This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of "nation" embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that at...
Inventor-Musicae Yearly Bulletin (2014) (Inventor-Musicae, #1)
by Mehmet Okonsar
From Jazz to Swing (Jazz History, Culture & Criticism S.) (Jazz History, Culture & Criticism)
by Thomas Hennessey
In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society of the ninteenth century to the mass-produced, mass-consumed technological culture of the twentieth century.Making use of the files of African American newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, as well as published and archival oral history interviews, Hennessey explores the contradictions that musicians...
A photographic story of the New York City Ballet's production of Shakespeare's fantasy of the misadventures of fairies and mortals.
About Bach
That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so immense that it can be difficult to grasp. In About Bach, fifteen scholars show that Bach's importance extends from choral to orchestral music, from sacred music to musical parodies, and also to his scribes and students, his predecessors and successors. Further, the contributors demonstrate a diversity of musicological approaches, ranging from close studies of...
Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Karl Heinz Ditze-Preis der Universitat Hamburg ausgezeichnet. Obwohl Gustav Mahlers Entwurf zu einer Zehnten Symphonie im Particell durchgehend ausgefuhrt ist, galten grosse Teile des Instrumentalwerks lange als skizzenhaft und unfertig. Die grundliche Analyse des Notentextes zeigt nun, dass die Form aller funf Satze wie auch der Gesamtanlage symphonisch ausgestaltet ist. Mahler entwickelte in diesem Werk nicht nur seine motivische Variantentechnik weiter, sondern hat...
The Palace of Eternal Youth (Library of Chinese Classics)