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Manuscript Albums and Their Cultural Contexts
Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owners form their albums as representations of their selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume's contributors - who come from musicology, European history, English literary studies, and Islamic art history - explore a set of these challenging manuscripts while addressing questions of manuscript studies through their respective disciplinary lenses. The albums under investigation range from Early Modern Stammbücher, or alba amicorum, to albums assembled jointly by nineteenth-century cultural elites, and from muraqqaʿs of the Persianate world to English and North American friendship albums, including some kept by women. This book is the first contribution to the comparative study of manuscript albums, focusing on their materiality and analysing the practices of all those involved in making and using them. Moreover, the collection introduces this hard-to-grasp type of written artefact to the field of cross-disciplinary manuscript studies and suggests albums as a touchstone for manuscriptological theories and terminologies.
Clara Schumann Studies
Develops a holistic and gender-aware understanding of Clara Schumann as pianist, composer and teacher in nineteenth-century Germany.
The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers
Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.
Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works and composers from new woman-centric perspectives. It shows how the unique environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, intersects with gender to reveal hitherto unexplored networks that challenge the methodological nationalism of music studies as well as the discipline’s continued emphasis on singular canonical figures. The main areas of enquiry address aspects of performance and identity both within the Czech lands and abroad; women’s impact on social life with a view to different private, semiprivate, and public contexts and networks; and compositional aesthetics in musical works by and about women, analysed through the lens of piano works, song, choir music, and opera, always with the reception of these works in mind.
Music in the Present Tense
In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici’s new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer’s works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the...
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics. 24 international specialists in music and migration set methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41 keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and mi...
The Songs of Johanna Kinkel
Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sources surrounding Kinkel, this book explores the extent to which Kinkel's Lieder reflect and transcend compositional-aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political facets typically associated with the first half of the nineteenth century.
Proust's Songbook
In Proust’s Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead of focusing on instrumental music and large-scale forms such as symphonies and opera, as is common in Proust musical studies, Rushworth argues for the centrality of songs and lyrics in Proust’s opus. Her work analyzes the ways in which the author inserted songs at key turning points in his novel and how he drew inspiration from contemporary composers and theorists of song. Rushworth presents detailed readings of five moments of song in À la recherche du temps perdu, highlighting the songs’ significanc...
Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) steht seit zwei Jahrzehnten wieder verstärkt im Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Seine multinationale Identität, seine multidisziplinäre Karriere als Geiger, Komponist, Pädagoge, seine rege internationale Konzerttätigkeit sowie seine Aktivitäten als Mitglied verschiedener kultureller Sphären werden in diesem Band erstmals aus einer pluralistischen, zweisprachigen Perspektive diskutiert.Die Beiträge stellen Joachims Rolle innerhalb seiner verschiedenen (inter)nationalen und persönlichen Netzwerke ins Zentrum. Unter Hinzuziehung erstmals ausgewerteter Archivquellen bieten sie neue Perspektiven auf sein performatives und kompositorisches Schaffen wie auch seine pä...
Musik im Blick
Auditive und visuelle Kulturen korrespondieren miteinander. Immer wieder begegnen wir Künstlerinnen und Künstlern, die sich beiden Bereichen verbunden fühlen, sich ebenso auditiv wie visuell ausdrücken. Zudem lebt die Musikgeschichte von faszinierenden Beziehungen zu den bildenden Künsten, motiviert durch zeitgenössische Diskussionen, Parallelbegabungen oder synästhetische Veranlagungen einzelner. Die musikwissenschaftliche Forschung entwickelt derzeit ein immer stärkeres Interesse daran über visuelle Elemente in auditiven Kulturen nachzudenken, konkret etwa Bilder als Quellen der Musikgeschichte zu nutzen, (graphische) Notationsformen zu analysieren oder zum Verhältnis von bewegte...
