The Musical Topic

The Musical Topic
Author: Raymond Monelle
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006-09-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253112362

The Musical Topic discusses three tropes prominently featured in Western European music: the hunt, the military, and the pastoral. Raymond Monelle provides an in-depth cultural and historical study of musical topics -- short melodic figures, harmonic or rhythmic formulae carrying literal or lexical meaning -- through consideration of their origin, thematization, manifestation, and meaning. The Musical Topic shows the connections of musical meaning to literature, social history, and the fine arts.

A Complete History of Music

A Complete History of Music
Author: W.J Baltzell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752405325

Reproduction of the original: A Complete History of Music by W.J Baltzell

Jean Langlais

Jean Langlais
Author: Ann Labounsky
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781574670547

"All these aspects of his life and art, including the rigorous training and arduous practice that transformed a blind peasant boy into a superb musician, his lifelong friendship with Olivier Messiaen, his sometimes turbulent family life, and the body of works he left - only J. S. Bach wrote more compositions for the organ - are narrated and analyzed by Ann Labounsky, who is uniquely qualified to write this definitive biography. A favorite Langlais pupil, she was asked by Langlais himself to write it and had his full cooperation for numerous long interviews over many years."--BOOK JACKET.

Musicology and Dance

Musicology and Dance
Author: Davinia Caddy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781108469951

Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.