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Berlioz and His World
A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner’s estimation, he hovered as a “transient, marvelous exception,” a composer woefully and willfully isolated. In the assessment of German composer Ferdinand Hiller, he was a fleeting comet who “does not belong in our musical solar system,” the likes of whom would never be seen again. For his contemporaries, as for later critics, Berlioz was simply too strange—and too noisy, too loud, too German, too literary, too cavalier with genre an...
The Age of Intoxication
Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term "drug" encompassed everything from herbs and spices—like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile—to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arsenic. In The Age of Intoxication, Benjamin Breen offers a window into a time when drugs were not yet separated into categories—illicit and licit, recreational and medicinal, modern and traditional—and there was no barrier between the drug dealer and the pharmacist. Focusing on the Portuguese col...
Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Tuning the World
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In t...
The Science-Music Borderlands
Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scientific methods and approaches to advance our understanding of music and musicality have not yet grappled with some of the perils that humanistic fields concentrating on music have long articulated. In this edited volume, established and emerging researchers—neuroscientists and cognitive scientists, musicians, historical musicologists, and ethnomusicologists—build bridges between humanistic and scientific approaches to music studies, particularly music psychology. Deftly edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loug...
The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London
An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.
The Haydn Economy
Introduction. Ringing coins; Haydn and the city; Media, motion, connection; Commerce, interest, objects, work, value -- Commerce. Importation of Haydn, Warehouse aesthetics; Mobility and credit; A resonant world; New addresses; Music before the cliché -- Interest. Taking note(s); Psychic investments; Disinterest and boredom; Making musical interest; The fate of interest -- Objects. Little boxes; Pursuit of objects; Objects, animals, people; Haydn's musical objects; Surface fantasies -- Work. Chapel master, chapel servant; Liberty, work, stress; The work of comedy; Work, property, works; The creation concept; The industry concept; Working concepts -- Epilogue: Value (1808). Of time and fashion; Romantic infrastructures; Haydn recalled; Gold is a mighty thing.
Sounding Human
An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories o...
Divine Institutions
"How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic. Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Dan-el Padilla Peralta places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the fourth and third centuries BCE, a time when the Roman state significantly expanded and diversified. Blending the latest advances in archaeology with innovative sociological and anthropological methods, this incisive book overcomes many of the evidentiary hurdles that for so long have impeded research into this pivotal period in Rome's history. Divine institutions reconstructs the scale and social costs of these religious practices and reveals how religious obserrvance emerged as an indispensable strategy for bringing Romans of many different backgrounds to the center, both physically and symbolically."--Back cover.
Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
Combating two centuries of sexism, this radical overview of Staël in context reveals a major player in Revolution and Romanticism.
