Music in Context – serie
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Mozart's Requiem
Reception, Work, Completion
Inbunden, 2012
1389 kr
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Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the …
The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism
Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence …
Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination
Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can …
Schubert's String Quartets
The Teleology of Lyric Form
Av Anne Hyland
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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Franz Schubert's music has long been celebrated for its lyrical melodies, 'heavenly length' and daring harmonic language. In this new study of Schubert's complete string quartets, Anne Hyland challenges the influential but under-explored claim that Schubert could not successfully incorporate the …
Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux
From Conception to Performance
Av Roderick Chadwick, Peter Hill
Häftad, 2022
418 kr
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Roderick Chadwick and Peter Hill give a detailed account of the evolution of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux for piano solo, from its initial conception in the Black Forest in 1953 to its completion and premiere in the Parisian 'Concerts du Domaine Musical' at the end of the decade. Through …
Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
The Orchestration of Progress in British Twentieth-Century Music
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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The composer Elisabeth Lutyens and her second husband, the conductor and music programmer Edward Clark, were innovators in composition, conducting, programming, teaching, and music administration in Britain between 1918 and 1983. Controversial in their professional and personal views and tastes, …
Monteverdi and the Marvellous
Poetry, Sound, and Representation
Av Roseen Giles
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved sensory and perspectival transformation, a rhetoric built on the unexpected, contradictory, and thought-provoking. The composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) created a new practice in which the …
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
Inbunden, 2023
1477 kr
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Music played an essential part in raising the city of Venice and in founding the empire on which its fortunes would depend. This book focuses on a set of musical projects - played out in liturgy and civic ritual - that formed the city's history and framed and interpreted its unique material culture …
Anton Webern at the Dawn of Modernism
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Anton Webern is recognised as one of the pivotal figures of atonality and precursors to post-war serialism. However, his earlier, tonal works have been largely neglected and shrouded in clichés. A study of both the generative elements of Webern's aesthetic imagination, and the philosophical …
Musical Modernism in Global Perspective
Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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In the first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism, Björn Heile proposes a novel theory according to which musical modernism is constituted by a global diasporic network of composers, musicians and institutions. In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different …
Haydn's Minuets and Eighteenth-Century Dance
Av Joseph Fort
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Audiences in eighteenth-century Vienna attended the city's popular public balls, where they danced the minuet. This book explores the public dance culture of Vienna in the late eighteenth century as an essential context in which to understand minuet composition from this period, focusing on the …
Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux
From Conception to Performance
Av Roderick Chadwick, Peter Hill
Inbunden, 2017
1690 kr
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Roderick Chadwick and Peter Hill give a detailed account of the evolution of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux for piano solo, from its initial conception in the Black Forest in 1953 to its completion and premiere in the Parisian 'Concerts du Domaine Musical' at the end of the decade. Through …
Frauenliebe und Leben
Chamisso's Poems and Schumann's Songs
Inbunden, 2014
1610 kr
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Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany. Hallmark …
Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets
Opp. 59, 74 and 95
Inbunden, 2014
1641 kr
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Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and early performance. In detailed analyses, …
The Monstrous New Art
Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet
Inbunden, 2015
1493 kr
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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 …
The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)
Av Owen Rees
Inbunden, 2019
1420 kr
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Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees's multifaceted study …
Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Inscription, Performance, Context
Av Helen Deeming, Elizabeth Eva Leach
Inbunden, 2015
1677 kr
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The manuscript sources of medieval song rarely fit the description of 'songbook' easily. Instead, they are very often mixed compilations that place songs alongside other diverse contents, and the songs themselves may be inscribed as texts alone or as verbal and musical notation. This book looks …
The Operas of Maurice Ravel
Inbunden, 2015
1641 kr
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Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share …
Mozart's Requiem
Reception, Work, Completion
Häftad, 2015
391 kr
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Presenting a fresh interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, Simon P. Keefe redresses a longstanding scholarly imbalance whereby narrow consideration of the text of this famously incomplete work has taken precedence over consideration of context in the widest sense. Keefe details the reception of the …
The Operas of Maurice Ravel
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share …
Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Inscription, Performance, Context
Av Helen Deeming, Elizabeth Eva Leach
Häftad, 2018
426 kr
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The manuscript sources of medieval song rarely fit the description of 'songbook' easily. Instead, they are very often mixed compilations that place songs alongside other diverse contents, and the songs themselves may be inscribed as texts alone or as verbal and musical notation. This book looks …
The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)
Av Owen Rees
Häftad, 2021
468 kr
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Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees's multifaceted study …
Polyphony in Medieval Paris
The Art of Composing with Plainchant
Häftad, 2020
586 kr
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Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoretical systems has discouraged close study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century musical objects, despite the fact that such creations represent the …
Polyphony in Medieval Paris
The Art of Composing with Plainchant
Inbunden, 2018
1677 kr
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Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoretical systems has discouraged close study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century musical objects, despite the fact that such creations represent the …
Delius and the Sound of Place
Häftad, 2020
574 kr
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Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected …
The Monstrous New Art
Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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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 …
Brahms's Elegies
The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture
Häftad, 2021
459 kr
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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 …
Composing Community in Late Medieval Music
Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice
Häftad, 2021
574 kr
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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 …
Delius and the Sound of Place
Inbunden, 2018
1526 kr
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Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected …
Brahms's Elegies
The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture
Inbunden, 2019
1677 kr
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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 …
