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Haydn'S Minuets And Eighteenth-Century Dance

by Joseph (King'S College London) Fort

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 Audiences in eighteenth-century Vienna attended the city's popular public balls, where they danced the minuet. This book reconstructs this dance, enabling audiences today to understand Haydn's minuets through the kinaesthetic associations and expectations that bodily knowledge of the dance brings, revealing previously hidden features of this music.
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Anton Webern At The Dawn Of Modernism

by Sebastian (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Wedler

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 The first extended account of Webern's tonal music, this book provides fresh glimpses into the intellectual fabric of European modernism and its concept of 'earliness' and sheds new light on this pivotal figure. Bringing analytical insights into dialogue with new biographical and philological perspectives, it will be valuable across the humanities.
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Monteverdi And The Marvellous - Poetry, Sound, And Representation

by Roseen (Duke University, North Carolina) Giles

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 Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language.
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Music And The Making Of Medieval Venice

by Jamie L. (Princeton University, New Jersey) Reuland

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 Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination.
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Fascism In America - Past And Present

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 This book surveys the history of fascism in the United States from the 1930s to the present, examining the rise of right-wing groups from the interwar period to the Trump era, along with the response of antifascists. A timely contribution, Fascism in America will interest scholars and general readers alike.
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Elisabeth Lutyens And Edward Clark - The Orchestration Of Progress In British Twentieth-Century Music

by Annika (Royal Northern College Of Music, Manchester) Forkert

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 Combining analyses of modernist concert and stage music by Elisabeth Lutyens with those of her audio-visual scores, and contextualising Lutyens and Edward Clark's biographies within international developments in dodecaphonic music and music-making, this book will speak to a wide audience interested in British and European twentieth-century music.
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The Songs Of Clara Schumann

by Stephen (University Of Oregon) Rodgers

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 Clara Schumann's songs have enduring appeal for performers and audiences, and were influential in the history of art song. This first book-length study of Schumann's distinctive contributions to the genre will enable scholars and music-lovers to more fully appreciate the music of Schumann and other women composers.
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Interwar Symphonies And The Imagination - Politics, Identity, And The Sound Of 1933

by Emily Macgregor

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 Contrary to received wisdom, the symphony flourished on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s. Emily MacGregor investigates what this music can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during this period of international insecurity and political upheaval, and how it can illuminate issues around geography, race and postcolonialism.
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Interwar Symphonies And The Imagination - Politics, Identity, And The Sound Of 1933

by Emily Macgregor

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 Contrary to received wisdom, the symphony flourished on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s. Emily MacGregor investigates what this music can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during this period of international insecurity and political upheaval, and how it can illuminate issues around geography, race and postcolonialism.
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The Requiem Of Tomas Luis De Victoria (1603)

by Owen (University Of Oxford) Rees

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 A significant addition to the scholarship available in English on Victoria and his music, this study encompasses the genesis, style, and impact of the six-voice Requiem. It will be of interest to students and scholars studying the Renaissance and sacred and courtly rituals in the early-modern period more generally, as well as enquiring listeners.
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Schubert'S String Quartets - The Teleology Of Lyric Form

by Anne (University Of Manchester) Hyland

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 Hyland examines Schubert's incorporation of lyric elements into his sonata-form works, and demonstrates how the lyric became a foundational stylistic and formal building block in Schubert's instrumental chamber music. It will be particularly valuable to students and scholars working in the discipline of the 'new Formenlehre'.
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Interwar Symphonies And The Imagination - Politics, Identity, And The Sound Of 1933

by Emily (King'S College London) Macgregor

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 Contrary to received wisdom, the symphony flourished on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s. Emily MacGregor investigates what this music can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during this period of international insecurity and political upheaval, and how it can illuminate issues around geography, race and postcolonialism.
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Olivier Messiaen'S Catalogue D'Oiseaux - From Conception To Performance

by Peter (University Of Sheffield) Hill e Roderick (Royal Academy Of Music, London) Chadwick

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 This book assembles a rounded picture of one of the longest and most important piano works of the twentieth century, including historical evaluation, analysis and performance studies. Accessibly written and containing unique insights into Messiaen's methods, this book will appeal to a range of readers including students, musicologists and pianists.
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The Quilting Points Of Musical Modernism - Revolution, Reaction, And William Walton

by J. P. E. (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Harper-Scott

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 J. P. E. Harper-Scott's book proposes a new theory of musical modernism, bringing contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation. It explores the capacity for music to challenge cultural and political ideas and provides a critique of modern music histories.
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Music Behind The Iron Curtain - Weinberg And His Polish Contemporaries

by Daniel (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Elphick

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 Mieczyslaw Weinberg's music has been undergoing a revival since his death; this book explains his music in the context of Cold War Polish-Soviet cultural relations. It will appeal to scholars of East European music and cultural identity, as well as audiences who have been intrigued by the composer's music.
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Composing Community In Late Medieval Music - Self-Reference, Pedagogy, And Practice

by Jane D. (University Of Utah) Hatter

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 Self-referential music illuminates connections between musicians and reveals similarities between their networks and those of other professionals, especially visual artists. This book will appeal to readers interested in music and culture of the late medieval and early modern eras - musicians, musicologists, and historians of art and culture.
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Brahms'S Elegies - The Poetics Of Loss In Nineteenth-Century German Culture

by Nicole (University Of California, Irvine) Grimes

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 Exploring the philosophical dimensions of Brahms's music, this book analyzes his elegiac works and their relationship to German literature. Of interest to musicology, German studies and cultural history scholars, it illuminates how Brahms's music relates to aesthetics and modernity from HÃ¶lderlin, Schiller, and Goethe to the Frankfurt School.
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Polyphony In Medieval Paris - The Art Of Composing With Plainchant

by Catherine A. (Universitetet I Oslo) Bradley

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 Presents new methodologies to explore medieval processes of musical and poetic creation, from plainchant and vernacular French songs to organa, motets and clausulae. Engages with questions of text-music relationships, liturgy, and the development of notational technologies, exploring authorship, originality, practices of quotation and reworking.
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Delius And The Sound Of Place

by Daniel M. (University Of Oxford) Grimley

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 This book examines the role of place in Delius' works, challenging existing views on their complex historical and musical contexts. It will appeal to readers familiar with Delius' music, and to those seeking a detailed guide to selected pieces, as well as those new to his work.
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Music Behind The Iron Curtain - Weinberg And His Polish Contemporaries

by Daniel Elphick

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 Mieczyslaw Weinberg's music has been undergoing a revival since his death; this book explains his music in the context of Cold War Polish-Soviet cultural relations. It will appeal to scholars of East European music and cultural identity, as well as audiences who have been intrigued by the composer's music.
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Music Behind The Iron Curtain - Weinberg And His Polish Contemporaries

by Daniel Elphick

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 Mieczyslaw Weinberg's music has been undergoing a revival since his death; this book explains his music in the context of Cold War Polish-Soviet cultural relations. It will appeal to scholars of East European music and cultural identity, as well as audiences who have been intrigued by the composer's music.
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Music Behind The Iron Curtain - Weinberg And His Polish Contemporaries

by Daniel (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Elphick

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Mieczyslaw Weinberg's music has been undergoing a revival since his death; this book explains his music in the context of Cold War Polish-Soviet cultural relations. It will appeal to scholars of East European music and cultural identity, as well as audiences who have been intrigued by the composer's music.
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Composing Community In Late Medieval Music - Self-Reference, Pedagogy, And Practice

by Jane D. Hatter

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Self-referential music illuminates connections between musicians and reveals similarities between their networks and those of other professionals, especially visual artists. This book will appeal to readers interested in music and culture of the late medieval and early modern eras - musicians, musicologists, and historians of art and culture.
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Composing Community In Late Medieval Music - Self-Reference, Pedagogy, And Practice

by Jane D. Hatter

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Self-referential music illuminates connections between musicians and reveals similarities between their networks and those of other professionals, especially visual artists. This book will appeal to readers interested in music and culture of the late medieval and early modern eras - musicians, musicologists, and historians of art and culture.
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