This groundbreaking study casts Alexander Skryabins music in the light not only of his own philosophy of desire, but of more refined semiotic-psychoanalytical theory and modern techniques of music analysis....Loe edasi...
In recent years the music of minimalist composers has become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. This Companion provides an authoritative overview of research in this area and highlights the innovative work of the...Loe edasi...
Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its applications in polyphonic music within all major branches of Western liturgy. Throughout the remarkably persistent tradition of applyin...Loe edasi...
Innovative and collaborative in its approach, this volume engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In its attention to the gendering o...Loe edasi...
Among the early works of Johannes Brahms are the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly recognised as constituting a distinct Brahms work before now, but manuscript evidence and their performance history indicate that...Loe edasi...
Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives....Loe edasi...
This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology, particularly the study of American music. As the longtime editor of two book series for the College Music Society, Budds nurtur...Loe edasi...
Musicians Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands considers the works and ideologies of an array of American-based, immigrant Mexican composers. It asserts their immigrant status as a central force in nourishing, informing, and propelling...Loe edasi...
Drawing upon a range of sources, this book explores the part played by music, especially group-singing, in the unfolding of the Protestant Reformation in Strasbourg. It considers both ecclesiastical and popular songs in the city, examining how both...Loe edasi...
This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-exam...Loe edasi...
Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with (and listening to) the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde co...Loe edasi...
This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century Italian composers: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni and Armando Gentilucci....Loe edasi...
This edited volume shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs. The series of case studies on cultur...Loe edasi...
In this survey of surviving books of music published before 1640, David Greer has gleaned information about the books early and subsequent owners by studying the traces those owners left in the books themselves. The result is a treasure trove of inf...Loe edasi...
The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music. For nearly a century, its author has been known as Jacques de Liège or Jacobus Leodiensis. Jacobus is certain, fixed by an acrostic declare...Loe edasi...
The essays selected for this volume - three of which are presented for the first time in English translation - reflect the work in both musical and cultural studies of a distinguished scholar whose international career spans the Atlantic and beyond....Loe edasi...
This Companion constitutes the most significant and comprehensive reference source to the composer in English. Edited by two of the leading scholars in the field, the collection consists of over 50 contributions from an international array of contri...Loe edasi...
With a career that embraced the turbulent reigns of Henry VIII and all three of his children who succeeded him, Thomas Talliss importance to the history of Tudor music is second only to that of his colleague William Byrd. Given this widely acknowled...Loe edasi...
