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Christianity

Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...

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Music for Silenced Voices Shostakovitch and His Fifteen Quartets

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780300181593, Yale University Press, April 2012
368 pp., 21x14 cm

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the...

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Culture Studies

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture

Hesselink Nathan

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226330976, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226330969, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 21 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of trad...

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Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges

Flanagan Robert J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300171938, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically provide large direct subsi...

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Musical Instrument

Trumpet

Wallace John, McGrattan Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300112306, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm, musical examples throughout, 45 black&white illus.

In the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colourful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of th...

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Music of Alban Berg

Headlam Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780300184129, Yale University Press, November 2011
474 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this orig...

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Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice

Vincentino Nicola, Palisca Claude V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184167, Yale University Press, November 2011
558 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was one of the most influential music theory texts of the sixteenth century. This translation by Maria Rika Maniates is the first English-language edition of Vicentino's important work. Unl...

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Music and Sentiment

Rosen Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300178036, Yale University Press, October 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, music examples

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully obser...

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Culture Studies

Anthology of Rap

Bradley Adam, DuBois Andrew, Gates Henry Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300141917, Yale University Press, October 2011
920 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In "The Anthology of Rap", editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a...

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