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Shostakovich'S Symphony No. 5

by Jonathan Walker e Marina Frolova-Walker

~~13,24€~~ 11,92€ 10% OFF

 The book is devoted to Shostakovich''s most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin''s Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official disfavour and deeply moved audiences. The critics recognized it as a masterpiece, but they were perplexed by its ambiguities, especially at the end of the Symphony: some imagined it as the joyful final victory of socialism, while others heard the triumph instead of a sinister and oppressive force. The second interpretation was pushed into the background, but the controversy persisted, with the further complication of two very different tempo markings for the closing section, both of which seemed to be approved by the composer. The authors give an authoritative account of the tempo controversy and the effect of the different tempos on the reception of the work in the West. Shostakovich''s Symphony No. 5 delves into the history of the work''s composition, the pressures Shostakovich experienced at the time, and the cultural environment from the time the composer began work on Symphony through to the settling of its official critical reception. At the center of this exploration is the musical score itself, which is full of secrets that have taken decades to uncover, the most colorful of which is the case for Shostakovich''s extensive references to Bizet''s Carmen, and the connection between these and Shostakovich''s lover of the mid-30s, Lala Carmen (Elena Konstantinovskaya). The authors show how Shostakovich largely (but not entirely) set aside his influences from Mahler and German modernists, and in replacement absorbed Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with the same ingenuity as his previous influences. Shostakovich decided to make a virtue of a necessity, and created one of the richest of symphonic scores, allowing himself to retain his artistic pride while winning the official approval necessary for regaining his livelihood. These events all unfolded in the atmosphere of terror created by Stalin''s "Great Purge". This book is the first to be devoted to this watershed symphony, and includes secrets of the score that took decades to uncover.
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Law For Leviathan - Constitutional Law, International Law, And The State

by Daryl J. (Professor, Professor, New York University) Levinson

~~32,43€~~ 29,19€ 10% OFF

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 The state makes law. But the state is also subject to law in two realms: international law and constitutional law. But how in the international realm can law be enforced against powerful states in the absence of a super-state standing above them? How far can moral and legal frameworks developed around ordinary persons be extended to apply to personified Leviathans? The book argues that these kinds of questions are equally applicable to the second major regime of law for states, constitutional law. By assimilating constitutional and international law as parallel projects of imposing law upon the state, this book brings focus to the concept of "law for Leviathan" as a distinctive legal form.
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Dolly Parton'S Jolene

by Lydia R. Hamessley

~~13,24€~~ 11,92€ 10% OFF

 "Jolene" is one of Dolly Parton's most well-known and beloved songs. Released in 1974 as the title song of Dolly's thirteenth studio album, it has become a cultural phenomenon. Often seen as a cheating song, "Jolene" is compelling because of its ambiguity: Who is Jolene? Is she a heartless homewrecker or an unwilling recipient of attention from a guy who will cheat on his partner? What does she decide? Does she want to have an affair? Is "Jolene" sung by a narrator who is fearful and weak? Or is the singer taking matters into her own hands?In Dolly Parton's Jolene, author Lydia R. Hamessley offers readers new perspectives on the song through a close look at Dolly's stories about the song's origins and its place on her album Jolene. Hamessley offers multiple ways of understanding the lyrics and includes a detailed musical analysis. The book explores notable covers of the song, including Olivia Newton-John's recording of "Jolene" and the duet version of "Jolene" that she and Dolly recorded just months before Newton-John's death. Hamessley also looks at covers by Mindy Smith, The White Stripes, The Congo Cowboys, Lil Nas X, Gloria Ann Taylor, and Chiquis and Becky G, as well as the "Jolene" episode from Dolly's 2019 television series, Heartstrings, and several answer songs, including "You Can Have Him Jolene" by Chapel Hart. How has one song had the flexibility to embrace so many versions, responses, and reimagining? Hamessley argues that these are possible because the song is, in a sense, unfinished: "my happiness depends on you and whatever you decide to do, Jolene."
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Dolly Parton'S Jolene

by Lydia R. Hamessley

~~13,24€~~ 11,92€ 10% OFF

 "Jolene" is one of Dolly Parton's most well-known and beloved songs. Released in 1974 as the title song of Dolly's thirteenth studio album, it has become a cultural phenomenon. Often seen as a cheating song, "Jolene" is compelling because of its ambiguity: Who is Jolene? Is she a heartless homewrecker or an unwilling recipient of attention from a guy who will cheat on his partner? What does she decide? Does she want to have an affair? Is "Jolene" sung by a narrator who is fearful and weak? Or is the singer taking matters into her own hands?In Dolly Parton's Jolene, author Lydia R. Hamessley offers readers new perspectives on the song through a close look at Dolly's stories about the song's origins and its place on her album Jolene. Hamessley offers multiple ways of understanding the lyrics and includes a detailed musical analysis. The book explores notable covers of the song, including Olivia Newton-John's recording of "Jolene" and the duet version of "Jolene" that she and Dolly recorded just months before Newton-John's death. Hamessley also looks at covers by Mindy Smith, The White Stripes, The Congo Cowboys, Lil Nas X, Gloria Ann Taylor, and Chiquis and Becky G, as well as the "Jolene" episode from Dolly's 2019 television series, Heartstrings, and several answer songs, including "You Can Have Him Jolene" by Chapel Hart. How has one song had the flexibility to embrace so many versions, responses, and reimagining? Hamessley argues that these are possible because the song is, in a sense, unfinished: "my happiness depends on you and whatever you decide to do, Jolene."
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Berlioz'S Requiem

by Jennifer Walker

~~14,34€~~ 12,91€ 10% OFF

 Hector Berlioz's Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts, 1837) remains a fixture in the repertoire of choirs and orchestras today. Since 2003, it has been performed in its entirety over one hundred times and has appeared on concert programs spanning the globe: from Russia to the United Kingdom, Finland to the United States, and many locations in between. These performances have, for the most part, been received positively but critics have not always been this kind to Berlioz and his Requiem. Romantic grandiosity, empty dramatic effect, religious insincerity: such are the descriptors that undergird many modern understandings of Berlioz's now-canonic work. Nineteenth-century critics and audiences, however, heard the Requiem in different and compelling ways. This book presenting a broad new musical and social context for understanding the Requiem as Berlioz conceived it and his contemporaries heard it. It asks what, if anything, did nineteenth-century listeners find to be notable about the work, and why? The answers to these questions lie in detailed explorations of Berlioz's relationship to the aesthetics of French sacred music, the theological sublime, and aural architecture. Theatrical as they may have appeared, Berlioz's innovative orchestrations and colossal choral configurations in the Requiem may now be heard as an embrace of the aural possibilities offered by the sounding of the sacred sublime, the physical architecture of French churches, and the interplay between the sacred and the secular.
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Berlioz'S Requiem

by Jennifer Walker

~~14,34€~~ 12,91€ 10% OFF

 Hector Berlioz's Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts, 1837) remains a fixture in the repertoire of choirs and orchestras today. Since 2003, it has been performed in its entirety over one hundred times and has appeared on concert programs spanning the globe: from Russia to the United Kingdom, Finland to the United States, and many locations in between. These performances have, for the most part, been received positively but critics have not always been this kind to Berlioz and his Requiem. Romantic grandiosity, empty dramatic effect, religious insincerity: such are the descriptors that undergird many modern understandings of Berlioz's now-canonic work. Nineteenth-century critics and audiences, however, heard the Requiem in different and compelling ways. This book presenting a broad new musical and social context for understanding the Requiem as Berlioz conceived it and his contemporaries heard it. It asks what, if anything, did nineteenth-century listeners find to be notable about the work, and why? The answers to these questions lie in detailed explorations of Berlioz's relationship to the aesthetics of French sacred music, the theological sublime, and aural architecture. Theatrical as they may have appeared, Berlioz's innovative orchestrations and colossal choral configurations in the Requiem may now be heard as an embrace of the aural possibilities offered by the sounding of the sacred sublime, the physical architecture of French churches, and the interplay between the sacred and the secular.
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Manuel De Falla'S El Amor Brujo

by Carol A. Hess

~~14,34€~~ 12,91€ 10% OFF

 Since its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in the unusually rich history of this piece.
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Manuel De Falla'S El Amor Brujo

by Carol A. Hess

~~14,34€~~ 12,91€ 10% OFF

 Since its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in the unusually rich history of this piece.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor'S Hiawatha

by Benedict (Professor Of Music, Professor Of Music, University Of Edinburgh) Taylor

~~17,56€~~ 15,80€ 10% OFF

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 The African British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875--1912) was propelled into fame following the popularity of his Hiawatha cantatas trilogy (1898--1900), which became some of the most widely performed pieces of music in the Anglophone world in the opening decade of the twentieth century. In this volume, Benedict Taylor gives an in-depth account of the music and political significance of Coleridge-Taylor as a composer through the early twentieth-century reception history of his Hiawatha trilogy.
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Manuel De Falla'S El Amor Brujo

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 Since its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in the unusually rich history of this piece.
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Manuel De Falla'S El Amor Brujo

by Carol A. (Distinguished Professor Of Music, Distinguished Professor Of Music, University Of California, Davis) Hess

~~64,88€~~ 58,39€ 10% OFF

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 Since its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in the unusually rich history of this piece.
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Shostakovich'S Symphony No. 5

by Jonathan Walker e Marina Frolova-Walker

~~13,24€~~ 11,92€ 10% OFF

 The book is devoted to Shostakovich''s most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin''s Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official disfavour and deeply moved audiences. The critics recognized it as a masterpiece, but they were perplexed by its ambiguities, especially at the end of the Symphony: some imagined it as the joyful final victory of socialism, while others heard the triumph instead of a sinister and oppressive force. The second interpretation was pushed into the background, but the controversy persisted, with the further complication of two very different tempo markings for the closing section, both of which seemed to be approved by the composer. The authors give an authoritative account of the tempo controversy and the effect of the different tempos on the reception of the work in the West. Shostakovich''s Symphony No. 5 delves into the history of the work''s composition, the pressures Shostakovich experienced at the time, and the cultural environment from the time the composer began work on Symphony through to the settling of its official critical reception. At the center of this exploration is the musical score itself, which is full of secrets that have taken decades to uncover, the most colorful of which is the case for Shostakovich''s extensive references to Bizet''s Carmen, and the connection between these and Shostakovich''s lover of the mid-30s, Lala Carmen (Elena Konstantinovskaya). The authors show how Shostakovich largely (but not entirely) set aside his influences from Mahler and German modernists, and in replacement absorbed Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with the same ingenuity as his previous influences. Shostakovich decided to make a virtue of a necessity, and created one of the richest of symphonic scores, allowing himself to retain his artistic pride while winning the official approval necessary for regaining his livelihood. These events all unfolded in the atmosphere of terror created by Stalin''s "Great Purge". This book is the first to be devoted to this watershed symphony, and includes secrets of the score that took decades to uncover.
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Gioachino Rossini'S The Barber Of Seville

by Hilary (Professor Of Music, Professor Of Music, Northeastern University) Poriss

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 This book surveys the myriad and creative changes that have affected The Barber of Seville since its premiere, exploring many of the personalities responsible for those alterations and taking into account the range of reactions that these changes have prompted in spectators and critics from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Beethoven'S String Quartet In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131

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 In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131, author Nancy November provides an analysis of Beethoven's Op. 131, illuminated by excerpts from a range of sound recordings, geared towards allowing the reader to access earlier modes of listening and interpretation. The book's well-rounded and multifaceted approach blends mainstream, traditional scholarship with popular media.
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Laurie Anderson'S Big Science

by S. Alexander Reed

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 In Laurie Anderson's Big Science, S. Alexander Reed dives into the wonderfully strange making and meanings of this singular album and of its creator's long artistic career, offering scrupulous new research, reception history, careful description, and dizzying creativity.
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Gioachino Rossini'S The Barber Of Seville

by Hilary Poriss

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 This book surveys the myriad and creative changes that have affected The Barber of Seville since its premiere, exploring many of the personalities responsible for those alterations and taking into account the range of reactions that these changes have prompted in spectators and critics from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Laurie Anderson'S Big Science

by S. Alexander (Associate Professor Of Music And Integrative Studies, Associate Professor Of Music And Integrative Studies, Ithaca College) Reed

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 In Laurie Anderson's Big Science, S. Alexander Reed dives into the wonderfully strange making and meanings of this singular album and of its creator's long artistic career, offering scrupulous new research, reception history, careful description, and dizzying creativity.
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Aaron Copland'S Appalachian Spring

by Annegret Fauser

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 Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. Distinguished musicologist Annegret Fauser offers a concise and lively introduction to the history of the work, its realization on stage, and its transformations over time.
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Aaron Copland'S Appalachian Spring

by Annegret Fauser

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 Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. Distinguished musicologist Annegret Fauser offers a concise and lively introduction to the history of the work, its realization on stage, and its transformations over time.
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Antonin Dvo%Rak'S New World Symphony

by Douglas W. Shadle

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 Before Antonín Dvorák''s New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals of freedom and equality. Drawing from a diverse array of historical voices, author Douglas W. Shadle''s richly textured account of the symphony''s 1893 premiere shows that even the classical concert hall could not remain insulated from the country''s racial politics.
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Puccini'S La Boheme

by Alexandra Wilson

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 This cultural history of La BohÃ¨me traces its rise to global fame. It demonstrates how the opera's prominence in popular culture, the inventiveness of its directors and performers, and its enduring themes of gender, poverty, and nostalgia have captured audiences' imagination for more than 120 years.
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Arvo Part'S Tabula Rasa

by Kevin C. Karnes

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 The first book dedicated to the breakthrough work by one of the most acclaimed composers today, Arvo PÃ¤rt's Tabula Rasa tells the story of its composition and premiere against the backdrop of late Soviet culture and the end of the Cold War.
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Arvo Part'S Tabula Rasa

by Kevin C. Karnes

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 The first book dedicated to the breakthrough work by one of the most acclaimed composers today, Arvo PÃ¤rt's Tabula Rasa tells the story of its composition and premiere against the backdrop of late Soviet culture and the end of the Cold War.
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Sergei Prokofiev'S Alexander Nevsky

by Kevin Bartig

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 Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofiev''s musical score for Sergei Eisenstein''s 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Prokofiev''s and Eisenstein''s work proved an enormous success, both as a collaboration of two of the twentieth century''s most prominent artists and as a means to bolster patriotism and national pride among Soviet audiences. Arranged as a cantata for concert performance, Prokofiev''s music for Alexander Nevsky music proved malleable, its meaning reconfigured to suit different circumstances and times. Author Kevin Bartig draws on previously unexamined archival materials to follow Prokofiev''s Alexander Nevsky from its inception through the present day. He considers the music''s genesis as well as the surprisingly different ways it has engaged listeners over the past eighty years, from its beginnings as state propaganda in the 1930s to showpiece for high-fidelity recording in the 1950s to open-air concert favorite in the post-Soviet 1990s.
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