Diversity in Australia’s Music
Themes Past, Present, and for the Future
This volume showcases the rich diversity of music in Australia from colonial times to the present. Starting with an overview of developments during the past 50 years, the contributions discuss both Western and non-western genres and the history of music-making in the country.
This volume showcases the rich diversity of music in Australia from colonial times to the present. Starting with an overview of developments during the past 50 years, the contributions discuss both Western and non-western genres and the history of music-making in the country.
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A documentary collection of narrations, correspondence, and concert reviews, translated from Albanian. The author creates a portrait of their parents, singers Tefta and Kristo, reflecting not just their art but the cultural and intellectual view of an entire era.
A documentary collection of narrations, correspondence, and concert reviews, translated from Albanian. The author creates a portrait of their parents, singers Tefta and Kristo, reflecting not just their art but the cultural and intellectual view of an entire era.
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This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
The Complete Libretti in Eleven Volumes (in the Original and in English Translations by Richard Arsenty with Introductions by Robert Ignatius Letellier)
This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama's voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.
This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama’s voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.
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Letellier delves into the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since.
Letellier delves into the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since.
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Essays on Music, Politics and Resistance
Sounding Empowerment
This volume explores the relationship between music, power, and politics. Going beyond protest, it reveals how music serves as a tool for empowerment and social justice, helping marginalized communities establish a voice, foster identity, and shape new political realities.
This volume explores the relationship between music, power, and politics. Going beyond protest, it reveals how music serves as a tool for empowerment and social justice, helping marginalized communities establish a voice, foster identity, and shape new political realities.
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Essays on Traditional and Avant-Garde Composers
Shifting Paradigms and Multifaceted Identities
Essays by composers and performers on contemporary art music. Gain insights into the creative process and the composer-audience relationship. Includes four scores and valuable perspectives by Han Chinese writers, with information rarely available in English.
Essays by composers and performers on contemporary art music. Gain insights into the creative process and the composer-audience relationship. Includes four scores and valuable perspectives by Han Chinese writers, with information rarely available in English.
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This book bridges the gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. It moves beyond the idea of theory as rigid and creativity as wild, providing a discussion of the creative drive in theory and how these ideas shape performance through illuminating examples.
This book bridges the gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. It moves beyond the idea of theory as rigid and creativity as wild, providing a discussion of the creative drive in theory and how these ideas shape performance through illuminating examples.
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This book analyzes how the use of English loanwords in German-language rap changed from 1990 to 2020. Based on the discographies of rappers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, it compares linguistic trends across the German-speaking world.
This book analyzes how the use of English loanwords in German-language rap changed from 1990 to 2020. Based on the discographies of rappers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, it compares linguistic trends across the German-speaking world.
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Composers and Musicologists on the Present and Future of Art Music
Crossing into Distance
A collection of essays by composers, musicologists, and performers on contemporary art music. This book explores aesthetic, practical, and psychological aspects of new music—from how it is heard and created to its cultural expression. Includes two complete scores.
A collection of essays by composers, musicologists, and performers on contemporary art music. This book explores aesthetic, practical, and psychological aspects of new music—from how it is heard and created to its cultural expression. Includes two complete scores.
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This book reimagines Dido and Aeneas as a site of cultural memory, tracing how artists and audiences have reshaped its meaning across boundaries. It reveals how Dido’s lament continues to be significant precisely because it is never the same.
This book reimagines Dido and Aeneas as a site of cultural memory, tracing how artists and audiences have reshaped its meaning across boundaries. It reveals how Dido’s lament continues to be significant precisely because it is never the same.
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The Essential Grainger
Percy Grainger's Kipling Settings
Percy Grainger found his creative voice in Rudyard Kipling’s works, creating musical settings that captured their deeper meanings. This study uses these settings as a microcosm of Grainger's art, spurring a revaluation of both men in light of their humanitarian ideals.
Percy Grainger found his creative voice in Rudyard Kipling’s works, creating musical settings that captured their deeper meanings. This study uses these settings as a microcosm of Grainger’s art, spurring a revaluation of both men in light of their humanitarian ideals.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
'Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen'
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast is based on an Arabian Nights tale. Championed by Weber for its delicate instrumentation, it shows astonishing maturity for a composer of twenty-one, using recurrent themes to present the plot’s conflict before Wagner.
Meyerbeer’s opera Wirt und Gast is based on an Arabian Nights tale. Championed by Weber for its delicate instrumentation, it shows astonishing maturity for a composer of twenty-one, using recurrent themes to present the plot’s conflict before Wagner.
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EIN FELDLAGER IN SCHLESIEN
Singspiel in drei Aufzügen In Lebensbildern aus der Zeit Friedrich den Großen
Composed in 1844 for the King of Prussia, Meyerbeer's patriotic opera *Feldlager* was a success confined to Berlin. Yet its music achieved global fame, with melodies adapted for the ballet *Les Patineurs*, known by many ignorant of their true source.
Composed in 1844 for the King of Prussia, Meyerbeer’s patriotic opera *Feldlager* was a success confined to Berlin. Yet its music achieved global fame, with melodies adapted for the ballet *Les Patineurs*, known by many ignorant of their true source.
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Robert le Diable
The Facsimile
In *Robert le Diable*, Meyerbeer saw man divided between the angel and the devil. Its sensational 1831 première became the principal expression of French Romanticism. This facsimile of the long-lost manuscript reveals the creation of a work that changed opera.
In *Robert le Diable*, Meyerbeer saw man divided between the angel and the devil. Its sensational 1831 première became the principal expression of French Romanticism. This facsimile of the long-lost manuscript reveals the creation of a work that changed opera.
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The Canterbury Catch Club 1826
Music in the Frame
In 1825, a lithograph was commissioned to celebrate a Canterbury musical society. This book analyzes that image and, using unique archives, uncovers a contradictory history where the respectable coexisted with the libertine and culture was a strategic assertion of identity.
In 1825, a lithograph was commissioned to celebrate a Canterbury musical society. This book analyzes that image and, using unique archives, uncovers a contradictory history where the respectable coexisted with the libertine and culture was a strategic assertion of identity.
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The Viennese operetta masterpiece *Der Seekadett* delighted audiences for 80 years. This book restores the lost work, presenting the complete libretto in English, German, French, and Italian. The story features humour, romance, a deadly duel, and a chess game with live figures.
The Viennese operetta masterpiece *Der Seekadett* delighted audiences for 80 years. This book restores the lost work, presenting the complete libretto in English, German, French, and Italian. The story features humour, romance, a deadly duel, and a chess game with live figures.
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The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies
This book lays the foundations for learning about the fandango, an 18th century dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas. It describes how the dance became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance and people and how it signified freedom of movement and expression.
This book lays the foundations for learning about the fandango, an 18th century dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas. It describes how the dance became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance and people and how it signified freedom of movement and expression.
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Operetta
A Sourcebook, Volume I
From Offenbach's Paris to the Vienna of Strauss and Lehár, operetta flourished. This source book presents an overview of the genre, tracing its history to modern musical comedy with composer biographies, a chronology, and selected synopses.
From Offenbach’s Paris to the Vienna of Strauss and Lehár, operetta flourished. This source book presents an overview of the genre, tracing its history to modern musical comedy with composer biographies, a chronology, and selected synopses.
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Symbol and Metaphor in Opera
The Power and the Glory
This study examines symbolism throughout the history of opera, from its mythological roots to contemporary works. It analyzes how allegory, metaphor, and imagery impart the enduring mystic and meaning of this rich genre, while reflecting on its future.
This study examines symbolism throughout the history of opera, from its mythological roots to contemporary works. It analyzes how allegory, metaphor, and imagery impart the enduring mystic and meaning of this rich genre, while reflecting on its future.
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