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Visualizing Music
Häftad, 2023
339 kr
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To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually?Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson …
Debussy's Late Style
Inbunden, 2008
415 kr
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Debussy's Late Style explores Claude Debussy's musical responses to World War I. This period of composition encompasses the duration of the war and the last four years of Debussy's life. The works that emerged during this time reflect both wartime events and the composer's self-conscious desire to …
Music and Narrative Since 1900
Av Michael L. Klein, Nicholas Reyland
Inbunden, 2012
675 kr
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This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors challenge the broadly held opinion that the loss of tonality in some music after 1900 also meant the loss of narrative in that music. To the contrary, …
Breaking Time's Arrow
Experiment and Expression in the Music of Charles Ives
Inbunden, 2014
526 kr
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) moved traditional compositional practice in new directions by incorporating modern and innovative techniques with nostalgic borrowings of 19th century American popular music and Protestant hymns. Matthew McDonald argues that the influence of Emerson and Thoreau on Ives's …
Sonata Fragments
Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Av Andrew Davis
Inbunden, 2017
930 kr
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In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the …
Sonata Fragments
Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Av Andrew Davis
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the …
Allusion As Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music
Inbunden, 2018
987 kr
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Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously …
Allusion As Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music
Häftad, 2018
425 kr
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Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously …
Allusion As Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music
E-bok, 2018
104 kr
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Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously …
Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation
Av René Rusch
Inbunden, 2023
899 kr
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Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music?Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation …
Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation
Av René Rusch
Häftad, 2023
349 kr
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Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music?Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation …
Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music
Aesthetic of Ambivalence
Inbunden, 2024
1103 kr
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At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, …
Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music
Aesthetic of Ambivalence
Häftad, 2024
512 kr
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At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice. As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, …
Musical Meaning in Beethoven
Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation
Häftad, 2004
327 kr
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"Hatten's interpretations are at times surprisingly poetic in their expression. . . . In his book he effectively creates an interaction between aspects of music theory, analysis, aesthetics and semiotics. His work yields some novel insights that deserve careful consideration from anyone in these …
Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy
Häftad, 2005
225 kr
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"This book uniquely and successfully sustains a cohesive analysis of the work, career, and reception of a single artist. That the artist is Neil Young, one of the most confounding and mysterious of rock stars, is an added bonus. Finally someone will explain what's been going on all these years!" …
Voicing Gender
Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
Av Naomi André
Häftad, 2006
280 kr
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The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honored practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, the rise of the tenor overtook the falling stars of the castrati, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were …
Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement
The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation
Av ROGER Pierce
Häftad, 2010
284 kr
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Alexandra Pierce singles out elements of music such as melody, meter, and phrase, and investigates the defining quality of each through movement. Although simple, these exercises engage the listening attention in complex ways and can be integrated into a musician's daily practice. Practicing …
Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations
Av Leo Treitler
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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How is it possible to talk or write about music? What is the link between graphic signs and music? What makes music meaningful? In this book, distinguished scholar Leo Treitler explores the relationships among language, musical notation, performance, compositional practice, and patterns of culture …
Is Language a Music?
Writings on Musical Form and Signification
Av David Lidov
Inbunden, 2004
473 kr
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Is Language a Music? presents broadly ranging explorations of musical reference that address how and why language cannot be the only measure of meanings. Music, the author insists, is pervaded by significations, but often their erasure is as pertinent to artistry as their construction. This …
Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects
The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber
Av Jairo Moreno
Inbunden, 2004
516 kr
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Jairo Moreno adapts the methodologies and nomenclature of Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge" and applies it through individual case studies to the theoretical writings of Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber. His conclusion summarizes the conditions—musical, philosophical, and historical—that …
Intertextuality in Western Art Music
Inbunden, 2004
531 kr
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"The outstanding originality of this book lies in the detail and perspicuity with which interrelations are traced between texts, it even seems that relations sometimes work backwards. Above all, this book does not offer a 'theory of intertextuality.' Rather, it is a many-sided survey of the topic, …
Musical Topic
Hunt, Military and Pastoral
Inbunden, 2006
415 kr
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The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics—short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical …
Approaches to Meaning in Music
Av Byron Almén, Edward Pearsall
Inbunden, 2006
589 kr
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Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays …
Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony
Av Melanie Lowe
Inbunden, 2007
473 kr
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Classical music permeates contemporary life. Encountered in waiting rooms, movies, and hotel lobbies as much as in the concert hall, perennial orchestral favorites mingle with commercial jingles, video-game soundtracks, and the booming bass from a passing car to form the musical soundscape of our …
Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style
Av Andrew Davis
Inbunden, 2010
473 kr
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Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style, Andrew Davis takes on the subject of Puccini's last two works to better understand how the composer creates meaning through the juxtaposition of the …
Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz
A Study of Dance-Music Relations in 3/4 Time
Inbunden, 2011
531 kr
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Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. In Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz, Eric McKee argues that to better understand the musical structures and expressive meanings of this dance music, one must be aware of …
Debussy Redux
The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2012
411 kr
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The works of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) had a major impact on the music of the 20th century, influencing a range of figures from Ravel and Stravinsky to Henri Dutilleux and Toru Takemitsu. Less well known is Debussy's influence on the popular culture of the period. Matthew Brown shows how Debussy's …
