Search Results - Modernism (music)

Singing Jeremiah : music and meaning in Holy Week / by Kendrick, Robert L.

“…Music and the early modern imagination…”
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A History of Spanish Piano Music / by Powell, Linton

Table of Contents: “…[Part] I : Early Spanish piano music, 1740-1840 -- Madrid, Valencia, Málaga, and the Escorial -- Seville and the Basque Region -- Montserrat, Barcelona, and Related Posts -- [Part] II : The piano music of Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, their immediate predecessors, and their contemporaries -- Immediate Predecessors and Contemporaries -- Isaac Albeniz -- Enrique Granados -- [Part] III : Falla, Turina, Mompou, and their contemporaries -- Manuel de Falla -- Joaquin Turina -- Federico Mompou -- The Grupo de los Ocho -- Others from Madrid -- Cataluña -- Valencia and the Levante -- The Basque Region and Navarra -- León and Old Castile -- Other Contemporaries -- [Part] IV : The influence of the guitar on Spanish keyboard music -- [Part] V : Spanish piano music since World War II -- Barcelona : The Manuel de Falla Circle -- Others Associated with Barcelona -- Madrid : The Grupo Nueva Masica Others Associated with Madrid -- Seville and Other Regions -- Two Spanish Composers of North America -- Appendix I : Anthologies and Modern Editions of Early Spanish Piano Music -- Appendix II : Spanish Piano Music since World War II : A Selective List with Publishers.…”
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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”
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A dictionary for the modern flutist by Maclagan, Susan J., 1952-

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Modern Arab American fiction a reader's guide / by Salaita, Steven, 1975-

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A history of modern drama. by Krasner, David, 1952-

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Echoes from Dharamsala music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community / by Diehl, Keila

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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Why the humanities matter a commonsense approach / by Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a new humanism -- Self, identity, and ideas -- Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault -- Derrida gets medieval -- Imaginary empires, real nations -- Edward Said spaced out -- Modernity, what? -- Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today -- Translation matters -- Can music resist? …”
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The lyrical in epic time : modern Chinese intellectuals and artists through the 1949 crisis / by Wang, Dewei

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Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany / by Tompkins, David G.

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The queer composition of America's sound gay modernists, American music, and national identity / by Hubbs, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…My dear Freddy : identity excesses and evasions chez Paul Bowles -- A French connection : modernist codes in the musical closet -- Queerness, eruption, bursting : U.S. musical modernism at midcentury -- Coda. …”
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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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An introduction to the study of medieval Latin versification by Norberg, Dag Ludvig, 1909-1996

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Then sings my soul the culture of southern gospel music / by Harrison, Douglas, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A native informant's report from the field -- Glory bumps, or the psychodynamics of the southern gospel experience -- Nostalgia, modernity, and the reconstruction roots of a tradition -- The rise of "southern" gospel music and the compensations of history -- The gaitherization of contemporary southern gospel -- Southern gospel in the key of queer -- Epilogue : the soul's best song -- List of songs referenced -- Appendix : methods and preliminary findings of a survey of attitudes and beliefs about southern gospel music.…”
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Berber culture on the world stage from village to video / by Goodman, Jane E., 1956-

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Pachangas borderlands music, U.S. politics, and transnational marketing / by Dorsey, Margaret E. (Margaret Ellen), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Vega" meets modernity.…”
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The metareferential turn in contemporary arts and media forms, functions, attempts at explanation /

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John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano : The Fifth Grade Book. by Thompson, John

Suite on "Spiritus Silvestre": For Symphony / by Ford, Denzil

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What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore)

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