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The many complex and difficult issues relating to the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries form the subject of this volume of scholarly research articles, originally published between 1946 and 2009. The issues covered range from the voices-and-instruments debate of the 1980s to the performance of sixteenth-century sacred

This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, representing a rich vein of enquiry into epochs of music still very much at the forefront of current concert repertoire. In so doing, it provides a wide range of subject-based scholarship and reveals a fascinati

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the 'long nineteenth century', giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and the operas

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people - composers and performe

The focus of this collection of essays is the powerful interaction between popular music and multimedia: film, television, music video and video games. Written by a diverse group of scholars and published within the last fifteen years, the essays examine new theories and methodologies and offer opportunities for thinking across disciplines, media a

The articles selected for this volume form a representative selection of the best writing on Vivaldi from the last 30 years, and include contributions from major figures in the field of Vivaldi research. Aspects covered include biography, Venetian cultural history, manuscript studies, genre studies and musical analysis. An introduction by Michael T

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: places - essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; genres and styles - studies dealing with the question of how operas in th

This collection of articles engages with issues that are central to the changing discourse of jazz in popular culture. The volume includes studies of specific scenes, artists and periods from jazz history, as well as studies of broader aspects of musical discourse such as ontological considerations, the politics of canon formation, and issues of re

Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this mus

The field of Monteverdi studies has seen many ground-breaking contributions from musicologists in recent years. This collection of articles exemplifies the best of this scholarship in English and includes papers on a wide range of issues including some of the 'big' questions in the historiography and hermeneutics of early Baroque music: musical rep

The articles in this volume are a representative selection of the best scholarly writing on Purcell's music. The collection reflects the increase in new research stimulated by Purcell's 300th anniversary in 1995 and the introduction explores the history of Purcell scholarship, reviews its present state, comments on the significance of the articles

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles whi

This volume of essays brings together some of the best writing on music and protest from the last thirty years. The collection encompasses a variety of genres and a wide range of topics, and selects chapters on music from fifteen different countries. Written by leading researchers and educators, this volume is an indispensable collection for those

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. New ways of thinking about music emerged during this period stimulated by the rediscovery of classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Ch

Bach scholars frequently provide excellent examples of musicological scholarship, as demonstrated by the 31 published articles selected for this volume. These articles also represent a broad spectrum of the scholarly discussions on J.S. Bach's life and works, and facilitate the on-going study of Bach's creative genius.

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western and non-Western musics from the eighteenth cent

This anthology brings together the best of recent scholarly literature devoted to Handel. The articles are from diverse sources including specialist yearbooks, festschrifts, newsletters, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues and journals, and consist of different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, libret

The articles gathered together in this volume look at patronage in its broadest sense: individual and traditional court patronage as well as patronage within states and organizations. The subject is further explored by articles on the means of distribution of music, such as printing and the internet, and the inclusion of music in collaborative arts

This collection offers a diverse and contemporary overview of the research over the last few decades into the field of non-Western pop. The articles highlight the broader themes that have, so far, shaped academic approaches to the subject, such as cultural politics, identity and the role of technology. The essays take different disciplinary approac

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The articles span the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlight the range of approaches used by modern scholars. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor's introductor

This collection of essays focuses on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts and examines their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers' approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide range of topics that have occupied scholars in recent

This book contextualizes Afrofuturism's diverse approaches in the past and present through investigations into overlapping horizons between Afrofuturist agendas and other intellectual and/or artistic movements and through explorations of Afrofuturist approaches in 21st century across media cultures and in a transcultural perspective.

Vocal Traditions: Training in the Performing Arts explores the 18 most influential voice training techniques and methodologies of the past 100 years. This extensive international collection highlights historically important voice teachers, contemporary leaders in the field, and rising schools of thought.