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Lateness and Brahms
Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism
Häftad, 2016
754 kr
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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, …
"Taken by the Devil"
The Censorship of Frank Wedekind and Alban Berg's Lulu
Inbunden, 2019
1148 kr
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Censorship had an extraordinary impact on Alban Berg's operaLulu, composed by the Austrian during the politically tumultuous years spanning 1929 to 1935. Based on plays by Frank Wedekind that were repeatedly banned from being published and performed from1894 until the end of World War I, the …
Representing Russia's Orient
From Ethnography to Art Song
Inbunden, 2021
1054 kr
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What is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the colonized? Throughout Russia's nineteenth-century expansion into the Caucasus and Central Asia, Russian intellectuals struggled with these questions …
Songs of Sacrifice
Chant, Identity, and Christian Formation in Early Medieval Iberia
Inbunden, 2020
1023 kr
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Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Christian worship on the Iberian Peninsula was structured by rituals of great theological and musical richness, known as the Old Hispanic (or Mozarabic) rite. Much of this liturgy was produced during a seventh-century cultural and educational program …
The Critical Nexus
Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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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 …
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History
Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna
Av Kevin Karnes
Häftad, 2016
770 kr
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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 …
Rasa
Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics
Av Marc Benamou
Häftad, 2016
748 kr
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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 …
Beethoven 1806
Inbunden, 2019
1167 kr
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Between early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's "heroic style," the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood. …
Conceptualizing Music
Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis
Inbunden, 2002
1865 kr
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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, …
The Critical Nexus
Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music
Inbunden, 2008
1667 kr
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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 …
Inventing the Business of Opera
The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Av Jonathan Glixon, Beth Glixon
Inbunden, 2006
1770 kr
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Marco Faustini was among the most active and successful professionals in seventeenth-century Venetian opera. As an impresario, he was responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at the season's end. Through examination of Faustini's documents - …
Jewish Music and Modernity
Inbunden, 2008
1327 kr
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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 …
Conceptualizing Music
Cognitive structure, theory, and analysis
Häftad, 2005
871 kr
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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 …
RASA
Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics
Av Marc Benamou
Inbunden, 2010
1077 kr
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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 …
Lateness and Brahms
Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism
Inbunden, 2006
1142 kr
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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, …
Inventing the Business of Opera
The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice
Av Beth Glixon, Jonathan Glixon
Häftad, 2007
721 kr
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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 …
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History
Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna
Av Kevin Karnes
Inbunden, 2008
1123 kr
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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 …
Changing the Score
Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Inbunden, 2009
1280 kr
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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, …
Where Sight Meets Sound
The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing
Inbunden, 2022
884 kr
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The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower, faster, or …
Healing for the Soul
Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination
Inbunden, 2021
840 kr
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Between the first and last words of a black gospel song, musical sound acquires spiritual power. During this unfolding, a variety of techniques facilitate musical and physical transformation. The most important of these is a repetitive musical cycle known by names including the run, the drive, the …
Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces
Transforming Catholicism Through the Music of Third-Republic Paris
Inbunden, 2021
1095 kr
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Military defeat, political and civil turmoil, and a growing unrest between Catholic traditionalists and increasingly secular Republicans formed the basis of a deep-seated identity crisis in Third Republic France. Beginning in the early 1880s, Republican politicians introduced increasingly …
French Musical Life
Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II
Inbunden, 2022
1153 kr
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Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country. This distorting lens is the legacy of political and cultural struggle during the long nineteenth century, indicating a French Revolution unresolved both then and …
Josquin's Rome
Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel
Av Jesse Rodin
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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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 …
Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening
Inbunden, 2025
947 kr
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We've all heard some version of the line: "I enjoy classical music but don't know anything about it." Why but? Why and when did listeners begin to accept the idea that knowledge was needed to enjoy this particular repertory? Music's Fourth Wall and the Rise of Reflective Listening traces …
Sounding Nation, Hearing Race in Modern Music
Inbunden, 2026
1344 kr
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In 1950, UNESCO's Statement on Race declared race a social construction, signaling a shift in public thought and policy around the meaning of race. Modern music was not immune to such shifts, and in fact participated actively in the reimagining of race and its connection to national identity …
Sounding Authentic
The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism
Inbunden, 2014
1205 kr
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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 …
Opera for the People
English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America
Inbunden, 2017
1261 kr
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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 …
Details of Consequence
Ornament, Music, and Art in Paris
Inbunden, 2014
1715 kr
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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 …
Josquin's Rome
Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel
Av Jesse Rodin
Inbunden, 2013
2092 kr
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In the late 15th 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 …
Jewish Music and Modernity
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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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 …
