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Author : Emily MacGregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009172783
Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.
Author : Emily MacGregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009187565
The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.
Author : Jamie L. Reuland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009424998
Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination.
Author : Annika Forkert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009337359
Unlocks new perspectives on twentieth-century British music, charting Lutyens and Clark's influential and controversial contributions to composition, performance, appreciation, and education.
Author : Stephen Rodgers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108998598
Focusing on Clara Schumann's central contributions to the genre of the Lied (or German art song), this is the first book-length critical study of her songs. Although relatively few in number, they were published and reviewed favorably in the press during her lifetime, and they continue to be programmed regularly in recitals by professional and amateur performers alike. Highlighting the powerful and distinctive features of the songs, the book treats them as a prism, casting light not just on them but also through them to explore questions that foster a deeper understanding of the work of female composers. The author argues for the importance of taking Clara Schumann's music on its own terms, the intimate relationship between text and musical form, and the vital role of musical analysis in recuperating the contributions of previously understudied composers.
Author : Roseen Giles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009355346
Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language.
Author : Anne Hyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009210928
A fresh analytical and musicological exploration of Schubert's incorporation of lyric elements into sonata form by way of his string quartets.
Author : Liang Luo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472052172
Provides a new perspective on the Chinese avant-garde through the figure of artist and activist Tian Han
Author : David Trippett,Benjamin Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107111257
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393881257
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”
Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300154313
DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div
Author : British Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B4325003
Author : Katerina Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674062894
In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today-transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.
Author : Laura Hamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108470285
An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.
Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108416368
This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.