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Reappraising the Seicento
Composition, Dissemination, Assimilation
Reappraising the Seicento offers new perspectives from emerging scholars. Five essays examine compositional procedure in Italy and the assimilation of Italian music by English composers in the seventeenth century, placing it in a larger historical context.
Reappraising the Seicento offers new perspectives from emerging scholars. Five essays examine compositional procedure in Italy and the assimilation of Italian music by English composers in the seventeenth century, placing it in a larger historical context.
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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.
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.
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This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
This book discusses the manuscript sources for the music of Luigi Boccherini, a foremost 18th-century composer. Experts explore manuscript types, chronology, catalogues, and specific works, making this an indispensable tool for any scholar of his life and work.
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Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots
An Evangel of Religion and Love
Meyerbeer's most popular opera, Les Huguenots, is a gigantic drama of faith, love, and self-sacrifice set against the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Its music reaches sublime heights, capturing the tragedy of religious intolerance with intense passion.
Meyerbeer’s most popular opera, Les Huguenots, is a gigantic drama of faith, love, and self-sacrifice set against the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Its music reaches sublime heights, capturing the tragedy of religious intolerance with intense passion.
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Venanzio Rauzzini
Piramo e Tisbe, A Dramatic Cantata
Venanzio Rauzzini was a celebrated singer and composer for whom Mozart wrote the motet, Exultate jubilate. His cantata, Piramo e Tisbe, was drawn from his own hit London opera, preserving the principal elements of the story.
Venanzio Rauzzini was a celebrated singer and composer for whom Mozart wrote the motet, Exultate jubilate. His cantata, Piramo e Tisbe, was drawn from his own hit London opera, preserving the principal elements of the story.
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Maqām
Historical Traces and Present Practice in Southern European Music Traditions
This volume offers new insights on the historical traces and present practice of maqām. Contributions from international scholars explore Ottoman music's influence in the Mediterranean and Balkans, the revival of religious genres, and the realms between maqām and mode.
This volume offers new insights on the historical traces and present practice of maqām. Contributions from international scholars explore Ottoman music’s influence in the Mediterranean and Balkans, the revival of religious genres, and the realms between maqām and mode.
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Choral Singing
Histories and Practices
What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.
What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.
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Music and Minorities from Around the World
Research, Documentation and Interdisciplinary Study
The study of music has become an important gateway into understanding the culture of minorities. This volume attends to Jewish themes, with authors from four continents. Its global scope and varied approaches represent the broad range of modern ethnomusicology.
The study of music has become an important gateway into understanding the culture of minorities. This volume attends to Jewish themes, with authors from four continents. Its global scope and varied approaches represent the broad range of modern ethnomusicology.
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An Early Hautboy Solo Matrix
Solos for the Hautboy before 1710 based on a Symphonia/Sonata by Johann Christoph Pez that Demonstrates a Performance Practice of Adaptation
Using Pez’s Symphonia, the earliest hautboy solo, as a template, this book reveals a lost seventeenth-century practice of adapting other works for the instrument, offering new repertoire for performers and insights for scholars.
Using Pez’s Symphonia, the earliest hautboy solo, as a template, this book reveals a lost seventeenth-century practice of adapting other works for the instrument, offering new repertoire for performers and insights for scholars.
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This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
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This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
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This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and 21st centuries through the work of six women composers. It integrates cultural contexts with their biographies and provides in-depth analyses of how they developed their own distinctly personal musical styles.
This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and 21st centuries through the work of six women composers. It integrates cultural contexts with their biographies and provides in-depth analyses of how they developed their own distinctly personal musical styles.
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Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
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Operetta
A Sourcebook, Volume II
Explore the world of operetta, from Vienna and Paris to London and Broadway. This essential guide profiles the genre's principal composers with biographies, detailed work lists, and selected synopses of their iconic stage works.
Explore the world of operetta, from Vienna and Paris to London and Broadway. This essential guide profiles the genre’s principal composers with biographies, detailed work lists, and selected synopses of their iconic stage works.
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Operetta
A Sourcebook, Volume I
From Offenbach's Paris to the Vienna of Strauss and Lehár, operetta flourished. This source book presents an overview of the genre, tracing its history to modern musical comedy with composer biographies, a chronology, and selected synopses.
From Offenbach’s Paris to the Vienna of Strauss and Lehár, operetta flourished. This source book presents an overview of the genre, tracing its history to modern musical comedy with composer biographies, a chronology, and selected synopses.
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A Symphony of Flavors
Food and Music in Concert
Explore the rich connections between music and food across global cultures and history. This multidisciplinary collection reveals how sound and taste have shaped our emotions, values, and identities, viewed through musicology, anthropology, and more.
Explore the rich connections between music and food across global cultures and history. This multidisciplinary collection reveals how sound and taste have shaped our emotions, values, and identities, viewed through musicology, anthropology, and more.
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Operetta
A Sourcebook, Volumes I and II
From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta's international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.
From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta’s international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.
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Reinventing Sound
Music and Audiovisual Culture
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
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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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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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