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Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work

Marissen Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300194586, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus", but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio's anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Mich...

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Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

Fry Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...

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You'll Know When You Get There Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

Gluck Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226142715, ISBN: HB: 9780226300047, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones, 22 line illus.

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what w...

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Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?

Higgins Kathleen Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...

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School for Cool The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity

Wilf Eitan Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226125190, ISBN: HB: 9780226125053, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die – so some fear – at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their care...

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Franz Schubert The Complete Songs

Johnson Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780300112672, Yale University Press, April 2014
3000 pp., 24.6x16.5 cm, 600 black&white illus.

This three-volume boxed set is the definitive work on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. A richly illustrated encyclopaedia, these substantial volumes contain more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations (by Ric...

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Playing for the Benefit of the Band New Orleans Music Culture

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300204407, Yale University Press, April 2014
207 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 202 tritone illus.

Lee Friedlander first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957 and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed ov...

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Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Basevi Abramo

ISBN: HB: 9780226094915, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 – from "Nabucco"...

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Composing Japanese Musical Modernity

Wade Bonnie C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226085357, ISBN: HB: 9780226085210, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra – someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper – and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history...

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Language of Its Own Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

Katz Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226425979, ISBN: HB: 9780226425962, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous – and enormously influential – dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, "A Language of Its O...

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