Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersingers narrativ...Loe edasi...
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Loe edasi...
Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his revolution in musical time....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of...Loe edasi...
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been...Loe edasi...
David Baker chronicles the extraordinary life and achievements of John Varley Roberts (1841-1920), a working-class Yorkshireman who became a popular composer and one of Victorian Englands most celebrated choral trainers as well as Organist of Mag...Loe edasi...
Illuminates Bantocks experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature, while offering new notions of the modern in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music....Loe edasi...
Opera in Transnational Contexts sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios, and others moving from one locale to anoth...Loe edasi...
Beethoven’s Freude theme—or “Ode to Joy”—is perhaps the most iconic melody ever created. This book sets out to show why the Freude theme has acquired this almost mythic status and what its use in the finale of the Ninth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108834278)
Reappraises the Schumanns artistic and cultural contexts and traces their critical reception from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book will appeal to students and educators in musicology, womens studies, and cultural studies, as we...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringer’s biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language. ...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written. The third, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, has attracted less attention, in spite of her having occupied the greater...Loe edasi...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T...Loe edasi...
This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagners Götterdämmerung....Loe edasi...
This book brings together a significant part of the Derek B. Scotts diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because it...Loe edasi...
Teaching Canonic Opera and Musical Theater with Intention: A Teachers Guide offers instructors a toolkit with which to productively confront the canon, directly engaging in the difficult conversations this repertoire can prompt....Loe edasi...
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the flute was the most commonly played wind instrument by both amateurs and virtuosos. Thanks to the flutes popularity, countless instruments, flute compositions, and flute methods were produced...Loe edasi...
Donats vast expertise provides unique insight into the history and genesis of key works in the chamber music repertoire.This is the first full-length study in English of an important area of Beethovens output that has seldom been explor...Loe edasi...
