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Proof through the Night
University of California Press 2002; US$ 12.95Carols floating across no-man's-land on Christmas Eve 1914; solemn choruses, marches, and popular songs responding to the call of propaganda ministries and war charities; opera, keyboard suites, ragtime, and concertos for the left hand?all provided testimony to the unique power of music to chronicle the Great War and to memorialize its battles and... more...
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than... more...
Poetry of Reality
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 59.95This volume is concerned with questions arising from the compositional use of recorded real-world sound and is deliberately eclectic in both approach and subject matter. A compact disc containing many of the musical examples featured is included with the text. more...
Repeating Ourselves
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95Where did musical minimalism come from?and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ourselves considers the cultural significance of American... more...
Remaking the Song
University of California Press 2006; US$ 45.00Opera performances are often radically inventive. Composers? revisions, singers? improvisations, and stage directors? re-imaginings continually challenge our visions of canonical works. But do they go far enough? This elegantly written, beautifully concise book, spanning almost the entire history of opera, reexamines attitudes toward some of our best-loved... more...
Beautiful Mornin'
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 54.99The author of this title explores classics from Broadway's golden musical age, looking at "Brigadoon", "Annie, Get Your Gun", and "South Pacific" amongst others. more...
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 39.00A study of opera in Italy and France from the 1600s to the present day. more...
The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. more...
Music Musique
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 23.95Music Musique is a study of American and French composers active in the late 19th through early 20th centuries and the influence of jazz on their compositional styles. Starting with a look at the formation of American and French styles of composition, Meister discusses the jazz influence on American... more...
Music Theory
University of Minnesota Press 1973; US$ 33.00Music Theory was first published in 1977. This is a textbook for the study of music theory, using a historical approach which enables the student to learn about compositional devices as they appeared and evolved in early Western music. The textbook and its accompanying workbook provide for the study of basic analytical and compositional techniques... more...









