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Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the "secret" of large-scale form in Wagner's music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts.
Songs, Scribes, and Society explores the cultural and musical importance of five 15th-century Chansonniers - personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated songbooks - from the Loire Valley of France. Author Jane Alden treats the Chansonniers as physical artifacts to reveal their cultural context and its relationship to their commission, creation, and use.
The earliest surviving hautboy solo is a Symphonia by Johann Christoph Pez from the 1690s or early 1700s. This piece survives in two versions, as a Sonata for violin and a Symphonia for hautboy, and the differences between the two enable a comparison of how Pez viewed the character and technical capabilities of each instrument. The purpose of this edition is to show how Pez’s Symphonia can be used as a template to find other works that might become hautboy solos (treble/bass) from the last third or so of the seventeenth century when the instrument came into use. Thus Pez points the way to a seventeenth-century practice that the author demonstrates in four contemporary pieces by writing out...
Who originally authored the anonymous, undated French manuscript Traité d'accompagnement et de composition? Carla E. Williams tackles this mystery while providing the first English translation of this rare manuscript, which resides in the collections of the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington. A Case for Charpentier presents a side-by-side transcription and translation of the treatise along with an introduction that offers historical context. In the manuscript itself, late 17th-century and early 18th-century writers discuss principal musical elements of composition including major and minor modes, the fundamental chords of both modes, dissonances and consonances, meter, tempo, a...
Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production, with new productions of works not heard since the nineteenth century taking their place in the modern repertory. This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced ...
With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on ...
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus dem Nachlass, gehen seinen Träumen und Phantasien nach, verfolgen seine Spuren als Maler, diskutieren seine Theaterprojekte, erläutern seine Beziehung zur Musik und vergegenwärtigen ihn als Politiker. Lektüren, die diesen unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen Rechnung tragen, bringen pointiert neue Erkenntnisse in die Auseinandersetzung mit Gottfried Keller und seinem Werk ein.
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Nel campo della bibliografia musicale e della documentazione della musica esistono attualmente pochissimi testi monografici in lingua italiana e comunque o non aggiornati, o dedicati solo a singoli settori della materia, oppure fuori commercio. Il volume intende colmare la lacuna, tenuto conto che la disciplina è divenuta oggi materia obbligatoria di insegnamento nei Conservatori di Stato e mancando sostanzialmente manuali di sintesi aggiornati alle risorse di rete nel campo specialistico della bibliografia e biblioteconomia musicale. La disciplina è stata affrontata in modo introduttivo e complessivo, a guisa di manuale, considerando sia gli aspetti legati al mondo dell'informazione bibliografica musicale in rete e su cartaceo, che i centri di ricerca e le istituzioni musicali o con fondi musicali, sia infine le questioni legate al profilo dei documenti musicali, alle tipologie di musica manoscritta e a stampa e alle peculiarità nel trattamento di analisi bibliografica dovuto a questi particolarissimi documenti.