The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume I
Author: Mary Sue Morrow
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 918
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253072131

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and colleagues collaborate to complete the work that he began on this critical period of development in symphonic history. The work follows Brown's outline, is organized by country, and focuses on major composers. It includes a four-chapter overview and concludes with a reframing of the symphonic narrative. Contributors address issues of historiography, the status of research, and questions of attribution and stylistic traits, and provide background material on the musical context of composition and early performances. The volume features a CD of recordings from the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra, highlighting the largely unavailable repertoire discussed in the book.

String Quartets

String Quartets
Author: Mara Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135848343

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on online links, databases, and references.

Music Preferred

Music Preferred
Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 920
Release: 2018-05-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 399012403X

The contributions to this Festschrift, honouring the distinguished Irish musicologist Harry White on his sixtieth birthday, have wide repercussions and span a broad timeframe. But for all its variety, this volume is built around two axes: on the one hand, attention is focussed on the history of music and literature in Ireland and the British Isles, and on the other, topics of the German and Austrian musical past. In both cases it reflects the particular interest of a scholar, whose playful, sometimes unconventional way of approaching his subject is so refreshing and time and again leads to innovative, surprising insights. It also reflects a scholar, who – for all the broadening of his perspectives that has taken place over the years – has always adhered to the strands of his scholarly preoccupations that have become dear to him: the music of the 'Austro-Italian Baroque', and Irish musical culture first and foremost. An international cast of authors announces the sustaining influence of Harry White's wide-ranging research. Professor Dr Thomas Hochradner Chair of the Department of Musicology University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum Salzburg

Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art

Word Art + Gesture Art = Tone Art
Author: Hanns-Werner Heister
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2023-03-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3031201094

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communication alike. Presenting an in-depth systematical and historical analysis of the evolution of word and gesture art, it gives extensive information on the anthropological, biological, and physiological influences and interactions in music and beyond. The book gives a unique definition of the genuinely vocal and instrumental from their generative deep structure: They derive from and are determined in their production by the duality of voice and hands, and in terms of product as the tone or ‘tonal’ on the one hand, and the percussive, that is noise plus rhythm, on the other. This book succeeds in bringing together perspectives from art, and from natural and social sciences, merging them to offer new explanations about the relationship between the vocal and instrumental, and eventually about the origins of music, arts, and language. It offers new perspectives on the intertwining between the vocal and the instrumental, specifically in the context of the expressions of human languages. At the same time, this book aims at clarifying and explaining the role of words and gestures in different contexts, such as society and communication, education, and arts.

Music's Intellectual History

Music's Intellectual History
Author: Zdravko Blažeković
Publisher: Rilm
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Personalities: music scholars. Personalities: composers. National studies. Encyclopedias. Periodicals. Historiography & its directions

D'une scène à l'autre, l'opéra italien en Europe: Les pérégrinations d'un genre

D'une scène à l'autre, l'opéra italien en Europe: Les pérégrinations d'un genre
Author: Damien Colas
Publisher: Editions Mardaga
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2009
Genre: Opera
ISBN: 2870099924

Dès sa naissance au XVIIe siècle, l'opéra italien se répand sur tout le continent grâce à un réseau de production internationale, forgeant l'identité du genre lyrique qui devint un patrimoine artistique commun, cultivé par des générations de compositeurs aux origines et formations différentes. Les contributions réunies ici étudient ce patrimoine cuturel européen.

International Relations, Music and Diplomacy

International Relations, Music and Diplomacy
Author: Frédéric Ramel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-01-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319631632

This volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective. Throughout history, diplomats have gathered for musical events, and musicians have served as national representatives. Whatever political unit is under consideration (city-states, empires, nation-states), music has proven to be a component of diplomacy, its ceremonies, and its strategies. Following the recent acoustic turn in IR theory, the authors explore the notion of “musical diplomacies” and ask whether and how it differs from other types of cultural diplomacy. Accordingly, sounds and voices are dealt with in acoustic terms but are not restricted to music per se, also taking into consideration the voices (speech) of musicians in the international arena. Read an interview with the editors here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/content/international-relations-music-and-diplomacy-sounds-and-voices-international-stage

Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony

Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony
Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1995-11-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521456845

A clear piece of musical criticism analysing the formal aspects of Beethoven's 6th symphony. Reviewed as very readable.