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This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music provides detailed and
authoritative articles for the most important composers, concepts,
genres, music educators, performers, theorists, writings, and works
of cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the period
1789-1914. The roster of biographical entries includes not only
canonical composers such as Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin,
Faure, Grieg, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Rossini,
Schubert, Robert Schumann, Sibelius, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,
Wagner, and Wolf, but also less-well-known distinguished
contemporaries of those composers (among them George Whitefield
Chadwick, Cecile Chaminade, Ernesto Elorduy, Chiquinha Gonzaga,
Fanny Hensel, C. H. Parry, and Clara Schumann, to name but a few).
Significant literary and cultural topics such as Goethe's Faust and
Wagner's theoretical writings of the 1850s, as well as entries on
other cultural luminaries who significantly influenced music's
Romanticisms - among them J. S. Bach, Goethe, Haydn, Handel, Heine,
Mozart, Schiller, and Shakespeare - are also included. Entries on
important institutions (conservatory, orpheon, Mannerchor),
concepts (biographical fallacy, copyright, exoticism, feminism,
nationalism, performance practice), and political caesurae and
movements (First and Second French Empire, First, Second, and Third
French Republic, Franco-Prussian War, Revolutions of 1848,
Risorgimento) round out the dictionary section. Like other volumes
in this series, this book's more than 500 entries are preceded by
an introductory essay that explains the essential concepts
necessary for understanding and exploring further the vast and
complex musical landscape of Romanticism, plus a detailed
Chronology. Concluding the volume is an extensive bibliography that
lists the most important source-critical series of editions of
Romantic music, important general writings on the period and its
music, and composer-by-composer bibliographies.
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Answering the Call (Hardcover)
Michael J. McGrath; Preface by Michael Cooper
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Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the
persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of
Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780-1918). It’s
the first book to recognize that Romantic music was very nearly a
global phenomenon, it includes more women, more Black musicians and
other musicians of color, and more exponents of musical Romanticism
from Central and South America as well as Central and Eastern
Europe than any other single-volume study of Romantic music –
thus challenging the conventional hegemony of musical Romanticisms
by men and by Western European nations. It includes entries on
topics including anti-Semitism, sexism, and racism that were
pervasive and defining to the worlds of musical Romanticism but are
rarely addressed in general studies of that subject. It includes
Romantic musicians who were not primarily composers, as well as
topics such as the Haitian Revolution, spirituals, and ragtime that
were more important for music in the long 19th century than is
generally acknowledged. The result is an expansive, inclusive,
diverse and more richly textured portrayal of “Romantic music”
than is elsewhere available. Historical Dictionary of Romantic
Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and
an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600
cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons,
places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music. This
book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone
wanting to know more about romantic music.
The thesis helps the reader understand that the Yahweh of Israel
and the God who raised Jesus, often appearing throughout history to
be down for the count, has an amazing come-back-ability. In the
current postmodern context, where many despair of faith and seem to
circle back to the 1960s conclusion that God is dead, the book will
hold forth a reason to believe and a pathway to probe more deeply
in contemporary images and language the age-old truth and
traditions of faith
Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of
composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role
in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in
the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.
That Goethe's poetry has proved pivotal for the development of the
nineteenth-century Lied has long been acknowledged. Less
acknowledged is the seminal impact in musical realms of Goethe's
Faust, a work which has attractedthe attention of composers since
the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the
evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the
nineteenth century. While Goethe longed to have Faust set to
musicand considered only Mozart and perhaps Meyerbeer as being
equal to the task, by the end of his life he had abandoned hope
that he would live to witness a musical setting of his text.
Despite this, a floodtide of musical interpretations of Goethe's
Faust came into existence from Beethoven to Schubert, Schumann to
Wagner and Mahler, and Gounod to Berlioz; and a broad trajectory
can be traced from Zelter's colourful description of the first
setting ofGoethe's Faust to Alfred Schnittke's Faust opera (1993).
This book explores the musical origins of Goethe's Faust and the
musical dimensions of its legacy. It uncovers the musical furore
caused by Goethe's Faust and considers why his polemical text has
resonated so strongly with composers. Bringing together leading
musicologists and Germanists, the book addresses a wide range of
issues including reception history, the performative challenges of
writing music for Faust, the impact of the legend on composers'
conceptual thinking, and the ways in which it has been used by
composers to engage with other contemporary intellectual concepts.
Constituting the richest examination to date of the musicality of
language and form in Goethe's Faust and its musical rendering from
the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, the book will appeal to
music, literary and Goethe scholars and students alike. LORRAINE
BYRNE BODLEY is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Maynooth
University and President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.
Contributors: Mark Austin, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, NicholasBoyle,
John Michael Cooper, Siobhan Donovan, Osman Durrani, Mark
Fitzgerald, John Guthrie, Heather Hadlock, Julian Horton, Ursula
Kramer, Waltraud Meierhofer, Eftychia Papanikolaou, David Robb,
Christopher Ruth, Glenn Stanley, Martin Swales, J. M. Tudor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide is a
valuable tool for any scholar, performer, or music student
interested in accessing the most pertinent resources on the life,
works, and cultural context of the composer. It is an updated,
annotated bibliography of resources on the biographical, musical,
and religious aspects of Mendelssohn's life.
The first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's
Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's
Faust and other works. This paperback edition of Mendelssohn,
Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and acceptance
in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point
of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as
Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that
centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz
Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came
to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca.
710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in
several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His
book situates those works in their immediate personal
andprofessional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide
array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers,
including Voltaire, Lessing, Shelley, Heine, Delacroix, and
Berlioz. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict,
Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual
inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish,
nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it
offer new insightsinto its role in European cultural history, as
well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity --
and the relations between cultural groups -- in today's world. John
Michael Cooper is Professor of Music at Southwestern University and
author of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony (Oxford University
Press).
Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. These essays present the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, and constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.
Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging
achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they
deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir
Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal
contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being
acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal
Society when it was chartered in 1662 and author of the famous
Micrographia (1665), Hooke also showed unparalleled ingenuity in
designing machines and instruments, and played a crucial role as
Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire. This volume
represents a benchmark in the study of Hooke, bringing together a
comprehensive set of studies of different aspects of his life,
thought and artistry. Its sections deal with Hooke's life and
reputation; his contributions to celestial mechanics and astronomy,
and to speculative natural philosophy; the instruments that he
designed; and his work in architecture and construction. The
introduction places the studies in the context of our current
understanding of Hooke and his milieu, while the book also contains
a comprehensive bibliography. In all, it will be an invaluable
resource for all those interested in a figure whose complexity and
importance are becoming clear after centuries of neglect.
Whether they are called creation myths or origin stories, children love
these highly imaginative tales of the origins of people, animals and
the natural world. This anthology features 14 such tales, with a focus
on the animals, people and breathtaking natural beauty of Africa. It
includes the San people of Southern Africa’s striking story of how the
stars and Milky Way were formed, as well as tales explaining how
hippopotamus came to live in the water, how Jackal got his black
saddle, how Hyena got his characteristic limping gait, and more.
This book serves as an introduction to the Cretaceous geology and
palaeontology of south-central Africa, covering the whole of
Southern and Eastern Africa and Angola. Fifty two plates illustrate
almost 1000 species and provide a field guide to the macrofossils
of the subcontinent. The book will be of value to field geologists,
students and non-specialists with an interest in the natural world.
A bibliography of the Cretaceous palaeontology and stratigraphy of
the subcontinent is provided. Features: Provides a concise account
of the Cretaceous geology for 13 African regions Includes beautiful
illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography Fossils are
presented in stratigraphical order, allowing easy determination of
the age deposits.
This is the first book-length study of the composition, reception, extramusical implications, and stylistic eclecticism of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, a staple of the nineteenth-century musical canon. Cooper devotes extensive attention to the differences between the posthumously published familiar version of the work and the composer's revision, which remained unpublished until 2001. He presents substantial new insights into a work which many listeners and scholars have known only in the version the composer considered less successful.
Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history
and romance with "The FitzOsbornes at War. "
Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their
remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out
in England and around the world, nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her
journal with tales of a life during wartime. Blackouts and the
Blitz. Dancing in nightclubs with soliders on leave. And endlessly
waiting for news of her brother Toby, whose plane was shot down
over enemy territory.
But even as bombs rain down on London, hope springs up, and love
blooms for this most endearing princess. And when the Allies begin
to drive their way across Europe, the FitzOsbornes take
heart--maybe, just maybe, there will be a way to liberate Montmaray
as well.
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