Cette série plonge dans le monde de la musique, explorant des œuvres, des répertoires et des pratiques spécifiques dans leurs contextes historiques, critiques et socio-économiques plus larges. Elle vise à connecter l'analyse musicale avec les environnements culturels et sociaux dans lesquels la musique est créée et vécue. La collection encourage une perspective nouvelle sur les contextes pertinents pour l'étude de la musique, repoussant ainsi les limites de la musicologie vers de nouvelles directions théoriques et des explorations interdisciplinaires. Elle offre une lecture captivante à quiconque cherche une compréhension plus profonde de la richesse et de l'impact de la musique.
Rufus Hallmark sets Schumann's famous song cycle in the context of the challenges and social expectations faced by women in early nineteenth-century Germany. His study offers insights on Schumann's composing materials, reception of the song cycle, other contemporary poems about women, and comparisons with other musical settings of the poems.
This unique publication offers fresh perspectives on key manuscript sources of medieval song. In ten chapters, leading experts each treat a single manuscript in detail, offering new findings, essential summaries of each manuscript's contents and historiography, and detailed, accessible analyses of the songs' music and texts.
This work presents a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary analysis that reshapes the perception of a fascinating early twentieth-century composer. It delves into various aspects of the composer's life and contributions, providing fresh insights that challenge conventional interpretations and deepen appreciation for their music and influence.
A fresh evaluation of Mozart's Requiem which focuses on historical and current understandings in fiction, drama, film, criticism and performance.
Exploring the philosophical dimensions of Brahms's music, this book analyzes his elegiac works and their relationship to German literature. Of interest to musicology, German studies and cultural history scholars, it illuminates how Brahms's music relates to aesthetics and modernity from Hoelderlin, Schiller, and Goethe to the Frankfurt School.
J. P. E. Harper-Scott's book proposes a new theory of musical modernism, bringing contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation. It explores the capacity for music to challenge cultural and political ideas and provides a critique of modern music histories.
The first detailed contextual study of Beethoven's middle-period quartets, encompassing reception history, early performance practices, aesthetic contexts and theatrical impetus.
Presents new methodologies to explore medieval processes of musical and poetic creation, from plainchant and vernacular French songs to organa, motets and clausulae. Engages with questions of text-music relationships, liturgy, and the development of notational technologies, exploring authorship, originality, practices of quotation and reworking.
Rufus Hallmark interprets Schumann's famously controversial song cycle in the social, literary, and musical contexts of contemporary German society.