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| 1. |  | Title: Writing about music: a style sheet from the editors of 19th-century music Author: Holoman, D. Kern 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Music | Music Publisher's Description: How do you spell Rachmaninov?Where do you place the hyphen in Hofmannsthal if it breaks across two lines? Is it premiere or première? The answers and much more can be found in a new, essential resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers - anyone who deals with music in print. An expan . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Stravinsky and the Rite of spring: the beginnings of a musical language  Author: Van den Toorn, Pieter C 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Music | Composers Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Conventional wisdom: the content of musical form Author: McClary, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Opera Publisher's Description: Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Classical music and postmodern knowledge Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music - the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoteri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Musical meaning: toward a critical history Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues that humanistic, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Returning cycles: contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatas Author: Fisk, Charles Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers Publisher's Description: This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 Author: Reynolds, Christopher A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: In quest of spirit: thoughts on music Author: Harvey, Jonathan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | Religion Publisher's Description: The interests of the British composer Jonathan Harvey are wide and varied, embracing Christianity, Buddhism, eastern and western philosophy, aesthetics, science, and mysticism. All affect his musical thinking and are a part of this unusual and personal book, which is accompanied by a compact disc fe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The listening composer Author: Perle, George 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Contemporary Music | Composers Publisher's Description: George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music" - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Women's Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: A question of balance: Charles Seeger's philosophy of music Author: Greer, Taylor Aitken 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Musicology | Composers Publisher's Description: One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The early works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 Author: Frisch, Walter Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style.Between 1893 and 1908, Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music, and sympho . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: City culture and the madrigal at Venice Author: Feldman, Martha Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History Publisher's Description: Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels. She shows that Venice easily adapted these norms to its long-standing mythologies o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: After the lovedeath: sexual violence and the making of culture Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literature | Music Publisher's Description: This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how no . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre Author: Rosand, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | European History Publisher's Description: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete piece . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: My music is my flag: Puerto Rican musicians and their New York communities, 1917-1940 Author: Glasser, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | American Studies | Music Publisher's Description: Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Echoes from Dharamsala: music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community Author: Diehl, Keila Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Tibet | Southeast Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The Advent project: the later-seventh-century creation of the Roman Mass proper Author: McKinnon, James W 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval Studies | Classical Religions | Christianity Publisher's Description: In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long- . . . [more] Similar Items |