This book presents a social history of the violin in Australia from 1788 to 1914, exploring its pivotal role in colonial society and influence on local music-making and culture. It provides scholars with new insights into how musical instruments lik...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the complex conceptual, historical, and philosophical questions posed by Eduard Hanslicks influential aesthetic treatise, On the Musically Beautiful (1854). The contributions reveal the philosophical foundations and subtleties of...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1936, as a second edition in 1948 and as an enlarged and third edition in 1982, Karl Geiringers biography of Brahms is generally regarded as one of the finest studies of the composer ever published in any language....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1927, this illuminating study concerns three people, about two of whom much has already been written. The third, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, has attracted less attention, in spite of her having occupied the greater p...Lasīt vairāk
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social history of an era whose everyday music has often been...Lasīt vairāk
Charles Frantz provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of Debussys music through the lens of Bergsons philosophical perspective of durée, revealing his revolution in musical time....Lasīt vairāk
This book tells three interrelated stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn of the twentieth century and highlight the value of liturgical music history to our understanding of French government anticlericalism....Lasīt vairāk
Among the early works of Johannes Brahms are the neo-baroque Sarabande and Gavotte. These dances have not been properly recognised as constituting a distinct Brahms work before now, but manuscript evidence and their performance history indicate that...Lasīt vairāk
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Lasīt vairāk
Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersingers narrativ...Lasīt vairāk
This book approaches opera fantasias instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument per...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on the circumstances of womens music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders wel...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagners Götterdämmerung....Lasīt vairāk
Seeing Opera Anew offers a stereo perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a cultural and biologic...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
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
Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic experiences outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century....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
Singing the English explores the period from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to the Entente Cordiale in 1904 through the lenses of the cultural history of music and Franco-British cultural history....Lasīt vairāk
Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide provides scholars in Hensel studies with a resource to navigate the research surrounding the composers over 450 musical works. New research in the 1980s and 90s promoted an awareness of Hensels output....Lasīt vairāk
