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Skryabin, Philosophy and the Music of Desire
Inbunden, 2013
2595 kr
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Commentary on Skryabin has struggled to situate an understanding of the composer's music within his idiosyncratic philosophical world views. Early commentators' efforts to do so failed to establish a thorough or systematic approach. And later twentieth-century studies turned away from the …
Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’
Narratives and Speculations
Av Roger Savage
Inbunden, 2019
1027 kr
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The Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’ examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett’s first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.Drawing on a fascinating group of Tippett’s sketchbooks and a lengthy sequence of his …
Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
Inbunden, 2019
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Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini’s influence on British musical life through his multifaceted career as performer, teacher, composer, concert promoter and opera impresario. The crux of the study is a detailed account of Giardini’s …
Disinformation in Mass Media
Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris
Inbunden, 2020
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The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France’s first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C.W. Gluck’s works at the Paris Opéra, it …
Disinformation in Mass Media
Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris
Häftad, 2021
442 kr
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The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France’s first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C.W. Gluck’s works at the Paris Opéra, it …
Upper-Voice Structures and Compositional Process in the Ars Nova Motet
Häftad, 2020
652 kr
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In the motets of Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut, and their contemporaries, tenors have often been characterized as the primary shaping forces, prior in conception as well as in construction to the upper voices. Tenors are shaped by the interaction of talea and color, medieval terms now …
Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae
Häftad, 2020
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The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century, with nearly half a million words, is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music, and probably the most learned. Only the final two books are about music as commonly understood: the other five invite further work by students of …
'Ars musica' Attributed to Magister Lambertus/Aristoteles
Av Christian Meyer, translated by Karen Desmond
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco’s treatise …
Cyclic Mass
Anglo-Continental Exchange in the Fifteenth Century
Av James Cook
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Perhaps the greatest such development was the cyclic cantus firmus Mass, and scholarly attention has therefore often been drawn to identifying potentially …
Johann Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre
Mattheson’s Universal Style in Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2020
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A prolific music theorist and critic as well as an established composer, Johannes Mattheson remains surprisingly understudied. In this important study, Margaret Seares places Mattheson’s Pièces de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians …
Politics of Verdi's Cantica
Häftad, 2020
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The Politics of Verdi's Cantica treats a singular case study of the use of music to resist oppression, combat evil, and fight injustice. Cantica, better known as Inno delle nazioni / Hymn of the Nations, commissioned from Italy's foremost composer to represent the newly independent nation at the …
Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon
Magister Johannes Pipardi
Inbunden, 2021
1027 kr
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The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the shorter, …
Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon
Magister Johannes Pipardi
Häftad, 2023
322 kr
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The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the shorter, …
Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’
Narratives and Speculations
Av Roger Savage
Häftad, 2021
397 kr
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The Pre-history of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’ examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett’s first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.Drawing on a fascinating group of Tippett’s sketchbooks and a lengthy sequence of his …
Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music
Nature and Nationalism
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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The music of Edvard Grieg is justly celebrated for its harmonic richness, a feature especially apparent in the piano works written in the last decades of his life. Grieg was enchanted by what he styled the ’dreamworld’ of harmony, a magical realm whose principles the composer felt remained a …
Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata
Av Iain Quinn
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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This volume considers the influences and development of the English organ sonata tradition that began in the 1850s with compositions by W. T. Best and William Spark. With the expansion of the instrument’s capabilities came an opportunity for organist-composers to consider the repertoire anew with …
Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century England
Av Paul Watt
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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Music criticism in England underwent profound change from the 1880s to the 1920s. It gave rise to ‘New criticism’ that aimed to be rational, impartial and intellectually authoritative. It was a break from the criticism of old: the work of the opinionated journalist who wrote descriptive concert …
Repetition in Music
Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2005
2586 kr
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This monograph examines the place of repetition in perceived musical structure and in theories of music. Following a preface and introduction, there are four main chapters: 'Theory', 'Analysis', 'Metatheory and Meta-analysis', and 'Cognition and Metacognition'. Chapter 2 (Theory) sets out the …
Salomon and the Burneys
Private Patronage and a Public Career
Inbunden, 2003
787 kr
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Johann Peter Salomon, the celebrated violinist and impresario, made his debut in England in March 1781. History has credited Salomon with bringing Haydn to London, yet as Ian Woodfield reveals in this monograph, Salomon's introduction of the composer to the London musical scene owed as much to luck …
'To fill, forbear, or adorne'
The Organ Accompaniment of Restoration Sacred Music
Inbunden, 2006
2586 kr
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This is the first study to provide a systematic and thorough investigation of continuo realization styles appropriate to Restoration sacred music, an area of performance practice that has never previously been properly assessed. Rebecca Herissone undertakes detailed analysis of a group of organ …
Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the Viennese publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erläuterungsausgabe) of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas. Each publication would comprise a score, newly edited by Schenker and using the composer's autograph manuscript as …
MS Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magl. XIX, 164–167
Inbunden, 2007
2197 kr
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Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiana XIX, 164-167 (FlorBN Magl. 164-7) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention. The prevailing assumption had been that it was a Florentine source of the early sixteenth century. More recently, it has been argued that …
Bartók and the Grotesque
Studies in Modernity, the Body and Contradiction in Music
Av Julie Brown
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin …
Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England
Inbunden, 2009
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Philip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Although Newmarch's work and influence are often acknowledged - most particularly by scholars of English poetry, …
Sacred Repertories in Paris under Louis XIII
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Vma rés. 571
Inbunden, 2009
1545 kr
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The study of sacred music under Louis XIII (r.1610-43) has advanced little in the past hundred years. Despite some important recent contributions by the late Denise Launay and others, much of our current perception of the Latin sacred music of the period is still informed by the pioneering research …
Playing on Words
A Guide to Luciano Berio's Sinfonia
Inbunden, 1985
2586 kr
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Luciano Berio's Sinfonia (1968) marked a return by the composer to orchestral writing after a gap of six years. This in-depth study demonstrates the central position the work occupies in Berio's output. David Osmond-Smith discusses the way in which Berio used the Bororo myth described in …
Oratorio in Venice
Av Denis Arnold
Inbunden, 1986
787 kr
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This study fills a gap in general histories of the oratorio. The number of oratorio performances given in Venice from 1662-1809 was huge, yet the contribution of the city to the history of the genre is often overlooked. Denis and Elsie Arnold examine the fortunes of the genre in Venice, beginning …
Breath of the Symphonist
Shostakovich's Tenth
Inbunden, 1989
2476 kr
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In 1946 Schoenberg wrote of Sibelius and Shostakovich, 'I feel they have the breath of symphonists.' This book poses the question of what exactly that 'breath' means in the context of Shostakovich's 10th Symphony (1953). Written shortly after Stalin's death, the work marks a turning point in the …
Song of the Soul
Understanding Poppea
Av Iain Fenlon, Peter N. Miller
Inbunden, 1992
2586 kr
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L'incoronazione di Poppea is the most compelling of all early Italian operas and this has, in part, been responsible for the way in which it has become separated from its social and historical context. In this book, Iain Fenlon and Peter Miller show how an understanding of contemporary Venetian …
Institutional Patronage in Post-Tridentine Rome
Music at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini 1550-1650
Av Noel O'Regan
Inbunden, 1995
2586 kr
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The archconfraternity of SS. Trinità was one of the less well-known institutions for musical patronage in sixteenth-century Rome. Yet in focusing on its activities in the period 1550-1650, this book sheds light on networks of urban patronage that were equally important in commissioning the sacred …
