Elements in Music since 1945 – serie
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Film Music in Concert
The Pioneering Role of the Boston Pops Orchestra
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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The Boston Pops Orchestra was the first orchestra of its kind in the USA: founded in 1885 from the ranks of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its remit was to offer concerts of light symphonic music. Over the years, and in particular during the fifty-year tenure of its most famous conductor, Arthur …
Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms
Chen Yi and Zhou Long
Av Mia Chung
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as 'New Wave' composers, they entered the Central Conservatory of Music once the Cultural Revolution ended and attained international recognition for their …
Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-symphonie
Häftad, 2023
284 kr
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As one of only a few pieces not primarily inspired by Messiaen's Catholic faith, but by human love as described in the romance of Tristan and Isolde and elsewhere, the Turangalîla-symphonie is contextualized in Messiaen's oeuvre and as a genre piece. Using previously untranslated information from …
Understanding Stockhausen
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This collection of essays addresses technical developments in telecommunications and sound recording that have guided the direction of musical aesthetics in the post-1950 era. Such information is readily available online but may appear counterintuitive to many who find its priorities difficult to …
Rhythm and Heritage in Modern Flamenco Guitar
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Discourses about rhythmic skill and feel have often been associated with forms of non-Western, and especially African and Afro-diasporic identity and heritage. How can we rethink rhythmic skill for the contemporary world where concepts of heritage and belonging are attaining new meanings across …
Heiner Goebbels and Curatorial Composing after Cage
From Staging Works to Musicalising Encounters
Av Ed McKeon
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element introduces the notion of curatorial composing to account for certain musical practices that emerged from the 1960s as the founding concepts of music as an art - instituted in the modern era - were systematically dismantled. It raises the key question of how musical value and authority …
The Queerness of Video Game Music
Av Tim Summers
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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Video game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This Element proposes three areas of queerness, …
Mariachi in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two areas that have yet to receive substantive academic attention: philanthropy and museum studies. In 2011, UNESCO included mariachi music on its list of expressions of intangible …
Mariachi in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two areas that have yet to receive substantive academic attention: philanthropy and museum studies. In 2011, UNESCO included mariachi music on its list of expressions of intangible …
Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms
Chen Yi and Zhou Long
Av Mia Chung
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. Known as 'New Wave' composers, they entered the Central Conservatory of Music once the Cultural Revolution ended and attained international recognition for their …
Cage, Nono and 1960s Hauntology
Sonic Ghosts
Av Clare Lesser
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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'What does it mean to follow a ghost?' Posing this question in Specters of Marx (1993), Jacques Derrida introduces the philosophical concept of 'hauntology' and the 'medium of the media' through the Shakespearian trope that time is 'out of joint'. Replete with ghostly crackles, hiss, pops and …
Cage, Nono and 1960s Hauntology
Sonic Ghosts
Av Clare Lesser
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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'What does it mean to follow a ghost?' Posing this question in Specters of Marx (1993), Jacques Derrida introduces the philosophical concept of 'hauntology' and the 'medium of the media' through the Shakespearian trope that time is 'out of joint'. Replete with ghostly crackles, hiss, pops and …
Rhythm and Heritage in Modern Flamenco Guitar
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Discourses about rhythmic skill and feel have often been associated with forms of non-Western, and especially African and Afro-diasporic identity and heritage. How can we rethink rhythmic skill for the contemporary world where concepts of heritage and belonging are attaining new meanings across …
Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 1
Myths, Narratives, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy
Av Laura Emmery
Inbunden, 2025
967 kr
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This Element offers a critical analysis of the history of Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 1 and the composer's rise to public acclaim, not through the study of the work itself but through intriguing and captivating narratives that surround this quartet and their socio-cultural-political …
Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 1
Myths, Narratives, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy
Av Laura Emmery
Häftad, 2025
327 kr
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This Element offers a critical analysis of the history of Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 1 and the composer's rise to public acclaim, not through the study of the work itself but through intriguing and captivating narratives that surround this quartet and their socio-cultural-political …
Aural Liminalities in New Music
Av Ed Cooper
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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The distinction between 'hearing' and 'listening' marks two modes of aural sense: one passive, the other actively attentive. Yet movement between them-deliberate or inadvertent-reveals liminal states that are neither fully hearing nor listening, a sense of the sonorous that exceeds the reach of …
Aural Liminalities in New Music
Av Ed Cooper
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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The distinction between 'hearing' and 'listening' marks two modes of aural sense: one passive, the other actively attentive. Yet movement between them-deliberate or inadvertent-reveals liminal states that are neither fully hearing nor listening, a sense of the sonorous that exceeds the reach of …
Hauntology, Nostalgia, and New Music
Av Martin Iddon
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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In the past quarter of a century, or longer, popular cultures and musics both popular and 'new' have become concerned, rather than with futurity, with their own pasts, in a world where, after Fukuyama's 'end of history' or Berardi's 'cancellation of the future', the idea of fundamental historical …
Hauntology, Nostalgia, and New Music
Av Martin Iddon
Häftad, 2026
311 kr
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In the past quarter of a century, or longer, popular cultures and musics both popular and 'new' have become concerned, rather than with futurity, with their own pasts, in a world where, after Fukuyama's 'end of history' or Berardi's 'cancellation of the future', the idea of fundamental historical …
Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School
The Consolidation of the Avant-Garde
Av Max Erwin
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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After 1951, the discourse surrounding both the Darmstadt courses in particular and European New Music more broadly shifted away from a dodecaphonic vocabulary in favour of concepts such as 'punctual music', 'post-Webern music', and 'static music', all collected under the newly-christened unity of …
Music Transforming Conflict
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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Teach the world to sing, and all will be in perfect harmony - or so the songs tell us. Music is widely believed to unify and bring peace, but the focus on music as a vehicle for fostering empathy and reconciliation between opposing groups threatens to overly simplify our narratives of how …
A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations
Ambiguity as Opportunity
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Along with twentieth-century developments in playing techniques, technologies, and concepts of musical sound, the notations employed by composers have also changed. Composers of what Umberto Eco calls 'open works' often employ intentionally ambiguous music notations. These open notations ask the …
Theory of Prominence
Temporal Structure of Music Based on Linguistic Stress
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Many twentieth and twenty-first century composers have written music with rhythmic structures that must be understood through a framework distinct from even, periodic meter, which has been a salient musical feature of Western classical music for centuries. This Element's analytical system outlines …
Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema
Performance Practice and Musical Style
Av Donald Greig
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Studies of pre-existing music in narrative cinema often focus on a single film, composer or director. The approach here adopts a wider perspective, placing a specific musical repertoire - baroque music - in the context of its reception to explore its mobilisation in post-war cinema. It shows how …
