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The University of Rochester Press launched the Eastman Studies in Music series in May 1994 with the publication of its first title - a revised edition in hardback and paperback of <i>The Poetic Debussy: A Collection of His Song Texts and Selected Letters</i>, by Margaret G. Cobb. With over one hundred fifty titles in print and more new titles scheduled for publication in the coming year, Eastman Studies in Music is a well-established endeavor committed to publishing quality titles in music scholarship.

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139 results in Eastman Studies in Music

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Coquettes, Wives, and Widows
  • Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater
  • Marcie Ray
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    10 May 2020
  • A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.

Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores
  • Paula Musegades
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    01 June 2020
  • A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the movie-going public to modern musical styles.

Heinrich Neuhaus
  • A Life beyond Music
  • Edited by Maria Razumovskaya
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    20 August 2018
  • The first critical study of the life and distinctive artistic vision of Heinrich Neuhaus, a legendary pianist-pedagogue widely considered one of the leading shapers of the renowned Russian piano tradition.

Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300-1550
  • Sarah Ann Long
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 January 2021
  • The first study focusing on the composition of new plainchant in northern-French confraternities for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers.

Schubert's Mature Instrumental Music
  • A Theorist's Perspective
  • David Beach
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 June 2017
  • Probing analyses, from the renowned music theorist, of Schubert's great, yet still little-studied piano-solo, chamber, and symphonic masterpieces.

Bedřich Smetana
  • Myth, Music, and Propaganda
  • Kelly St. Pierre
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 March 2017
  • This book reveals Czech composer Bedřich Smetana as a dynamic figure whose mythology has been rewritten time and again to suit shifting political perspectives.

Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913
  • Sarah Gutsche-Miller
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 September 2015
  • This pioneering study of Parisian music-hall ballet brings to light a vibrant dance culture that was central to the renewal of French ballet at the turn of the twentieth century. Long thought a lost period for ballet in France, the fin de siècle in fact saw a flourishing of choreographic activity. More than four hundred ballets were created to great acclaim, half of which were full-scale pantomime-ballets, with entertaining narratives, catchy music, titillating choreography, lavish sets and costumes, appealing corps girls, and star ballerinas. Most of these productions were staged not at the elite Paris Opéra but in the city's trendiest commercial venues: music halls.Between 1871 and 1913, the Folies-Bergère, the Olympia, and the Casino de Paris brought together the era's leading authors of light theatre and comic opera to produce a flurry of imaginative ballets that combined the conventional structures of high art with the popular idioms of mass entertainment. They also drew unprecedented numbers of people who had never before attended ballet. 'Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913' rediscovers this repertoire and culture, supplying a missing chapter in the history of French dance.Sarah Gutsche-Miller is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Toronto.

Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain
  • Castrato, Composer, and Cultural Leader
  • Paul F. Rice
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    09 October 2015
  • Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), the celebrated Italian castrato, is best known for his performance in Mozart's Lucio Silla in 1772, with which Mozart was so pleased that he composed for the singer the famous motet Exsultate Jubilate. In 1774, Rauzzini moved to London where he performed three seasons of serious operas at the King's Theatre. From 1777 until his death in 1810, he was the director of the concert series in Bath, a series that matched the prestige of any that were given in London. In addition, he composed prolifically, writing music for eleven operas.

    This book is a study of Rauzzini's remarkable yet often overlooked career in Britain. Paul Rice chronicles Rauzzini's performances at the King's Theatre and examines his leadership of the Bath subscription concerts from 1780-1810, recovering much of the repertory. Rice shows in detail how Rauzzini responded musically to the social and political conditions of his adopted country, and analyzes the castrato's reception, as well as compositional choices, shedding new light on changing musical tastes in late eighteenth-century Britain.

    Paul F. Rice is professor of musicology at the School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Reviving Haydn
  • New Appreciations in the Twentieth Century
  • Bryan Proksch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 October 2015
  • By the 1840s Joseph Haydn, who died in 1809 as the most celebrated composer of his generation, had degenerated into the bewigged "Papa Haydn," a shallow placeholder in music history who merely invented the forms used by Beethoven. In a remarkable reversal, Haydn swiftly regained his former stature within the opening decades of the twentieth century. Reviving Haydn: New Appreciations in the Twentieth Century examines both the decline and the subsequent resurgence of Haydn's reputation in an effort to better understand the forces that shape critical reception on a broad scale.

    Nosingle person or event marked the turning point for Haydn's reputation. Instead a broad resurgence reshaped opinion in Europe and the United States in short order. The Haydn revival engaged many of the music world's leading figures -- composers (Vincent d'Indy and Arnold Schoenberg), conductors (Arturo Toscanini), performers (Wanda Landowska), critics (Lawrence Gilman), and scholars (Heinrich Schenker and Donald Tovey) -- each of whom valued Haydn's music for specific reasons and used it to advance particular goals. Yet each advocated for a rehearing and rereading of the composer's works, calling for a new appreciation of Haydn's music.

    Bryan Proksch is assistant professor of music history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he specializes in the music of the late eighteenth century.

The Sonatas of Henry Purcell
  • Rhetoric and Reversal
  • Alon Schab
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 June 2018
  • This pathbreaking study reveals Purcell's extensive use of symmetry and reversal in his much-loved trio sonatas, and shows how these hidden structural processes make his music multilayered and appealing.

Performative Analysis
  • Reimagining Music Theory for Performance
  • Jeffrey Swinkin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    27 April 2017
  • This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.

Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe
  • Warren Roberts
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 June 2021
    Print publication:
    20 October 2015
  • This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using thetechniques of the historian, and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the composer experienced. Roberts shows that Rossini made probing commentaries on politics and religion in a time of reaction and revolution, and that the composer was well-informed on post-Napoleonic politics. Rossini's comic writing served very serious purposes, exposing the problems and complications of an age that he observed with striking clarity.

    Warren Roberts is Professor Emeritus of History at the University at Albany, SUNY, and has published extensively on eighteenth-century French culture.

The "Musica" of Hermannus Contractus
  • Edited and translated by Leonard Ellinwood
  • Revised by John L. Snyder
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2015
  • Long recognized as one of the most important medieval treatises on music, the Musica of Hermannus Contractus is here presented in a newly revised translation, with commentary reflecting the best current scholarship.

    A polymath and monk, Hermannus Contractus (1013-54) contributed to the important advancements made in European arts and sciences in the first half of the eleventh century, writing on history, astronomy, and time-keeping devices, among other topics, and composing several chants. His music theory, founded on a systematic treatment of traditional concepts and terminology dating back to the ancient Greeks, is concerned largely with the organization of pitch in Gregorian chant. Hermann's approach stems from Germanic species-based thought, and is marked by a distinction between aspects of form and aspects of position, privileging the latter. He expresses this in terms imported from then-new developments in Italian music theory, thus acting as a nexus for the two traditions. Numerology and number symbolism play significant roles in Hermann's theories, and his critiques of other theorists offer insights into medieval intellectual life. Hermann also uses chant citations and exercises to help his readers apply theory to practice.

    John L. Snyder's revised edition of Ellinwood's long-standard 1952 text and translation offers a new introduction, including codicological descriptions of the sources; a critical edition of the Latin text with an annotated English translation on facing pages; appendices detailing the documents pertaining to Hermann's life, his citations of plainsong, and his original diastematic notation system; and greatly expanded indexes. Snyder's Musica will serve as the standard version of this major historical document for years to come.

    Leonard Ellinwood (1905-94) served in the Library of Congress cataloging divisions in music and in the humanities for thirty-five years. He published scholarly works and editions of both medieval music and church music. John L. Snyder is Professor of Music Theory and Musicology at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music.

Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys
  • A Selected Correspondence
  • Edited by Kimberly A. Francis
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 June 2018
  • Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.

Formal Functions in Perspective
  • Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno
  • Edited by Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, Nathan John Martin, Steven Vande Moortele
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2015
  • Among the more striking developments in contemporary North American music theory is the centrality that questions of musical form (Formenlehre) have enjoyed in recent decades. Formal Functions in Perspective presents thirteen studies that engage with musical form in a variety of ways. The essays, written by established and emerging scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European continent, run the chronological gamut from Haydn and Clementi to Leibowitz and Adorno; they discuss Lieder, arias, and choral music as well as symphonies, concerti, and chamber works; they treat Haydn's humor and Saint-Saëns's politics, while discussions of particular pieces range from Mozart's arias to Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Running through all of these essays and connecting them thematically is the central notion of formal function.

    CONTRIBUTORS: Brian Black, L. Poundie Burstein, Andrew Deruchie, Julian Horton, Steven Huebner, Harald Krebs, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Nathan John Martin, François de Médicis, Christoph Neidhöfer, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Janet Schmalfeldt, Peter Schubert, Steven Vande Moortele

    Steven Vande Moortele is assistant professor of music at the University of Toronto. Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers is assistant professor of music at the University of Ottawa. Nathan John Martin is assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan.

Gay Guerrilla
  • Julius Eastman and His Music
  • Edited by Renée Levine Packer, Mary Jane Leach
  • With contributions by David Borden , Luciano Chessa , Renee Levine Packer , Ryan Dohoney , Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek , R. Nemo Hill , Matthew Mendez , John Patrick Thomas and Kyle Gann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 December 2015
  • Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others assault us with his obsessions. Eastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as recounted in legendary scandals he unleashed like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, or the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. These episodes areexamples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights.

    In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in Gay Guerrilla provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist that is compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights.

    Contributors: David Borden, Luciano Chessa, Ryan Dohoney, Kyle Gann, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, R. Nemo Hill, Mary Jane Leach, Renée Levine Packer, George E. Lewis, Matthew Mendez, John Patrick Thomas

    Renée Levine Packer's book This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union.

The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
  • Reflections on New Music
  • Bálint András Varga
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 May 2017
  • All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Gubaïdulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process.

Brahms and the Shaping of Time
  • Edited by Scott Murphy
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 June 2018
  • Combines fresh approaches to the life and music of the beloved nineteenth-century composer with the latest and most significant ways of thinking about rhythm, meter, and musical time.

George Rochberg, American Composer
  • Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity
  • Amy Lynn Wlodarski
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 April 2019
  • Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.

Sara Levy's World
  • Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin
  • Edited by Rebecca Cypes, Nancy Sinkoff
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 April 2021
    Print publication:
    20 June 2018
  • A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonniŠre and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

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