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Strunk's Source Readings in Music History
The Nineteenth Century
Av Ruth Solie
Häftad, 1997
343 kr
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Forty-five years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver Strunk's monumental anthology of writings about music has been thoroughly revised and extended by a team of scholars working under the direction of musicologist Leo Treitler. For this new edition, seven specialists in music history …
Reading Opera between the Lines
Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg
Av Christopher Morris, Ruth Solie
Häftad, 2007
636 kr
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A characteristic feature of Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera is the tendency to link scenes with numerous and often surprisingly lengthy orchestral interludes, frequently performed with the curtain closed. Often taken for granted or treated as a filler by audiences and critics, these interludes …
Music and the Origins of Language
Theories from the French Enlightenment
Av Downing A. Thomas, Ruth Solie
Inbunden, 1995
1962 kr
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The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory …
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Av Daniel Chua, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2029 kr
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This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against …
Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity
Av Adam Krims, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
426 kr
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This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to …
The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven
Inbunden, 2002
1626 kr
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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length …
Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel
Av Emma Dillon, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1761 kr
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This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript (BN, fr. 146). The musical repertories found in this manuscript, particularly those interpolated into the Old French satire, the Roman de Fauvel, are frequently used to illuminate the wider history of French …
Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought
Av Alexander Rehding, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1693 kr
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Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, …
Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music
Inbunden, 2003
1693 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural associations of the original piece. By working with …
The Virtuoso Liszt
Inbunden, 2004
1693 kr
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The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? In this study Dana Gooley examines the world of discussion, journalism, and controversy that …
Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel
Av Emma Dillon, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript (BN, fr. 146). The musical repertories found in this manuscript, particularly those interpolated into the Old French satire, the Roman de Fauvel, are frequently used to illuminate the wider history of French …
American Women Composers before 1870
Häftad, 2010
411 kr
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First study of American women composers and attitudes towards women musicians in the nineteenth century.Early American women composers are barely represented in standard reference works, yet their output constitutes a significant proportion of the bound sheet music in the collections in the New …
