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Celebrating the American Musicological Society at Seventy-five
"The present volume commemorates [AMS's 75th anniversary] by offering essays ... delivered at the 13 November 2009 Presidential Forum [at the AMS 75th-anniversary annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.], photographs taken at the event, and selections from the AMS Archives displayed at the meeting. It also presents the anniversary essay by James Haar originally commissioned for [this book] as well as appendices containing complete listings of past boards of directors, honorary and corresponding members, editors-in-chiefs of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, annual meetings, Society award winners, fellowship recipients, and books published by the AMS"--P. 9.
Keys to Play
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.
Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology
A giant in the development of American musicology, Charles Seeger was a scholar- musician active in practically all areas of musical endeavor. This wide-ranging collection investigates Seeger's writings on music, musical research, and the responsibility of the musician and musicologist to society. A social activist who played a leadership role in the Composers Collective in 1930s New York and in the founding of scholarly organizations including the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, Seeger was a philosopher as well as a builder. His ideas about music and musicology, incorporating perspectives as wide-ranging as physics, philosophy, and anthropology, set the s...
Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.
