UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice Author: Heller, Wendy Beth Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| European Studies \| Opera \| Classical Music \| Women's Studies \| Classical Literature and Language \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality - was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological wom . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Russian opera and the symbolist movement Author: Morrison, Simon Alexander 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Opera \| Musicology \| Composers \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth ce . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush years Author: Martin, George Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| History \| Opera \| Composers \| American Studies \| California and the West \| European History Publisher's Description: Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 Author: Everist, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Opera \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to t . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	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.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater Author: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Contemporary Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Opera \| Musicology \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paul Bowles on music Author: Bowles, Paul 1910- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Composers \| Contemporary Music \| American Literature \| Film Publisher's Description: "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself f . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Musicology and difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarship Author: Solie, Ruth A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Women's Studies \| Men and Masculinity \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Western music and its others: difference, representation, and appropriation in music Author: Born, Georgina Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology \| Postcolonial Studies \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how mus . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Race music: black cultures from bebop to hip-hop Author: Ramsey, Guthrie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| American Studies \| Popular Music \| United States History \| Ethnomusicology \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gathe . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Proof through the night: music and the great war Author: Watkins, Glenn 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| American Music \| European History \| United States History Publisher's Description: Carols floating across no-man's-land on Christmas Eve 1914; solemn choruses, marches, and popular songs responding to the call of propaganda ministries and war charities; opera, keyboard suites, ragtime, and concertos for the left hand - all provided testimony to the unique power of music to chronic . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	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
18.	Requires cookie*	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justice Author: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law \| Philosophy \| Ethics \| Social and Political Thought \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans u . . . [more] Similar Items