New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism – serie
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Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Av Daniel Chua, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against …
Reading Opera between the Lines
Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg
Av Christopher Morris, Ruth Solie
Häftad, 2007
636 kr
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A characteristic feature of Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera is the tendency to link scenes with numerous and often surprisingly lengthy orchestral interludes, frequently performed with the curtain closed. Often taken for granted or treated as a filler by audiences and critics, these interludes …
The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque
Av Annette Richards, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
955 kr
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A crucial category across all the arts in the late eighteenth century, the picturesque has lost its currency in modern musical criticism, in spite of its rich potential to shed new light on the fantastical elements of instrumental music in general and the genre of the free fantasia in particular. …
Music and the Origins of Language
Theories from the French Enlightenment
Av Downing A. Thomas, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory …
Wagner's Musical Prose
Texts and Contexts
Häftad, 2007
972 kr
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This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general. As a by-product of Wagner's many-faceted career as musician, conductor, …
Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music
Av David Metzer
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural associations of the original piece. By working with …
The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven
Av Richard Will
Häftad, 2008
705 kr
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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length …
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
Häftad, 2008
475 kr
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In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This …
Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, …
The Virtuoso Liszt
Av Dana Gooley
Häftad, 2009
639 kr
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The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? In this study Dana Gooley examines the world of discussion, journalism, and controversy that …
The Singing of the New World
Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact
Häftad, 2009
401 kr
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In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings, and rare indigenous documents for the Mexica …
Monteverdi's Unruly Women
The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2009
623 kr
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Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Monteverdi's music demanded trained, female voices to make dramatic and expressive statements. At a time when …
The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'
Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner
Häftad, 2011
653 kr
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We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed …
Wagner's Musical Prose
Texts and Contexts
Inbunden, 1995
2146 kr
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This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general. As a by-product of Wagner's many-faceted career as musician, conductor, …
Music and the Origins of Language
Theories from the French Enlightenment
Av Downing A. Thomas, Ruth Solie
Inbunden, 1995
1962 kr
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The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. What has often escaped notice, however, is the fact that music figures prominently in this search. This study analyses instances of thinking or reasoning about music and music theory …
Verdi and the Germans
From Unification to the Third Reich
Inbunden, 2010
1391 kr
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This seminal study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Kreuzer argues that the concept of Germany's musical supremacy, so dear to its nationalist cause, was continually …
Schoenberg and Redemption
Av Julie Brown
Inbunden, 2014
1593 kr
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Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown argues that Schoenberg's revolutionary …
Embodied Voices
Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture
Av Dunn/Jones, Leslie C. Dunn m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
955 kr
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As a material link between body and culture, self and other, the voice has been endlessly fascinating to artists and critics. Yet it is the voices of women that have inspired the greatest fascination, as well as the deepest ambivalence, because the female voice signifies sexual otherness as well as …
Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Av Daniel Chua, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2029 kr
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This book is born out of two contradictions: first, it explores the making of meaning in a musical form that was made to lose its meaning at the turn of the nineteenth century; secondly, it is a history of a music that claims to have no history - absolute music. The book therefore writes against …
Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity
Av Adam Krims, Jeffrey Kallberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2029 kr
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This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to …
Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity
Av Adam Krims, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
426 kr
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This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in popular music studies are misplaced and need to …
The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque
Inbunden, 2001
1871 kr
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A crucial category across all the arts in the late eighteenth century, the picturesque has lost its currency in modern musical criticism, in spite of its rich potential to shed new light on the fantastical elements of instrumental music in general and the genre of the free fantasia in particular. …
The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven
Inbunden, 2002
1626 kr
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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length …
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
Inbunden, 2002
1693 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This …
Reading Opera between the Lines
Orchestral Interludes and Cultural Meaning from Wagner to Berg
Inbunden, 2002
1626 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A characteristic feature of Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera is the tendency to link scenes with numerous and often surprisingly lengthy orchestral interludes, frequently performed with the curtain closed. Often taken for granted or treated as a filler by audiences and critics, these interludes …
Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel
Av Emma Dillon, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1723 kr
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This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript (BN, fr. 146). The musical repertories found in this manuscript, particularly those interpolated into the Old French satire, the Roman de Fauvel, are frequently used to illuminate the wider history of French …
Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought
Av Alexander Rehding, Ruth Solie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1693 kr
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Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, …
Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music
Inbunden, 2003
1693 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Throughout the twentieth century, musicians frequently incorporated bits of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances. When a musician borrows from a piece, he or she draws upon not only a melody but also the cultural associations of the original piece. By working with …
The Virtuoso Liszt
Inbunden, 2004
1693 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The greatest virtuoso career in history - that of Franz Liszt - has been told in countless biographies. But what does that career look like when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? In this study Dana Gooley examines the world of discussion, journalism, and controversy that …
Monteverdi's Unruly Women
The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2005
1693 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern Italy. Monteverdi's music demanded trained, female voices to make dramatic and expressive statements. At a time when …
