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  • Music in the Flesh

    An Early Modern Musical Physiology

    par Bettina Varwig ...
    Collections series New Material Histories of Music
    A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects—composers, performers, listeners—in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is described as moving, ravishing, painful, dangerous, curative, and miraculous while ... En savoir plus

    $59.39 CAD

  • Rethinking Bach

    Modifié par Bettina Varwig ...
    Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed large in the imagination of scholars, performers, and audiences since the late nineteenth century.This new book, edited by veteran Bach scholar Bettina Varwig, gathers a diverse group of leading and emerging Bach researchers as well as a number of contributors from beyond the core of Bach studies. The book's fourteen chapters engage in active 'rethinking' of ... En savoir plus

    $134.39 CAD

  • Histories of Heinrich Schütz

    par Bettina Varwig ...
    Collections series Musical Performance and Reception
    Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik ... En savoir plus

    $122.99 CAD

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  • The Pathetick Musician

    Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence

    par Bruce Haynes, Geoffrey Burgess ...
    What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate the vital place of rhetoric and eloquent expression in the creation and performance of Baroque music. Through engaging explorations of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, the authors explode the conventional notion of historical authenticity in music, proposing adventurous new directions to reinvigorate the ... En savoir plus

    $65.99 CAD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    par Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Bach

    Modifié par John Butt ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Bach's Numbers

    Compositional Proportion and Significance

    par Ruth Tatlow ...
    In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her groundbreaking theory of proportional parallelism and the latest source study ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

    Modifié par Marjorie W. Hirsch, Lisa Feurzeig ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Music

    par Carl Stumpf ...
    Traduit par David Trippett ...
    The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late 19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, ... En savoir plus

    $60.79 CAD

  • Paradigms for a Metaphorology

    par Hans Blumenberg ...
    Traduit par Robert Savage ...
    Collections series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century

    Modifié par Rufus Hallmark ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
    German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, including Shubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles, and issues of musical ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Unfinished Music

    par Richard Kramer ...
    Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin that serves as its epigraph: "the work is the death mask of its conception." The work in its finished, perfected state conceals the enlivening process engaged in its creation. An opening chapter of this book examines some explosive ideas from the mind of J. G. Hamann, eccentric figure of the anti-rationalist ... En savoir plus

    $37.59 CAD