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Musical Landscapes in Color
Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield's acclaimed
collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of
forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a
candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and
compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has
existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on
sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular
musical forms like blues and jazz to provide a frame for the
artists' achievements and help to illuminate the ongoing progress
and struggles against industry barriers. Expanded illustrations and
a new preface by the author provide invaluable added context,
making this new edition an essential companion for anyone
interested in Black composers or contemporary classical music.
Composers featured: Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie
Beckon Alston, Thomas J. Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris
Baiocchi, David Baker, William C. Banfield, Ysaye Maria Barnwell,
Billy Childs, Noel DaCosta, Anthony Davis, George Duke, Leslie
Dunner, Donal Fox, Adolphus Hailstork, Jester Hairston, Herbie
Hancock, Jonathan Holland, Anthony Kelley, Wendell Logan, Bobby
McFerrin, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Jeffrey Mumford, Gary Powell Nash,
Stephen Newby, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Michael Powell, Patrice
Rushen, George Russell, Kevin Scott, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Hale
Smith, Billy Taylor, Frederick C. Tillis, George Walker, James Kimo
Williams, Julius Williams, Tony Williams, Olly Wilson, and Michael
Woods
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Music and Exile
Fresh research on the experiences of music and musicians in exile from Nazi Europe, exploring refugee experiences in Europe, the USA, Australia and Shanghai, the role of institutions, and the reception of individual creative work during and after the Second World War.
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George Frederick Bristow
As American classical music struggled for recognition in the
mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of
its most energetic champions and practitioners. Katherine K.
Preston explores the life and works of a figure admired in his own
time and credited today with producing the first American grand
opera and composing important works that ranged from oratorios to
symphonies to chamber music. Preston reveals Bristow's passion for
creating and promoting music, his skills as a businessman and
educator, the respect paid him by contemporaries and students, and
his tireless work as both a composer and in-demand performer. As
she examines Bristow against the backdrop of the music scene in New
York City, Preston illuminates the little-known creative and
performance culture that he helped define and create. Vivid and
richly detailed, George Frederick Bristow enriches our
perceptions of musical life in nineteenth-century America.
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Film Music in the Sound Era
Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927-2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film.
This guide is published in two volumes:
Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films.
Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the Industry.
A complete index is included in each volume.
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Poulenc
An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music Francis Poulenc is a key figure in twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although associated with five other French composers in what came to be called \"Les Six\", Poulenc was very muchsui generis in personality and in his music, where he excelled over a wide repertoire-opera, songs, ballet scores, chamber works, piano pieces, sacred and secular choral works, orchestral works and concertos. This book fully covers this wide range, while also describing the vicissitudes of Poulenc's life and the many important relationships he had with major figures such as Satie, Ravel, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Cocteau and others.
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In Stravinsky's orbit : responses to Modernism in Russian Paris
The Bolsheviks' 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with the new cultural environment and clashed with exported Soviet trends. In this book, Klára Móricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Lourié in interwar Paris. Their music reflected the conflict between a modernist narrative demanding innovation and a narrative of exile wedded to the preservation of prerevolutionary Russian culture. The emigrants' and the Bolsheviks' contrasting visions of Russia and its past collided frequently in the French capital, where the Soviets displayed their political and artistic products. Russian composers in Paris also had to reckon with Stravinsky's disproportionate influence: if they succumbed to fashions dictated by their famous compatriot, they risked becoming epigones; if they kept to their old ways, they quickly became irrelevant. Although Stravinsky's neoclassicism provided a seemingly neutral middle ground between innovation and nostalgia, it was also marked by the exilic experience. Móricz offers this unexplored context for Stravinsky's neoclassicism, shedding new light on this infinitely elusive term.
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Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918
While the musical culture of the British Isles in the 'long nineteenth century' has been reclaimed from obscurity by musicologists in the last thirty years, appraisal of operatic culture in the latter part of this period has remained largely elusive. Paul Rodmell argues that there were far more opportunities for composers, performers and audiences than one might expect, an assertion demonstrated by the fact that over one hundred serious operas by British composers were premiered between 1875 and 1918.
Rodmell examines the nature of operatic culture in the British Isles during this period, looking at the way in which opera was produced and 'consumed' by companies and audiences, the repertory performed, social attitudes to opera, the dominance of London's West End and the activities of touring companies in the provinces, and the position of British composers within this realm of activity. In doing so, he uncovers the undoubted challenges faced by opera in Britain in this period, and delves further into why it was especially difficult to make a breakthrough in this particular genre when other fields of compositional endeavour were enjoying a period of sustained growth.
Whilst contemporaneous composers and commentators and later advocates of British music may have felt that the country's operatic life did not measure up to their aspirations or ambitions, there was still a great deal of activity and, even if this was not necessarily that which was always desired, it had a significant and lasting impact on musical culture in Britain.
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The Leonard Bernstein Letters
Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life-musical and personal-and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities.
Bernstein's letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors, and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland,Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and family members including his wife Felicia and his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have never been published before. They have been carefully chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein's musical interests, his constant struggle to find the time to compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his political activities, and his endless capacity for hard work. Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail, and humor.
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Collaborative creative thought and practice in music
The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in collectivist cultures the assimilation (but not the denial) of individual authorship into the complexities of group production and benefit has been a feature, the notion of the lone individual creator has been persistent. Systems theories acknowledge the role of others, yet at heart these are still individual views of creativity - focusing on the creative individual drawing upon the work of others rather than recognizing the mutually constitutive elements of social interactions across time and space. Focusing on the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products, and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration provides a means of crossing boundaries between disciplines such as music performance and musicology; and studies of the emergence of creative thought and practice in educational contexts including that of the composer and the classroom. The volume concludes with an extended chapter that reflects on the ways in which the studies reported advance understandings of creative thought and practice. The book provides new perspectives to our understandings of the role of collaborative thought and processes in creative work across the domain of music including: composition, musicology, performance, music education and music psychology.
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