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The analytic-theoretical approach to Stravinsky’s music
introduced in the opening four chapters of this volume became the
standard in theoretical and musicological circles during the past
several decades. The features of the approach were adopted and
expanded upon by numerous scholars: see Richard Taruskin,
Stravinsky and the Russian Period (1996); Jonathan Cross, The
Stravinsky Legacy (1998); and Stephen Walsh. Working independently
from an historical perspective, Richard Taruskin came to many of
the same conclusions regarding Stravinsky’s musical language.
Entirely unique is the discussion of the rhythmic emphasis of
Stravinsky’s music, the metrical displacement of repeated themes
and chords, and the disruptive effect of displacement on the
listener. Brought into play is the evolutionary history of meter
and its entrainment by the listener; the concept of "sensorimotor
synchronization" as advanced by the psychologist Bruno Repp, and
that in turn of the "contrametric" nature of Stravinsky’s music
as introduced by David Huron. Explored is the relationship between
African polyrhythm, as discussed by Kofi Agawu, David Locke, and
Steve Reich, to the polyrhythmic stratifications in Stravinsky’s
The Rite of Spring. Of major concern are the critical and aesthetic
issues arising from the interpretation and performance of
Stravinsky’s music. The aesthetic views not only of Stravinsky
himself but also of critics such as Theodor Adorno, Richard
Taruskin, and Robert Craft are discussed at length. Accompanying
the essays are over 100 musical illustrations and analytical
designs, set and processed with consummate skill by Andre Mount.
The essays are prefaced by a newly composed Introduction and then
concluded with a lengthy unpublished chapter on the individual work
and its classification; "Reflections on the Post-War years of
Babbitt, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky". Interactions between the
three composers are discussed, as is the relocation, by the early
1940s, of the Paris-Vienna split between Stravinsky and Schoenberg
to Los Angeles, California. Even in the twilight years of their
respective careers, Stravinsky and Schoenberg remained at a
distance from one another.
This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based
models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and
across different countries through cross-national investigation of
individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy
mobility. Combining rich theoretical and interdisciplinary
perspectives with extensive empirical research, the book provides a
timely examination of the policy processes and mechanisms driving
the spread of IF amongst countries at the forefront of disability
policy reform. It is argued that IF's mobility is not attributable
to neoliberalism alone but to the complex intersections between
neoliberal and emancipatory agendas and to the transnational
networks that have blended the two agendas in new ways in different
institutional contexts. The book shows how disability rights
struggles have synchronised with neoliberal agendas, which explains
IF's propensity to move and mutate between different jurisdictions.
Featuring first-hand accounts of the activists and advocates
engaged in these struggles, the book illuminates the consequences
and risks of the dangerous liaisons and political trade-offs that
seemed necessary to get individualised funding on the policy agenda
for disabled people. It will be of interest to all scholars and
students working in disability studies, social policy, sociology
and political science more generally.
This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based
models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and
across different countries through cross-national investigation of
individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy
mobility. Combining rich theoretical and interdisciplinary
perspectives with extensive empirical research, the book provides a
timely examination of the policy processes and mechanisms driving
the spread of IF amongst countries at the forefront of disability
policy reform. It is argued that IF's mobility is not attributable
to neoliberalism alone but to the complex intersections between
neoliberal and emancipatory agendas and to the transnational
networks that have blended the two agendas in new ways in different
institutional contexts. The book shows how disability rights
struggles have synchronised with neoliberal agendas, which explains
IF's propensity to move and mutate between different jurisdictions.
Featuring first-hand accounts of the activists and advocates
engaged in these struggles, the book illuminates the consequences
and risks of the dangerous liaisons and political trade-offs that
seemed necessary to get individualised funding on the policy agenda
for disabled people. It will be of interest to all scholars and
students working in disability studies, social policy, sociology
and political science more generally.
Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of
Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical
and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and
stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such
as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic
features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic
forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with
Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he
favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the
direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic
belief and performance practice are seen as flowing directly from
the musical invention. The book provides a counter-argument to the
criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and
will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as
scholars of Stravinsky's music.
We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was
produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing,
editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work
of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed
the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel
van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book
considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the
output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the
period 500-200 BCE. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices
of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the
methods, the assumptions, and the material means of production that
gave rise to biblical texts; then he brings his observations to
bear on two important texts, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah.
Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes
emerge here as the literate elite who held the key to the
production as well as the transmission of texts. Van der Toorn's
account of scribal culture opens a new perspective on the origins
of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how the individual books of the
Bible and the authors associated with them were products of the
social and intellectual world of the scribes. By taking us inside
that world, this book yields a new and arresting appreciation of
the Hebrew Scriptures.
Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the
way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells
the story of the earliest Jewish diaspora in Egypt in a way it has
never been told before. In the fifth century BCE there was a Jewish
community on Elephantine Island. Why they spoke Aramaic, venerated
Aramean gods besides Yaho, and identified as Arameans is a mystery,
but a previously little explored papyrus from Egypt sheds new light
on their history. The papyrus shows that the ancestors of the
Elephantine Jews came originally from Samaria. Due to political
circumstances, they left Israel and lived for a century in an
Aramean environment. Around 600 BCE, they moved to Egypt. These
migrants to Egypt did not claim a Jewish identity when they
arrived, but after the destruction of their temple on the island
they chose to deploy their Jewish identity to raise sympathy for
their cause. Their story-a typical diaspora tale-is not about
remaining Jews in the diaspora, but rather about becoming Jews
through the diaspora.
Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of
Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical
and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and
stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such
as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic
features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic
forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with
Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he
favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the
direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic
belief and performance practice are seen as flowing directly from
the musical invention. The book provides a counter-argument to the
criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and
will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as
scholars of Stravinsky's music.
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this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
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preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Advocates of "new musicology" claim that technical methods of music
analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally
arid. This text challenges those claims, asking why cultural,
socio-political or gender-studies approaches to music should be
deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact.
Why should music analysis be thought incapable of serving larger
aesthetic ends??;pVan den Toorn confronts Susan McClary, Leo
Treitler, and Joseph Kerman in particular, arguing that hands-on
music analysis can penetrate the complexity of music and speak to
our experience of it. He criticises new musicologists for
retreating from issues of musical immediacy by focusing on cultural
issues. In later chapters van den Toorn defends Schenkerian methods
and demonstrates the usefulness of technical analysis in the
appreciation of Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.
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