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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.
In 1896, when sixteen, the Australian/American pianist/composer Percy Grainger came into contact with the works of Rudyard Kipling and in so doing found his own creative voice. Over the course of the next fifty years, he would create 46 settings of Kipling texts in which he captured the sense of underlying purpose and deeper meanings in a manner unique among musical settings of Kipling’s verse. In particular, his twelve settings from the Kipling “Jungle Book” Cycle convey a symbolical message of universalism, brotherhood, and the individuation of the human psyche. In this study, Grainger’s Kipling settings are taken as a microcosm of his compositional works as a whole, reflecting the roots of his art and mirroring his essential stylistic traits. Further than that, it is an attempt to spur a revaluation of both men’s art in the light of their professed humanitarian ideals.
This anthology of Ukrainian carols is a prism through which Ukraine’s history, culture, and vibrant spirit are revealed. It includes the original “Carol of the Bells,” music scores, translations, and the gripping narratives of choral activism that helped a nation survive.
Sonic Mediations is a collection of essays that invites readers to rethink mediation by examining the relationships between the body, sound, and technology. It addresses key questions about performance, perception, and the role of the listener.
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.
The first major book to apply the timely notion of “glocality” to music, it offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of global forces with local conditions.
This collection of essays provides valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome.
Ludwig Minkus is one of music’s biggest mysteries. An influential composer for Imperial Russia’s ballet, he was scorned by critics. Now his works Don Quixote and La Bayadère are taking the world by surprise. This study discovers the man behind the powerful music.
Pauline Viardot was a seminal 19th-century opera singer, composer, and teacher whose friends included Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner. Loved by Ivan Turgenev, she was a fascinating woman at the heart of her age. This volume covers her later years.
Esteemed composer Jennifer Higdon writes fascinating and profound choral music. This book explores her works, citing the extensive relationship of the music to the texts. It presents compositional characteristics, analysis, and insights directly from the composer.
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.
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.
Creative genius Percy Grainger documented his life to explore how music can uplift humankind. This book is the first to detail his life and music using his own words, unpublished documents, and musical examples in a study that is both accessible and detailed.
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