Unveil the stunning art and cultural heritage of the Bambui fondom. This illustrated book offers an authentic journey into Cameroon’s Grassfields, told through the unique voice of an author living the Bambui experience.
Music and Magic
The magic of jazz is Tricksterism. Greats like Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie were Tricksters, taking pop songs and refashioning them into gold. These magician-Tricksters transform all they touch. This book explains how they do it.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once a giant of 19th-century French opera, Daniel Auber partnered with librettist Eugène Scribe for his first enduring success, Le Maçon. In this thrilling rescue opera, a Parisian mason is abducted and must become a hero to save the innocent.
Music and Literary Modernism
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber and Scribe’s masterful opéra-comique Haydée is one of the composer’s richest scores. A Venetian admiral is haunted by guilt after cheating a friend who then killed himself. Blackmail, love, and Venetian pomp drive this psychological drama.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Auber’s opéra-comique La Sirène, travellers are caught in an ambush after hearing the entrancing song of Zerlina, the Siren. She aids her bandit brother, but when she falls for their handsome captive, a tale of romance and revealed identities begins.
Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology
Explore the breadth of Canadian music scholarship, from First Nations traditions to Celtic and French folksong. Celebrating a rich history, this is a vital resource for academics and music enthusiasts alike.
Who were the early recording artists of American Folk and Country? Where did their songs originate? A specialist in early rural recordings gives answers, drawing on years of first-hand research, field trips to Appalachia, and a substantial private collection.
The Resonance of a Small Voice
A pioneering study of Walton’s Violin Concerto, placed in the golden age of the English concerto (1900-1940). It sheds new light on works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, and uncovers unjustly forgotten masterpieces.
Improvisation
This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.
Daniel François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s music is lively and tender in this tale of social intrigue and artistic integrity. Opera singer Henriette is wooed by an ambassador, but after a rival betrays her, she tears up their marriage contract, choosing the stage over aristocratic pretense.
Many Voices
This collection of essays re-thinks music and national identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The papers offer various perspectives on the interconnections between music and identity, aiming to open up critical discourse on the many sounds of a diverse nation.
Music and Literary Modernism
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore music’s place in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and literature’s importance for composers from Antheil to The Beatles. Revised and updated second edition.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In this opéra-comique by Auber and Scribe, a myth becomes a fable of art and love. To woo the secluded Adèle, Count Léoni disguises himself as a blind singer. He is asked to pose as Actaeon for a painting, but when his deception is revealed, disaster looms.
Rock n Roll and Nationalism
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber was one of the most successful French opera composers of the 19th century. His opéra-comique Zanetta, with librettist Eugène Scribe, is a tale of courtly intrigue where a nobleman’s fake courtship of a gardener’s daughter leads to true love.
Dylan at Play offers new ways to meet the singularity of Bob Dylan’s work. With a goal of play, not definition, this collection features fresh voices offering reverent scrutiny and mischief, inspiring readers to invent their own experiences of the artist.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This collection reveals unknown non-operatic works by the great operatic master Meyerbeer. From a substantial cantata to celebratory marches and brief choruses, these manuscript scores were all written ‘by Royal Command’ for German Royal families.
Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes
This volume reproduces the piano score of the ballet La Source, a joint composition by Ludwig Minkus and Léo Delibes. Delibes’s vigorous score, his first for ballet, contrasted effectively with the melancholic, graceful melodies of Minkus.