignments between the collectivity of the state and its artistic production that have marked many historical studies of the arts. Her rich social history enables a more intricate dialectics among sociopolitical formations; the roles of individual printers, academists, merchants, and others; and the works of composers and poets. City Culture offers a new model for situating aesthetic products in a specific time and place, one that sees expressive objects not simply against a cultural backdrop but within an integrated complex of cultural forms and discursive practices.
Year: 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520083141
Cross, Sword and Lyre, Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Habsburg (1619-1637) (Book)Title: Cross, Sword and Lyre, Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Habsburg (1619-1637)
Author: Steven Saunders
Abstract: During the Thirty Year War, Vienna was home to one of the largest, most resplendent musical organizations in Europe, and an important hub for the assimilation of modern Italianate music in the German-speaking lands. In this book Steven Saunders looks at the music in its cultural context, showing how sacred music at this pivotal centre was shaped by the composers, institutions, and ideas of the period. He examines the life and works of the most important court composers, particularly the two imperial chapel masters Giovanni Priuli and Giovanni Valentini. The book demonstrates how their music was shaped by liturgy, court ceremony, dynastic tradition, and music's function as courtly representation and political statement, as well as by the personnel, instruments, and repertoire of the music chapel.
Year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 0198163126
Mourning Into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia (Book)Title: Mourning Into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia
Editor: Thomas Connolly
Abstract: Although Saint Cecilia is venerated throughout the Western world as the patron saint of music and Raphael's famous painting The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia is filled with musical iconography, the ancient origins of Cecilia's association with music have long been shrouded in mystery. This book, a masterful investigation of the Cecilian cult from its beginnings in Christian antiquity down to the Renaissance, explains how Cecilia came to be linked with music and offers a new interpretation of Raphael's painting. Thomas Connolly finds the key to the mystery in a theme he identifies as "mourning-into-joy." This theme, rooted in the Bible and in Aristotle's doctrine of the passions of the soul, became prominent in the visual and literary arts as well as in theology and spirituality and expressed the soul's passages between vice and virtue as a conversion of sadness into joy. According to Connolly, this idea strongly influenced the legend and worship of Saint Cecilia, a model for all who sought spiritual transformation. Connolly argues that the medieval mystical mind saw music as an intimate expression of the experiences of conversion and spiritual growth and that the conjunction of spirit and music became crystallized in the figure of the saint. His explanation not only provides a better understanding of Raphael's work and other Renaissance and Baroque art but also clarifies puzzling literary questions concerning Saint Cecilia, such as Chaucer's treatment of her in "The Second Nun's Tale."
Year: 1995
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780300059014
Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song (Book)Title: Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song
Author: Richard Kramer
Abstract: Franz Schubert's song cycles Schone Mullerin and Winterreise are cornerstones of the genre. But as Richard Kramer argues in this book, Schubert envisioned many other songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By carefully studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain.
Returning the songs to their original keys, Kramer reveals linkages among songs which were often obscured as Schubert readied his compositions for publication. His analysis thus conveys even familiar songs in fresh contexts that will affect performance, interpretation, and criticism. After addressing problems of multiple settings and revisions, Kramer presents a series of briefs for the reconfiguring of sets of songs to poems by Goethe, Rellstab, and Heine. He deconstructs Winterreise, using its convoluted origins to illuminate its textual contradictions. Finally, Kramer scrutinizes settings from the Abendrote cycle (on poems by Friedrich Schlegel) for signs of cyclic process. Probing the farthest reaches of Schubert's engagement with the poetics of lieder, Distant Cycles exposes tensions between Schubert the composer and Schubert the merchant-entrepreneur.
Year: 1994
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226452340
Mensuration and Proportion Signs, Origins and Evolution (Oxford Monographs on Music) (Book)Title: Mensuration and Proportion Signs, Origins and Evolution (Oxford Monographs on Music)
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Abstract: In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most complex issues in music history. This study represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other measuring systems of the fourteenth century. Berger analyzes the exact meaning of every mensuration and proportion sign in music and theory from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and offers revisions of many currently-held views concerning the significance and development of early time signatures.
Year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780198162308
The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body (Book)Title: The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body
Author: Richard Leppert
Abstract: Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from 1600 to 1900. And his particular interest is the relation of music to the human body. He argues that musical practices, invariably linked to the body, are inseparable from the prevailing discourses of power, knowledge, identity, desire, and sexuality.
With the support of 100 illustrations, Leppert addresses music and the production of racism, the hoarding of musical sound in a culture of scarcity, musical consumption and the policing of gender, the domestic piano and misogyny, music and male anxiety, and the social silencing of music. His unexpected yoking of musicology and art history, in particular his original insights into the relationships between music, visual representation, and the history of the body, make exciting reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in society and the arts.
Year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520081741
Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Spain (Oxford Monographs on Music) (Book)Title: Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Spain (Oxford Monographs on Music)
Author: Louise K. Stein
Abstract: This is the first comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century Spanish theatrical music to be written, and the first book-length study devoted to the music of the Spanish baroque in English. While particular aspects of the field have been explored before, no previous single study has succeeded in defining the place and function of music in the Spanish theatre of the Golden Age, and the nature of the extant repertory. This book explains the various musical-theatrical genres that flourished in seventeenth-century Spain, answers essential questions about their nature and development as court and public entertainments, and looks at the anomalous production of three operas in a period dominated by genres such as the semi-opera and the zarzuela. Based on a thorough study of the extant music, the plays, numerous historical documents, and descriptions from the period, Stein builds a complete picture through a historical and contextual approach illustrated by musical and literary analysis. This book considerably advances our understanding of the culture of the baroque period in Spain, by making important statements about the nature of the Spanish musical baroque and its relation to European musical and theatrical developments.
Year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780198162735
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Portrayal of Its Musical Content, with Running Commentary on Performance and Literature As Well (Book)Title: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Portrayal of Its Musical Content, with Running Commentary on Performance and Literature As Well
Author: Heinrich Schenker
Abstract: Heinrich Schenker was one of the most influential music theorists of the 20th century. His treatise on the Ninth Symphony, which was his first major work, contains an analysis of the score, prescriptions for performance and a critical survey of earlier studies of the symphony. Widely acclaimed when it first appeared in Germany in 1912, the book has now been translated into English. Schenker's primary concern in this book is to discuss the tonal content of the Ninth Symphony, to reveal the psychological effect and interplay of tonal shapes or motifs. He proceeds sequentially through each movement, section by section, describing the motifs and their relation to the underlying harmony and phrase structure. He also explains complex tonal shapes in terms of simpler underlying patterns of voice leading, a subject he carries out more systematically in later works. The sections dealing with performance provide information about projection of bar groupings, articulation, and dynamics. Schenker's critiques of previous writings about the Ninth Symphony include discussions of Wagner's several essays on the subject. In the translator's preface, John Rothgeb focuses on the public reception of the book and places it in the context of Schenker's later works.
Year: 1992
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780300054590
Translator: John Rothgeb
Opera In Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (Book)Title: Opera In Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre
Author: Ellen Rosand
Abstract: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete pieces nowhere else in print, and enlivened by twenty-eight illustrations, this landmark study will be essential for all students of opera, amateur and professional, and for students of European cultural history in general.
Because opera was new in the seventeenth century, the composers (most notably Monteverdi and Cavalli), librettists, impresarios, singers, and designers were especially aware of dealing with aesthetic issues as they worked. Rosand examines critically for the first time the voluminous literary and musical documentation left by the Venetian makers of opera. She determines how these pioneers viewed their art and explains the mechanics of the proliferation of opera, within only four decades, to stages across Europe. Rosand isolates two features of particular importance to this proliferation: the emergence of conventions--musical, dramatic, practical--that facilitated replication; and the acute self-consciousness of the creators who, in their scores, librettos, letters, and other documents, have left us a running commentary on the origins of a genre.
Year: 1990
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520068087
Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach (Book)Title: Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach
Author: Eric Chafe
Abstract: With Tonal Allegory, Eric Chafe responds to the serious need for an interpretive study that takes into account the theological content of Bach's texts and his principles of setting them to music. He sets forth a principle called "tonal allegory" as a fundamental expression of the Baroque concept of music and its relationship to spiritual life. Chafe studies cantatas from all periods of Bach's life, the two Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and selected secular works, all with a view towards delineating Bach's application of the principle of "tonal allegory." One result is the recognition of many patterns of tonal planning and of four basic tonal-plan "types" that appear in many works.
For more than three decades Bach scholarship has been dominated by source and editing questions, stimulated by work on the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe). Here, Chafe hopes to encourage a move toward more interpretive studies, based on a combination of Baroque music theory, historical theology, and the documents of Bach's time. His work provides a secure basis for an analysis of the development of Bach's sacred music and thus a beginning for a comprehensive reassessment of one of our greatest musical geniuses.
Year: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520058569
Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in his Instrumental Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) (Book)Title: Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in his Instrumental Music (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis)
Author: James Webster
Abstract: This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to the study is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the 'Farewell' Symphony, No. 45 in F sharp minor (1772). The analysis is distinguished by its systematic use of different methods (Toveyan formalism, Schenkerian voice leading, Schoenbergian developing variation) to elucidate the work's overall coherence. The work's unique musical processes, in turn, suggest an interpretation of the entire piece (not merely the famous 'farewell' finale) in terms of the familiar programmatic story of the musicians' wish to leave Castle Eszterhaza. In a book which relates systematically the results of analysis and interpretation, Professor Webster challenges the concept of 'classical style' which, he argues has distorted our understanding of Haydn's development, and he stresses the need for a greater appreciation of Haydn's early music and of his stature as Beethoven's equal.
Year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780521385206
American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography (Book)Title: American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography
Author: Richard Crawford
Author: Allen Perdue Britton
Author: Irving Lowens
Abstract: American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography
Year: 1990
Publisher: American Antiquarian Society
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780912296951
Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner (California Studies in 19th-Century Music, Book 6) (Book)Title: Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner (California Studies in 19th-Century Music, Book 6)
Editor: Roger Parker
Editor: Carolyn Abbate
Abstract: Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although the juxtaposition is not new, comparative studies have tended to view these masters as radically different both as musicians and as musical dramatists. Wagner and his "symphonic opera" set against Verdi "the melodist" is one of many familiar antitheses, and it serves to highlight the particular terms from which comparisons are often made. In this book some of the leading and most innovative music scholars challenge this view, suggesting that as we become more distant from the nineteenth century, we may see that Verdi and Wagner confronted largely similar problems, and even on occasion found similar solutions.
But more than this, Analyzing Opera sets out to demonstrate the richness and variety of modern analytical approaches to the genre. As the editors point out in their introduction, today's musical scholars increasingly question the usefulness of organicist theories in analytical studies, and, as they do so, opera seems to become an ever more central area of investigation. Opera is peculiar: its clash of verbal, musical, and visual systems can produce incongruities and extravagant miscalculations. It invites a multiplicity of approaches, challenges orthodoxy, and embraces ambiguity. The sheer variety of essays presented here is witness to this fact and suggests that analyzing opera is one of the liveliest (and most polemical) areas in modern-day musical scholarship.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to the volume are Philip Gossett, John Deathridge, James A. Hepokoski, Joseph Kerman, Thomas S. Grey, Matthew Brown, Anthony Newcomb, Martin Chusid, David Lawton, and Patrick McCreless.
Year: 1989
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520061576
Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Book)Title: Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Author: E. Eugene Helm
Abstract: Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Year: 1989
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780300026542
Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores (Book)Title: Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores
Author: Alan Tyson
Abstract: The results and implications of Alan Tyson's work on Mozart have had a profound impact on virtually every aspect of research on this composer: biography, chronology of compositions, working methods, stylistic analysis. Central, perhaps, are Tyson's discoveries on chronology: time and again he has proved that datings, often of large, well-known works, that have been accepted for generations are not only erroneous but based on little more than speculation. This book assembles his major articles, previously scattered through magazines, journals, and festschrifts, plus two unpublished pieces, into a treasure trove for musicologists and music lovers.
Tyson's investigations, using primarily paper analysis, span Mozart's entire career and the full range of genres--string quartets, operas, choral music, keyboard music, concertos, and symphonies. He goes into the genesis of major works such as Cosi fan tutte, the "Prague" Symphony, the Piano Sonata K.333, the "Haydn" quartets, and La clemenza di Tito. His conclusions about chronology bear directly on biographical questions and current accounts of Mozart's stylistic development as well as his compositional methods. We learn here, for example, that the "first" horn concerto was in fact Mozart's last, and that he did not even complete the second movement, which was finished after his death by his pupil Süssmayr. The writing (and, in some cases, rewriting) of his later operas such as Figaro and Cosi fan tutte also lends itself to investigation by the same techniques; this is resulting in the rediscovery of some lost measures and little-known variant versions of arias. Tyson's style is clear and elegant, and the originality of his work and the soundness of his inferences make this book a pleasure.
Year: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780674588301
Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance (Book)Title: Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance
Author: Gary Tomlinson
Abstract: This is a study of the secular music of Claudio Monteverdi, the foremost Italian composer of the late Renaissance. Gary Tomlinson bases his narrative on the works themselves - nine books of madrigals; three complete operas and a fragment of a fourth; and numerous canzonette, scherzi, and arie, all written between 1584 and 1642 - but his approach is as much literary and cultural as purely musical. The relationship between music, poetry, and cultural ideology is at the core of the discussion, and Tomlinson pays particular attention to Monteverdi's position within the context of late-Renaissance humanist and scholastic values. He also shows that the extraordinary variety of responses to poetry in Monteverdi's music was induced by the wide stylistic diversity of the poems themselves. For Monteverdi, the expressive power of music was a function of its relation to its text, and it is the unceasing imagination he brought to musical transfiguration of poetry which Tomlinson continually stresses in this book.
Year: 1990
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520053489
Veda Recitation in Varapasi (Book)Title: Veda Recitation in Varapasi
Author: Wayne Howard
Abstract: Veda Recitation in Varapasi
Year: 1986
Publisher: South Asia Books
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9788120800717
Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians (Book)Title: Music, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians
Author: Ralph P. Locke
Abstract: The Saint-Simonians, whose movement flourished in France between 1825 and 1835, are widely recognized for their contributions to history and social thought. Until now, however, no full account has been made of the central role of the arts in their program. In this skillful interdisciplinary study, Ralph P. Locke describes and documents the Saint-Simonians' view of music as an ideological tool and the influence of this view on musical figures of the day.
The disciples of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, believed that increased industrial production would play a crucial role in improving the condition of the working masses and in shifting power from the aristocratic "drones" to the enterprising men of talent then rising in the French middle class. As a powerful means of winning support for their views, music became an integral part of the Saint-Simonians' writings and ceremonial activities.
Among the musicians Locke discusses are Berlioz, Liszt, and Mendelssohn, whose tangential association with the Saint-Simonians reveals new aspects of their social and aesthetic views. Other musicians became the Saint-Simonians' faithful followers, among them Jules Vinçard, Dominique Tajan-Rogé, and particularly Félicien David, the movement's principal composer. Many of these composers' works, reconstructed by Locke from authentic sources, are printed here, including the "Premier Chant des industriels," written at Saint-Simon's request by Rouget de Lisle, composer of the "Marseillaise."
Year: 1986
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780226489018
Women Making Music. The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950 (Book)Title: Women Making Music. The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950
Editor: Judith Tick
Editor: Jane Bowers
Abstract: This volume joins Adrienne Fried Block and Carol Neuls-Bates's bibliography Women in American Music ( LJ 11/15/79) and Aaron I. Cohen's International Encyclopedia of Women Composers ( LJ 1/15/82). Bowers and Tick are joined by a dozen other scholars in a sound, richly documented musicological venture. A history of women composers has not been written before because ``musicologists have paid little attention to the sociology of music.'' But for the absence of a chapter on minority composers, the point is addressed here. The major figures, such as Ethel Smyth, Clara Schumann, and Barbara Strozzi have chapters to themselves, with others grouped according to historical and geographic considerations. A valuable publication. Dominique-Rene de Lerma, Morgan State Univ., Music Dept., Baltimore, Md.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Year: 1986
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252012044
The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (Book)Title: The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory
Author: Robert Winter
Author: Douglas Johnson
Author: Alan Tyson
Editor: Douglas Johnson
Abstract: The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory
Year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780193153134
Mendelssohn and Schumann: Essays on Their Music and Its Context (Book)Title: Mendelssohn and Schumann: Essays on Their Music and Its Context
Editor: R. Larry Todd
Editor: Jon W. Finson
Abstract: Mendelssohn and Schumann: Essays on Their Music and Its Context
Year: 1985
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780822305699
Music of Bela Bartok: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music (Book)Title: Music of Bela Bartok: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music
Author: Elliott Antokeletz
Abstract: The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartók's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch relations in which one can draw together the diverse pitch formations in his music under one unified set of principles.
Year: 1984
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780520046047
Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Book)Title: Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Author: Nino Pirrotta
Abstract: Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Year: 1984
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780674591080
Girolamo Frescobaldi (Book)Title: Girolamo Frescobaldi
Author: Frederick Hammond
Abstract: Girolamo Frescobaldi
Year: 1983
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780674354388
The Works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Catalogue Raisonné (Book)Title: The Works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Catalogue Raisonné
Author: H. Wiley Hitchcock
Abstract: The Works of Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Catalogue Raisonné
Year: 1982
Publisher: Picard
Type: Scholarly Edition
The Earliest Motest (to circa 1270): A Complete Comparative Edition (Three Volumes) (Book)Title: The Earliest Motest (to circa 1270): A Complete Comparative Edition (Three Volumes)
Author: Hans Tischler
Abstract: The Earliest Motest (to circa 1270): A Complete Comparative Edition (Three Volumes)
Year: 1981
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
Haydn Studies (Book)Title: Haydn Studies
Editor: James Webster
Editor: Jens Peter Larsen
Editor: Howard Serwer
Abstract: Haydn Studies
Year: 1981
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780393014549
Report of the Twelfth Congress of the International Musicological Society, Berkeley, 1977 (Book)Title: Report of the Twelfth Congress of the International Musicological Society, Berkeley, 1977
Editor: Bonnie Wade
Editor: Daniel Heartz
Abstract: Report of the Twelfth Congress of the International Musicological Society, Berkeley, 1977
Year: 1981
Publisher: Bärenreiter
Type: Scholarly Edition
Free Composition (Der Frie Satz). Volume III of New Musical Theories and Fantasies (Book)Title: Free Composition (Der Frie Satz). Volume III of New Musical Theories and Fantasies
Author: Heinrich Schenker
Editor: Ernst Oster
Abstract: Free Composition (Der Frie Satz). Volume III of New Musical Theories and Fantasies
Year: 1979
Publisher: Longman
Type: Scholarly Edition
Translator: Ernst Oster
The Reportory of Tropes at Winchester (Two Volumes) (Book)Title: The Reportory of Tropes at Winchester (Two Volumes)
Author: Alejandro Enrique Planchart
Abstract: The Reportory of Tropes at Winchester (Two Volumes)
Year: 1977
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780691091211
Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni Battista Sammartini (Book)Title: Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Author: Bathia Churgin
Author: Newell Jenkins
Abstract: Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Year: 1976
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780674877351
Triodium Athoum (Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Volume IX) (Book)Title: Triodium Athoum (Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Volume IX)
Editor: Oliver Strunk
Editor: Enrica Follieri
Abstract: Triodium Athoum (Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Volume IX)
Year: 1975
Publisher: Hauniae, Munksgaard, Copenhagen
Type: Scholarly Edition
Opera Omnia (Book)Title: Opera Omnia
Author: Jacobi Arcadelt
Editor: Albert Seay
Abstract: Ten volumes.
Year: 1970
Type: Scholarly Edition
The Commonwealth of Music (Book)Title: The Commonwealth of Music
Editor: Rose Brandel
Editor: Gustave Reese
Abstract: The Commonwealth of Music
Year: 1965
Publisher: The Free Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
Zimbabwe Children's Singing Games (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)Title: Zimbabwe Children's Singing Games
Author: Natalie J. Kreutzer
Abstract: DVD
20 singing games and dances in the Shona langauge for children from 3-10 years, with instructions for adult interpretation
Year: 2003
The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre (Book)Title: The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre
Author: Emily I. Dolan
Abstract: The Orchestral Revolution explores the changing listening culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Delving into Enlightenment philosophy, the nature of instruments, compositional practices and reception history, this book describes the birth of a new form of attention to sonority and uncovers the intimate relationship between the development of modern musical aesthetics and the emergence of orchestration. By focusing upon Joseph Haydn's innovative strategies of orchestration and tracing their reception and influence, Emily Dolan shows that the consolidation of the modern orchestra radically altered how people listened to and thought about the expressive capacity of instruments. The orchestra transformed from a mere gathering of instruments into an ideal community full of diverse, nuanced and expressive characters. In addressing this key moment in the history of music, Dolan demonstrates the importance of the materiality of sound in the formation of the modern musical artwork.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107028258
The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management (Book)Title: The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management
Author: James M. Doering
Abstract: This biography charts the career and legacy of the pioneering American music manager Arthur Judson (1881–1975), who rose to prominence in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. A violinist by training, Judson became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1915 under the iconic conductor Leopold Stokowski. Within a few years, Judson also took on management of the New York Philharmonic, navigating a period of change and the tenures of several important conductors who included William Mengelberg, Arturo Toscanini, and John Barbirolli. Judson also began managing individual artists, including pianists Alfred Cortot and Vladimir Horowitz, violinist Jasha Heifetz, and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. He also organized the U.S. tours of several prominent composers, including Igor Stravinsky and Vincent d'Indy. At the same time, Judson began managing conductors. His first clients were Stokowski and Fritz Reiner. By the 1930s, Judson's conductor list included most of the important conductors working in America.
Drawing on rich correspondence between Judson and the conductors and artists he served, James M. Doering demonstrates Judson's multifaceted roles, including involvement with programming choices, building audiences, negotiating with orchestra members and their unions, and exploring new technologies for extending the orchestras' reach. In addition to his colorful career behind the scenes at two preeminent American orchestras, Judson was important for a number of innovations in arts management. In 1922, he founded a nationwide network of local managers and later became involved in the relatively unexplored medium of radio, working first with WEAF in New York City and then later forming his own national radio network in 1927.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252037412
Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Book)Title: Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Author: Catherine Tackley
Abstract: On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording.
Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0195398311
Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism (Book)Title: Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism
Author: Anna Schultz
Abstract: Singing a Hindu Nation explores how the political becomes devotional through musical performance. At the heart of author Anna Schultz's study is r=ashtr=iya k=irtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Performers of r=ashtr=iya k=irtan have impacted the political environment throughout the last century, inspiring Marathi-speaking people to resist colonial domination both violently and non-violently in the early twentieth century, supporting state health and national integration projects in the early post-colonial era, and in the last decade of the century, using their performances to buttress the rhetoric of Hindu nationalists as these groups rose to power. By performing in regional idioms with rich associations for Maharashtrian congregations, singers of r=ashtr=iya k=irtan use music to combine political and religious signs in ways that seem natural and desirable, and as a result effectively promote embodied experiences of nationalist devotion. As the first monograph on music and Hindu nationalism, Singing a Hindu Nation presents a rare glimpse into the lives and performance worlds of nationalists on the margins of all-India political parties and cultural organizations. The book is an essential resource for ethnomusicologists, as well as scholars of South Asian studies, religion, and political theory.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199730834
J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ Works (Book)Title: J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ Works
Author: Russell Stinson
Abstract: In this wide-ranging set of original essays, musicologist and organist Russell Stinson investigates Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for the organ, opening up a wealth of perspectives on the stylistic orientation and historical context of these timeless masterpieces.
With a sweeping hand, Stinson sheds light on the entire corpus of Bach's organ chorales, and considers the reception of particular pieces not only by various luminaries in the classical music world, but also those within such disparate contexts as film, literature, politics, and rock music. Stinson's investigations include a revealing focus on a previously unpublished fugue by Bach pupil J. G. Schübler, unexplored techniques found in over twenty of Bach's chorale preludes, and the diverse ways in which Bach's organ works have been received from the composer's own lifetime to the present day. Individual essays are also devoted to Felix Mendelssohn as a performer; to Robert Schumann as an editor and critic; to César Franck as a performer, pedagogue, and composer; and to Edward Elgar as a performer, critic, and transcriber.
Rich in archival data and filled with fascinating anecdotes, J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument is entirely up-to-date, meticulously annotated and indexed, and eminently readable. This book is essential reading for anyone at all interested in Bach and "the king of instruments."
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199917235
Josquin's Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel (Book)Title: Josquin's Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel
Author: Jesse Rodin
Abstract: In the late fifteenth century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center, singing and composing for the pope's private choir. Josquin's Rome offers a new reading of the composer's work in light of the repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel's singers' box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late fifteenth-century sacred music, these pieces served as a backdrop for elaborately choreographed liturgical ceremonies--a sonic analogue to the frescoes by Botticelli, Perugino, and their contemporaries that adorn the chapel's walls. Jesse Rodin uses a comparative approach to uncover this aesthetically and intellectually rich musical tradition. He confronts longstanding problems concerning the authenticity and chronology of Josquin's music while offering nuanced readings of scandalously understudied works by the composer's contemporaries. The book further contextualizes Josquin by locating intersections between his music and the wider soundscape of the Cappella Sistina. Central to Rodin's argument is the idea that these pieces lived in performance. The author puts his interpretations into practice through a series of exquisite recordings by his ensemble, Cut Circle (available both on the companion website and as a CD from Musique en Wallonie). Josquin's Rome is an essential resource for musicologists, scholars of the Italian Renaissance, and enthusiasts of early music.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199844302
Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (Book)Title: Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene
Author: Travis A. Jackson
Abstract: New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and analysis of live and recorded events, ethnomusicologist Travis A. Jackson explores both the ways in which various participants in the New York City jazz scene interpret and evaluate performance, and the criteria on which those interpretations and evaluations are based. Through the notes and words of its most accomplished performers and most ardent fans, jazz appears not simply as a musical style, but as a cultural form intimately influenced by and influential upon American concepts of race, place, and spirituality.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520270442
Blackness in Opera (Book)Title: Blackness in Opera
Editor: Naomi Andre
Editor: Karen M. Bryan
Editor: Eric Saylor
Abstract: Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera. The volume brings a wide-ranging, theoretically informed, interdisciplinary approach to questions about how blackness has been represented in these operas, issues surrounding characterization of blacks, interpretation of racialized roles by blacks and whites, controversies over race in the theatre and the use of blackface, and extensions of blackness along the spectrum from grand opera to musical theatre and film. In addition to essays by scholars, the book also features reflections by renowned American tenor George Shirley.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252036781
Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Book)Title: Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
Author: Dominic McHugh
Abstract: Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard Bernstein, My Fair Lady not only enjoyed critical success similar to that of its rivals but also had by far the longest run of a Broadway musical up to that time. From 1956 to 1962, its original production played without a break for 2,717 performances, and the show went on to be adapted into one of the most successful movie musicals of all time in 1964, when it won eight Academy Awards. Internationally, the show also broke records in London, and the original production toured to Russia at the height of the Cold War in an attempt to build goodwill. It remains a staple of the musical theater canon today, an oft-staged show in national, regional, and high school theaters across the country.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199827305
Helmholtz and the Modern Listener (Book)Title: Helmholtz and the Modern Listener
Author: Benjamin Steege
Abstract: The musical writings of scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) have long been considered epoch-making in the histories of both science and aesthetics. Widely regarded as having promised an authoritative scientific foundation for harmonic practice, Helmholtz can also be read as posing a series of persistent challenges to our understanding of the musical listener. Helmholtz was at the forefront of sweeping changes in discourse about human perception. His interrogation of the physiology of hearing threw notions of the self-possessed listener into doubt and conjured a sense of vulnerability to mechanistic forces and fragmentary experience. Yet this new image of the listener was simultaneously caught up in wider projects of discipline, education, and liberal reform. Reading Helmholtz in conjunction with a range of his intellectual sources and heirs, from Goethe to Weber to George Bernard Shaw, Steege explores the significance of Helmholtz's listener as an emblem of a broader cultural modernity.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107015173
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music (Book)Title: Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music
Author: Joel Sachs
Abstract: Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as Sachs shows, Cowell's legacy extends far beyond his music. He worked tirelessly to create organizations such as the highly influential New Music Quarterly, New Music Recordings, and the Pan-American Association of Composers, through which great talents like Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Ives first became known in the US and abroad. As one of the first Western advocates for World Music, he used lectures, articles, and recordings to bring other musical cultures to myriad listeners and students including John Cage and Lou Harrison, who attributed their life work to Cowell's influence. Finally, Sachs describes the tragedy of Cowell's life--his guilty plea on a morals charge, which even the prosecutor felt was trivial, but brought him a sentence of 15 years in San Quentin, of which he served four.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0195108958
Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone (Book)Title: Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone
Author: Tamara Levitz
Abstract: Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone is a landmark study that will move the field of musicology in important new directions. The book presents a microhistorical analysis of the premiere of the melodrama Perséphone at the Paris Opera on April 30th, 1934, engaging with the collaborative, transnational nature of the production. Author Tamara Levitz demonstrates how these collaborators-- Igor Stravinsky, André Gide, Jacques Copeau, and Ida Rubinstein, among others-used the myth of Persephone to perform and articulate their most deeply held beliefs about four topics significant to modernism: religion, sexuality, death, and historical memory in art. In investigating the aesthetic and political consequences of the artists' diverging perspectives, and the fall-out of their titanic clash on the theater stage, Levitz dismantles myths about neoclassicism as a musical style. The result is a revisionary account of modernism in music in the 1930s.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199730162
Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform (Book)Title: Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
Author: Stephen Hinton
Abstract: In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton 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. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"--one European, the other American--Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill's artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520271777
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical (Book)Title: Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
Author: Todd Decker
Abstract: Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later directors, choreographers, and performers up to the end of the twentieth century. All the major New York productions are covered, as are five important London productions and four Hollywood versions.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199759378
Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World (Book)Title: Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World
Author: Howard Pollack
Abstract: A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist and social maverick, Blitzstein constantly pushed the boundaries of convention in mid-century America in both his work and his life.
Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography covers Blitzstein's life in full, from his childhood in Philadelphia to his violent death in Martinique at age 58. The author describes how this student of contemporary luminaries Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schoenberg became swept up in the stormy political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s and throughout his career walked the fine line between his formal training and his populist principles. Indeed, Blitzstein developed a unique sound that drew on everything contemporary, from the high modernism of Stravinsky and Hindemith to jazz and Broadway show tunes. Pollack captures the astonishing breadth of Blitzstein's work--from provocative operas like The Cradle Will Rock, No for an Answer, and Regina, to the wartime Airborne Symphony composed during his years in service, to lesser known ballets, film scores, and stage works. A courageous artist, Blitzstein translated Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera during the heyday of McCarthyism and the red scare, and turned it into an off-Broadway sensation, its "Mack the Knife" becoming one of the era's biggest hits.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199791590
Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music (Book)Title: Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music
Author: Matthew Rahaim
Abstract: Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from their teachers, and the motion of the hand and voice are always intimately connected. Though observers of Indian classical music have long commented on these gestures, Musicking Bodies is the first extended study of what singers actually do with their hands and voices. Matthew Rahaim draws on years of vocal training, ethnography, and close analysis to demonstrate the ways in which hand gesture is used alongside vocalization to manifest melody as dynamic, three-dimensional shapes. The gestures that are improvised alongside vocal improvisation embody a special kind of melodic knowledge passed down tacitly through lineages of teachers and students who not only sound similar, but who also engage with music kinesthetically according to similar aesthetic and ethical ideals. Musicking Bodies builds on the insights of phenomenology, Indian and Western music theory, and cultural studies to illuminate not only the performance of gesture, but its implications for the transmission of culture, the conception of melody, and the very nature of the musicking body.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Wesleyan
Type: Scholarly Edition
A Theory of Music Analysis: On Segmentation and Associative Organization (Book)Title: A Theory of Music Analysis: On Segmentation and Associative Organization
Author: Dora A. Hanninen
Abstract: This book introduces a theory of music analysis--a language and conceptual framework--that analysts can use to delve into aspects of segmentation and associative organization in a wide range of repertoire from the Baroque to the present. Rather than a methodology, the theory provides analysts with a precise language and broad, flexible conceptual framework that they can when formulating and investigating questions of interest and develop their own interpretations of individual pieces and passages. The theory begins with a basic distinction among three domains of musical experience and discourse about it: the sonic (psychoacoustic); the contextual (or associative, sparked by varyingdegrees of repetition); and the structural (guided by a specific theory of musical structure or syntax invoked by the analyst). A comprehensive presentation of the theory (with copious musical illustrations) is balanced with close analyses of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Nancarrow, Riley, Feldman, and Morris.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580461948
The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre (Book)Title: The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre
Author: Emily I. Dolan
Abstract: The Orchestral Revolution explores the changing listening culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Delving into Enlightenment philosophy, the nature of instruments, compositional practices and reception history, this book describes the birth of a new form of attention to sonority and uncovers the intimate relationship between the development of modern musical aesthetics and the emergence of orchestration. By focusing upon Joseph Haydn's innovative strategies of orchestration and tracing their reception and influence, Emily Dolan shows that the consolidation of the modern orchestra radically altered how people listened to and thought about the expressive capacity of instruments. The orchestra transformed from a mere gathering of instruments into an ideal community full of diverse, nuanced and expressive characters. In addressing this key moment in the history of music, Dolan demonstrates the importance of the materiality of sound in the formation of the modern musical artwork.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107028258
The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management (Book)Title: The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management
Author: James M. Doering
Abstract: This biography charts the career and legacy of the pioneering American music manager Arthur Judson (1881–1975), who rose to prominence in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. A violinist by training, Judson became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1915 under the iconic conductor Leopold Stokowski. Within a few years, Judson also took on management of the New York Philharmonic, navigating a period of change and the tenures of several important conductors who included William Mengelberg, Arturo Toscanini, and John Barbirolli. Judson also began managing individual artists, including pianists Alfred Cortot and Vladimir Horowitz, violinist Jasha Heifetz, and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. He also organized the U.S. tours of several prominent composers, including Igor Stravinsky and Vincent d'Indy. At the same time, Judson began managing conductors. His first clients were Stokowski and Fritz Reiner. By the 1930s, Judson's conductor list included most of the important conductors working in America.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252037412
J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ Works (Book)Title: J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument: Essays on His Organ Works
Author: Russell Stinson
Abstract: In this wide-ranging set of original essays, musicologist and organist Russell Stinson investigates Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for the organ, opening up a wealth of perspectives on the stylistic orientation and historical context of these timeless masterpieces.
With a sweeping hand, Stinson sheds light on the entire corpus of Bach's organ chorales, and considers the reception of particular pieces not only by various luminaries in the classical music world, but also those within such disparate contexts as film, literature, politics, and rock music. Stinson's investigations include a revealing focus on a previously unpublished fugue by Bach pupil J. G. Schübler, unexplored techniques found in over twenty of Bach's chorale preludes, and the diverse ways in which Bach's organ works have been received from the composer's own lifetime to the present day. Individual essays are also devoted to Felix Mendelssohn as a performer; to Robert Schumann as an editor and critic; to César Franck as a performer, pedagogue, and composer; and to Edward Elgar as a performer, critic, and transcriber.
Rich in archival data and filled with fascinating anecdotes, J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument is entirely up-to-date, meticulously annotated and indexed, and eminently readable. This book is essential reading for anyone at all interested in Bach and "the king of instruments."
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199917235
Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism (Book)Title: Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism
Author: Anna Schultz
Abstract: Singing a Hindu Nation explores how the political becomes devotional through musical performance. At the heart of author Anna Schultz's study is r=ashtr=iya k=irtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Performers of r=ashtr=iya k=irtan have impacted the political environment throughout the last century, inspiring Marathi-speaking people to resist colonial domination both violently and non-violently in the early twentieth century, supporting state health and national integration projects in the early post-colonial era, and in the last decade of the century, using their performances to buttress the rhetoric of Hindu nationalists as these groups rose to power. By performing in regional idioms with rich associations for Maharashtrian congregations, singers of r=ashtr=iya k=irtan use music to combine political and religious signs in ways that seem natural and desirable, and as a result effectively promote embodied experiences of nationalist devotion. As the first monograph on music and Hindu nationalism, Singing a Hindu Nation presents a rare glimpse into the lives and performance worlds of nationalists on the margins of all-India political parties and cultural organizations. The book is an essential resource for ethnomusicologists, as well as scholars of South Asian studies, religion, and political theory.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199730834
Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Book)Title: Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Author: Catherine Tackley
Abstract: On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording.
Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0195398304
Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Book)Title: Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film
Author: Kevin Bartig
Abstract: Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Hollywood luminaries such as Gloria Swanson tempted him with commissions, and arguably more people heard his film music than his efforts in all other genres combined. Films for which Prokofiev composed, in particular those of Sergey Eisenstein, are now classics of world cinema. Drawing on newly available sources, Composing for the Red Screen examines - for the first time - the full extent of this prodigious cinematic career.
Author Kevin Bartig examines how Prokofiev's film music derived from a self-imposed challenge: to compose "serious" music for a broad audience. The picture that emerges is of a composer seeking an individual film-music voice, shunning Hollywood models and objecting to his Soviet colleagues' ideologically expedient film songs. Looking at Prokofiev's film music as a whole - with well-known blockbusters like Alexander Nevsky considered alongside more obscure or aborted projects - reveals that there were multiple solutions to the challenge, each with varying degrees of success. Prokofiev carefully balanced his own populist agenda, the perceived aesthetic demands of the films themselves, and, later on, Soviet bureaucratic demands for accessibility.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199967599
Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide (Book)Title: Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide
Author: Anthony Bushard
Abstract: Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards—including Best Picture—and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Films survey. The film’s Oscar-nominated score represented a rare venture into film music composition by Leonard Bernstein, one of the towering figures of classical music in the 20th century.
In Leonard Bernstein’s On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide, Anthony Bushard examines this landmark work, a score that continues to influence composers of film and classical music alike. The book begins with a biographical survey of Bernstein’s work, followed by an exploration of Bernstein’s compositional method, a look at the context of the film, and an analysis of the score itself.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0810881372
Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora (Book)Title: Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora
Author: Brigid Cohen
Abstract: The German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop and the kibbutz movement to bebop, Abstract Expressionism and Black Mountain College. This is the first full-length study of this often overlooked composer, launched from the standpoint of the mass migrations that have defined recent times. Drawing on over 2000 pages of unpublished documents, Cohen explores how avant-garde communities across three continents adapted to situations of extreme cultural and physical dislocation. A conjurer of unexpected cultural connections, Wolpe serves as an entry-point to the utopian art worlds of Weimar-era Germany, pacifist movements in 1930s Palestine and vibrant art and music scenes in early Cold War America. The book takes advantage of Wolpe's role as a mediator, bringing together perspectives from music scholarship, art history, comparative literature, postcolonial studies and recent theories of cosmopolitanism and diaspora.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107003002
Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer (Book)Title: Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer
Author: David C. Paul
Abstract: In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how the music of American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping the critical discourse on Ives, many of them marquee names of American musical culture themselves, including Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Leonard Bernstein. Paul explores both how Ives positioned his music amid changing philosophical and aesthetic currents and how others interpreted his contributions to American music. Although Ives's initial efforts to find a public in the early twenties attracted a few devotees, the resurgence of interest in the American literary past during the thirties made a concert staple of his "Concord" Sonata, a work dedicated to nineteenth-century transcendentalist writers. Paul shows how Ives was subsequently deployed as an icon of American freedom during the early Cold War period and how he came to be instigated at the head of a line of "American maverick" composers. Paul also examines why a recent cadre of scholars has beset the composer with Gilded Age social anxieties. David C. Paul is an assistant professor of musicology and theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252037498
Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts (Book)Title: Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts
Author: William Criag Krause
Author: Walter Aaron Clark
Abstract: The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career that spanned six decades and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. After Falla, he was the most important and influential musician: in addition to his creative activities, he was President of the General Society of Authors and Editors and director of the Academy of Fine Arts. His enduring contributions as a composer include dozens of guitar works composed for Andrés Segovia and several highly successful zarzuelas, which remain in the repertoire today.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0195313703
A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation (Book)Title: A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation
Author: Gregory S. Johnston
Abstract: Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. Director of music at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden, he was lauded by his German contemporaries as "the father of our modern music", as "the Orpheus of our time." Yet despite the esteem in which his music is still held today, Schütz himself and the rich cultural environment in which he lived continue to be little known or understood beyond the linguistic borders of his native Germany.
Drawing on original manuscript and print sources, A Heinrich Schütz Reader brings the composer to life through more than 150 documents by or about Heinrich Schütz, from his earliest studies under Giovanni Gabrieli to accounts of his final hours. Editor and translator Gregory S. Johnston penetrates the archaic script, confronts the haphazard orthography and obsolete vocabulary, and untangles the knotted grammatical constructions and syntax to produce translations that allow English speakers, as never before, to engage the composer directly.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199812202
The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future Between the Wars (Book)Title: The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future Between the Wars
Author: Jeanice Brooks
Abstract: Nadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario, and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and new compositions. This book considers how gender shaped the possibilities that marked Boulanger's performing career, tracing her meteoric rise as a conductor in the 1930s to origins in the classroom and the salon. Brooks investigates Boulanger's promotion of structurally motivated performance styles, showing how her ideas on performance of historical repertory and new music relate to her teaching of music analysis and music history. The book explores the way in which Boulanger's musical practice relied upon her understanding of the historically transcendent masterwork, in which musical form and meaning are ideally joined, and show how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107009141
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (Book)Title: Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music
Author: S. Alexander Reed
Abstract: "Industrial" is a descriptor that fans and critics have applied to a remarkable variety of music: the oildrum pounding of Einstürzende Neubauten, the processed electronic groans of Throbbing Gristle, the drumloop clatter of Skinny Puppy, and the synthpop songcraft of VNV Nation, to name just a few. But the stylistic breadth and subcultural longevity of industrial music suggests that the common ground here might not be any one particular sound, but instead a network of ideologies. This book traces industrial music's attitudes and practices from their earliest articulations--a hundred years ago--through the genre's mid-1970s formation and its development up to the present and beyond.
Taking cues from radical intellectuals like Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Guy Debord, industrial musicians sought to dismantle deep cultural assumptions so thoroughly normalized by media, government, and religion as to seem invisible. More extreme than punk, industrial music revolted against the very ideas of order and reason: it sought to strip away the brainwashing that was identity itself. It aspired to provoke, bewilder, and roar with independence. Of course, whether this revolution succeeded is another question.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199832583
Miriam Gideon, Fortunato: An Opera in Three Scenes (1958) (Book)Title: Miriam Gideon, Fortunato: An Opera in Three Scenes (1958)
Author: Miriam Gideon
Editor: Stephanie Jense-Moulton
Abstract: In 1958 American composer Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) completed her only opera, Fortunato, based on the eponymous "tragicomic farce" by the Spanish playwrights Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1871-1938 and 1873-1944, respectively). Although Gideon's opera has never received a full performance and has only been available until now in a marginally legible autograph copy of the piano-vocal score, it may be regarded as a central work within Gideon's style and oeuvre and an important American operatic work of the 1950s. In addition to the fully edited piano-vocal score, the edition includes a significant introductory essay that summarizes Gideon's compositional activity during the post-World War II years, her most active period. The essay also provides a context for Gideon's opera by examining attitudes toward women composers in the American 1950s and by placing the opera's main themes into dialogue with recently discovered personal writings by the composer. A supplement to this edition includes Gideon's full orchestration of Fortunato's first scene, recently discovered among the composer's personal papers, which she may have intended as a sample piece to be pitched to television networks.
Year: 2013
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0895797674
Miriam Gideon, Fortunato: Orchestration of Scene 1 (Book)Title: Miriam Gideon, Fortunato: Orchestration of Scene 1
Author: Miriam Gideon
Editor: Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
Abstract: This is the supplement to A75. In 1958 American composer Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) completed her only opera, Fortunato, based on the eponymous "tragicomic farce" by the Spanish playwrights Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1871-1938 and 1873-1944, respectively). Although Gideon's opera has never received a full performance and has only been available until now in a marginally legible autograph copy of the piano-vocal score, it may be regarded as a central work within Gideon's style and oeuvre and an important American operatic work of the 1950s. In addition to the fully edited piano-vocal score, the edition includes a significant introductory essay that summarizes Gideon's compositional activity during the post-World War II years, her most active period. The essay also provides a context for Gideon's opera by examining attitudes toward women composers in the American 1950s and by placing the opera's main themes into dialogue with recently discovered personal writings by the composer. A supplement to this edition includes Gideon's full orchestration of Fortunato's first scene, recently discovered among the composer's personal papers, which she may have intended as a sample piece to be pitched to television networks.
Year: 2013
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0895797698
John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page (Book)Title: John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page
Author: Drew Massey
Abstract: For over sixty years, the scholar and pianist John Kirkpatrick tirelessly promoted and championed the music of American composers. In this book, Drew Massey explores how Kirkpatrick's career as an editor of music shaped the music and legacies of some of the great American modernists, including Aaron Copland, Ross Lee Finney, Roy Harris, Hunter Johnson, Charles Ives, Robert Palmer, and Carl Ruggles. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, and Kirkpatrick's own extensive archives, Massey carefully reconstructs Kirkpatrick's collaborations with such luminaries, displaying his editorial practice and inviting reconsideration of many of the most important debates in American modernism -- on the self-fashioning of young composers during the 1940s, the cherished myth of Ruggles as a composer in communion with the "timeless," Ives's status as a pioneer of modernist techniques.. Drew Massey is an assistant professor of music at Binghamton University.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464048
Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (Book)Title: Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
Author: Phil Ford
Abstract: In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the royal road to hip. Hipness suggests a particular kind of alienation from society--alienation due not to any specific political wrong but to something more radical, a clash of perception and consciousness. From the vantage of hipness, the dominant culture constitutes a system bent on excluding creativity, self-awareness, and self-expression. The hipster's project is thus to define himself against this system, to resist being stamped in its uniform, squarish mold. Ford explores radio shows, films, novels, poems, essays, jokes, and political manifestos, but argues that music more than any other form of expression has shaped the alienated hipster's identity. Indeed, for many avant-garde subcultures music is their raison d'être. Hip intellectuals conceived of sound itself as a way of challenging meaning--that which is cognitive and abstract, timeless and placeless--with experience--that which is embodied, concrete and anchored in place and time. Through Charlie Parker's "Ornithology," Ken Nordine's "Sound Museum," Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man," and a range of other illuminating examples, Ford shows why and how music came to be at the center of hipness.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199939916
MacDowell (Book)Title: MacDowell
Author: E. Douglas Bomberger
Abstract: Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in France and Germany establishing his career. Upon his return to the United States in 1888 he conquered American audiences with his dramatic Second Piano Concerto and won his way into their hearts with his poetic Woodland Sketches. Columbia University tapped him as their first professor of music in 1896, but a scandalous row with powerful university president Nicholas Murray Butler spelled the end of his career. MacDowell died a broken man four years later, but his widow Marian kept his spirit alive through the MacDowell Colony, which she founded in 1907 in their New Hampshire home, and which is today the oldest and one of the most influential, thriving artist colonies in the the United States. Drawing on private letters that were sealed for fifty years after his death, this biography traces MacDowell's compelling life story, with new revelations about his Quaker childhood, his efforts to succeed in the insular German music world, his mysterious death, and his lifelong struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder. Edward MacDowell's story is a timeless tale of human strength and weakness set in one of the most vibrant periods of American musical history, when optimism about the country's artistic future made anything seem possible.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199899296
God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song (Book)Title: God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song
Author: Sheryl Kaskowitz
Abstract: In God Bless America, Sheryl Kaskowitz tells the fascinating story behind America's other national anthem. It begins with the song's composition by Irving Berlin in 1918 and first performance by Kate Smith in 1938, revealing an early struggle for control between composer and performer as well as the hidden economics behind the song's royalties. Kaskowitz shows how the early popularity of "God Bless America" reflected the anxiety of the pre-war period and sparked a surprising anti-Semitic and xenophobic backlash. She follows the song's rightward ideological trajectory from early associations with religious and ethnic tolerance to increasing uses as an anthem for the Christian Right, and considers the song's popularity directly after the September 11th attacks. The book concludes with a portrait of the song's post-9/11 function within professional baseball, illuminating the power of the song - and of communal singing itself - as a vehicle for both commemoration and coercion. A companion website offers streaming audio of recordings referenced in the book, links to videos of relevant performances, appendices of information, and an opportunity for readers to participate in the author's survey.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199919772
Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction (Book)Title: Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction
Author: Heather Wiebe
Abstract: Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0521194679
Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song (Book)Title: Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song
Author: Maureen Jackson
Abstract: This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular" Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and new archival sources, the book explores areas often left out of those histories of the region that focus primarily on Jewish communities in isolation, political events and actors, or nationalizing narratives. Maureen Jackson foregrounds artistic interactivity, detailing the life-stories of musicians and their musical activities. Her book amply demonstrates the integration of Jewish musicians into a larger art world and traces continuities and ruptures in a nation-building era. Among its richly researched themes, the book explores the synagogue as a multifunctional venue within broader urban space; girls, women, and gender issues in an all-male performance practice; new technologies and oral transmission; and Ottoman musical reconstructions within Jewish life and cultural politics in Turkey today.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0804780155
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Book)Title: Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music
Author: Alexandra T. Vazquez
Abstract: Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a powerful critique of efforts to define "Cuban music" for ethnographic examination or market consumption. Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. "Listening in detail" is a method invested in opening up, rather than pinning down, experiences of Cuban music. Critiques of imperialism, nationalism, race, and gender emerge in fragments and moments, and in gestures and sounds through Vazquez's engagement with Alfredo Rodríguez's album Cuba Linda (1996), the seventy-year career of the vocalist Graciela Pérez, the signature grunt of the "Mambo King" Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban music documentaries of the 1960s, and late-twentieth-century concert ephemera.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0822354550
Histories of Heinrich Schütz (Book)Title: Histories of Heinrich Schütz
Author: Bettina Varwig
Abstract: Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik (1648) - are used to explore his music's resonances with broader historical themes, including the effects of the Thirty Years' War, contemporary meanings of classical mythology, Lutheran attitudes to death and the afterlife as well as shifting conceptions of time and history in light of early modern scientific advances. These original seventeenth-century circumstances are treated in counterpoint with Schütz's fascinating later reinvention in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German musical culture, providing a new kind of musicological writing that interweaves layers of historical inquiry from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0521197656
Mary, Music, and Meditation: Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan (Book)Title: Mary, Music, and Meditation: Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan
Author: Christine Suzanne Getz
Abstract: Burdened by famine, the plague, and economic hardship in the 1500s, the troubled citizens of Milan, mindful of their mortality, turned toward the veneration of the Virgin Mary and the creation of evangelical groups in her name. By 1594 the diversity of these lay religious organizations reflected in microcosm the varied expressions of Marian devotion in the Italian peninsula. Using archival documents, meditation and music books, and iconographical sources, Christine Getz examines the role of music in these Marian cults and confraternities in order to better understand the Church's efforts at using music to evangelize outside the confines of court and cathedral through its most popular saint. Getz reveals how the private music making within these cults, particularly among women, became the primary mode through which the Catholic Church propagated its ideals of femininity and motherhood.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0253007872
Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Book)Title: Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Mary Simonson
Abstract: While female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they wove together techniques and elements drawn from a wide variety of genres and media. Onstage and onscreen, performers borrowed from musical scores and narratives, referred to contemporary shows, films, and events, and mimicked fellow performers. Behind the scenes, they experimented with cross-promotion and new advertising techniques and technologies to broadcast images and tales of their performances and lives well beyond the walls of American theaters, cabarets, and halls. The performances and conceptions of art that emerged were innovative, compelling, and deeply meaningful.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199898015
Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich (Book)Title: Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich
Author: Gundula Kreuzer
Abstract: This seminal study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Kreuzer argues that the concept of Germany's musical supremacy, so dear to its nationalist cause, was continually challenged by the popularity of Italian opera, a genre increasingly epitomised by Verdi. The book traces the many facets of this Italian-German opposition in the context of intense historical developments from German unification in 1871 to the end of World War II and beyond. Drawing on an exceptionally broad range of sources, Kreuzer explores the construction of visual and biographical images of Verdi; the marketing, interpretation and adaptation of individual works; regional, social and religious undercurrents in German musical life; and overt political appropriations. Suppressed, manipulated and, not least, guiltily enjoyed, Verdi emerges as a powerful influence on German intellectuals' ideas about their collective identity and Germany's paradigmatic musical Other.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0521519199
Beethoven's "Eroica" Sketchbook: A Critical Edition (Book)Title: Beethoven's "Eroica" Sketchbook: A Critical Edition
Editor: Alan Gosman
Editor: Lewis Lockwood
Abstract: Among Beethoven's many surviving sketchbooks, one of the most famous is the "Eroica" Sketchbook, containing all the known sketches for the "Eroica" Symphony, the "Waldstein" Sonata, and other works of 1803–04. These include his first sketches for the opera Leonore (later entitled Fidelio), as well as the unfinished opera Vestas Feuer, the oratorio Christus am Oelberge, the Triple Concerto, songs, keyboard compositions, and early sketches that later bore fruit in the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. It also contains ideas for works that were never completed. This edition makes available both a complete facsimile and transcription of the sketchbook for the first time, along with a detailed commentary on the origins, contents, and significance of this vitally important source.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252037436
The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy (Book)Title: The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
Author: Christopher J. Smith
Abstract: The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performance techniques and class-inflected paths of musical apprenticeship that connected white and black practitioners.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252037764
Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema (Book)Title: Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
Author: Carol Vernallis
Abstract: Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style, fragments under the influence of audiovisual numbers and music-video-like sync. Music video becomes more than a way of selling songs. YouTube's brief, low-res clips encompass many forms and foreground reiteration, graphic values and affective intensity. These three media are riven by one another: a trajectory from YouTube through music video to the new digital cinema reveals commonalities, especially in the realms of rhythm, texture and form.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199766994
We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (Book)Title: We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Author: Kate McQuiston
Abstract: Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in A Clockwork Orange, each excerpt vetted by Kubrick himself. We'll Meet Again argues that, for Kubrick, music is neither post-production afterthought nor background nor incidental, but instead is core to films' effects and meanings. The book first identifies the building blocks in Kubrick's sonic world and illuminates the ways in which Kubrick uses them to support his characters and to define character relationships. It then delves into the effects of Kubrick's signature musical techniques, including the use of texture, form, and inscription to render and reinforce psychological ideas and spectator responses. Finally it presents case studies that show how the history of the music plays a vital and dynamic role for the films. As a whole, the book locates Kubrick as a force in music reception history by examining the relationship between his musical choices and popular culture, and reveals the foundational role of music in his filmmaking.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199767656
Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema (Book)Title: Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema
Author: Katherine Spring
Abstract: Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. Saying It With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of Hollywood studios and Tin Pan Alley music publishing firms influenced the commercial and narrative functions of popular songs. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book examines the functions of songs in a variety of non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies, Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to reconcile the spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199842216
Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans (Book)Title: Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
Author: Matt Sakakeeny
Abstract: Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of brass band musicians in New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to the perils of poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence that characterize life for many black Americans. The gripping narrative follows members of the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands from back street to backstage, before and after Hurricane Katrina, always in step with the tap of the snare drum, the thud of the bass drum, and the boom of the tuba.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0822355526
Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hop-hop (Book)Title: Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hop-hop
Author: Justin A. Williams
Abstract: Rhymin’ and Stealin’ begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material to new ends. Whether it is taking an old dance move for a breakdancing battle, using spray paint to create street art, quoting from a famous speech, or sampling a rapper or 1970s funk song, hip-hop aesthetics involve borrowing from the past. By appropriating and reappropriating these elements, they become transformed into something new, something different, something hip-hop. Rhymin’ and Stealin’ is the first book-length study of musical borrowing in hip-hop music, which not only includes digital sampling but also demonstrates a wider web of references and quotations within the hip-hop world. Examples from Nas, Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest, Eminem, and many others show that the transformation of preexisting material is the fundamental element of hip-hop aesthetics. Although all music genres use and adapt preexisting material in different ways, hip-hop music celebrates and flaunts its “open source” culture through highly varied means. It is this interest in the web of references, borrowed material, and digitally sampled sounds that forms the basis of this book—sampling and other types of borrowing becomes a framework with which to analyze hip-hop music and wider cultural trends.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0472118922
The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form (Book)Title: The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form
Author: Sumanth Gopinath
Abstract: A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. In The Ringtone Dialectic, Sumanth Gopinath charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production.
Gopinath describes the technical and economic structure of the ringtone industry, considering the transformation of ringtones from monophonic, single-line synthesizer files to polyphonic MIDI files to digital sound files and the concomitant change in the nature of capital and rent accumulation within the industry. He discusses sociocultural practices that seemed to wane as a result of these shifts, including ringtone labor, certain forms of musical notation and representation, and the creation of musical and artistic works quoting ringtones. Gopinath examines "declines," "reversals," and "revivals" of cultural forms associated with the ringtone and its changes, including the Crazy Frog fad, the use of ringtones in political movements (as in the Philippine "Gloriagate" scandal), the ringtone's narrative function in film and television (including its striking use in the films of the Chinese director Jia Zhangke), and the ringtone's relation to pop music (including possible race and class aspects of ringtone consumption). Finally, Gopinath considers the attempt to rebrand ringtones as "mobile music" and the emergence of cloud computing.
Year: 2013
Publisher: The MIT Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0262019156
Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (Book)Title: Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music
Author: Holly Rogers
Abstract: Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images. But as well as creating unprecedented forms of audiovisuality, video work also producedinteractive spaces that questioned conventional habits of music and art consumption. This book explores the first decade of creative video work, focusing on the ways in which video technology was used to dissolve the boundaries between art and music.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199861408
The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age (Book)Title: The Art of Re-enchantment: Making Early Music in the Modern Age
Author: Nick Wilson
Abstract: In the late 1960s, a new movement emerged championing historically informed 'authentic' approaches to performance. Heard today in concert halls across the world and in a library's worth of recordings, it has completely transformed the way in which we listen to 'old' music, while revolutionizing the classical music profession in the process. Yet the rise of Early Music has been anything but uncontroversial. Historically informed performance (HIP) has provoked heated debate amongst musicologists, performers and cultural sociologists. Did HIP's scholar-performers possess the skills necessary to achieve their uncompromising agenda? Was interest in historically informed performance just another facet of the burgeoning heritage industry? And was the widespread promotion of early music simply a commercial ruse to make money put forward by profit-driven record companies?
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199939930
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance (Book)Title: Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance
Author: Byron Dueck
Abstract: Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are performed, author Byron Dueck outlines a compelling theory of musical publics, examines the complex, overlapping social orientations of contemporary musicians, and shows how music and dance play a central role in a distinctive indigenous public culture.
Dueck considers a wide range of contemporary aboriginal performances and venues--urban and rural, secular and sacred, large and small. Such gatherings create opportunities for the expression of distinctive modes of northern Algonquian sociability and for the creative extension of indigenous publicness. In examining these interstitial sites--at once places of intimate interaction and spaces oriented to imagined audiences--this volume considers how Manitoban aboriginal musicians engage with audiences both immediate and unknown; how they negotiate the possibilities mass mediation affords; and how, in doing so, they extend and elaborate indigenous sociability.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199747641
Making the March King: John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893 (Book)Title: Making the March King: John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893
Author: Patrick Warfield
Abstract: John Philip Sousa's mature career as the indomitable leader of the United States Marine Band and his own touring Sousa Band is well known, but the years leading up to his emergence as a celebrity have escaped serious attention. In this revealing biography, Patrick Warfield explains the making of the March King by documenting Sousa's early life and career. Covering the period 1854 to 1893, this study focuses on the community and training that created Sousa, exploring the musical life of late nineteenth-century Washington D.C. and Philadelphia as a context for Sousa's development.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252037795
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop (Book)Title: The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop
Author: Guthrie P. Ramsey
Abstract: Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century’s most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance. Yet Powell remains one of American music’s most misunderstood figures, and the story of his exceptional talent is often overshadowed by his history of alcohol abuse, mental instability, and brutalization at the hands of white authorities. In this first extended study of the social significance of Powell’s place in the American musical landscape, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. shows how the pianist expanded his own artistic horizons and moved his chosen idiom into new realms. Illuminating and multi-layered, The Amazing Bud Powell centralizes Powell’s contributions as it details the collision of two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the practice of blackness.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520243910
Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Book)Title: Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Author: Matthew Head
Abstract: In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity--a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal--linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520273849
Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Book)Title: Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Author: John H. Baron
Abstract: A Comprehensive Reference
Year: 2013
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0807150825
A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Book)Title: A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Author: Kevin C. Karnes
Abstract: Typically regarded as reflecting on a culture in social, political, or psychological crisis, the arts in fin-de-siècle Vienna had another side: they were means by which creative individuals imagined better futures and perfected worlds dawning with the turn of the twentieth century. As author Kevin C. Karnes reveals, much of this utopian discourse drew inspiration from the work of Richard Wagner, whose writings and music stood for both a deluded past and an ideal future yet to come. Illuminating this neglected dimension of Vienna's creative culture, this book ranges widely across music, philosophy, and the visual arts. Uncovering artworks long forgotten and providing new perspectives on some of the most celebrated achievements in the Western canon, Karnes considers music by Mahler, Schoenberg, and Alexander Zemlinsky, paintings, sculptures, and graphic art by Klimt, Max Klinger, and members of the Vienna Secession, and philosophical writings by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Maurice Maeterlinck. Through analyses of artworks and the cultural dynamics that surrounded their creation and reception, this study reveals a powerful current of millennial optimism running counter and parallel to the cultural pessimism widely associated with the period. It discloses a utopian discourse that is at once beautiful, moving, and deeply disturbing, as visions of perfection gave rise to ecstatic artworks and dystopian social and political realities.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199957927
Details of Consequence: Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris (Book)Title: Details of Consequence: Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris
Author: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Abstract: Details of Consequence examines a trait that is taken for granted and rarely investigated in fin-de-siècle French music: ornamental extravagance. Considering why such composers as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie, turned their attention to the seemingly innocuous and allegedly superficial phenomenon of ornament at pivotal moments of their careers, this book shows that the range of decorative languages and unusual ways in which ornament is manifest in their works doesn't only suggest a willingness to decorate or render music beautiful. Rather, in keeping with the sorts of changes that decorative expression was undergoing in the work of Eugène Grasset, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and other painters, composers also invested their creative energies in re-imagining ornament, relying on a variety of decorative techniques to emphasize what was new and unprecedented in their treatment of form, meter, rhythm, melody, and texture. Furthermore, abundant displays of ornament in their music served to privilege associations that had been previously condemned in Western philosophy such as femininity, sensuality, exoticism, mystery, and fantasy. Alongside specific visual examples, author Gurminder Kaur Bhogal offers analyses of piano pieces, orchestral music, chamber works, and compositions written for the Ballets Russes to highlight the disorienting effect of musical experiments with ornament.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199795055
Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants (Book)Title: Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants
Author: Rebecca Maloy
Author: Emma Hornby
Abstract: Medieval Iberian liturgical practice was independent of the Roman liturgy. As such, its sources preserve an unfamiliar and fascinating devotional journey through the liturgical year. However, although Old Hispanic liturgical chant has long been considered one of the most important medieval chant traditions, what musical notation to survive shows only where the melodies rise and fall, not precise intervals or pitches. This lack of pitch-readable notation has prevented scholars from fully engaging with the surviving sources - a gap which this book aims to fill, via a new methodology for analysing the melodies and the relationship between melody and text. Focussing on three genres of chant sung during the Old Hispanic Lent (the threni, psalmi, and Easter Vigil canticles), the book takes a holistic view of the texts and melodies, setting them in the context of their liturgical and intellectual surroundings, and, for the Easter Vigil, exploring the relationship between different Old Hispanic traditions and other western liturgies. It concludes that the theologically purposeful text selections combine with carefully shaped melodies to guide the devotional practice of their hearers. Emma Hornby is Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol; Rebecca Maloy is Associate Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Boydell Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1843838142
Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life (Book)Title: Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life
Author: Lila Ellen Gray
Abstract: Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the voice hovering on the break of a sob; in moments of sung beauty listeners sometimes cry. Providing an ethnographic account of Lisbon's fado scene, Lila Ellen Gray draws on research conducted with amateur fado musicians, fadistas, communities of listeners, poets, fans, and cultural brokers during the first decade of the twenty-first century. She demonstrates the power of music to transform history and place into feeling in a rapidly modernizing nation on Europe's periphery, a country no longer a dictatorship or an imperial power. Gray emphasizes the power of the genre to absorb sounds, memories, histories, and styles and transform them into new narratives of meaning and "soul."
Year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0822354598
Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism (Book)Title: Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism
Author: Joshua S. Walden
Abstract: Sounding Authentic considers the intersecting influences of nationalism, modernism, and technological innovation on representations of ethnic and national identities in twentieth-century art music. Author Joshua S. Walden discusses these forces through the prism of what he terms the "rural miniature": short violin and piano pieces based on folk song and dance styles. This genre, mostly inspired by the folk music of Hungary, the Jewish diaspora, and Spain, was featured frequently on recordings and performance programs in the early twentieth century.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199334667
J. S. Bach's Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725 (Book)Title: J. S. Bach's Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725
Author: Eric Chafe
Abstract: Bach's Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725 is a fertile examination of this group of fourteen surviving liturgical works. Renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe begins his investigation into Bach's theology with the composer's St. John Passion, concentrating on its first and last versions. Beyond providing a uniquely detailed assessment of the passion, Bach's Johannine Theology is the first work to take the work beyond the scope of an isolated study, considering its meaning from a variety of musical and historical standpoints. Chafe thereby uncovers a range of theological implications underlying Bach's creative approach itself.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199773343
Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds (Book)Title: Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
Author: Peter Franklin
Abstract: Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period—Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini—regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism and mass culture in the period leading up to the Second World War. The style’s continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom (via work by composers such as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and their successors) bring late-romantic music to thousands of listeners who have never set foot in a concert hall. Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music sheds new light on these often unfairly disparaged works and explores the historical dimension of their continuing role in the contemporary sound world.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520280397
Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage: Manuscript, Edition, Production (Book)Title: Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage: Manuscript, Edition, Production
Author: Ellen Rosand
Abstract: After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. The coincidence of productions at La Scala (Milan) and Covent Garden (London) in the same month (September 2008) of two different operas signals a new stage in the recovery of these extraordinary works, confined until now to special venues committed to 'early music'-opera festivals, conservatory and university productions. The works of the composer who is credited with having invented the genre of opera as we know it are finally enjoying a renaissance. A new edition of Cavalli's twenty-eight operas is in preparation, and the composer and his works are at the center of a great deal of new scholarship ranging from the study of sources and production issues to the cultural context of opera of this period. In the face of such burgeoning interest, this collection of essays considers the Cavalli revival from various points of view. In particular, it explores the multiple issues involved in the transformation of an operatic manuscript into a performance. Although focused on the works of Cavalli, much of this material can transfer easily to other operatic repertoires. Following an introduction, reflecting back on four decades of Cavalli performances by some of the conductors responsible for the revival of interest in the composer, the collection is divided into four parts: Manuscripts and Editions, Production/Performance, Some Operas, and Giasone, this final section offering a detailed examination of the text, music, intellectual context, and reception of the work that made the composer famous.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1409412182
The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 (Book)Title: The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938
Author: Gayle Murchison
Abstract: One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century.
In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0472099849
A Paradise of Priests (Eastman Studies in Music) (Book)Title: A Paradise of Priests (Eastman Studies in Music)
Author: Catherine Saucier
Abstract: In the "priestly paradise" of medieval Liège, sacred music became a pervasive and versatile medium by which the clergy promoted the holy status of their city. While this hotbed of female piety and Eucharistic devotion is recognized as a center of liturgical innovation and clerical writing, the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals voiced in locally composed plainchant and polyphony has remained overlooked. The key to unlocking the civic meaning of this music lies in the saints' legends and bishops' deeds from which it emerged and in the rituals and performance spaces in which it was heard. In A Paradise of Priests, Catherine Saucier forges new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban studies to demonstrate how liégeois clerics constructed a civic sacred identity through sung rituals in conjunction with hagiographic writing and relic display. Focusing on the veneration and influence of five bishops active between the seventh and sixteenth centuries, Saucier explains how the performance of sacred music accrued new meanings at moments of signal importance in the life of the city. A Paradise of Priests is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. Catherine Saucier is Assistant Professor of Music History at Arizona State University.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464802
From Plantation to Paradise?: Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789 (Book)Title: From Plantation to Paradise?: Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789
Author: David M. Powers
Abstract: In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negative and positive contributions of the Catholic Church and the military to operas and concerts produced in the colonies. The author also explores the level of participation of nonwhites in these productions, as well as theatre architecture, décor, repertoire, seating arrangements, and types of audiences. The status of nonwhite artists in colonial society; the range of operas in which they performed; their accomplishments, praise, criticism; and the use of créole texts and white actors/singers à visage noirs (with blackened faces) present a clear picture of French operatic culture in these colonies. Approaching the French Revolution, the study concludes with an examination of the ways in which colonial opera was affected by slave uprisings, the French Revolution, the emergence of “patriotic theatres,” and their role in fostering support for the king, as well as the impact on subsequent operas produced in the colonies and in the United States.
Year: 2014
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1611861204
Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's Lulu (Book)Title: Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's Lulu
Author: Silvio J. dos Santos
Abstract: Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora -- the plays used in the formation of the libretto for Lulu -- according to notions of gender identity, social customs, and the aesthetics of modernity in the Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s. While Berg modernized several aspects of the plays and incorporated serial techniques of composition from Arnold Schoenberg, he never let go of the idealistic Wagnerian perspectives of his youth. In fact, he went as far as reconfiguring aspects of Richard Wagner's life as an ideal identity to be played out in the compositional process. In composing the opera, Berg also reflected on the most important cultural figures in fin-de-siècle Vienna that affected his worldview, including Karl Kraus, Emil Lucka, Otto Weininger, and others.. Combining analysis of Berg's correspondence, numerous sketches for Lulu, and the finished work with interpretive models drawn from cultural studies and philosophy, this book elucidates the ways in which Berg grappled at the end of his life with his self-image as an "incorrigible romantic," and explains aspects of his musical language that have been considered strange or anomalous in Berg scholarship. Silvio J. dos Santos is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Florida.
Year: 2014
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464833
The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music (Book)Title: The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Author: Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Editor: Richard Taruskin
Editor: Mary Ann Smart
Abstract: Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar music is built on a set of mimetic associations drawn from conventional modes of depicting character and emotion in opera buffa. Allanbrook mines a rich trove of writings by eighteenth-century philosophers and music theorists to show that vocal music was considered aesthetically superior to instrumental music and that listeners easily perceived the theatrical tropes that underpinned the style. Tracing Enlightenment notions of character and expression back to Greek and Latin writings about comedy and drama, she strips away preoccupations with symphonic form and teleology to reveal anew the kaleidoscopic variety and gestural vitality of the musical surface. In prose as graceful and nimble as the music she discusses, Allanbrook elucidates the idiom of this period for contemporary readers. With notes, musical examples, and a foreword by editors Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520274075
After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) (Book)Title: After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925)
Author: Maureen A. Carr
Abstract: The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history. The third in a series of works commissioned for Sergei Diaghalev's famed Ballets Russes, the piece combined disjunct tonalities, provocative rhythms, and radical choreography that threw spectators and critics into a literal fury. In the century following its premiere, The Rite of Spring has demonstrated its earth-shattering impact on music and dance as well as its immortalizing effect on Stravinsky and his career. Having gained international attention by the age of 30, what direction could Stravinsky's path forward take after the momentus events of 1913?
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199742936
Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives (Book)Title: Breaking Time's Arrow: Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
Author: Matthew McDonald
Abstract: Charles Ives (1874-1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's compositional style freed the composer from ordinary ideas of time and chronology, allowing him to recuperate the past as he reached for the musical unknown. McDonald links this concept of the multi-temporal in Ives’s works to Transcendentalist understandings of eternity. His approach to Ives opens new avenues for inquiry into the composer's eclectic and complex style.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0253012739
Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music (Book)Title: Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
Author: Nadine Hubbs
Abstract: In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America’s most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520280656
Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Book)Title: Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War
Author: Carol J. Oja
Abstract: When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. By the end of the 1940s, these artists were world famous. Their collaborations defied artistic boundaries and subtly pushed a progressive political agenda, altering the landscape of musical theater, ballet, and nightclub comedy. In Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War, award-winning author and scholar Carol J. Oja examines the early days of Bernstein's career during World War II, centering around the debut in 1944 of the Broadway musical On the Town and the ballet Fancy Free. As a composer and conductor, Bernstein experienced a meteoric rise to fame, thanks in no small part to his visionary colleagues. Together, they focused on urban contemporary life and popular culture, featuring as heroes the itinerant sailors who bore the brunt of military service. They were provocative both artistically and politically. In a time of race riots and Japanese internment camps, Bernstein and his collaborators featured African American performers and a Japanese American ballerina, staging a model of racial integration.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199862092
Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help (Book)Title: Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help
Author: Catherine Grant
Abstract: In response to increased focus on the protection of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers a new practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Drawing upon relevant ethnomusicological research on globalization and musical diversity, musical change, music revivals, and ecological models for sustainability, author Catherine Grant systematically critiques strategies that are currently employed to support endangered musics. She then constructs a comparative framework between language and music, adapting and applying the measures of language endangerment as developed by UNESCO, in order to identify ways in which language maintenance might (and might not) illuminate new pathways to keeping these musics strong. Grant's work presents the first in-depth, standardized, replicable tool for gauging the level of vitality of music genres, providing an invaluable resource for the creation and maintenance of international cultural policy. It will enable those working in the field to effectively demonstrate the degree to which outside intervention could be of tangible benefit to communities whose musical practices are under threat. Significant for both its insight and its utility, Music Endangerment is an important contribution to the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and will help secure the continued diversity of our global musical traditions.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199352173
Mismatched Women: The Siren's Song Through the Machine (Book)Title: Mismatched Women: The Siren's Song Through the Machine
Author: Jennifer Fleeger
Abstract: In Mismatched Women, author Jennifer Fleeger introduces readers to a lineage of women whose voices do not "match" their bodies by conventional expectations, from George du Maurier's literary Trilby to Metropolitan Opera singer Marion Talley, from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to Kate Smith and Deanna Durbin. The book tells a new story about female representation by theorizing a figure regularly dismissed as an aberration. The mismatched woman is a stumbling block for both sound and feminist theory, argues Fleeger, because she has been synchronized yet seems to have been put together incorrectly, as if her body could not possibly house the voice that the camera insists belongs to her. Fleeger broadens the traditionally cinematic context of feminist film theory to account for literary, animated, televisual, and virtual influences. This approach bridges gaps between disciplinary frameworks, showing that studies of literature, film, media, opera, and popular music pose common questions about authenticity, vocal and visual realism, circulation, and reproduction. The book analyzes the importance of the mismatched female voice in historical debates over the emergence of new media and unravels the complexity of female representation in moments of technological change.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199936892
Dreams of Love: Playing the Romantic Pianist (Book)Title: Dreams of Love: Playing the Romantic Pianist
Author: Ivan Raykoff
Abstract: The Romantic pianist - the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music - has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literary works, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the romantic pianist as a cultural icon, focusing on the role of technology in producing and perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries. Sound recording and cinema have shaped the pianist's music and image since the early twentieth century, but these contemporary media technologies build upon practices established during the early nineteenth century: the influence of the piano keyboard on early telegraphs and typewriters, the invention of the solo recital alongside developments in photography, and the ways that piano design and the placement of the instrument on stage structure our viewing-listening perspectives. The concept of technology can be broadened to include the performance of gender and sexuality as further ways of making the pianist into an attractive cultural figure. The book's three sections deal with the touch, sights, and sounds of the Romantic pianist's playing as mediated through various forms of technology. Analyzing these persistent Liebesträume and exploring how they function can reveal their meaning for performers, audiences, and music lovers of the past and present too.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199892679
Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Book)Title: Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination
Author: William Cheng
Abstract: Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199969968
Antiphonal Histories: Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present (Book)Title: Antiphonal Histories: Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present
Author: Julia Byl
Abstract: Positioned on a major trade route, the Toba Batak people of Sumatra have long witnessed the ebb and flow of cultural influence from India, the Middle East, and the West. Living as ethnic and religious minorities within modern Indonesia, Tobas have recast this history of difference through interpretations meant to strengthen or efface the identities it has shaped. Antiphonal Histories examines Toba musical performance as a legacy of global history, and a vital expression of local experience. This intriguingly constructed ethnography searches the palm liquor stand and the sanctuary to show how Toba performance manifests its many histories through its “local music”—Lutheran brass band hymns, gong-chime music sacred to Shiva, and Jimmie Rodgers yodeling. Combining vivid narrative, wide-ranging historical research, and personal reflections, Antiphonal Histories traces the musical trajectories of the past to show us how the global is manifest in the performative moment.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0819574787
Why the Amish Sing: Songs of Solidarity and Identity (Book)Title: Why the Amish Sing: Songs of Solidarity and Identity
Author: Terry E. Miller (Foreword)
Author: D. Rose Elder
Abstract: Singing occurs in nearly every setting of Amish life. It is a sanctioned pleasure that frames all Amish rituals and one that enlivens and sanctifies both routine and special events, from household chores, road trips by buggy, and family prayer to baptisms, youth group gatherings, weddings, and "single girl" sings. But because Amish worship is performed in private homes instead of public churches, few outsiders get the chance to hear Amish people sing. Amish music also remains largely unexplored in the field of ethnomusicology. In Why the Amish Sing, D. Rose Elder introduces readers to the ways that Amish music both reinforces and advances spiritual life, delving deep into the Ausbund, the oldest hymnal in continuous use.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1421414652
Wagner's Visions: Poetry, Politics, and the Psyche in the Operas through "Die Walküre" (Book)Title: Wagner's Visions: Poetry, Politics, and the Psyche in the Operas through "Die Walküre"
Author: Katherine R. Syer
Abstract: Wagner's Visions studies crucial influences on Wagner's dramatic style during the years before and just after the failed Dresden revolutionary uprising of 1849. Offering a detailed examination of Die Feen, Wagner's least-known complete opera, together with analysis of Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, and the four Ring dramas, Katherine Syer explores the inner experiences of Wagner's protagonists. Sources of particular political significance include the fables of the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi, the Iphigenia operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck, and the legacy of the martyr Theodor Körner, whose poetry became the lingua franca of the revolutionary movement to liberate and unify Germany. Syer's book offers fresh insights into the historical context that gave rise to Wagner's dramatic art, revealing how his distinct and powerful imagery is intimately bound up with the crises and instabilities of his era. Katherine R. Syer is associate professor of musicology and theater at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Year: 2014
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464826
Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon (Book)Title: Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon
Author: Ryan Bañagale
Abstract: In Arranging Gershwin, author Ryan Bañagale approaches George Gershwin's iconic piece Rhapsody in Blue not as a composition but as an arrangement -- a status it has in many ways held since its inception in 1924, yet one unconsidered until now. Shifting emphasis away from the notion of the Rhapsody as a static work by a single composer, Bañagale posits a broad vision of the piece that acknowledges the efforts of a variety of collaborators who shaped the Rhapsody as we know it today. Arranging Gershwin sheds new light on familiar musicians such as Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington, introduces lesser-known figures such as Ferde Grofé and Larry Adler, and remaps the terrain of this emblematic piece of American music. At the same time, it expands on existing approaches to the study of arrangements -- an emerging and insightful realm of American music studies -- as well as challenges existing and entrenched definitions of composer and composition.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199978373
The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Book)Title: The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Author: David Schulenberg
Abstract: Of the four sons of J. S. Bach who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most influential both during and after his lifetime. This first full-length English-language study critically surveys his output, examining not only the famous keyboard sonatas and concertos but also the songs, chamber music, and sacred works, many of which resurfaced in 1999 and have not previously been evaluated. The book also outlines the composer's career from his student days at Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) to his nearly three decades as court musician to Prussian King Frederick "the Great" and his last twenty years as cantor at Hamburg. Focusing on the composer's choices within his social and historical context, the book shows how C. P. E. Bach deliberately avoided his father's style while adopting the manner of his Berlin colleagues, derived from Italian opera. A new perspective on the composer emerges from the demonstration that C. P. E. Bach, best known for his virtuoso keyboard works, refashioned himself as a writer of vocal music and popular chamber compositions in response to changing cultural and aesthetic trends. Supplementary texts and musical examples are included on a companion website. David Schulenberg is professor of music at Wagner College and teaches historical performance at the Juilliard School. He is the author of The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2010).
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464819
Marching to the Canon (Book)Title: Marching to the Canon
Author: Scott Messing
Abstract: Marche militaire is Franz Schubert's most recognizable and beloved instrumental work. Originally published for piano four hands in 1826, this tuneful march -- Schubert's first of three military marches -- was arranged, adapted, and incorporated into new incarnations over the next two centuries. Its success was due to its chameleonlike ability to cross the still-porous borders between canonic and popular repertories, creating a performance life that made deep inroads into dance, literature, and film, and inspired quotations or allusions in other music Marching to the Canon examines the history of Schubert's storied Marche militaire from its modest beginnings as a duet published for domestic consumption to its now-ubiquitous presence. After detailing the composition, publication, and reception of the original march, the book analyzes the impact of transcriptions and arrangements for solo piano, orchestra, band, and other settings. In addition, it considers the ways the march was used symbolically,even manipulated, during the Franco-Prussian War and the two world wars, as well as the diverse creative uses of the piece by significant figures as varied as Willa Cather, Isadora Duncan, Walt Disney,and Igor Stravinsky.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464383
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 (Book)Title: After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Author: Michael Slowik
Abstract: Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926--1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in Hollywood's initial development, recasting the history of film sound and its relationship to the "Golden Age" of film music (1935--1950).
Slowik follows filmmakers' shifting combinations of sound and image, recapturing the volatility of this era and the variety of film music strategies that were tested, abandoned, and kept. He explores early film music experiments and accompaniment practices in opera, melodrama, musicals, radio, and silent films and discusses the impact of the advent of synchronized dialogue. He concludes with a reassessment of King Kong and its groundbreaking approach to film music, challenging the film's place and importance in the timeline of sound achievement.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0231165822
Harry Partch, Hobo Composer (Book)Title: Harry Partch, Hobo Composer
Author: S. Andrew Granade
Abstract: Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion of the Fury, and his use of highly sophisticated instruments of his own creation, Partch is still regularly called a "hobo composer." Yet few have questioned this label's impact on his musical output, compositional life, and reception. Focusing on Partch the person alongside the cultural icon he represented, this study examines Partch from historical, cultural, political, and musical perspectives. It outlines the cultural history of the hobo from the mid-1800s through the 1960s, as well as those figures associated with the hobo's image. It explores how Partch's music, which chronicled a disappearing subculture, was received, and how the composer ultimately engaged and frustrated popular conceptions of the hobo. And it follows Partch's later years to question his response to the hobo label and the ways in which others used it to define and contain him for over thirty years S. Andrew Granade is associate professor of musicology in the Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580464956
Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe (Book)Title: Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe
Author: Mark Kroll
Abstract: This book, the first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), explores how the son of middle-class Jewish parents in Prague became one of the most important musicians of his era, achieving recognition and world-wide admiration as a virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer, a sought-after piano teacher, and a pioneer in the historical performance of early music. Placing Moscheles' career within the context of the social, political and economic milieu in which he lived, the book offers new insights into the business of music and music making; the lives and works of his contemporaries, such as Schumann, Meyerbeer, Chopin, Hummel, Rossini, Liszt, Berlioz and others; the transformation of piano playing from the classical to romantic periods; and the challenges faced by Jewish artists during a dynamic period in European history. A section devoted to Moscheles' engagement as both a performer and editor with the music of J. S. Bach and Handel enhances our understanding of nineteenth-century approaches to early music, and the separate chapters that detail Moscheles' interactions with Beethoven and his extraordinarily close relationship with Mendelssohn adds considerably to the existing literature on these two masters. MARK KROLL has earned worldwide recognition as a harpsichordist, scholar and educator during a career spanning more than forty years. Professor emeritus at Boston University, Kroll has published scholarly editions of the music of Hummel, Geminiani, Charles Avison and Francesco Scarlatti, and is the author of Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician's Life and World; Playing the Harpsichord Expressively; and The Beethoven Violin Sonatas.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Boydell Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1843839354
El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth (Book)Title: El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth
Author: Geoffrey Baker
Abstract: The Venezuelan youth orchestra program known as "El Sistema" has attracted much attention internationally, partly via its flagship orchestra, The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, headed by Gustavo Dudamel, and partly through its claims to use classical music education to rescue vulnerable children. Having been met overwhelmingly with praise, The System has become an inspiration for music educators around the globe. Yet, despite its fame, influence, and size - it is projected to number a million students in Venezuela and has spread to dozens of countries - it has been the subject of surprisingly little scrutiny and genuine debate.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199341559
Ralph Kirkpatrick: Letters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar (Book)Title: Ralph Kirkpatrick: Letters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar
Author: Ralph Kirkpatrick
Editor: Meredith Kirkpatrick
Abstract: This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s, offering new insights into his work and scholarship. The volume contains letters from Europe to his family as well as correspondence with harpsichord makers, performers, and composers, including Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Schneider, John Kirkpatrick, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, Serge Koussevitzky, and Vincent Persichetti. In addition, two former students of Kirkpatrick, the guitarist Eliot Fisk and the harpsichordist Mark Kroll, write about their experiences studying with Kirkpatrick in a foreword and an afterword. The volume also includes a bibliography of publications by and about the musician, as well as a discography. Meredith Kirkpatrick is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and is the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick.
Year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1580465014
Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil (Book)Title: Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil
Author: Daniel B. Sharp
Abstract: Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse is a close-to-the-ground account of musicians and dancers from Arcoverde, Pernambuco—a small city in the northeastern Brazilian backlands. The book’s focus on samba de coco families, marked as bearers of tradition, and the band Cordel do Fogo Encantado, marketed as pop iconoclasts, offers a revealing portrait of performers engaged in new forms of cultural preservation during a post-dictatorship period of democratization and neoliberal reform. Daniel B. Sharp explores how festivals, museums, television, and tourism steep musicians’ performances in national-cultural nostalgia, which both provides musicians and dancers with opportunities for cultural entrepreneurship and hinders their efforts to be recognized as part of the Brazilian here-and-now.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Wesleyan
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0819575012
Johanna Beyer (American Composers) (Book)Title: Johanna Beyer (American Composers)
Author: Amy C. Beal
Abstract: Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic life story constitute an important chapter in American music history. As a hard-working German émigré piano teacher and accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal era, she composed plentiful music for piano, percussion ensemble, chamber groups, choir, band, and orchestra. A one-time student of Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell, Beyer was an ultramodernist, and an active member of a community that included now-better-known composers and musicians. Only one of her works was published and only one recorded during her lifetime. But contemporary musicians who play Beyer's compositions are intrigued by her originality.
Year: 2015
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252039157
Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980 (Book)Title: Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980
Author: Jonathyne Briggs
Abstract: Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During this period, scholars have tended to view the social upheavals associated with postwar reconstruction as part of debates concerning national identity in French culture and politics, a tendency that developed from political figures' and intellectuals' concerns with French national identity. In this book, author Jonathyne Briggs reorients the scholarship away from an exclusive focus on national identity and instead towards an investigation of other identities that develop as a result of the increased globalization of culture.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199377060
Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion (AMS Studies in Music) (Book)Title: Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion (AMS Studies in Music)
Author: Paul Berry
Abstract: Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature. Among the tangled threads of counterpoint and circumstance that bound Brahms to his acquaintances was the technique of allusive musical borrowing, whereby a brief passage from a familiar work was drawn into the fabric of a new composition. For the specific listeners whose habits of mind and musicianship he knew best, allusive borrowings could become rhetorically charged gestures, persuasively revising the meanings his music conveyed and the interpretive strategies it invited.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0199982646
Denkmäler der Tonkunst (DTÖ) Ignaz Holzbauer: Hypermnestra (Book)Title: Denkmäler der Tonkunst (DTÖ) Ignaz Holzbauer: Hypermnestra
Editor: Lawrence Bennett
Abstract: Denkmäler der Tonkunst (DTÖ) Ignaz Holzbauer: Hypermnestra
Year: 2014
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 979-0501072910
Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados (Book)Title: Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados
Author: Sharon Meredith
Abstract: Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life, although most of the population are descended from enslaved Africans taken to Barbados to work on the sugar plantations. After independence, an official desire to promulgate the countrya (TM)s African heritage led to the revival and recontextualisation of cultural traditions. Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1472440273
Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy (Book)Title: Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy
Author: Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Abstract: During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and mainland Chinese artists, enhancing the prestige of American culture. These concerts offered audiences around the world evidence of America’s improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy also created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although born of state-sponsored tours often conceived as propaganda ventures, these relationships were in themselves great diplomatic achievements and constituted the essence of America’s soft power. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, Danielle Fosler-Lussier shows that musical diplomacy had vastly different meanings for its various participants, including government officials, musicians, concert promoters, and audiences. Through the stories of musicians from Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson to orchestras and college choirs, Fosler-Lussier deftly explores the value and consequences of “musical diplomacy.”
Year: 2015
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520284135
The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet (Book)Title: The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet
Author: Anna Zayaruznaya
Abstract: Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107039667
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (Book)Title: The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Author: Martha Feldman
Abstract: The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
Year: 2015
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520279490
Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth (Book)Title: Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth
Author: Christopher Alan Reynolds
Abstract: In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845–46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more contrapuntal, more densely motivic, and engaged in processes of thematic transformation. Reynolds shows that the stylistic advances that both composers made in Dresden in 1845–46 stemmed from a deepened understanding of Beethoven’s techniques and strategies in the Ninth Symphony. The evidence provided by their compositions from this pivotal year and the surrounding years suggests that they discussed Beethoven’s Ninth with each other in the months leading up to the performance of this work, which Wagner conducted on Palm Sunday in 1846. Two primary aspects that appear to have interested them both are Beethoven’s use of counterpoint involving contrary motion and his gradual development of the “Ode to Joy” melody through the preceding movements. Combining a novel examination of the historical record with careful readings of the music, Reynolds adds further layers to this argument, speculating that Wagner and Schumann may not have come to these discoveries entirely independently of each other. The trail of influences that Reynolds explores extends back to the music of Bach and ahead to Tristan and Isolde, as well as to Brahms’s First Symphony.
Year: 2015
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0520285569
Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance (Book)Title: Music and Riddle Culture in the Renaissance
Author: Katelijne Schiltz
Abstract: Throughout the Renaissance, composers often expressed themselves in a language of riddles and puzzles, which they embedded within the music and lyrics of their compositions. This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the period. Katelijne Schiltz focuses on the compositional, notational, practical, social and theoretical aspects of musical riddle culture c.1450-1620, from the works of Antoine Busnoys, Jacob Obrecht and Josquin des Prez to Lodovico Zacconi's manuscript collection of Canoni musicali. Schiltz reveals how the riddle both invites and resists interpretation, the ways in which riddles imply a process of transformation and the consequences of these aspects for the riddle's conception, performance and reception. Lavishly illustrated and including a comprehensive catalogue by Bonnie J. Blackburn of enigmatic inscriptions, this book will be of interest to scholars of music, literature, art history, theology and the history of ideas.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-1107082298
The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities (Book)Title: The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities
Author: Maria Sumner Lott
Abstract: Marie Sumner Lott examines the music available to musical consumers in the nineteenth century, and what that music tells us about their tastes, priorities, and activities. Her social history of chamber music performance places the works of canonic composers such as Schubert, Brahms, and Dvorák in relation to lesser-known but influential peers. The book explores the dynamic relationships among the active agents involved in the creation of Romantic music and shows how each influenced the others' choices in a rich, collaborative environment. In addition to documenting the ways companies acquired and marketed sheet music, Sumner Lott reveals how the publication and performance of chamber music differed from that of ephemeral piano and song genres or more monumental orchestral and operatic works. Several distinct niche markets existed within the audience for chamber music, and composers created new musical works for their use and enjoyment.
Year: 2015
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0252039225
Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi (Book)Title: Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi
Author: Paul Schleuse
Abstract: In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, Orazio Vecchi. Composed for minor patrons and the wider music-buying public, Vecchi's madrigals took as their subjects game-playing, drinking, hunting, battles, and the life of the street. Schleuse looks at how music and game-playing allowed singers and performers to play the roles of exemplary pastoral characters and also comic, foreign, and "rustic" others in ways that defined and ultimately reinforced social norms of the times. His findings reposition Orazio Vecchi as one of the most innovative composers of the late 16th century.
Year: 2015
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 978-0253015013
Women Musicians of Uzbekistan: From Courtyard to Conservatory (Book)Title: Women Musicians of Uzbekistan: From Courtyard to Conservatory
Author: Tanya Merchant
Abstract: Fascinated by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, Tanya Merchant ventures into Tashkent's post-Soviet music scene to place women musicians within the nation's evolving artistic and political arenas.
Drawing on fieldwork and music study carried out between 2001 and 2014, Merchant challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, she notes, Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent genres: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music. Merchant's recounting of the women's experiences, stories, and memories underscores the complex role that these musicians and vocalists play in educational institutions and concert halls, street kiosks and the culturally essential sphere of wedding music. Throughout the book, Merchant ties nationalism and femininity to performances and reveals how the music of these women is linked to a burgeoning national identity.
Important and revelatory, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan looks into music's part in constructing gendered national identity and the complicated role of femininity in a former Soviet republic's national project.
Year: 2015
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Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913 (Book)Title: Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913
Author: Sarah Gutsche-Miller
Abstract: This pioneering study of Parisian music-hall ballet brings to light a vibrant dance culture that was central to the renewal of French ballet at the turn of the twentieth century. Long thought a lost period for ballet in France, the fin de siècle in fact saw a flourishing of choreographic activity. More than four hundred ballets were created to great acclaim, half of which were full-scale pantomime-ballets, with entertaining narratives, catchy music, titillating choreography, lavish sets and costumes, appealing corps girls, and star ballerinas. Most of these productions were staged not at the elite Paris Opéra but in the city's trendiest commercial venues: music halls.
Between 1871 and 1913, the Folies-Bergère, the Olympia, and the Casino de Paris brought together the era's leading authors of light theater and comic opera to produce a flurry of imaginative ballets that combined the conventional structures of high art with the popular idioms of mass entertainment. They also drew unprecedented numbers of people who had never before attended ballet. Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913 rediscovers this repertoire and culture, supplying a missing chapter in the history of French dance.
Year: 2015
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Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music (Book)Title: Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music
Author: Ryan Thomas Skinner
Abstract: A rich ethnography of contemporary urban life in Mali and its world-renowned yet little understood popular music culture
Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book draws on years of ethnographic research to reveal a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression, religious identity, and intellectual property.
Year: 2015
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Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song (Book)Title: Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song
Author: Ronnie Gilbert
Abstract: Ronnie Gilbert had a long and colorful career as a singer, actor, playwright, therapist, and independent woman. Her lifelong work for political and social change was central to her role as a performer. Raised in Depression-era New York City by leftist, working-class, secular Jewish parents, Gilbert is best known as a member of the Weavers, the quartet of the 1950s and '60s that survived the blacklist and helped popularize folk music in America. Her joyous contralto and vibrant stage presence enriched the celebrated group and propelled Gilbert into a second singing career with Holly Near in the 1980s and '90s. As an actor, Gilbert explored developmental theater with Joseph Chaikin and Peter Brook and wrote and performed in ensemble and solo productions across the United States and Canada.
Ronnie Gilbert brings the political, artistic, and social issues of the era alive through song lyrics and personal stories, traversing sixty years of collaborations in life and art that span the folk revival, the Cold War blacklist, primal therapy, the back-to-the-land movement, and a rich, multigenerational family story. Much more than a memoir, Ronnie Gilbert is a unique and engaging historical document for readers interested in music, theater, American politics, the women’s movement, and left-wing activism.
Year: 2015
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Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis (Book)Title: Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis
Author: Judy Lochhead
Abstract: This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover, postmodern, post-classical, post-minimalist, etc. and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches do not provide adequate tools to address this music in positive and productive terms. Existing tools and concepts were developed primarily in the mid-20th century in tandem with the high modernist compositional aesthetic, and they have changed little since then. The aesthetics of music composition, on the other hand, have been in constant transformation. Lochhead proposes new ways to conceive musical works, their structurings of musical experience and time, and the procedures and goals of analytic close reading. These tools define investigative procedures that engage the multiple perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners, and that generate conceptual modes unique to each work. In action, they rebuild a conceptual, methodological, and experiential place for recent music. These new approaches are demonstrated in analyses of four pieces: Kaija Saariaho’s Lonh (1996), Sofia Gubaidulina’s Second String Quartet (1987), Stacy Garrop’s String Quartet no.2, Demons and Angels (2004-05), and Anna Clyne’s "Choke" (2004). This book defies the prediction of classical music’s death, and will be of interest to scholars and musicians of classical music, and those interested in music theory, musicology, and aural culture.
Year: 2015
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Reviving Haydn (Book)Title: Reviving Haydn
Author: Bryan Proksch
Abstract: By the 1840s Joseph Haydn, who died in 1809 as the most celebrated composer of his generation, had degenerated into the bewigged "Papa Haydn," a shallow placeholder in music history who merely invented the forms used by Beethoven. In a remarkable reversal, Haydn swiftly regained his former stature within the opening decades of the twentieth century. Reviving Haydn: New Appreciations in the Twentieth Century examines both the decline and the subsequent resurgence of Haydn's reputation in an effort to better understand the forces that shape critical reception on a broad scale.
No single person or event marked the turning point for Haydn's reputation. Instead a broad resurgence reshaped opinion in Europe and the United States in short order. The Haydn revival engaged many of the music world's leading figures -- composers (Vincent d'Indy and Arnold Schoenberg), conductors (Arturo Toscanini), performers (Wanda Landowska), critics (Lawrence Gilman), and scholars (Heinrich Schenker and Donald Tovey) -- each of whom valued Haydn's music for specific reasons and used it to advance particular goals. Yet each advocated for a rehearing and rereading of the composer's works, calling for a new appreciation of Haydn's music.
Year: 2015
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Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq (Book)Title: Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq
Author: Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq
Author: J. Martin Daughtry
Abstract: To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it.
Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of listening to the experience of modern warfare. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. military service members and Iraqi civilians, as well as on direct observations of wartime Iraq, author J. Martin Daughtry reveals how these populations learned to extract valuable information from the ambient soundscape while struggling with the deleterious effects that it produced in their ears, throughout their bodies, and in their psyches. Daughtry examines the dual-edged nature of sound--its potency as a source of information and a source of trauma--within a sophisticated conceptual frame that highlights the affective power of sound and the vulnerability and agency of individual auditors. By theorizing violence through the prism of sound and sound through the prism of violence, Daughtry provides a productive new vantage point for examining these strangely conjoined phenomena. Two chapters dedicated to wartime music in Iraqi and U.S. military contexts show how music was both an important instrument of the military campaign and the victim of a multitude of violent acts throughout the war. A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War will expand your understanding of the experience of armed violence, and the experience of sound more generally. At the same time, it provides a discrete window into the lives of individual Iraqis and Americans struggling to orient themselves within the fog of war.
Year: 2015
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Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain (Book)Title: Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain
Author: Paul F. Rice
Abstract: Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), the celebrated Italian castrato, is best known for his performance in Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772, with which Mozart was so pleased that he composed for the singer the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate. In 1774, Rauzzini moved to London where he performed three seasons of serious operas at the King's Theatre. From 1777 until his death in 1810, he was the director of the concert series in Bath, a series that matched the prestige of any that were given in London. In addition, he composed prolifically, writing music for eleven operas.
This book is a study of Rauzzini's remarkable yet often overlooked career in Britain. Paul Rice chronicles Rauzzini's performances at the King's Theatre and examines his leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810, recovering much of the repertory. Rice shows in detail how Rauzzini responded musically to the social and political conditions of his adopted country, and analyzes the castrato's reception, as well as compositional choices, shedding new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain.
Year: 2015
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Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Book)Title: Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
Author: Nina Sun Eidsheim
Abstract: In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound—such as air being the default medium through which it travels—and to demonstrate the importance a performance's location and reception play in its contingency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting the notion of an a priori definition of sound, Eidsheim releases the voice from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. In Eidsheim's theory, music consists of aural, tactile, spatial, physical, material, and vibrational sensations. This expanded definition of music as manifested through material and personal relations suggests that we are all connected to each other in and through sound. Sensing Sound will appeal to readers interested in sound studies, new musicology, contemporary opera, and performance studies.
Year: 2015
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Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Book)Title: Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Author: Kate van Orden
Abstract: Ephemeral, fragile, often left unbound, sixteenth-century songbooks led fleeting lives in the pockets of singers and on the music desks of instrumentalists. Constantly in action, they were forever being used up, replaced, or abandoned as ways of reading changed. As such they document the acts of early musicians and the practices of everyday life at the unseen margins of elite society.
Materialities is a cultural history of song on the page. It addresses a series of central questions concerning the audiences for written music by concentrating on the first genre to be commercialized by music printers: the French chanson. Scholars have long stressed that chansons represent the most broadly disseminated polyphony of the sixteenth century, but Materialities is the first book to account for the cultural reach of the chanson across a considerable cross-section of European society.
Musicologist Kate van Orden brings extensive primary research and new analytical models to bear in this remarkable history of songbooks, music literacy, and social transformation during the first century of music printing. By tracking chansons into private libraries and schoolrooms and putting chansonniers into dialogue with catechisms, civility manuals, and chapbooks, Materialities charts the social distribution of songbooks, the gradual moralization of song, and the ways children learned their letters and notes. Its fresh conclusions revise several common assumptions about the value early moderns attributed to printed music, the levels of literacy required to perform polyphony, and the way musicians did or did not "read" their songbooks.
With musical perspectives that can invigorate studies of print culture and the history of reading, Materialities is an essential guide for musicologists working with original sources and historians of the book interested in the vocal performances that operated alongside print.
Year: 2015
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Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon (Book)Title: Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon
Author: Kimberly Francis
Abstract: In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student. Within two years, Stravinsky and Boulanger merged their artistic spheres, each influencing and enhancing the cultural work of the other until the composer's death in 1971.
Teaching Stravinsky tells Boulanger's story of the ever-changing nature of her fractious relationship with Stravinksy. Author Kimberly A. Francis explores how Boulanger's own professional activity during the turbulent twentieth-century intersected with her efforts on behalf of Stravinsky, and how this facilitated her own influential conversations with the composer about his works while also drawing her into close contact with his family. Through the theoretical lens of Bourdieu, and drawing upon over one thousand pages of letters and scores, many published here for the first time, Francis examines the extent to which Boulanger played a foundational role in defining, defending, and ultimately consecrating Stravinsky's canonical identity. She considers how the quotidian events in the lives of these two icons of modernism informed both their art and their professional decisions, and convincingly argues for a reevaluation of the influence of women on cultural production during the twentieth century.
At once a story of one woman's vibrant friendship with an iconic modernist composer, and a case study in how gendered polemics informed professional negotiations of the artistic-political fields of the twentieth-century, Teaching Stravinsky sheds new light not only on how Boulanger taught Stravinsky, but also how, in doing so, she managed to influence the course of modernism itself.
Year: 2015
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Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise (Book)Title: Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise
Author: Douglas Shadle
Abstract: During the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were written by over fifty composers living in the United States. With few exceptions, this repertoire is virtually forgotten today. In Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise, author Douglas W. Shadle explores the stunning stylistic diversity of this substantial repertoire and uncovers why it failed to enter the musical mainstream.
Throughout the century, Americans longed for a distinct national musical identity. As the most prestigious of all instrumental genres, the symphony proved to be a potent vehicle in this project as composers found inspiration for their works in a dazzling array of subjects, including Niagara Falls, Hiawatha, and Western pioneers. With a wealth of musical sources at his disposal, including never-before-examined manuscripts, Shadle reveals how each component of the symphonic enterprise-from its composition, to its performance, to its immediate and continued reception by listeners and critics-contributed to competing visions of American identity.
Employing an innovative transnational historical framework, Shadle's narrative covers three continents and shows how the music of major European figures such as Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Brahms, and Dvorák exerted significant influence over dialogues about the future of American musical culture. Shadle demonstrates that the perceived authority of these figures allowed snobby conductors, capricious critics, and even orchestral musicians themselves to thwart the efforts of American symphonists despite widespread public support of their music. Consequently, these works never entered the performing canons of American orchestras.
An engagingly written account of a largely unknown repertoire, Orchestrating the Nation shows how artistic and ideological debates from the nineteenth century continue to shape the culture of American orchestral music today.
Year: 2016
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The Thought of Music (Book)Title: The Thought of Music
Author: Lawrence Kramer
Abstract: What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding that includes Interpreting Music and Expression and Truth, Lawrence Kramer seeks answers in both thought about music and thought in music—thinking in tones. He skillfully assesses musical scholarship in the aftermath of critical musicology and musical hermeneutics and in view of more recent concerns with embodiment, affect, and performance. This authoritative and timely work challenges the prevailing conceptions of every topic it addresses: language, context, and culture; pleasure and performance; and, through music, the foundations of understanding in the humanities.
Year: 2016
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American Popular Music in Britain's Raj (Book)Title: American Popular Music in Britain's Raj
Author: Bradley Shope
Abstract: American Popular Music in Britain's Raj is the first systematic study of the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, it examines blackface minstrel shows, ragtime, jazz, and representations of Hollywood film music in Bombay cabarets and Hindi film songs, identifying key musical moments in the development of these styles between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The book describes the entertainment idioms and frameworks that supported the growth of these imported styles; further, it surveys a variety of historical contexts under colonialism that influenced their meaning and commercial value.
Focusing on Calcutta (modern Kolkata), Lucknow, and Bombay (modern Mumbai), Bradley Shope traces the movement of this music between the United States, England, and India, and addresses a variety of groups and communities, including the US military in Calcutta during World War II, Anglo-Indians in Lucknow in the 1930s and 1940s, and British residents across North India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781580465489Secondary URL:
https://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=15075Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465489
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Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance (Book)Title: Performative Analysis: Reimagining Music Theory for Performance
Author: Jeffrey Swinkin
Abstract: This book proposes a model for understanding the musical work in which both analysis-based and performance-based modes of interpretation are integral to the work. Jeffrey Swinkin explores the important role that performance plays in elucidating a work and argues for the performative nature of music analysis itself, focusing in particular on Schenkerian analysis. Swinkin's aim is to show that music analysis is grounded in the same kinds of physical and emotional experiences that performers are necessarily concerned to project. Analysis and performance are thus deeply compatible and can enjoy an equitable, fruitful relationship. The first three chapters theorize this stance; the last three apply it to works by Chopin, Beethoven, and Schumann, respectively.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9781580465267Secondary URL:
http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=10666Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465267
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Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (Book)Title: Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
Author: Thomas Patteson
Abstract: Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780520288027Secondary URL:
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520288027Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520288027
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Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene (Book)Title: Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene
Author: Thomas H. Greenland
Abstract: How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Thomas H. Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active performers in their own right who witness and thus collaborate in a happening made one-of-a-kind by improvisation, mood, and moment.
Jazzing shines a spotlight on the constituency of proprietors, booking agents, photographers, critics, publicists, painters, amateur musicians, fans, friends, and tourists that makes up New York City's contemporary jazz scene. Drawing on rich ethnographic research, interviews, and long-term participant observation, Jazzing charts the ways New York's distinctive physical and social-cultural environment affects and is affected by jazz. Throughout, Greenland offers a passionate argument in favor of a radically inclusive conception of music-making, one in which individuals collectively improvise across social contexts to co-create community and musical meaning.
An odyssey through the clubs and other performance spaces on and off the beaten track, Jazzing is an insider's view of a vibrant urban art world.
"A probing, fascinating, and sensitive portrait of a community of 'jazz people,' Tom Greenland's Jazzing reminds us that jazz is not simply sound, but is a way of life that impacts us in profound and different ways."--Ken Prouty, author of Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45nyw3ap9780252040115.htmlPrimary URL Description: press
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-252-0401
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Words and Music (Book)Title: Words and Music
Author: Peter Dickinson
Abstract: Peter Dickinson has made an enduring contribution to British musical life, and his music has been regularly performed and recorded by leading musicians. His writings, brought together here for the first time, are equally noteworthy. Covering well over half a century, the subjects are fascinatingly varied. Apart from musical interests ranging from Charles Ives to John Cage, they touch on literature; and Dickinson's meetings with W.H. Auden and Philip Larkin are an intriguing insight that led to his Auden songs and the chamber work Larkin's Jazz. American themes are prominent in this collection. There are unique reviews of concert life in New York from 1959 to 1961; an account of the teaching programme at the Juilliard School of Music at that time; three studies of Ives; and features containing original material on Copland, Thomson and Cage, all of whom Dickinson knew. Features on Erik Satie include the imaginary discussion marking his centenary in 1966. Dickinson also writes about his own music, providing an insight into what it was like being a British composer in the later twentieth century.
Peter Dickinson was born in Lancashire in 1934 and now lives in Suffolk. His 80th birthday was marked by a whole variety of tributes, including concerts, articles, broadcasts and various interviews - some included in this book.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=15124Primary URL Description: Press
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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781783271061
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The Pathetick Musician Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence (Book)Title: The Pathetick Musician Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
Author: Bruce Haynes
Author: Geoffrey Burgess
Abstract: What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the performance of early music in the modern setting. Along the way, Haynes and Burgess investigate intersections between music and oratory, dance, gesture, poetry, painting and sculpture, and offer insights into figural elaboration, articulation, nuance and temporality. Aimed primarily at performers of Baroque music, the book situates the study of performance practice in a broader cultural context, and as much as an invaluable resource for advanced study, it contains a wealth of information that pertains directly to anyone working in the field of early music.
Based on a draft sketched by celebrated Baroque oboist and early music scholar Bruce Haynes before his death in 2011, The Pathetick Musician is the fruit of the combined wisdom of two musicians renowned equally for their contributions as performers and scholars. Drawing on an impressive array of Classical treatises on oratory, musical autographs and performance accounts, it is an essential companion to Haynes' controversial The End of Early Music. Geoffrey Burgess has taken up the broader claims of Haynes' philosophy to create a practical, accessible text that will be stimulating for all musicians interested in the rediscovery of early music. With copious musical examples, contemporaneous works of art, and a companion website with supplementary audio recordings, The Pathetick Musician is an invaluable resource for all interested in exploring new expressive possibilities in the performance and study of Baroque music.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780199373734Primary URL Description: Worldcat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780199373734
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The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa (Book)Title: The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
Author: Jonathan Glasser
Abstract: For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of disappearance. In The Lost Paradise, Jonathan Glasser explores the close connection between the paradox of patrimony and the questions of embodiment, genealogy, secrecy, and social class that have long been central to Andalusi musical practice.
Through a historical and ethnographic account of the Andalusi music of Algiers, Tlemcen, and their Algerian and Moroccan borderlands since the end of the nineteenth century, Glasser shows how anxiety about Andalusi music’s disappearance has emerged from within the practice itself and come to be central to its ethos. The result is a sophisticated examination of musical survival and transformation that is also a meditation on temporality, labor, colonialism and nationalism, and the relationship of the living to the dead.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/index.htmlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0226327235
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Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance (Book)Title: Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Jean E. Snyder
Abstract: Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spirituals, Burleigh was also the first African American composer to create a significant body of art song. An international roster of opera and recital singers performed his works and praised them as among the best of their time.
Jean E. Snyder traces Burleigh's life from his Pennsylvania childhood through his fifty-year tenure as soloist at St. George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan. As a composer, Burleigh's pioneering work preserved and transformed the African American spiritual; as a music editor, he facilitated the work of other black composers; as a role model, vocal coach, and mentor, he profoundly influenced American song; and in private life he was friends with Antonín Dvorák, Marian Anderson, and Will Marion Cook. Snyder provides rich historical, social, and political contexts that explore Burleigh's professional and personal life within an era complicated by changes in race relations, class expectations, and musical tastes.
Drawing on exhaustive research into archives and family histories, Harry T. Burleigh reclaims the life and art of an essential American composer.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45dsx4pf9780252039942.htmlPublisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0252039942
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A Sociable Moment: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena (Book)Title: A Sociable Moment: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena
Author: Colleen Reardon
Abstract: After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind, Colleen Reardon opens a window on the ways in which the Sienese absorbed the new genre of opera into their own festive apparatus and challenges the prevailing view that operatic productions in the city were merely an extension of Medici power to the provinces. It was, rather, members of the expatriate Chigi family who exploited the festive impulse of their countrymen, coordinating operatic performances with their triumphant visits home by activating ties of friendship and family as well as connections to Sienese institutions, most notably the Assicurate, possibly the first all-female academy in Italy. If the Chigi proved successful at inserting opera into larger patterns of sociability that conveyed the very essence of what it meant to be Sienese (senesità), their successor, the flamboyant playwright and librettist Girolamo Gigli, struggled in his attempts to transform operatic performances into professional enterprises. Fluidly written and richly embellished with anecdotes from historical chronicles, A Sociable Moment offers insight into the Sienese experience with opera during the genre's rapid expansion throughout the Italian peninsula during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-sociable-moment-9780190496302?q=Colleen%20Reardon&lang=en&cc=us#Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0190496302
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Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism (Book)Title: Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism
Author: Jeffrey Summit
Abstract: Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the empowerment of lay people and a search for self-fulfillment through involvement with community. At a time when worshippers seek deeper spiritual experience, many Jews have found new meaning in the experience of reading Torah, an act that is broadly accessible to Jewish adults even as it requires intensive immersion with the text of the Bible in Hebrew.
This book examines why and how growing numbers of American Jews in all denominations see the public chanting of Biblical texts during the synagogue service as one of the most authentic and personal expressions of their religious identity. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with men and women, both professionals and congregants, Jeffrey A. Summit describes how the reading of Torah embodies their understanding of historical religious practice, even as it is shaped by contemporary views of spiritual experience.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0190497088
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Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (Book)Title: Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
Author: Gavin Steingo
Abstract: In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today—who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime—Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa’s crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them.
Politicians and cultural critics have long criticized kwaito for failing to provide any meaningful contribution to a society that desperately needs direction. As Steingo shows, however, these criticisms are built on problematic assumptions about the political function of music. Interacting with kwaito artists and fans, he shows that youth aren’t escaping their social condition through kwaito but rather using it to expand their sensory realities and generate new possibilities. Resisting the truism that “music is always political,” Steingo elucidates a music that thrives on its radically ambiguous relationship with politics, power, and the state.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo23290913.htmlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0226362540
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A Cole Porter Companion (Book)Title: A Cole Porter Companion
Author: Susan Forscher Weiss
Editor: Matthew Shaftel
Editor: Don M. Randel
Abstract: Balancing sophisticated melodies and irresistible rhythms with lyrics by turns cynical and passionate, Cole Porter sent American song soaring on gossamer wings. Timeless works like "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "At Long Last Love" made him an essential figure in the soundtrack of a century and earned him adoration from generations of music lovers.
In A Cole Porter Companion, a parade of performers and scholars offers essays on little-known aspects of the master tunesmith's life and art. Here are Porter's days as a Yale wunderkind and his nights as the exemplar of louche living; the triumph of Kiss Me Kate and shocking failure of You Never Know; and his spinning rhythmic genius and a turkey dinner into "You're the Top" while cultural and economic forces take "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" in unforeseen directions. Other entries explore notes on ongoing Porter scholarship and delve into his formative works, performing career, and long-overlooked contributions to media as varied as film and ballet.
Prepared with the cooperation of the Porter archives, A Cole Porter Companion is an invaluable guide for the fans and scholars of this beloved American genius.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/63dft7tf9780252040092.htmlPublisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-0252081583
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Blue Ryythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era (Book)Title: Blue Ryythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era
Author: John Wriggle
Abstract: Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music's unsung heroes: the arrangers. John Wriggle takes you behind the scenes of New York City's vibrant entertainment industry of the 1930s and 1940s to uncover the lives and work of jazz arrangers, both black and white, who left an indelible mark on American music and culture.
Blue Rhythm Fantasy traces the extraordinary career of arranger Chappie Willet--a collaborator of Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and many others--to revisit legendary Swing Era venues and performers from Harlem to Times Square. Wriggle's insightful music analyses of big band arranging techniques explore representations of cultural modernism, discourses on art and commercialism, conceptions of race and cultural identity, music industry marketing strategies, and stage entertainment variety genres.
Drawing on archives, obscure recordings, untapped sources in the African American press, and interviews with participants, Blue Rhythm Fantasy is a long-overdue study of the arranger during this dynamic era of American music history.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/95rxk4bt9780252040405.htmlPublisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-252-0404
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Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema (Book)Title: Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema
Author: Giorgio Biancorosso
Abstract: Screenwriters and film directors have long been fascinated by the challenges of representing the listening experience on screen. While music has played a central role in film narrative since the conception of moving pictures, the representation of music listening has remained a special occurrence.
In Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema, author Giorgio Biancorosso argues for a redefinition of the music listener as represented in film. Rather than construct the listener as a reverential concertgoer, music analyst, or gallery dweller, this book instead shows how films offer a new way of thinking about listening as distributed experience, an activity made public and shareable across vast cultural spaces rather than an insular motion. It shows how cinema functions as not only a reservoir of established modes of listening, but also an agent in the development of new listening practices. As Biancorosso argues, many films have perpetuated a long-existing paradox of music as a means of silencing. Consider an aggressive score overlaying battle scenes or a romantic scene conveying unspoken intimacy. In the place of conversational exchange exists a veil of sound in the form of music, and Situated Listening explains why this function influences both the course of interpretation and empathy experienced by film spectators. By focusing on cinematic, physical, and emotional scenery surrounding a character, viewers can recognize aspects of their own lives, developing a deeper empathy for each fictional character through real and shared listening practices.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/situated-listening-9780195374711?q=9780195374711&lang=en&cc=us#Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780195374711
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Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688 (Book)Title: Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688
Author: Andrew R. Walkling
Abstract: Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a limited amount of documentation survives, Walkling argues that our understanding of the distinctions between masque and opera must be premised upon a thorough knowledge of theatrical context and performance circumstances. Using extensive archival and literary evidence, detailed textual readings, rigorous tabular analysis, and meticulous collation of bibliographical and musical sources, this interdisciplinary study offers a host of new insights into a body of work that has long been of interest to musicologists, theatre historians, literary scholars and historians of Restoration court and political culture, but which has hitherto been imperfectly understood.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://www.routledge.com/Masque-and-Opera-in-England-1656-1688/Walkling/p/book/9781472446534Publisher: Routledge
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781472446534
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Stravinsky's "Great Passacaglia": Recurring Elements in the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Book)Title: Stravinsky's "Great Passacaglia": Recurring Elements in the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Author: Donald G. Traut
Abstract: Stravinsky's "Great Passacaglia" marks the first full-length analytic study devoted to the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, an important neoclassic piece composed by one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Donald Traut examines the complex significance of this piece for Stravinsky and his contemporaries. For the composer, the Concerto was both a major artistic accomplishment in his burgeoning neoclassic style and a vehicle for financial gain as a touring soloist, an endeavor that took him throughout Europe and was instrumental in bringing him to America for the first time. For many of Stravinsky's critics it came to represent all that was wrong with his new style, while for others it pointed the way forward through the past, taking on an important role in the Bach revival of the 1920s. By combining sketch studies, musicological context, and straightforward analyses of all three movements, the book paints a comprehensive picture of the piece's creation, impact, and structure that will be of interest not only to musicologists and music theorists, but to pianists, conductors, and concert-goers as well.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/stravinsky-s-quot-great-passacaglia-quot-hb.htmlPublisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465137
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Schumann's Virtuosity: Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Book)Title: Schumann's Virtuosity: Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Author: Alexander Stefaniak
Abstract: Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1818–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity through not only his compositions and performances but also his music reviews and writings about his contemporaries. Ultimately, the discourse of virtuosity influenced the culture of Western “art music” well beyond the nineteenth century and into the present day. By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity Schumann developed over the course of his career, revealing several distinct currents in nineteenth-century German virtuosity and the enduring flexibility of virtuosity discourse.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=6040_5718&products_id=808070Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780253021991
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Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Romanticism (Book)Title: Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Romanticism
Author: Deirdre Loughridge
Abstract: The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn’s career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven’s, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologies—including magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-plays—that offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and shaped the very idea of “pure” music. Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow is a fascinating exploration of the early romantic blending of sight and sound as encountered in popular science, street entertainments, opera, and music criticism.
Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersection—composers’ treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a ballad—could then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo23530341.htmlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226337098
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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte (Book)Title: Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte
Author: Emily Wilbourne
Abstract: In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later.
Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater.
Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo24550726.htmlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226401577
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Cherubino's Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment (Book)Title: Cherubino's Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment
Author: Richard Kramer
Abstract: For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn’s focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder’s imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence of the work, the blink of an eye in which one’s world changes.
In Cherubino’s Leap, Richard Kramer unmasks such prismatic moments in iconic music from the Enlightenment, from the “chromatic” moment—the single tone that disturbs the thrust of a diatonic musical discourse—and its deployment in seminal instrumental works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn, and Mozart; on to the poetic moment, taking the odes of Klopstock, in their finely wrought prosody, as a challenge to the problem of strophic song; and finally to the grand stage of opera, to the intense moment of recognition in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride and the exquisitely introverted phrase that complicates Cherubino’s daring moment of escape in Mozart’s Figaro. Finally, the tears of the disconsolate Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail provoke a reflection on the tragic aspect of Mozart’s operatic women. Throughout, other players from literature and the arts—Diderot, Goethe, Lessing among them—enrich the landscape of this bold journey through the Enlightenment imagination.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo24043594.htmlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226377896
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Interlacing Traditions: Neo-Gregorian Chant in Beneventan Manuscripts (Book)Title: Interlacing Traditions: Neo-Gregorian Chant in Beneventan Manuscripts
Author: Luisa Nardini
Abstract: This book is the first comprehensive study of the neo-Gregorian chants for the Proper of the Mass that circulated in the Beneventan region between the tenth and the thirteenth centuries. This extensive repertory demonstrates in extraordinary ways the struggles of local cantors to mediate between conformity to a standardized liturgy pursued by the Carolingians and the papacy, and a desire to maintain elements of the local musical culture.
Some neo-Gregorian chants were locally composed, while others were imported from other regions. Both imported and local chants reveal the stylistic preferences of local cantors and the interconnections between chant composition and saints’ cults and thereby shed light on issues related to the oldest musical repertories of medieval Europe, such as the Byzantine, Roman, Ambrosian, and Beneventan chants. Ultimately, they lead us into a deeper understanding of the musical culture of medieval southern Italy, a territory that, at different times, had been the theatre of incursions and invasions by many peoples (Lombards, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Franks, and Romans) and that was also the home to several flourishing Jewish communities.
The book’s rigorous historical analysis is supported by comprehensive tables, appendices, and indexes; it is also enriched by musical and textual transcriptions as well as images from relevant manuscripts.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.pims.ca/publications/new-and-recent-titles/publication/interlacing-traditions-neo-gregorian-chant-propers-in-beneventan-manuscriptsPublisher: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780888442055
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Curious and Modern Inventions INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AS DISCOVERY IN GALILEO'S ITALY (Book)Title: Curious and Modern Inventions INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AS DISCOVERY IN GALILEO'S ITALY
Author: Rebecca Cypess
Abstract: Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition—but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully explored. Curious and Modern Inventions offers fresh…
Year: 2016
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Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche (Book)Title: Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche
Author: Karol Berger
Abstract: Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the “secret” of large-scale form in Wagner’s music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520292758
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Publisher: University of California Press
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ISBN: 9780520292758
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Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Book)Title: Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo
Author: Roger Moseley
Abstract: How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291249
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The African Imagination in Music (Book)Title: The African Imagination in Music
Author: Kofi Agawu
Abstract: The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music.
Year: 2016
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ISBN: 9780190263218
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Audible States: The Political Economy of Popular Music-Making in Albania Since 1945 (Book)Title: Audible States: The Political Economy of Popular Music-Making in Albania Since 1945
Author: Nicholas Tochka
Abstract: During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union. But states on the periphery of the conflict also used state-funded performances to articulate their positions in the polarized global network. In Albania in particular, the postwar government invested heavily in public performances at home, effectively creating a new genre of popular music: the wildly popular light music.
Year: 2016
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The early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich (Book)Title: The early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich
Author: Joan Titus
Abstract: First in-depth study of scores from Shostakovich's early film music
Year: 2016
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Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199315147
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Lions of the North: Music and New Nordic Radical Nationalism (Book)Title: Lions of the North: Music and New Nordic Radical Nationalism
Author: Benjamin Teitelbaum
Abstract: First full-length, academic study devoted to radical nationalists' musical practices
Year: 2017
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The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (Book)Title: The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era
Author: Benedict Taylor
Abstract: First extended, in-depth account of the development of temporality in nineteenth-century music.
Year: 2015
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Resounding Afro-Asia: Interracial Music and the Performance of Unity (Book)Title: Resounding Afro-Asia: Interracial Music and the Performance of Unity
Author: Tamara Roberts
Abstract: Interdisciplinary work bridging ethnomusicology and popular music studies with critical race theory and comparative ethnic studies
Year: 2016
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Culture (Book)Title: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Culture
Author: Markus Rathey
Abstract: First major study of the Christmas Oratorio in English
Year: 2016
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Playing in the Cathedral: Music, Race, and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City (Book)Title: Playing in the Cathedral: Music, Race, and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City
Author: Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrell
Abstract: First study on colonial music that addresses the intersection of race and music
Year: 2016
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Necessary Noise: Art, Music, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo (Book)Title: Necessary Noise: Art, Music, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo
Author: Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
Abstract: The first deep investigation of the Yole!Africa Culural Center, a high-profile arts center in Congo.
Year: 2016
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ISBN: 9780190499570
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Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music (Book)Title: Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music
Author: Daniel Harrison
Abstract: Introduces new methods for analyzing contemporary tonal music
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190244460
Spirit song : Afro-Brazilian religious music and boundaries (Book)Title: Spirit song : Afro-Brazilian religious music and boundaries
Author: Marc Gidal
Abstract: Explains the use of music in the development of a multi-faith and multi-ethnic religious community
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199368228
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Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (Book)Title: Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory
Author: Walter Zev. Feldman
Abstract: The first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190244514
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Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul’s Recording Studio Culture (Book)Title: Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul’s Recording Studio Culture
Author: Eliot Bates
Abstract: One of the first ethnographies of contemporary studio music production
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190215736
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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera: A History (Book)Title: Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera: A History
Author: Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Abstract: Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781107137899
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Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain (Book)Title: Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain
Author: Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Abstract: First book-length study in English devoted to music criticism and journalism in Francoist Spain
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190215866
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Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music (Book)Title: Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music
Author: Sydney Hutchinson
Abstract: Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic.
Year: 2016
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226405322
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May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy (Book)Title: May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy
Author: Sharon Ammen
Abstract: May Irwin reigned as America's queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252040658
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Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (Book)Title: Chinatown Opera Theater in North America
Author: Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Abstract: The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre–World War II era.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-252-0405
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From 1989, or European Music & the Modernist Unconscious (Book)Title: From 1989, or European Music & the Modernist Unconscious
Author: Seth Brodsky
Abstract: What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes center stage.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520279360
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Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism (Book)Title: Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism
Author: Philip Bohlman
Author: Johann Gottfried Herder
Abstract: Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780520234949
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Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics (Book)Title: Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Author: Jean R. Freedman
Abstract: Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-252-0407
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Bedrich Smetana: Myth, Music, and Propaganda (Book)Title: Bedrich Smetana: Myth, Music, and Propaganda
Author: Kelly St. Pierre
Abstract: Interpretations of Czech composer Bedrich Smetana and his music have shifted as frequently as the political contexts in which they were written. This book examines not just Smetana, but also the scholar-politicians who have imagined and reimagined him and his works since the nineteenth century.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465106
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Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg’s Late Piano Music: Nature and Nationalism (Book)Title: Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg’s Late Piano Music: Nature and Nationalism
Author: Benedict Taylor
Abstract: The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781472456588
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Beyond Bach: music and everyday life in the eighteenth century (Book)Title: Beyond Bach: music and everyday life in the eighteenth century
Author: Andrew Talle
Abstract: Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-252-0408
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Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation (Book)Title: Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation
Author: Marianne Wheeldon
Abstract: Today, Claude Debussy's position as a central figure in twentieth-century concert music is secure, and scholarship has long taken for granted the enduring musical and aesthetic contributions of his compositions.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190631222
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I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B (Book)Title: I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B
Author: Andrew Flory
Abstract: I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues while developing the famous “Motown Sound.”
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-472-1174
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The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (Book)Title: The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word
Author: Marian Wilson Kimber
Abstract: Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-252-0407
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Ferruccio Busoni and his Legacy (Book)Title: Ferruccio Busoni and his Legacy
Author: Erinn E. Knyt
Abstract: Many students of renowned composer, conductor, and teacher Ferruccio Busoni had illustrious careers of their own, yet the extent to which their mentor’s influence helped shape their success was largely unexplored until now.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Indiana State University
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-253-0262
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Schubert's Mature Instrumental Music: A Theorist's Perspective (Book)Title: Schubert's Mature Instrumental Music: A Theorist's Perspective
Author: David Beach
Abstract: In his instrumental works, Franz Schubert, like Beethoven, expanded on the classical traditions, especially in the areas of form and harmony. Yet many of these works have only recently begun to be appreciated for their true worth by performers, listeners, and scholars.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465922
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Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era (Book)Title: Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Author: Christopher Doll
Abstract: Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780472073528
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Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life (Book)Title: Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life
Author: Denise Von Glahn
Abstract: Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041150
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I sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth-Century Music (Book)Title: I sang the Unsingable: My Life in Twentieth-Century Music
Author: Minna Zallman Proctor
Author: Bethany Beardslee
Abstract: American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new music, Beardslee became the go-to girl for twelve-tone music in New York City
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469005
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Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World (Book)Title: Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
Author: Richard Jones-Bamman
Abstract: Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads--asked to meet the modern musician’s needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo’s sound and mystique.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041303
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Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobilitiy (Book)Title: Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobilitiy
Author: Stefan Fiol
Editor: Stefan Fiol
Abstract: Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the “folk” designation can alternately identify a universal stage of humanity, or denote alterity and subordination.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041204
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Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politcs of Postcoloniality (Book)Title: Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politcs of Postcoloniality
Author: J. Griffith Rollefson
Abstract: Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226496184
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Beethoven and Freedom (Book)Title: Beethoven and Freedom
Author: Daniel Chua
Abstract: Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image arises from a relatively small circle of heroic works from the composer's middle period, most notably the Eroica Symphony.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199769322
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Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (Book)Title: Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830
Author: Ellen Lockhart
Abstract: This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520284432
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Jazz Transatlantic, volume I (Book)Title: Jazz Transatlantic, volume I
Author: Gerhard Kubik
Abstract: In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined and redefined.
Year: 2017
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781628462302
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Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable (Book)Title: Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
Author: Michael Gallope
Abstract: We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance?
Year: 2017
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226483559
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Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America (Book)Title: Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America
Author: Katherine Preston
Abstract: Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199371655
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Liszt and the Symphonic Poem (Book)Title: Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
Author: Joanne Cormac
Abstract: Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781107181410
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'Non senza scandalo delli convicini': pratiche musicali nelle istitzioni religiose femminili a Napoli 1650-1750 (Book)Title: 'Non senza scandalo delli convicini': pratiche musicali nelle istitzioni religiose femminili a Napoli 1650-1750
Author: Angela Fiore
Abstract: The Neapolitan feminine institutions were indisputable centers of culture, forges of patronage, privileged laboratories of artistic activities and musical productions and gave an incisive contribution to the cultural and artistic life of the viceregal Naples.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Peter Lang
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9783034323406
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Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage (Book)Title: Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage
Author: Gillian M. Rodger
Abstract: Female-to-male crossdressing became all the rage in the variety shows of nineteenth-century America and began as the domain of mature actresses who desired to extend their careers. These women engaged in the kinds of raucous comedy acts usually reserved for men. Over time, as younger women entered the specialty, the comedy became less pointed and more centered on the celebration of male leisure and fashion.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 97802520415
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American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (Book)Title: American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
Author: Michelle Habell-Pallán
Author: Marisol Berríos-Miranda
Author: Shannon Dudley
Abstract: Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial musical contributions of Latinas and Latinos in American popular music between World War II and the present in five vibrant centers of Latin@ musical production: New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Francisco, and Miami.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780295742618
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Everybody Sing! Community Singing in the American Picture Palace (Book)Title: Everybody Sing! Community Singing in the American Picture Palace
Author: Esther Morgan-Ellis
Abstract: During the 1920s, a visit to the movie theater almost always included a sing-along. Patrons joined together to render old favorites and recent hits, usually accompanied by the strains of a mighty Wurlitzer organ. The organist was responsible for choosing the repertoire and presentation style that would appeal to his or her patrons, so each theater offered a unique experience.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 97808203520
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Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sound, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Japan (Book)Title: Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sound, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Japan
Author: Marié Abe
Abstract: In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 97808195777
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Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys: A Selected Correspondence (Book)Title: Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys: A Selected Correspondence
Author: Kimberly Francis
Abstract: Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465960
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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France (Book)Title: Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France
Author: Olivia Bloechl
Abstract: From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique).
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226522753
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Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry (Book)Title: Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
Author: Sandra Jean Graham
Abstract: Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post–Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041631
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Baronial Patronage of Music in Early Modern Rome (Book)Title: Baronial Patronage of Music in Early Modern Rome
Author: Valerio Morucci
Abstract: This is the first dedicated study of the musical patronage of Roman baronial families in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781138235335
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Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music (Book)Title: Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music
Author: Patrick B. Mullen
Abstract: Part scholar's musings and part fan's memoir, Right to the Juke Joint follows Mullen from his early embrace of country and folk to the full flowering of an idiosyncratic, omnivorous interest in music.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041648
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Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (Book)Title: Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
Author: Naomi André
Abstract: From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041921
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The Scientia artis musice (1274) of Hélie Salomon: Teaching Music in the Late Thirteenth Century (Book)Title: The Scientia artis musice (1274) of Hélie Salomon: Teaching Music in the Late Thirteenth Century
Author: Joseph Dyer
Abstract: Hélie Salomon’s Scientia artis musice (1274), is a practical manual devoted to basic concepts, psalmody, vocal pedagogy, the musical hand in singing, clefs as indicators of the tone (mode) to which a piece belongs, and practical instruction in the singing of four-voice parallel organum.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781138281660
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Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir (Book)Title: Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir
Author: Neil V. Rosenberg
Abstract: Neil V. Rosenberg met the legendary Bill Monroe at the Brown County Jamboree. Rosenberg's subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on the intertwined musical and scholarly paths that made him a preeminent scholar of bluegrass music.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041761
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Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu, Music, Politcs, and Storytelling in Buganda (Book)Title: Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu, Music, Politcs, and Storytelling in Buganda
Author: Damascus Kafumbe
Abstract: Tuning the Kingdom draws on oral and written accounts, archival research, and musical analysis to examine how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble of the Kingdom of Buganda (arguably the kingdom's oldest and longest-surviving performance ensemble) has historically managed, structured, modeled, and legitimized power relations among the Baganda people of south-central Uganda.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469043
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Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera (Book)Title: Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera
Author: Gundula Kreuzer
Abstract: In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required apparatuses changed through the twentieth century, sometimes still resonating in stagings, performance art, and popular culture today.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520279681
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Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms’s Instrumental Music (Book)Title: Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms’s Instrumental Music
Author: Jacquelyn Sholes
Abstract: Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780253033154
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Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten’s Vocal Works (Book)Title: Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten’s Vocal Works
Author: BRIAN YOUNG
Author: JOANNA BULLIVANT
Author: PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK
Author: NICHOLAS CLARK
Author: MERVYN COOKE
Author: DAVID FULLER
Author: JOHN FULLER
Author: PETER HAPPÉ
Author: J. P. E. HARPER-SCOTT
Author: JOHN HOPKINS
Author: KATE KENNEDY
Author: ADRIAN POOLE
Author: HANNA ROCHLITZ
Author: PHILIP RUPPRECHT
Author: REBEKAH SCOTT
Author: VICKI STROEHER
Author: JUSTIN VICKERS
Author: LUCY WALKER
Editor: Kate Kennedy
Abstract: Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborations with his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Boydell Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781783272853
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Los Romero: The Saga of an Andalusian Family of Guitarists in America (Book)Title: Los Romero: The Saga of an Andalusian Family of Guitarists in America
Author: Walter Aaron Clark
Abstract: Walter Aaron Clark's in-depth research and unprecedented access to his subjects have produced the consummate biography of the Romero family. Clark examines the full story of their genius for making music, from their outsider's struggle to gain respect for the Spanish guitar to the ins and outs of making a living as musicians.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252041907
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The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore (Book)Title: The Alexander Scriabin Companion: History, Performance, and Lore
Author: John Bell Young
Author: Lincoln Ballard
Author: Matthew Bengtson
Abstract: This unique collaboration between a musicologist and two pianists – all experts in Russian music – takes a fresh look at the supercharged music and polarizing reception of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. From his Chopin-inspired miniatures to his genre-bending symphonies and avant-garde late works, Scriabin left a unique mark on music history.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9781442232617
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Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema (Book)Title: Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema
Author: Frank Lehman
Abstract: Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology in this first ever book-length analytical study of this culturally central repertoire.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190606398
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Waiting For Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848 (Book)Title: Waiting For Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848
Author: Mary Ann Smart
Abstract: The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas—along with those by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mercadante—did inspire Italians to imagine Italy as an independent and unified nation.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520276253
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Dixie Dewdrop: The Uncle Dave Macon Story (Book)Title: Dixie Dewdrop: The Uncle Dave Macon Story
Author: Michael D. Doubler
Abstract: One of the earliest performers on WSM in Nashville, Uncle Dave Macon became the Grand Ole Opry's first superstar. His old-time music and energetic stage shows made him a national sensation and fueled a thirty-year run as one of America's most beloved entertainers.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252083655
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The Musical Language of Rock (Book)Title: The Musical Language of Rock
Author: David Temperley
Abstract: In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190870522
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What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Book)Title: What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity
Author: Philip M. Gentry
Abstract: In the wake of World War II, the cultural life of the United States underwent a massive transformation. At the heart of these changes during the early Cold War were the rise of the concept of identity and a reformulation of the country's political life.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190299590
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Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo (Book)Title: Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo
Author: Tala Jarjour
Abstract: Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing on chant at St George's Syrian Orthodox Church of Aleppo, author Tala Jarjour puts forward the concept of the emotional economy of aesthetics, which enables a new understanding of modal musicality in general and of Syriac musicality in particular.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190635268
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Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community and Belief in Reformation Europe (Book)Title: Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community and Belief in Reformation Europe
Author: Erin Lambert
Abstract: Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190661649
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Fantasies of Improvisation: free playing in nineteenth-century music (Book)Title: Fantasies of Improvisation: free playing in nineteenth-century music
Author: Dana Gooley
Abstract: The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190633585
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Hearing Heneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur (Book)Title: Hearing Heneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur
Author: Elsie Walker
Abstract: Michael Haneke's films subject us to extreme experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and charged with aggressive dialogue. The sound tracks are even more traumatic to hear than his stories are to see, but they also offer us the transformative possibilities of reawakened sonic awareness.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190495916
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Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (Book)Title: Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam
Author: Lonan O Briain
Abstract: Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190626976
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Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy (Book)Title: Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Abstract: English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190856601
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Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theatres? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music (Book)Title: Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theatres? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music
Author: Jonathan E. Glixon
Abstract: Mirrors of Heaven or Worldly Theaters? Venetian Nunneries and Their Music explores the dynamic role of music performance and patronage in the convents of Venice and its lagoon from the sixteenth century to the fall of Venice around 1800.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190259129
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Foundations of Musical Grammer (Book)Title: Foundations of Musical Grammer
Author: Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Abstract: In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology. In the culmination of a vast body of research undertaken since his influential and award-winning Conceptualizing Music (OUP 2002), Lawrence M. Zbikowski puts forward Foundations of Musical Grammar, an ambitious and broadly encompassing account on the foundations of musical grammar based on our current understanding of human cognitive capacities.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190653637
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Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film (Book)Title: Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film
Author: K. J. Donnelly
Abstract: In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an aesthetic he dubs occult: a secret and esoteric effect that can dissipate in the face of an awareness of its existence.
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199773503
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Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form (Book)Title: Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form
Author: Jason Yust
Abstract: Organized Time is the first attempt to unite theories of harmony, rhythm and meter, and form under a common idea of structured time. Building off of recent advances in music theory in essential subfields-rhythmic theory, tonal structure, and the theory of musical form--author Jason Yust demonstrates that tonal music exhibits similar hierarchical organization in each of these dimensions.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190696481
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The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Book)Title: The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century
Editor: Hilary Poriss
Editor: Rachel Cowgill
Abstract: Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of these characters--and the celebrated women who played them--still define opera at its finest and most searingly affective, even if storylines leave them swooning and faded by the end of the drama.
Year: 2012
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780195365887
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Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians (Book)Title: Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians
Author: Denise Gill
Abstract: Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the practices socialized by musicians who enthusiastically teach and perform a present-day genre substantially rooted in the musics of the Ottoman court and elite Mevlevi Sufi lodges.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190495015
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The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture (Book)Title: The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
Author: Dale Chapman
Abstract: Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520279384
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Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music (Book)Title: Unlimited Replays: Video Games and Classical Music
Author: William Gibbons
Abstract: Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about classical works and their histories from interactive iPad games.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190265267
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Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition (Book)Title: Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition
Author: Jonathan De Souza
Abstract: From prehistoric bone flutes to pipe organs to digital synthesizers, instruments have been important to musical cultures around the world. Yet, how do instruments affect musical organization? And how might they influence players' bodies and minds?
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190271114
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Opera for the People: English Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America (Book)Title: Opera for the People: English Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America
Author: Katherine K. Preston
Abstract: Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199371655
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Hildegard of Bingen (Book)Title: Hildegard of Bingen
Author: Honey Meconi
Abstract: A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded and led a noted women's religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Illinois University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252083679
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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Book)Title: Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field
Author: Mark Burford
Abstract: Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she became an highly regarded church singer and, by the mid-fifties, a coveted recording artist for Apollo and Columbia Records, lauded as the "World's Greatest Gospel Singer."
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190634902
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Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil (Book)Title: Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil
Author: Michael B. Silvers
Abstract: In Voices of Drought, Michael B. Silvers proposes a scholarship focused on environmental justice to understand key questions in the study of music and the environment. His ecomusicological perspective offers a fascinating approach to events in Ceará, a northeastern Brazilian state affected by devastating droughts.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Illinois University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252083778
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Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland (Book)Title: Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
Author: Angela Impey
Abstract: Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226538013
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The Music of Joseph Joachim (Book)Title: The Music of Joseph Joachim
Author: Katharina Uhde
Abstract: Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) was arguably the greatest violinist of the nineteenth century. But Joachim was also a composer of virtuoso pieces, violin concertos, orchestral overtures and chamber music works. Uhde's book will be the standard work on the music of Joseph Joachim for many years to come.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781783272846
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Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form (Book)Title: Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form
Author: Katherine In-Young Lee
Abstract: Katherine In-Young Lee is intrigued by how analyses of sound and music can offer reappraisals of past events and contemporary cultural phenomena. In this vein, she has developed research projects that engage various types of “sonic evidence”—from the politicized drumming of dissent to the audible dimensions of a nation branding campaign. Her book Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form (Wesleyan University Press 2018), explores how a percussion genre from South Korea (samul nori) became a global music genre.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780819577061
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The Musical Gift (Book)Title: The Musical Gift
Author: Jim Sykes
Abstract: The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity, but were gifts to gods and people intended to foster protection and/or healing.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190912024
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Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930 (Book)Title: Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930
Author: Samuel Llano
Abstract: Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest on the effects of sound the urban space and its population. These studies analyse how sound generates identities that are often fragmentary and mutually conflicting.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199392469
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Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune (Book)Title: Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune
Author: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Abstract: Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural, and analytical investigation of the French composer's famous composition for piano.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190696078
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Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific (Book)Title: Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific
Author: Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Abstract: Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199913947
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Bach's Famous Choir: The Saint Thomas School in Leipzig, 1212-1804 (Book)Title: Bach's Famous Choir: The Saint Thomas School in Leipzig, 1212-1804
Author: Michael Maul
Abstract: 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?
Year: 2018
Publisher: Boydell Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781783271696
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Greek Music In America (Book)Title: Greek Music In America
Author: Anna Lomax Wood
Author: Tina Bucuvalas
Author: Anna Caraveli
Author: Aydin Chaloupka
Author: Sotirios (Sam) Chianis
Author: Frank Desby
Author: Stavros K. Frangos
Author: Stathis Gauntlett
Author: Joseph G. Graziosi
Author: Gail Holst-Warhaft
Author: Michael G. Kaloyanides
Author: Panayotis League
Author: Roderick Conway Morris
Author: National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage Fellows
Author: Nick Pappas
Author: Meletios Pouliopoulos
Author: Anthony Shay
Author: David Soffa
Author: Dick Spottswood
Author: Jim Stoynoff
Editor: Tina Bucuvalas
Abstract: Despite a substantial artistic legacy, there has never been a book devoted to Greek music in America until now. Those seeking to learn about this vibrant and exciting music were forced to seek out individual essays, oft en published in obscure or ephemeral sources. This volume provides a singular platform for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays and profiles written by principal scholars in the field.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781496819710
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Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna (Book)Title: Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna
Author: Robert L. Kendrick
Abstract: In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri—sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday—Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ’s Tomb.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520297579
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The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid (Book)Title: The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Age of Apartheid
Author: Hilde Roos
Abstract: Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a “coloured” cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair charts Eoan’s opera activities from the group’s inception in 1933 until the cessation of their productions by 1980. It explores larger questions of complicity, compromise, and compliance; of assimilation, appropriation, and race; and of “European art music” in situations of “non-European” dispossession and disenfranchisement.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520299894
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Good Music: What Is It And Who Gets To Decide (Book)Title: Good Music: What Is It And Who Gets To Decide
Author: John J. Sheinbaum
Abstract: Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original—and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226593388
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Debussy's Resonance (Book)Title: Debussy's Resonance
Author: Katherine Bergeron
Author: Matthew Brown
Author: David J. Code
Author: Mark DeVoto
Author: Michel Duchesneau
Author: David Grayson
Author: Herlin
Author: Jocelyn Ho
Author: Roy Howat
Author: Steven Huebner
Author: Julian Johnson
Author: Barbara L. Kelly
Author: Richard Langham Smith
Author: Mark McFarland
Author: François de Médicis
Author: Robert Orledge
Author: Boyd Pomeroy
Author: Caroline Rae
Author: Marie Rolf
Author: August Sheehy
Editor: FRANÇOIS DE MÉDICIS
Editor: STEVEN HUEBNER
Abstract: The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers alike, more perhaps than that of any of the other pioneers of musical modernism. However rich in itself, his creative output also participated, and continues to participate, in a network of cultural connections, the scope and meaning of which can only be gleaned through multiple interpretive frameworks. Debussy's Resonance offers twenty new studies by some of the most active and respected English- and French-language scholars of French music.
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Rochester Press/Boydell and Brewer
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9781580465250
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Musical Vitalities: Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music (Book)Title: Musical Vitalities: Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music
Author: Holly Watkins
Abstract: Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest?
Year: 2018
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226594705
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With Mornefull Musique: Funeral Elegies in Early Modern England (Book)Title: With Mornefull Musique: Funeral Elegies in Early Modern England
Author: K. Dawn Grapes
Abstract: This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England. In particular, it examines musical funeral elegies and the people related to commemorative tribute - the departed, the composer, potential patrons, and friends and family of the deceased - to determine the place these musical-poetic texts held in a society in which issues of death were discussed regularly, producing a constant, pervasive shadow over everyday life. The composition of these songs reached a peak at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781783273515
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Stravinsky in the Americas: Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945) (Book)Title: Stravinsky in the Americas: Transatlantic Tours and Domestic Excursions from Wartime Los Angeles (1925-1945)
Author: H. Colin Slim
Abstract: Stravinsky 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.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520299924
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Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde (Book)Title: Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde
Author: Jennifer Iverson
Abstract: For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of the mid-century studio. In the 1950s, when technologies were plentiful and the need for reconstruction was great, West Germany began to rebuild its cultural prestige via aesthetic and technical advances.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190868208
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Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform (Book)Title: Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform
Author: Margaret R. Butler
Abstract: How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how? French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we still have only a hazy view of why and how those intersections occurred and what they meant to a given opera's creators and audiences.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469012
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Theories of the Soundtrack (Book)Title: Theories of the Soundtrack
Author: James Buhler
Abstract: A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to the soundtrack, how a soundtrack is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive regime that the theory mandates for determining the meaning, sense, and structure that sound and music bring to film and other audiovisual media.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199371075
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Liszt's Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano (Book)Title: Liszt's Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano
Author: Hyun Joo Kim
Abstract: Liszt's adaptation of existing music is staggering in its quantity, scope, and variety of technique. He often viewed the model work as a source that he strove to improve, rival, and even surpass. Liszt's Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano: Colors in Black and White provides a comprehensive survey of Liszt's reworking of instrumental music on the piano, particularly his emulation of tone colors and idiomatic gestures. The book relates Liszt's sonic reproductions to the widespread nineteenth-century interest in visual-art reproduction. Hyun Joo Kim illustrates Liszt's diverse approaches to the integrity of the music in a detailed, vivid, and insightful manner through close study of his arrangements of Beethoven's symphonies and Rossini's Guillaume Tell Overture, his two-piano arrangements of his own symphonic poems such as Mazeppa and Hunnenschlacht, and his Hungarian Rhapsodies. By examining orchestral music and Hungarian Gypsy-style music as sources of Liszt's sound representations, this book reveals Liszt's musical discourse as straddling the musical, cultural, and aesthetic divides between mainstream and peripheral, art and folk, serious and popular.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469463
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Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz (Book)Title: Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz
Author: Katherine Baber
Abstract: Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth-century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252042379
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Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability (Book)Title: Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability
Author: Joseph Straus
Abstract: Preeminent music theorist and leader in the study of music and disability Joseph Straus presents a truly groundbreaking take on musical modernism--demonstrating in an expansive and vivid multimedia presentation that modernist music is inextricably entwined with attitudes toward disability.
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190871208
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Rethinking American Music (Music in American Life) (Book)Title: Rethinking American Music (Music in American Life)
Author: Mark Tucker
Author: Karen Ahlquist
Author: Amy C. Beal
Author: Mark Clague
Author: Esther R. Crookshank
Author: Todd Decker
Author: Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett
Author: Joshua S. Duchan
Author: Mark Katz
Author: Jeffrey Magee
Author: Sterling E. Murray
Author: Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
Author: David Warren Steel
Author: Jeffrey Taylor
Editor: Thomas Riis
Editor: Tara Browner
Abstract: In Rethinking American Music, Tara Browner and Thomas L. Riis curate essays that offer an eclectic survey of current music scholarship. Ranging from Tin Pan Alley to Thelonious Monk to hip hop, the contributors go beyond repertory and biography to explore four critical yet overlooked areas: the impact of performance; patronage's role in creating music and finding a place to play it; personal identity; and the ways cultural and ethnographic circumstances determine the music that emerges from the creative process.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780252042324
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Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House (Book)Title: Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House
Author: Roberto Ignacio Diaz
Author: Suzanne Aspden
Author: Rebekah Ahrendt
Author: Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Author: Michael Burden
Author: Margaret R. Butler
Author: Jonathan Hicks
Author: Susan Rutherford
Author: Charlotte Bentley
Author: Benjamin Walton
Author: Kerry Murphy
Author: Yvonne Liao
Author: Peter Franklin
Author: Katharine Ellis
Author: Klaus Van Den Berg
Editor: Suzanne Aspden
Abstract: Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet the importance of the opera house’s physical situation, and the ways in which opera and the opera house have shaped each other, have seldom been treated as topics worthy of examination.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780226595962
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Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes (Book)Title: Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes
Author: Joshua Tucker
Abstract: When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226607160
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Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews (Book)Title: Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews
Author: Nuria Schoenberg Nono
Author: Luigi Nono
Editor: Angela Ida De Benedictis
Editor: Veniero Rizzardi
Abstract: Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). 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.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780520291195
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Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique (Book)Title: Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique
Author: Charles-Marie Widor
Editor: John R. Near
Abstract: Widor's pedagogical writings, translated for the first time, offer essential guidance for interpreting his organ compositions as well as those of his followers in the French Romantic organ school.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781580469449
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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Book)Title: Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field
Author: Mark Burford
Abstract: Nearly a half century after her death in 1972, Mahalia Jackson remains the most esteemed figure in black gospel music history. Born in the backstreets of New Orleans in 1911, Jackson during the Great Depression joined the Great Migration to Chicago, where she became an highly regarded church singer and, by the mid-fifties, a coveted recording artist for Apollo and Columbia Records, lauded as the "World's Greatest Gospel Singer."
Year: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190634902
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Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint (Book)Title: Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint
Author: Benjamin Tausig
Abstract: Bangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11. Bringing the reader through sixteen distinct "sonic niches" where dissidents used media to broadcast to both local and diffuse audiences, the book catalogues these mass protests in a way that few movements have ever been catalogued. The Red Shirt and Yellow Shirt protests that shook Thailand took place just before other international political movements, including the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190847524
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Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (Book)Title: Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture
Author: Nicole Grimes
Abstract: Nicole Grimes provides a compellingly fresh perspective on a series of Brahms's elegiac works by bringing together the disciplines of historical musicology, German studies, and cultural history. Her exploration of the expressive potential of Schicksalslied, Nänie, Gesang der Parzen, and the Vier ernste Gesänge reveals the philosophical weight of this music.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781108474498
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Dedicating Music 1785–1850 (Book)Title: Dedicating Music 1785–1850
Author: Emily H. Green
Abstract: A synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469494
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City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 (Book)Title: City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950
Author: Michael Lasser
Abstract: An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.
Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas "Fats" Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Through their songs, these artists described America -- not its geography or politics, but its heart -- to Americans and to the world at large.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469524
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Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic (Book)Title: Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic
Author: Laura Watson
Abstract: As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French music. Best known for L'Apprenti sorcier, he was internationally recognised as an artist and intellectual of distinction who contributed significantly to Parisian musical cultures and critical debates.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781783273836
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Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination (Book)Title: Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination
Author: James Porter
Abstract: Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469456
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Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy and Practice (Book)Title: Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy and Practice
Author: Jane D. Hatter
Abstract: When we sing lines in which a fifteenth-century musician uses ethereal polyphony to complain mundanely about money or hoarseness, more than half a millennium melts away. Equally intriguing are moments in which we experience solmization puns. These familiar worries and surprising jests break down temporal distances, humanizing the lives and endeavors of our musical forebears. Yet many instances of self-reference occur within otherwise serious pieces.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781108474917
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Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis (Book)Title: Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis
Author: Thomas Christensen
Abstract: Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226626925
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Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography (Book)Title: Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography
Author: François Lesure
Abstract: François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in which he worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documents-including private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469036
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Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America (Book)Title: Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
Author: Jake Johnson
Abstract: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important theological tenets. As church membership grew, leaders saw how the genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into many aspects of Mormon life.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252042515
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic (Book)Title: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic
Author: Suzanne Robinson
Abstract: As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape professional and public opinion on the state of American composing. The seventy musical works she composed ranged from celebrated operas like Nausicaa to intimate, jewel-like compositions created for friends. Her circle included figures like Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage, and Yehudi Menuhin.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780252042560
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Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics (Book)Title: Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics
Author: Jerome Camal
Abstract: In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music—a secular, drum-based tradition—captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island’s decolonization as an overseas territory of France.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226631639
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English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 (Book)Title: English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706
Author: Andrew Walkling
Abstract: English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781138696549
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Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks (Book)Title: Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
Author: David Yearsley
Abstract: At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701–60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history’s most famous musical wife and mother.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226617701
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Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era (Book)Title: Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era
Author: Marianna Ritchey
Abstract: The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism. In Composing Capital, Marianna Ritchey lays bare the appropriation of classical music by the current neoliberal regime, arguing that artists, critics, and institutions have aligned themselves—and, by extension, classical music itself—with free-market ideology.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226640068
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The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (Book)Title: The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America
Author: Melissa D. Burrage
Abstract: The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States.
Year: 2019
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781580469500
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