Verdi and the Germans

Gundula Kreuzer

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 26
• This seminal study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from th... Lees meer

Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy

Giuseppe Gerbino

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 18
• The idea that there was a time when men and women lived in perfect harmony with nature and with themselves, though rooted in classical antiquity, was ... Lees meer

Monteverdi's Unruly Women

Bonnie Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 14
• Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing... Lees meer

The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven

Richard Will

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 7
• Characteristic symphonies have texts associating them with literature, politics, religion, and other aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centu... Lees meer

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

Francesca Brittan

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 27
• The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implicat... Lees meer

Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

Francesca Brittan

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 27
• The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implicat... Lees meer

Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora

Brigid Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 23
• The German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agit... Lees meer

Portrait of a Castrato

Roger Freitas

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 19
• This book explores the fascinating life of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century. Born in 1626 into a bourgeois family in Pistoia, I... Lees meer

Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity

Adam Krims

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 5
• This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically. Whereas a great deal of popular music scholarship dismisses music... Lees meer

Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought

Alexander Rehding

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 11
• Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) is generally acknowledged as the most important musicologist of his age. By analyzing his musical thought within the turn-of-... Lees meer

Music and the Origins of Language

Downing A Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 2
• The search for the origins of language was one of the most pressing philosophical issues of the eighteenth century. It has escaped notice, however, th... Lees meer

Schoenberg and Redemption

Julie Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal w... Lees meer

Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel

Emma Dillon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 9
• This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript. It sets the manuscript against the wider culture of Parisian bo... Lees meer

The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque

Annette Richards

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 6
• This book brings together music and visual arts, especially the art of landscape gardening, in the context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-ce... Lees meer

Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara

Laurie Stras

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 28
• The musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind closed doors at th... Lees meer

Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music

David Metzer

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 12
• Musicians frequently incorporated portions of works by other musicians into their own compositions and performances throughout the twentieth century. ... Lees meer

Portrait of a Castrato

Roger Freitas

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 19
• This book explores the fascinating life of the most documented musician of the seventeenth century. Born in 1626 into a bourgeois family in Pistoia, I... Lees meer

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon

Phyllis Weliver

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential politi... Lees meer

Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought

Holly Watkins

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 21
• What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely em... Lees meer

Political Beethoven

Nicholas Mathew

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Musicians, music lovers and music critics have typically considered Beethoven's overtly political music as an aberration; at best, it is merely notori... Lees meer

Embodied Voices

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 1
• Embodied Voices explores cultural manifestations of feminine vocality in the light of current theories of subjectivity, the body, and sexual differenc... Lees meer

The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven

Richard Will

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 7
• Characteristic symphonies have texts associating them with literature, politics, religion, and other aspects of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centu... Lees meer

The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'

Matthew Gelbart

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism | nr. 16
• We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we ca... Lees meer

Political Beethoven

Nicholas Mathew

• Hardcover | Engels | New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Musicians, music lovers and music critics have typically considered Beethoven's overtly political music as an aberration; at best, it is merely notori... Lees meer