This is the first book to investigate systematically the diverse aspects and compositional approaches of Greek musical modernism. It will interest not only musicians, musicologists, and music theorists, but also cultural historians and other scholar...Lasīt vairāk
Weida Wang explores how Western classical music has become increasingly popular in China, framing the industry as a complex entity embedded within Chinas political landscape, cultural economy, and cultural industries. The study delves into the mecha...Lasīt vairāk
Leonard Bernstein: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and research guide on this popular American composer and conductor. It includes annotations on Bernsteins writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary...Lasīt vairāk
This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: Jécris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by Nicholas Southon. Many of these articles and interviews have not been available in English before and Roger Nichols translation, capturin...Lasīt vairāk
In recent years the music of minimalist composers has become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. This Companion provides an authoritative overview of research in this area and highlights the innovative work of the...Lasīt vairāk
The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhards work and comprise the first full length scholarly work on this composer. Among the themes presented is the way Gerhards work was shaped by his Catalan heritage and his education und...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of womens participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present....Lasīt vairāk
Britten Experienced is a response to two recent studies of the composer, and offers alternative critical readings of some of his major works. The author frames his proposals with episodes of musicological autobiography that attempt to illustrate how...Lasīt vairāk
This volume is a journey through musics that emerged at the turn of the 20th Century and were neither exclusively tonal nor serial. Works include those by Frank Bridge, Ferruccio Busoni, Mikalojus Konstantinas iurlionis, Rebecca Clarke, and more. ...Lasīt vairāk
The essays in this volume, spanning more than forty, address the dynamics of Stravinskys music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Works such as The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (191723), the Symphony of Psalms (1930),...Lasīt vairāk
This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevancy of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
This book documents easy listenings connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. which will fascinate scholars, h...Lasīt vairāk
Edmund Rubbras music has given him a reputation as a spiritual composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism....Lasīt vairāk
This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. This book will be useful reading for students and scholars of music analysis, musicology, per...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
This book studies Crumbs Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumbs output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions...Lasīt vairāk
The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 70s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and inde...Lasīt vairāk
Since the transformative 1960s, concert masses have incorporated a range of political and religious views that mirror their socio-cultural context....Lasīt vairāk
This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatregoers and practitioners. The Jukebox Musical: An Interpre...Lasīt vairāk
By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices.This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player pia...Lasīt vairāk
Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Pavel Haass music since the publication of Lubomír Peduzzis life and work monograph in 1993....Lasīt vairāk
This book is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the most important Russian composers of the late 20th century. Each piece is discussed in detail, with particular attention to the composers groundbreaking polystylism, as well as his unique a...Lasīt vairāk
Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways women thrive as professionals despite such conditions....Lasīt vairāk
Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical understanding of Stravinskys heritage, based on the extant material available....Lasīt vairāk
The Art Songs of Louise Talma presents some of Talmas finest compositions and those most frequently performed during her life. It includes pieces appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced singers and collaborative pianists. The songs inc...Lasīt vairāk
This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and...Lasīt vairāk
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its subject yet produced. It offers comprehensive coverage of the English composers prose works and accounts for over 1,000 secondary sou...Lasīt vairāk
Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 19641985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be detected in selected musical-literary works of what has becom...Lasīt vairāk
This volume makes available Joaquín Rodrigos writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The selection reveals an outstanding critical mind, equally illuminating on the main developments in the history of classical music and its most...Lasīt vairāk
Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds, musician Karen Reynolds, and musically inspired composer, engineer, and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to c...Lasīt vairāk
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other DIY (do-it-yourself) music venues in the US, such as warehouses, all-ages clubs and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American D...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualised and critically examined according to its structure and intertextual aspects, as well as its relationship to Bachs music, Brazilian popular music, and other works by contemporaries o...Lasīt vairāk
Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production....Lasīt vairāk
What does a one-hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas share with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound found a...Lasīt vairāk
Womens Music for the Screen shines a light on the works and lives of female-identifying screen composers. With composer profiles, exclusive interview excerpts, and industry case studies, this volume showcases their achievements and reflects on the s...Lasīt vairāk
With case studies from China, Australia, the United States, Latin America, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, Phonographic Encounters explores moments of interaction and encounter, as well as tensions, between local and glo...Lasīt vairāk
Philip Glass and Robert Wilsons most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its première at the Avignon Festival in 1976. The book features essays from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in pro...Lasīt vairāk
Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on countries they occupied during the World War II. Almost all music institutions came under their control. The objective being...Lasīt vairāk
Arguing that new music in this era reflects a historical moment when the idea of materiality itself is in flux, the book focuses on how recent music and sound art have expressed notions of the body and the material environment....Lasīt vairāk
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band“s varied reception in the online and offline media....Lasīt vairāk
Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide catalogues and summarizes the musical works and related literature of Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-99), perhaps the most important Spanish composer of concert music in the twentieth century....Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
This work contributes to an understanding of immigration, identity and resilience and is particularly important within the field of music regarding music and healing, music and identity, historical musicology, ethnomusicology and music and politics....Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a historically informed understanding of the reception of Puccinis opera, La fanciulla del West as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity fo...Lasīt vairāk
The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term nature: the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physi...Lasīt vairāk
This title was first published in 2002. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britains most distinguished composers. This source book documents as much of the material on his music as is available to 2001....Lasīt vairāk
Trevor Jones is one of the most successful contemporary British-based composers of film and television music and is seen by his peers as an influential figure in the industry. Cooper, Sapiro and Anderson undertake a critical investigation of Joness...Lasīt vairāk
