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Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century. For understandable reasons, art historians sometimes neglect the role of music and, especially, that of musical notation when studying works of art. These studies not only identify musical compositions, wholly or partially inscribed in paintings - and tapestries, ceramics, prints as well - but also seek reasons why these particular musical compositions were included and analyse their relevance to the scene depicted. Furthermore, as many of these studies show, identifying a musical composition, especially if it has a text, leads to the formation of ideas about iconographical functions and thus augments interpretations of the visual art.
Stravinsky in the Americas explores the "pre-Craft" period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period that began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky's rise to fame-catapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim's lively narrative records the composer's larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky's personal and professional life collided in often-dramatic ways.
This acclaimed edition of Scarlatti's operas is making available for the first time authentic versions of the works of one of the key figures in the history of the genre. In this fifth volume of the series, Cohn Slim provides a definitive edition of "Massimo Puppieno," an opera from the middle years of Scarlatti's career. In his introduction he discusses the opera and performance practices of the day. A translation of the libretto is included. H. Cohn Slim is Professor of Music, University of California, Irvine. Other operas available are "Eraclea, Marco Attilio Regolo, Griselda," and "The Faithful Princess."
Near the end of the third decade of the sixteenth century, a
five-volume set of madrigal and motet partbooks was assembled in
Florence and sent as a gift--or "musical embassy"--to the English
court of Henry VIII. The manuscript set--minus the missing altus
part--has been owned since 1935 by the Newberry Library in Chicago;
but until H. Colin Slim's exhaustive efforts, no thorough study of
the history or contents of the partbooks had been undertaken.
Near the end of the third decade of the sixteenth century, a
five-volume set of madrigal and motet partbooks was assembled in
Florence and sent as a gift--or "musical embassy"--to the English
court of Henry VIII. The manuscript set--minus the missing altus
part--has been owned since 1935 by the Newberry Library in Chicago;
but until H. Colin Slim's exhaustive efforts, no thorough study of
the history or contents of the partbooks had been undertaken.
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