Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Reflections of an American Harpsichordist
Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This collection of unpublished writings by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick contains his memoirs for the period 1933-77 as well as essays on a variety of topics, including his preparation for the first performance of Elliott Carter's Double Concerto, thoughts on editing Bach's...
A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche
Life and Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Nietzsche looms over modern literature and thought; according to Gottfried Benn, "everything my generation discussed, thought through innerly; one could say: suffered; or one could even say: took to the point of exhaustion -- all of it had already been said . . . by Nietzsche; all the rest was...
From Boulanger to Stockhausen
Interviews and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. The interviewees...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in all of modern European literature. Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of a new century call for a look at the challenges facing Kafka scholarship...
Liberation Movements in Power
Party and State in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters...
South Africa - The Present as History
From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent...
Lies and Epiphanies
Composers and Their Inspiration from Wagner to Berg
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Lies and Epiphanies offers case studies of "inspiration" in five composers -- Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Richard Strauss, and Alban Berg. Their own tales of their epiphanies played a determining role in the reception history of their works: the finale of Mahler's...
The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister
The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Today the classical style is defined by the music of a handful of composers, Haydn and Mozart being the most prominent. As a result, the accomplishments of these masters have all but eclipsed the music of most of their contemporaries. In this book, Sterling Murray examines one of the most talented...
The Bjorling Sound
A Recorded Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
A half century after his death in 1960, Swedish tenor Jussi Björling remains one of the most beloved singers in the world. He spent forty-five of his forty-nine years performing in public, rapidly conquering opera-house and concert stages on both sides of the Atlantic. Along the way, he left a vast...
The Musical Novel
Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar to those of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction,...
Widor
A Life beyond the Toccata
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor. He is considered one of the greatest organists of his time, a prolific composer in nearly every genre, professor...
Gunther Schuller
A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted...
by Bálint András Varga
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences or from, say, the natural world? What influences, past and present, have influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style, and when does this degenerate into self-repetition? These are questions...
Gay Guerrilla
Julius Eastman and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that...