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Gustav Mahler
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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Gustav Mahler’s status as an icon of fin-de-siècle Viennese music is assured, with his works now staples of the concert repertoire. His life story has been told in numerous biographies, films and novels, yet he remains an ambiguous, provocative figure. Mahler was a composer who challenged musical …
Szymanowski Companion
Av Stephen Downes, Paul Cadrin
Häftad, 2020
652 kr
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The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, …
Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
E-bok, 2021
856 kr
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In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges …
Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
E-bok, 2021
856 kr
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In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges …
Music and Decadence in European Modernism
The Case of Central and Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2010
2096 kr
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Decadence is a crucial yet often misunderstood aspect of European modernism. This book demonstrates how decadence as an idea, style or topic informs Central and Eastern European music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Combining close analysis with hermeneutic interpretation and …
Lasting Record
Häftad, 2013
258 kr
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The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius. A compelling and surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return …
Szymanowski Companion
Av Stephen Downes, Paul Cadrin
Inbunden, 2015
2588 kr
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The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, …
Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology
Inbunden, 2003
3262 kr
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The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, …
Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Häftad, 2021
726 kr
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In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges …
Aesthetics of Music
Musicological Perspectives
E-bok, 2014
1076 kr
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Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to ''the music'' as possible. Each essay …
Aesthetics of Music
Musicological Perspectives
E-bok, 2014
1108 kr
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Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to ''the music'' as possible. Each essay …
Aesthetics of Music
Musicological Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
938 kr
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Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay …
Muse as Eros
Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination
Häftad, 2017
786 kr
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The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to …
Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2021
2585 kr
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In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges …
Blackie: an Inspirational Love Story about a Writer and his Battle to Save his Pet Cat
E-bok, 2014
44 kr
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'Blackie' is the heart-warming story of an unlikely friendship between Australian writer Stephen Downes and Blackie, a back-fence stray. Stephen never much liked cats. But one day, his sons Patrick and Benny find three kittens at the bottom of the garden. Two of the strays -- Blackie and Fluffy -- …
Szymanowski Companion
Av Stephen Downes, Paul Cadrin
E-bok, 2016
699 kr
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The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, …
Szymanowski Companion
Av Stephen Downes, Paul Cadrin
E-bok, 2016
699 kr
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The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio Stabat Mater, as well as numerous piano, …
Muse as Eros
Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination
E-bok, 2017
927 kr
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The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to …
Muse as Eros
Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination
E-bok, 2017
927 kr
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The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to …
Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology
E-bok, 2018
856 kr
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The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski''s work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, …
Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology
E-bok, 2018
829 kr
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The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski''s work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, …
Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880
Sounding ‘Polish’
Av Stephen Downes, Daniel Elphick
Inbunden, 2026
1337 kr
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Examines music's role in political and cultural images of Poland during a period in which Poland regained independence, suffered cruelly in warfare, was a member of the Soviet bloc, then overthrew communism and joined the European Union.This collection analyses the function of music in twentieth …
Verge 2019
Uncanny
Av Stephen Downes, Calvin Fung m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
280 kr
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The strangely familiar. The alien within the home. The repressed impulse. Bloodsucking counts in castles. Dismembered limbs. Wax models of famous figures. Trying to find a lost car in a parking lot. Being given seat E21 at the cinema when you live at 21 Rose Grove and your 21st birthday was last …
Aesthetics of Music
Musicological Perspectives
Inbunden, 2014
3020 kr
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Aesthetics of Music: Musicological Approaches is an anthology of fourteen essays, each addressing a single key concept or pair of terms in the aesthetics of music, collectively serving as an authoritative work on musical aesthetics that remains as close to 'the music' as possible. Each essay …
Muse as Eros
Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination
Inbunden, 2006
1638 kr
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The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to …
After Mahler
Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of …
