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Still Competition
The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Following the success of his 2016 book Razama-Snaz! The Listener’s Guide to Nazareth, Robert Lawson returns with this meticulous reviewing of every Cheap Trick album, song by song. In his book, Still Competition: The Listener’s Guide to Cheap Trick, Lawson outlines the band’s significant television...
by J. Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Some years ago the world of New Testament scholarship was startled by the conversion of Adolf von Harnack[1] to the traditional view of the authorship of Luke-Acts. The book of Acts, Harnack concluded, was actually written by Luke, a companion of Paul. And what is more, it was written at about A.D....
The Symphonic Works of Leoš Janáek
From Folk Concepts to Original Style
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janáček. It codifies his compositional style, first through a thorough examination of its origins in folk music and speech-melody, then in discussions of the features of its melody and motivic techniques. His...
Classical Listening
Two Decades of Reviews from The American Record Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and classical music began to assume a place on the stage. This return to the past found its complement in the musical ascension of the American minimalists, in particular the music...
Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé
Voice, Conversation and Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
As the status of poetry became less and less certain over the course of the nineteenth century, poets such as Baudelaire and Mallarmé began to explore ways to ensure that poetry would not be overtaken by music in the hierarchy of the arts. Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of these...
Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works
Selections from Essays in Musical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
More than 100 selections from the noted musicologist's Essays in Musical Analysis cover most of the standard works in the symphonic repertory. Subjects include Beethoven's overtures and symphonies, including the author's famous study of the Ninth Symphony; all Brahms's overtures and symphonies; 11 symphonies...
Sonic Possible Worlds
Hearing the Continuum of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops “possible world theory” in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-world, to produce a meeting of the semantic...
by Elena Abramov-van Rijk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book takes its departure from an experiment presented by Vincenzo Galilei before his colleagues in the Florentine Camerata in about 1580. This event, namely the first demonstration of the stile recitativo, is known from a single later source, a letter written in 1634 by Pietro dei Bardi, son...
Wagner's Melodies
Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Since the 1840s, critics have lambasted Wagner for lacking the ability to compose melody. But for him, melody was fundamental - 'music's only form'. This incongruity testifies to the surprising difficulties during the nineteenth century of conceptualizing melody. Despite its indispensable place in...
Ethnomusicologizing
Essays on Music in the New Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
In Ethnomusicologizing: Essays on Music in the New Paradigms, composer and musicologist brings together a series of essays on music making in contemporary culture. More specifically, it focuses on the myriad ways we engage with music—as makers, as listeners, as consumers, as producers. Banfield...
by Ellen Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa....
by Kathryn Oliver Mills
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has paid insufficient attention to these authors'...
by Marc Djaballah
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on...
Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature
Musical Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music...