Author : Jessica Waldoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108426891
A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.
Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1997-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139825321
This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.
Author : Toby Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108831699
This wide-ranging guide offers insights for musicians and students on how to be a composer.
Author : Matthew Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 110848915X
Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.
Author : Kristin Wendland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108838472
An innovative resource which shatters tango stereotypes to account for the genre's impact on arts, culture, and society around the world. Twenty chapters by North and South American, European, and Asian contributors, some publishing in English for the first time, collectively cover tango's history, culture, and performance practice.
Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521865824
Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners, this Companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.
Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495709
This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, religious and political contexts, and parallel developments in film, painting and music. The catastrophe of the First World War, the emergence of feminism, the race for empire, the conflict among classes: the essays show how these events and circumstances shaped aesthetic and literary experiments. In doing so, they explain clearly both the precise formal innovations in language, image, scene and tone, and the broad historical conditions of a movement that aspired to transform culture.
Author : Carla Mulford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828126
Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European counterparts in science, philosophy, and social theory. Specially commissioned chapters, written by scholars well-known in their respective fields, examine Franklin's writings and his life with a new sophistication, placing Franklin in his cultural milieu while revealing the complexities of his intellectual, literary, social, and political views. Individual chapters take up several traditional topics, such as Franklin and the American dream, Franklin and capitalism, and Franklin's views of American national character. Other chapters delve into Franklin's library and his philosophical views on morality, religion, science, and the Enlightenment and explore his continuing influence in American culture. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of American literature, history and culture.
Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316760464
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, and queer theory generate new and important discussion in illuminating ways. The volume also explores the cultural afterlife of the novel including its adaptations in various media such as drama, film, television, graphic novels, and literature aimed at children and young adults. Written by an international team of leading experts, the essays provide new insights into the novel and the various critical approaches which can be applied to it. The volume is an essential guide to students and academics who are interested in Frankenstein and who wish to know more about its complex literary history.
Author : José Antonio Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521527910
In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.
