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Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Stephen Zank What is it about Bolero, Gaspard de la nuit, and Daphnis et Chloe that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so? Stephen Zank here illuminates these and other works of Maurice Ravel through several of the composer's fascinations: dynamic intensification, counterpoint, orchestration, exotic i...

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Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) מאת Toyin Falola Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries, in groups or as individuals, Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstanc...

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György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Bálint András Varga György Kurtág (b. 1926) is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Born in Hungary, he received crucial training in Paris from Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud. He was also shaped by his broadening contact ther...

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Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Learning a New Master Narrative for America מאת Robert Paul Wolff Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an autobiographical narrative of the events leading ...

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Death, Modernity, and the Body: Sweden 1870-1940 (Rochester Studies in Medical History) מאת Eva Ã…hrén Originally published in Swedish in 2002, Death, Modernity, and the Body explores the impact of modernization on customs and practices of treating the dead body in Sweden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when intense social and cultural change transformed the country from an agri...

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Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) מאת Messay Kebede During the 1960s and early 1970s, a majority of Ethiopian students and intellectuals adopted a Marxist-Leninist ideology with fanatic fervor. The leading force in an uprising against the imperial regime of Emperor Haile Selassie, they played a decisive role in the rise of a Leninist military regime....

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August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Lee A. Rothfarb In the early 1900s, August Halm was widely acknowledged to be one of the most insightful and influential authors of his day on a wide range of musical topics. Yet, in the eighty years since his untimely death at age 59 (in 1929), Halm-the author of six widely read books and over 100 essays-has recei...

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Music Speaks: On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Daniel Albright From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning(s) of music; the larger question of how music and language interact; how text-setting highlights certain areas of mete...

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Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France: Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715 (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe) מאת Darryl Dee Driven by a desire for glory and renown, Louis XIV presided over France's last great burst of territorial expansion in Europe. During the first three decades of his rule, his armies conquered numerous territories along France's borders. After 1688, however, the tide of conquest turned as the kingdom...

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Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) מאת Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western European modernist practice. With this engagin...

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In Search of New Scales: Prince Edmond de Polignac, Octatonic Explorer (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Sylvia Kahan In 1879, French amateur composer Edmond de Polignac (1834-1901) painstakingly devised a new way to create melodies and harmonies using a scale that alternated half and whole steps. This scale-known today as octatonic-was an important element in the music of Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov, and would later...

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Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet: Volume 2: Shostakovich to the Avant-Garde (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Evan Jones Modern composers as diverse as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players-and of listeners in the concert hall ...

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Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) מאת Toyin Falola This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, and literary texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that cultur...

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Serving a Great and Noble Art: Howard Hanson and the Eastman School of Music (Meliora Press) מאת Vincent A. Lenti This book is the second volume of the history of the Eastman School of Music, beginning in 1932 after George Eastman's death, and ending in 1972 with the resignation of the school's third director, Walter Hendl. This book is very much about Howard Hanson, director of the school from 1924 until his r...

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Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet: Volume 1: Debussy to Villa-Lobos (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Evan Jones Modern composers as diverse as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of the string quartet. The resulting repertoire has won the allegiance of string players-and of listeners in the concert hall ...

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Serving a Great and Noble Art: Howard Hanson and the Eastman School of Music (Meliora Press) מאת Vincent A Lenti Serving a Great and Noble Art is the second volume of the history of the Eastman School of Music, beginning in 1932 after George Eastman's death, and ending in 1972 with the resignation of the school's third director, Walter Hendl. This book is very much about Howard Hanson, director of the school f...

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Wagner and Venice (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת John W. Barker Richard Wagner had a longstanding love affair with the city of Venice. His sudden death there in 1883 also initiated a process through which Wagner and his reputation were integrated into Venice's own cumulative cultural image. In Wagner and Venice, John Barker examines the connections between the g...

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The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Wayne Heisler Jr. Richard Strauss contributed music to several ballets during his career, collaborating with prominent dance artists of his time. His ballets include an unfinished Die Insel Kythere (The Island of Cythera, 1900), inspired by French Rococo paintings; Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph, 1914), choreog...

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Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater מאת William Kinderman Not only the final outcome but the process of creative endeavor has long attracted attention in various artistic disciplines, but only recently has the potential of such research been seriously explored. The most rigorous basis for the study of artistic creativity comes not from anecdotal or autobio...

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Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת John Koegel Nineteenth-century New York was, after Berlin and Vienna, the third largest German-populated city in the world. German-language musical plays and light operas held an important niche in the lives of German immigrants and their families. John Koegel's Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City,...

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Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works (Eastman Studies in Music) מאת Chris Walton The work of the late-Romantic Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) has in recent years enjoyed a surge of interest. His 300 songs with piano accompaniment are now all on CD, as are his orchestral song cycles and five of his eight stage works. Yet despite an impressive discography featuring name...