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Perspectives on Contemporary Musical Practices
From Research to Creation
This volume sheds light on the wide range of perspectives on musical activity today. It discusses the changing contexts of 20th-century compositions, offers in-depth musical analysis connected to performance, and considers technology’s influence on musical creation.
This volume sheds light on the wide range of perspectives on musical activity today. It discusses the changing contexts of 20th-century compositions, offers in-depth musical analysis connected to performance, and considers technology’s influence on musical creation.
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Contemporary Piano Music
Performance and Creativity
This collection addresses performance and musical creation in contemporary piano music. It examines the aesthetic and technical aspects of the 20th century and reflects on 21st-century artistic practices that are redefining the contemporary performative field.
This collection addresses performance and musical creation in contemporary piano music. It examines the aesthetic and technical aspects of the 20th century and reflects on 21st-century artistic practices that are redefining the contemporary performative field.
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Once the leader of the French school of opera, admired by Wagner and Berlioz, Fromental Halévy is now remembered only for La Juive. This study throws light on this shadowy figure, examining his life, his many popular but forgotten operas, and their place in history.
Once the leader of the French school of opera, admired by Wagner and Berlioz, Fromental Halévy is now remembered only for La Juive. This study throws light on this shadowy figure, examining his life, his many popular but forgotten operas, and their place in history.
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Folk and Songs in Japan and Beyond
Ethnomusicological Essays in Honour of David W. Hughes
This volume of essays honors David Hughes, a leading scholar of the music of Japan and South-East Asia. His groundbreaking work covers Japanese min'yō (folk song) and more. Written by former students and collaborators, these papers reflect the depth and breadth of his influence.
This volume of essays honors David Hughes, a leading scholar of the music of Japan and South-East Asia. His groundbreaking work covers Japanese min’yō (folk song) and more. Written by former students and collaborators, these papers reflect the depth and breadth of his influence.
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A Jesuit missionary, musician, and builder of Shanghai's famed bamboo organs. François Ravary’s unpublished letters reveal the crises of the Catholic mission in nineteenth-century China and his creation of the nation's first brass band and school orchestra.
A Jesuit missionary, musician, and builder of Shanghai’s famed bamboo organs. François Ravary’s unpublished letters reveal the crises of the Catholic mission in nineteenth-century China and his creation of the nation’s first brass band and school orchestra.
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Applied Ethnomusicology
Historical and Contemporary Approaches
Applied ethnomusicology is an approach guided by social responsibility toward solving concrete problems. This volume brings together diverse perspectives on its potential in contributing to sustainable music cultures and the use of music in conflict resolution.
Applied ethnomusicology is an approach guided by social responsibility toward solving concrete problems. This volume brings together diverse perspectives on its potential in contributing to sustainable music cultures and the use of music in conflict resolution.
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The World of South African Music
A Reader
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
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A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music
The Big Misconception
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst. They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst.
They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
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The Musical World of Alan Hovhaness
East-West Crossroads
This book explores the work of American-Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness in the context of East-West cultural interactions. It analyzes Armenian, Indian, Japanese, and Korean musical traditions in his works, evaluating his complex identity and the phenomenon of “Armenian-ness”.
This book explores the work of American-Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness in the context of East-West cultural interactions. It analyzes Armenian, Indian, Japanese, and Korean musical traditions in his works, evaluating his complex identity and the phenomenon of “Armenian-ness”.
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of major traditional Indian rhythms using a novel visual approach. Its graphic, tabular format offers insights into the structural beauty of rhythms from ancient to contemporary music, including folk, classical, and popular film songs.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of major traditional Indian rhythms using a novel visual approach. Its graphic, tabular format offers insights into the structural beauty of rhythms from ancient to contemporary music, including folk, classical, and popular film songs.
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Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine
History, Heroism and the Mythological Hermeneutic
This study examines the creation, dramaturgy, and musical style of L'Africaine, the final opera by Meyerbeer and Scribe. It covers its astonishing reception and revival, featuring a collection of iconography and its interpretation by the greatest singers of opera's Golden Age.
This study examines the creation, dramaturgy, and musical style of L’Africaine, the final opera by Meyerbeer and Scribe. It covers its astonishing reception and revival, featuring a collection of iconography and its interpretation by the greatest singers of opera’s Golden Age.
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Female Recreation of Music Traditions
Women’s Sounds of the Past and Present
Explore how women composers since the 20th century reinterpret past music, fusing traditional idioms into their own unique compositions. Through in-depth analyses with musical examples, this book reveals their techniques for musicians and listeners alike.
Explore how women composers since the 20th century reinterpret past music, fusing traditional idioms into their own unique compositions. Through in-depth analyses with musical examples, this book reveals their techniques for musicians and listeners alike.
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This book presents Romania's globally unknown oral culture and traditional musical instruments. It highlights their evolution and spread, with unique photographs of disappearing cultural events. The book will be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists.
This book presents Romania’s globally unknown oral culture and traditional musical instruments. It highlights their evolution and spread, with unique photographs of disappearing cultural events. The book will be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer is the only composer who wrote for three eras of 19th-century music, straddling German, Italian, and French opera. This study examines his six Italian operas (1817-1824), whose treasures have been rediscovered and are explored in terms of origins and content.
Giacomo Meyerbeer is the only composer who wrote for three eras of 19th-century music, straddling German, Italian, and French opera. This study examines his six Italian operas (1817-1824), whose treasures have been rediscovered and are explored in terms of origins and content.
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An Introduction to Georgian Art Music
Sense-Making through Music
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
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This volume focuses on how music and arts in the global Africana world are used for political and social change. It covers diverse topics from the African thematics of jazz to protest movements in Senegal and Nigeria and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
This volume focuses on how music and arts in the global Africana world are used for political and social change. It covers diverse topics from the African thematics of jazz to protest movements in Senegal and Nigeria and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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This revelatory work argues that the Italian people did more for music than any other. It proves that the first written music, the great musical forms like the opera and symphony, the primary instruments, and the very vocabulary of music are all Italian in origin.
This revelatory work argues that the Italian people did more for music than any other. It proves that the first written music, the great musical forms like the opera and symphony, the primary instruments, and the very vocabulary of music are all Italian in origin.
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This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
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Small Places, Operatic Issues
Opera and Its Peripheral Worlds
Through its analysis of five different social positions or characterisations of opera from 1748 to 2005, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.
Through its analysis of five different social positions or characterisations of opera from 1748 to 2005, this book creates a fruitful interpretative encounter of the academic domains of opera studies, historical sociology, cultural sociology and social and cultural anthropology.
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Visualization and Critical Digital Pedagogies
Insights from Anthropology and Musicology
Drawing on anthropology and music analysis, this study of digital visualization explores its import for critical pedagogy. It offers a hands-on approach for researchers, educators, and artists seeking to open passageways between theory and praxis in the digital humanities.
Drawing on anthropology and music analysis, this study of digital visualization explores its import for critical pedagogy. It offers a hands-on approach for researchers, educators, and artists seeking to open passageways between theory and praxis in the digital humanities.
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