New Material Histories of Music – serie
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Sex, Death, and Minuets
Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
Inbunden, 2019
488 kr
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At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists …
Musical Vitalities
Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music
Inbunden, 2018
372 kr
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Does it make sense to refer to bird song—a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate—as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest?Redefining music as “the art of possibly …
Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
Inbunden, 2021
531 kr
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The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young composer as an anomaly risks minimizing his impact. In …
Voice as Something More
Essays Toward Materiality
Av Martha Feldman, Judith T Zeitlin
Häftad, 2019
383 kr
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In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with …
Listening to China
Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839
Inbunden, 2020
522 kr
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From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers and transmitted back to Europe, where they were …
Musical Migration and Imperial New York
Early Cold War Scenes
Av Brigid Cohen
Inbunden, 2022
488 kr
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Through archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in postwar New York.From the urban street level of music clubs and arts institutions to the world-making routes of global migration and exchange, this …
Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955
Inbunden, 2023
756 kr
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Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm …
Creatures of the Air
Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817–1913
Av J. Q. Davies
Inbunden, 2023
488 kr
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An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art’s elemental medium, the air.Often experienced as universal and incorporeal, music seems an innocent art form. The air, the very medium by which music constitutes itself, shares with music a claim to …
Music in the Flesh
An Early Modern Musical Physiology
Inbunden, 2023
479 kr
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A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects—composers, performers, listeners—in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern …
Sounding Human
Music and Machines, 1740/2020
Inbunden, 2024
1099 kr
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An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent …
Sounding Human
Music and Machines, 1740/2020
Häftad, 2024
313 kr
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An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent …
Format Friction
Perspectives on the Shellac Disc
Inbunden, 2024
1012 kr
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The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format.With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings together a set of local encounters with …
Format Friction
Perspectives on the Shellac Disc
Häftad, 2024
269 kr
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The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format.With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of the twentieth century. Format Friction brings together a set of local encounters with …
Composer Embalmed
Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch
Av Abigail Fine
Inbunden, 2025
1043 kr
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The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion—a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made …
Composer Embalmed
Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch
Av Abigail Fine
Häftad, 2025
323 kr
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The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion—a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made …
Performing Politics
Music and Theater in Berlin Around 1800
Inbunden, 2027
488 kr
Kommande
A new account of the emergence of modern cultural politics through a study of music and theater in Berlin around 1800.Berlin around 1800 has been seen—at the time and since—as somewhat behind other major European cities in terms of its musical culture, peripheral to the momentous developments …
Instruments of Music Theory
Inbunden, 2027
1012 kr
Kommande
Shows how musical instruments and the sounds they produce are not incidental, but an integral part of music theory.Many musicians dread music theory: Its rules and diagrams can feel stern and lifeless, far removed from the sounds that make music so thrilling. In this book, Alexander Rehding looks …
Instruments of Music Theory
Häftad, 2027
269 kr
Kommande
Shows how musical instruments and the sounds they produce are not incidental, but an integral part of music theory.Many musicians dread music theory: Its rules and diagrams can feel stern and lifeless, far removed from the sounds that make music so thrilling. In this book, Alexander Rehding looks …
Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955
Häftad, 2027
419 kr
Kommande
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm …
Voice as Something More
Essays Toward Materiality
Av Martha Feldman, Judith T Zeitlin
Inbunden, 2019
986 kr
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In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In The Voice as Something More, Martha Feldman and Judith Zeitlin tackle these paradoxes with …
Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961
Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
Inbunden, 2020
531 kr
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This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field’s twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern rediscovery of medieval music, the rise of …
Unnatural Attitude
Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought
Inbunden, 2021
516 kr
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An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic—a phenomenological style that sought to renew contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence of naturalism in aesthetics and ethics, proponents of …
Haydn Economy
Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2022
400 kr
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Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn’s career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities. With this ambitious book, musicologist Nicholas Mathew uses the remarkable career of Joseph Haydn to consider a host of critical issues: how …
