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Queering the Pitch (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas Queering the Pitch (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas
R4,171 Discovery Miles 41 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When the first edition of "Queering the Pitch" was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. The first collection of its kind, its contributors covered a wide range of subjects from analysis of the work of gay composers to queer readings of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Among the contributors were many then-new scholars, --including the late Philip Brett (one of the editors of the first edition), Susan McClary, Jennifer Rycenga, Paul Attinello, and Martha Mockus--who have since become leaders in the field.
In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of "Queering the Pitch" is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope, which was written for Grove's Dictionary of Music-but only published in a greatly reduced version, because of its strong political approach. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.

Queering the Pitch (Paperback, 2nd edition): Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas Queering the Pitch (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, Gary C. Thomas
R1,736 Discovery Miles 17 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the editors are including a landmark essay by Philip Brett on Gay Musicology, its history and scope. The essay itself has become a cause celebre, and this will be its first full appearance in print. Along with this new historical essay, the editors are contributing a new introduction that outlines the changes that have occurred over the last decade as Gay Musicology has grown.

Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (Paperback, 2. Aufl.): Sophie Fuller, Lloyd Whitesell Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (Paperback, 2. Aufl.)
Sophie Fuller, Lloyd Whitesell; Contributions by Lloyd Whitesell, Byron Adams, Philip Brett, …
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the relationship between queer sexuality and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity approaches modern sexuality by way of music. Through the hidden or lost stories of composers, scholars, patrons, performers, audiences, repertoires, venues, and specific works, this intriguing volume explores points of intersection between music and queerness in Europe and the United States in the years 1870 to 1950--a period when dramatic changes in musical expression and in the expression of individual sexual identity played similar roles in washing away the certainties of the past. Pursuing the shadowy, obscured tracks of queerness, contributors unravel connections among dissident identities and concrete aspects of musical style, gestures, and personae. Contributors are Byron Adams, Philip Brett, Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Sophie Fuller, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, Ivan Raykoff, Fiona Richards, Eva Rieger, Gillian Rodger, Sherrie Tucker, and Lloyd Whitesell.

Decomposition - Post-Disciplinary Performance (Paperback): Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster Decomposition - Post-Disciplinary Performance (Paperback)
Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in this volume a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics. In the title essay, Elizabeth Wood writes about a basic human relation cast around the question of performance and triangulated by the role a great performer took within it. In this unnatural act of somatic and sonic decomposition of the maternal body's soundscape, "she seeks to liberate herself and us from the last refuge of patriarchal order and compulsory heterosexuality, the subordinating myth of maternal omnipotence. The decomposition of such myths is a binding force in this volume. Together these essays pursue critical understanding of performance in our post-modern world, embodying perspectives that help us understand the historical and cultural issues that underpin it".

Music and Sexuality in Britten - Selected Essays (Paperback): Philip Brett Music and Sexuality in Britten - Selected Essays (Paperback)
Philip Brett; Edited by George E. Haggerty; Introduction by Susan McClary; Afterword by Jenny Doctor
R883 R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Save R110 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Philip BrettOCOs groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection BrettOCOs searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of BrittenOCOs work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine the new musicology. Addressing urgent questions of how an artistOCOs sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, Brett examines most of BrittenOCOs operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. With some of the essays appearing here for the first time, this volume develops a complex understanding of BrittenOCOs musical achievement and highlights the many ways that Brett expanded the borders of his field."

William Byrd and His Contemporaries - Essays and a Monograph (Hardcover): Philip Brett William Byrd and His Contemporaries - Essays and a Monograph (Hardcover)
Philip Brett; Edited by Joseph Kerman, Davitt Moroney
R2,093 R1,708 Discovery Miles 17 080 Save R385 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout his distinguished career, Philip Brett wrote about the music of the Tudor period. He carried out pathbreaking work on the life and music of William Byrd (c.1540-1623), both as an editor and a historian. He also studied other composers working during the period, including John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, and Thomas Weelkes. Collecting these influential essays together for the first time, this volume is a tribute to Brett's agile mind and to his incomparable skill at synthesizing history and musical analysis. Byrd was a prominent court composer, but also a Catholic. Besides important instrumental music and English songs, he wrote a great deal of sacred music, some for his Protestant patrons, and some for his fellow Catholics who celebrated mass in secret. Ranging from the report of Brett's findings on the Paston manuscripts, an unpublished round-table paper that he delivered a few months before his untimely death, to his monograph-length study of Byrd's magnum opus, Gradualia, the essays collected here consider both sacred and secular music, and vocal and instrumental traditions, providing an intimate glimpse into what was unique about Byrd and his music. Elegantly written, with the particular brilliance for which Brett was known, this book opens a fascinating window onto one of the most fruitful periods of English musical history.

Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes (Book): Philip Brett Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes (Book)
Philip Brett
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was a milestone in operatic history as well as in British music. But the origins of the work lie in the United States, where Britten and his friend Peter Pears (the first Grimes) spent the years 1939 42. In 1941 they read an evocative essay by the novelist E. M. Forster on the Suffolk poet George Crabbe (1754 1832); this precipitated Britten's decision to return to his native country, and sent them both to Crabbe's poem, The Borough, which gave them the idea for the plot they drafted together. This book opens with Forster's original essay and his later one on Crabbe and Peter Grimes. From there the reader can trace the history of the opera: in Donald Mitchell's annotated interview with the wife of the librettist, Montagu Slater; in Philip Brett's detailed study of the fascinating documents preserved in the Britten Pears Library at Aldeburgh; and in his history of the work's stage presentation and critical reception. Hans Keller's remarkable synopsis, first printed in 1952, is complemented by a fine new analytical study by David Matthews of Act II scene 1, the crux of the opera.

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