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Sounds Beyond
Spaces beyond : an introduction -- A beginning : the Riga Polytechnic disco, 1974-76 -- Tintinnabuli and the sacred -- Ritual moments : the RPI festivals, 1976-77 -- Tallinn 1978 -- Aftersounds : Bolderāja, Sergiyev Posad, and a train to Brest-Litovsk.
Korngold and His World
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater. Today, he is best known for his Hollywood film scores, composed between 1935 and 1947.
Brahms in the Priesthood of Art
Imperatives of Purity and Sensuality -- A Post-Romantic Priest of Music -- Priestesses of Art -- The Temptation of Opera -- Ambiguities of the Priesthood -- Prostitutes, Trauma, and Biographical Hermeneutics of the Fin-de-Siècle -- Epilogue. Musical Priesthood, Canon Formation, and the Regulation of Performance.
Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History
More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital questions surrounding musicology's disciplinary identities today-the relationship between musicology and criticism, the role of the subject in analysis and the narration of history, and the responsibilities of the scholar to the listening public-originate in these conflicted and largely forgotten begin...
A Kingdom Not of This World
This book challenges prevalent understandings of elite artistic culture in fin-de-siècle Vienna by examining creative manifestations of utopian imaginings that ran counter and parallel to the cultural pessimism widely diagnosed in that society. It argues that the music and writings of Richard Wagner played a key role in inspiring such imagining, which either embraced and extended Wagner's own visions or countered them with visions that were wholly new.
Moonlighting
Moonlighting offers a new and original account of how early twentieth-century Anglo-American modernist writers were influenced by the life and music of one of modernity's most important and most celebrated figures: the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, created against the backdrop of one of Stalin's most infamous purges, is one of Shostakovich's most controversial works. It was Shostakovich's response to criticism that earned him disfavor in the eyes of officials, one that allowed him to regain artistic pride even as he won the approval necessary to regain his livelihood. This book explores this symphony in full and clues readers into secrets about it that took decades to uncover.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 22
A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.
Music in Seventeenth-century Naples
Dinko Fabris draws on newly discovered archival documents to reconstruct the career of Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) who became the leader of his musical world, despite his relatively small musical output. The book examines Provenzale's surviving works alongside those of his most important Neapolitan contemporaries. Fabris provides both a life and works study of Provenzale and a conspectus of Neapolitan musical life of the seventeenth century.
Music Sketches
This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers' sketches.
