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This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.
This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.
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The Intertwining of Culture and Music
Love and the Times
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
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Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems
Visions from the Tower of Song
One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.
One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.
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Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music
Sounding Constellations
Fronzi describes how complexity in music of the 20th and 21st centuries can be tackled philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. He identifies nine characteristics that permit us to open up philosophical-cultural paths and interpret contemporary music developments.
Fronzi describes how complexity in music of the 20th and 21st centuries can be tackled philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. He identifies nine characteristics that permit us to open up philosophical-cultural paths and interpret contemporary music developments.
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The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies
This book lays the foundations for learning about the fandango, an 18th century dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas. It describes how the dance became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance and people and how it signified freedom of movement and expression.
This book lays the foundations for learning about the fandango, an 18th century dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas. It describes how the dance became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance and people and how it signified freedom of movement and expression.
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Symphony and Song
The Intersection of Words and Music
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
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Wright assesses the relevance of aural in a university music degree and as a preparation for a classical musician’s career. The main areas investigated are the relationship between aural ability and success in a music degree, and views about aural and its career relevance.
Wright assesses the relevance of aural in a university music degree and as a preparation for a classical musician’s career. The main areas investigated are the relationship between aural ability and success in a music degree, and views about aural and its career relevance.
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Opera as Anthropology
Anthropologists in Lyrical Settings
Kotnik considers the relationship between opera and anthropology. His study rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still seen as an unusual approach to opera.
Kotnik considers the relationship between opera and anthropology. His study rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still seen as an unusual approach to opera.
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Hindustani Traces in Malay Ghazal
'A song, so old and yet still famous'
This monograph investigates the Malay ghazal, in its various shapes and with its different meanings, in order to study the musical traces of Hindustani culture. It describes the development of the ghazal, from its early forms to its modern transformation into local art.
This monograph investigates the Malay ghazal, in its various shapes and with its different meanings, in order to study the musical traces of Hindustani culture. It describes the development of the ghazal, from its early forms to its modern transformation into local art.
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(Per)Forming Art
Performance as Research in Contemporary Artworks
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
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Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
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The Virtuoso as Subject
The Reception of Instrumental Virtuosity, c. 1815–c. 1850
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
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Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.
Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.
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This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
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The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
Proceedings of the International Lute Symposium Utrecht, 30 August 2013
The articles brought together here provide a broad and many-layered overview of the significance of the lute in the seventeenth century Netherlands, highlighting its central role in the rich musical culture of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic.
The articles brought together here provide a broad and many-layered overview of the significance of the lute in the seventeenth century Netherlands, highlighting its central role in the rich musical culture of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic.
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The Bible as Revelatory Word
1 Scripture as Oracular Text (The Prophetic and Wisdom Traditions)
An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.
An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.
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Musical Receptions of Greek Antiquity
From the Romantic Era to Modernism
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of music’s interaction with ancient Greek culture since the nineteenth century, through scrutiny of various cases, from the Romantic era to experimentations of the twentieth century.
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of music’s interaction with ancient Greek culture since the nineteenth century, through scrutiny of various cases, from the Romantic era to experimentations of the twentieth century.
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‘I, Me, Mine?’
An Initial Consideration of (Popular Music Record) Collecting Aesthetics, Identities and Practices
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
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Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014
An Analytic Sampler
Drawing together papers delivered at the 2014 meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, this volume explores a wide range of musical cultures, and reflects a strong emphasis on understanding the forms and processes of music through analysis.
Drawing together papers delivered at the 2014 meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, this volume explores a wide range of musical cultures, and reflects a strong emphasis on understanding the forms and processes of music through analysis.
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Nationality vs Universality
Music Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe
This publication deals with the history of music as a way of representing historical memory and as an instrument of shaping society’s present. It offers fascinating reading for anyone interested in the mechanisms that shape notions of the musical past.
This publication deals with the history of music as a way of representing historical memory and as an instrument of shaping society’s present. It offers fascinating reading for anyone interested in the mechanisms that shape notions of the musical past.
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