Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction Ingrid Monson This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interaction among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical exa mples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a persp ective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life. Replete with original musical transcriptions, this broad view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural power will have a wide audience among jazz fans, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists. Ingrid Monson is assistant professor of music at Washington University. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology DECEMBER 192 p. (est.) 6 x 9 6 line drawings, 19 musical examples 1996 ISBN: 0-226-53477-4 Cloth $35.00tx 1996 ISBN: 0-226-53478-2 Paper $13.95tx
La traviata Melodrama in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave Giuseppe Verdi Edited by Fabrizio della Seta Now one of Verdi's most beloved works, La traviata was initially far from a success. Verdi declared its 1853 premiere a "fiasco," and later reworked parts of five pieces in the first two acts, retaining the original setting for the rest. The first per formance of the new version in 1854 was a tremendous success, and the opera was quickly taken up by theaters around the world. This critical edition presents the 1854 version as the main score, and also makes available for the first time in full score the original 1853 settings of the revised pieces. For this edition Fabrizio della Seta used not only the composer's autograph an d many secondary sources but also Verdi's previously unknown sketches. These sketches helped corroborate the original readings and illuminante the work's compositional stages. The editor's wide-ranging introduction traces the opera's genesis, sources, a nd performance history and practices; and a detailed critical commentary discusses source problems and ambiguities. Fabrizio della Seta is associate professor of music history at the University of Siena, Italy. Praise for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi: "The most significant development in the history of Verdi scholarship." --Donald Henahan, *New York Times* "An achievement for which every conductor, singer, and player should be grateful." --Julian Budden, Times Literary Supplement DECEMBER Two-volume set. Score (one volume cloth): 608 p. 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 Commentary (one volume cloth): 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 1996 ISBN: 0-226-85316-0 Cloth $300.00tx
Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons Edited by Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman Disciplining Music confronts a much debated topic: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays formulates questions about music's canons--rules that negotiate cult ural constraints, reconstruct the past, and shape the future. Written by scholars of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, many of the essays push the boundaries of these traditional divisions. "Fortunately, in a blaze of good-humored . . . scholarship, [this] book helps brains unaccustomed to thinking about the future without jeopardizing the past imagine the wonder classical-music life might become if it embraced all people and all musics." - -Laurence Vittes, Los Angeles Reader "These essays will force us to rethink our position on many issues . . . [and] advance musicology into the twenty-first century." --Giulio Ongaro, American Music Teacher With essays by Katherine Bergeron, Philip V. Bohlman, Richard Cohn and Douglas Dempster, Philip Gossett, Robert P. Morgan, Bruno Nettl, Don Michael Randel, Ruth A. Solie, and Gary Tomlinson. Katherine Bergeron is assistant professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. Philip V. Bohlman is associate professor of music at the University of Chicago. He is coeditor (with Bruno Nettl) of *Contemporary Musicology* and *Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology*, both published by the University of Chicago Press. NOVEMBER xii, 220 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 3 line drawings, 4 tables 1992 ISBN: 0-226-04370-3 Paper $15.95tx
Rethinking Dvorak: Views from Five Countries
Edited by David R. Beveridge
1996 328 pp.; music examples, 7 halftones
816411-4 $60.00
The Dynamics of Harmony: Principles and Practice
George Pratt
September 1996 168 pp.; numerous music examples
879020-1 paper $22.00
Performing the Music of Henry Purcell
Edited by Michael Burden
1996 336 pp.; 38 halftones & linecuts
816442-4 $85.00
Music in the English Courtly Masque, 1604-1640
Peter Walls
1996 400 pp.; 15 plates, 10 tables, 57 music examples
816141-7 $70.00
Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan
Robert L. Kendrick
1996 576 pp.; 5 plates, 2 maps, 100 musical examples
816408-4 $95.00
Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht
Rob C. Wegman
1994 (paper September 1996) 432 pp.; color frontispiece, 20 illus., 32
music examples
816650-8 paper $19.95
816382-7 cloth $45.00
Haydn's Keyboard Music: Studies in Performance Practice
Bernard Harrison, Lancaster University
August 1996 400 pp.; 300 music examples, 19 tables, 1 figures
816325-8 $90.00
The Music of Benjamin Britten
Revised Edition
Peter Evans
1996 608 pp.; 300+ music examples & diagrams
816590-0 paper $21.00
Mozart: A Musical Biography
Konrad Koster
Translated by Mary Whittall
1996 432 pp.; frontispiece, color endpapers, 15 plates
816339-8 $35.00
Richard Strauss's Elektra
Bryan Gilliam
1992 (paper 1996) 288 pp.; 4 figures, music examples
816602-8 paper $24.95
313214-1 cloth $75.00
Women Musicians of Venice: Musical Foundations, 1525-1855
Named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 by Choice
Revised Paperback Edition
Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes
1993 (paper 1996) 336 pp.
816604-4 paper $24.95
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Warren Darcy
Winner of the Wallace Berry Award of the Society for Music Theory
1994 (paper 1996) 288 pp.; 67 music examples, 4 figures, 25 pp
transcription of Wagner's sketches
8166036 paper $24.95
Franz Schubert: A Biography
Elizabeth Norman McKay
1996 384 pp.; 16 pp b/w plates, 5 text illus, 1 music example
816523-4 $35.00
Performing Music: Shared Concerns
Jonathan Dunsby
1995 (paper August 1996) 112 pp.; music examples, 2 figures
816642-7 paper $13.95
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