Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Leo Ornstein
Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and...
Death in Winterreise
Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Lauri Suurpää brings together two rigorous methodologies, Greimassian semiotics and Schenkerian analysis, to provide a unique perspective on the expressive power of Franz Schubert's song cycle. Focusing on the final songs, Suurpää deftly combines textual and tonal analysis to reveal death as a...
by Jeremy Yudkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal...
Marcel Tabuteau
How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in 1905, by Walter Damrosch, to play with...
Remixing the Classroom
Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical "mash-up," Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teaching model that has characterized music education. By providing examples across the arts and humanities, Allsup promotes a vision of education that is open,...
Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play
Inside Two Long Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music. The release of Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973) won the...
Well-Tempered Woodwinds
Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Friedrich von Huene (1929– ) is arguably the most important manufacturer of historical woodwinds in the 20th century. Since he began making recorders in 1958, von Huene has exerted a strong influence on the craft of building woodwind instruments and on the study of instrument–making, as he has...
by James R. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth...
Howard Fast
Life and Literature in the Left Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Howard Fast's life, from a rough-and-tumble Jewish New York street kid to the rich and famous author of close to 100 books, rivals the Horatio Alger myth. Author of bestsellers such as Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road, My Glorious Brothers, and Spartacus, Fast joined the American Communist Party in...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic culture as formative of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. Leading experts and emerging scholars from...
Sonata Fragments
Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the...
Music of Azerbaijan
From Mugham to Opera
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan against...
Lou Harrison
American Musical Maverick
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
American composer Lou Harrison (1917–2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein; Living Theater founder, Judith Malina; and choreographer,...