This study examines François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer of the masterpiece La Dame blanche. Collaborating with dramatist Eugène Scribe, he stimulated the flowering of the Romantic opéra-comique. Based on Sir Walter Scott, his work influenced composers across Europe, even Wagner.
(Per)Forming Art
Primarily engaging with music of the 20th and 21st centuries, this volume centres on performance as a compositional technique and a mode of work composition research. It addresses how performance and composition are reciprocally entwined and their role in creative practice today.
The Intertwining of Culture and Music
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary provides a collection of portraits of the greatest singers of the French language and describes how they have contributed to the musical landscape in both France and the larger francophone community and the world as a whole.
Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems
One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.
Paradigm War
This book explores 19th-century Europe’s piano pedagogy, a “paradigm war” between mechanism and holism. It shows how Robert Schumann’s revolutionary music and ideas resolved this conflict, creating a foundation for artistic piano pedagogy for our time.
‘I, Me, Mine?’
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
Choral Singing
What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.
Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
Nationality vs Universality
This publication deals with the history of music as a way of representing historical memory and as an instrument of shaping society’s present. It offers fascinating reading for anyone interested in the mechanisms that shape notions of the musical past.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.
Music and/as Process brings together innovative scholars to explore music as a dynamic process. Covering composition, performance, and analysis, these forward-thinking essays challenge the traditional concept of the musical ‘work’ and bring the practitioner to the foreground.
A Symphony of Flavors
Explore the rich connections between music and food across global cultures and history. This multidisciplinary collection reveals how sound and taste have shaped our emotions, values, and identities, viewed through musicology, anthropology, and more.
Music and Minorities from Around the World
The study of music has become an important gateway into understanding the culture of minorities. This volume attends to Jewish themes, with authors from four continents. Its global scope and varied approaches represent the broad range of modern ethnomusicology.
Reinventing Sound
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and 21st centuries through the work of six women composers. It integrates cultural contexts with their biographies and provides in-depth analyses of how they developed their own distinctly personal musical styles.
This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage
The role of scents in opera and its influence on perfumery has long been neglected. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the previously undiscussed connection between the two, revealing their ultimate marriage in Operatic Perfumes.
Once the leader of the French school of opera, admired by Wagner and Berlioz, Fromental Halévy is now remembered only for La Juive. This study throws light on this shadowy figure, examining his life, his many popular but forgotten operas, and their place in history.
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