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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.
This is a collection of essays by composers, musicologists and performers about different aesthetic, practical, psychological, spiritual and historical aspects of contemporary art music (also known as new music, contemporary music or contemporary classical). Papers touch upon the way this often abstract and conceptual music is heard, different means (both acoustic and electronic) of creating and tuning it, and different ways of expressing the self and cultural relationships through it. This book will be useful to music enthusiasts, performers, composers and researchers alike. Two complete scores are included, which were selected for recognition by the academic committee of the symposium at Nanhua University at which earlier versions of these papers initially appeared. The chapter on the representation of Taiwan at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses provides the first research into this topic available in English.
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.
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