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Tears into Wine
J. S. Bach's Cantata 21 in its Musical and Theological Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In 1714, the 29 year-old Johann Sebastian Bach was promoted to the position of concertmaster at the ducal court of Weimar. This post required him for the first time in his already established career to produce a regular stream of church cantatas-one cantata every four weeks. Among the most significant...
Changing the Score
Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning...
Alban Berg
Music as Autobiography- Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner biography of its creator. Accordingly,...
Music as Message
An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents...
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes
Studies in Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional...
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century
Translated by Neil K. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner were crucial...
by Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The Spanish Republican exile of 1939 impacted music as much as it did literature and academia, with well-known figures such as Adolfo Salazar and Roberto Gerhard forced to leave Spain. Exile is typically regarded as a discontinuity - an irreparable dissociation between the home country and the host...
Innovation in Five Acts
Strategies for Theatre and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Editor Caridad Svich has gathered forty-three essays from admired theater professionals that comprise a volume of inspiring and innovative techniques for creating theater. Inside are words of wisdom and advice from experienced playwrights, directors, performers, teachers, dramaturgs, artistic directors...
by Joseph Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain...
Questions of Possibility
Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
Questions of Possibility examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the new possibilities they discover and the traditions they find unimaginable. By means of close attention to...
Screen Stories
Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about each other with respect or disdain? The stories that we convey on screens, or what author Carl Plantinga...
The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence...
Rowing in Eden
Rereading Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Emily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her work, general readers and literary scholars...
Postethnic Narrative Criticism
Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers...