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 i...Loe edasi...
In this book (originally published in 1985) Margaret Stoljar concentrates her analysis on the interplay of poets and musicians, the use made by composers of the work of such distinguished poets as Klopstock, and the specific contribution that music...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the circumstances of womens music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders wel...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...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...
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringers 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 p...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...
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 tells three interrelated stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn of the twentieth century and highlight the value of liturgical music history to our understanding of French government anticlericalism....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...
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...
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...
This book approaches opera fantasias instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument per...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...
Seeing Opera Anew offers a stereo perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a cultural and biologic...Loe edasi...
Musical Topics and Musical Performance focuses on the interface of theory and practice, investigating how an appreciation of topical presence in a work may prompt interpretative thoughts for a potential performer as well as how performers have respo...Loe edasi...
Teaching Music History with Cases introduces a pedagogical approach to music history instruction in university coursework. This book guides instructors through the process of designing a curriculum based on case studies, finding and writing case stu...Loe edasi...
Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic experiences outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
This work explores the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men, interrogating how each sheds light on the other, and how women have appropriated, res...Loe edasi...
Singing the English explores the period from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to the Entente Cordiale in 1904 through the lenses of the cultural history of music and Franco-British cultural history....Loe edasi...
Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide provides scholars in Hensel studies with a resource to navigate the research surrounding the composers over 450 musical works. New research in the 1980s and 90s promoted an awareness of Hensels output....Loe edasi...
Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms....Loe edasi...
The author demonstrates that Beethovens engagement with Greco-Roman culture was deep and ongoing, and that it ventured beyond the non-committal. Drawing on a comprehensive investigation of primary sources he examines what Beethoven knew of such topi...Loe edasi...
Using primary sources including Conservatoire method books, accounts of performances and technological advances, and other evidence, this book tells the story of the transition from natural horn to valved horn at the Conservatoire, from 1792 to 1903...Loe edasi...
The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalisms place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender...Loe edasi...
This first book-length study of music history and cosmopolitanism is informed by arguments that culture and identity do not have to be viewed as primarily located in the context of nationalist narratives....Loe edasi...
In this wide-ranging study, pianist and scholar Andrew John Snedden takes a step back, examining the strengths and limitations of Historically Informed Performance....Loe edasi...
This study considers how curatorial forces are at work within an opera house dentifying the functionaries and processes that guide them....Loe edasi...
Taking Australia as a case study, this double collection demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance, but are at least partly produced, defined and regulated by culture. The first...Loe edasi...
Spanning two millennia, The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass outlines the origins and meanings of the liturgical texts, defines the concert mass, and provides examples that demonstrate composers gradual appropriation of the genre as a vehi...Loe edasi...
Victorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars. Not only an outstanding reference work for anyone interested in vocalists of the era, but also a compelling, meticulous...Loe edasi...
The Reception and Influence of French Music in Britain 18301914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of Grand Opera and opéra comique in London) and the outbreak of the F...Loe edasi...
Judith Mabarys important volume will be of interest not only to musicologists, but those working in Central and East European Studies, Voice Studies, European Theatre and those studying music and nationalism....Loe edasi...
French nineteenth-century stage music studies have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging new productions of nineteenth century works to take their place in the modern repertory. However, this has focused on works produced exclusively for the Par...Loe edasi...
This study unpacks the history of Verdis composition from its creation, performance, and publication in the 1860s through its appropriation as social and political commentary and its perception by American broadcast media as a weapon of art in th...Loe edasi...
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano. This book explores Clementis multivalent contribution to piano performance, pedagogy, composition and manufacture in relation to Briti...Loe edasi...
Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers they reveal a picture of...Loe edasi...
This book places Liszt in historical and cultural focus and examines his principal contributions to musical literature. Liszts compositional methods, problems associated with early editions, and aspects of class and gender issues are also discussed...Loe edasi...
Professionalisation was a key feature of the changing nature of work and society in the nineteenth century, with formal accreditation, registration and organisation becoming increasingly common. Contributors investigate the ways in which musicians v...Loe edasi...
In 1848, Chopin visited England and Scotland. That autumn, he returned to Paris and the following autumn he was dead. Despite the fascination the composer continues to hold for scholars, this brief but important period remains little known. Peter Wi...Loe edasi...
The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature. In notable examples, Julia Grella OConnell argues, the iconography of the Victorian fallen woman was associated with music, reviving an ancient tra...Loe edasi...
Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century was how musical performances were managed and directed. From a loose control shared between the violin-leader, musical director and maestro al cembalo to...Loe edasi...
Making extensive use of archival resources, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs; letters, diaries, and account books; and the operas themselves to reconstruct the ways in which Gilbert and Sullivan and their p...Loe edasi...
Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late 18th century to the mid-19th. Composers devoted themselves to this practice while formulating the musical ideas found at the core of their published works; improvisation was...Loe edasi...
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. The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century...Loe edasi...
This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdis attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdis professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional s...Loe edasi...
This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love....Loe edasi...
