University of California Press
Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach Eric Chafe Chafe responds to the serious need for an interpretive study that takes into account the theological content of Bach's texts and his principles of setting them to music. 1991 450 pp. music examples (422) List $79.95 cloth Sale $28.00 -------------- The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson, & Robert Winter "Beethoven scholars have been waiting for this book, which will be a major reference tool. But, much more, it is the first comprehensive reconstruction of the sketchbooks as Beethoven used them."--Lewis Lockwood 1985 500 pp. music examples illus. (425) List $110.00 cloth Sale $35.00 --------------- The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela Theodore Karp Karp proposes a major reinterpretation of two major repertoires of twelfth-century sacred music. 1992 Volume I (text): 450 pp. Volume II (transcriptions): 260 pp. (426) List $155.00 cloth Sale $40.00 ------------------ Beethoven William Kinderman Combining musical insight and the most recent research, Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. "Wonderfully rich in musical insight; [Kinderman] really takes you through Beethoven's creative process."--L.A. Weekly 1995 385 pp. illus. (428) List $35.00 cloth Sale $22.00 --------------------- Gustav Mahler Volume III: Songs and Symphonies Donald Mitchell The third volume of Mitchell's epic account of the composer and his works concentrates on the vocal music and, in particular, on some of his most famous, original, and best loved compositions. 1985 700 pp. illus. music examples (430) List $55.00 cloth Sale $30.00 ----------------- The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100-1300 Christopher Page Music and literature enjoyed a renaissance in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It was the age of debate between the owl and the nightingale, so called after a Middle English poem that pits the owl (the traditional aesceticism of Christianity) against the nightingale (the new, more joyous social and intellectual trends of the times). Page examines this struggle as it was fought by monks, preachers, and others in the Christian Church. 1990 291 pp. illus. (431) List $45.00 cloth Sale $9.00 --------------- The Operas of Alban Berg Volume One: Wozzeck Volume Two: Lulu George Perle "Not only musical analysis, but rich cultural history and sympathetic biography."--New York Times Volume I: 1980 248 pp. (432) List $16.95 paper Sale $7.00 Volume II: 1984 325 pp. (433) List $19.95 paper Sale $8.00 ------------------- Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music John L. Stewart In this first major biography of Krenek, Stewart chronicles the personal and professional events of this brilliant, resilient composer's life. 1991 520 pp. illus. music examples (435) List $68.00 cloth Sale $16.00 ------------------ Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring: The Beginnings of a Musical Language Pieter C. Van den Toorn "Analysis with a refreshingly humanistic bent, analysis placed in the widest sort of social context."--Choice 1987 222 pp. music examples (438) List $50.00 cloth Sale $18.00
Humor as a Concept in Music A theoretical study of expression in music, the concept of humor and humor in music with an analytical example - W. A. Mozart, Ein musikalischer Spa�, KV 522 Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien, 1994. 196 pp. Publikationen des Instituts f�r Musikanalytik Wien. Edited by Gottfried Scholz. Vol. 2 ISBN 3-631-47091-6 pb. DM 65.-- Laurie-Jeanne Lister explores the concept of humor in music from both a philosophical and musical perspective. Part One studies the expressive possibilities of music, the concept of humor from etymological and psychological viewpoints, and humor in music with emphasis on the 18th-century aesthetic view of humor in art. Part Two presents two different analyses of W.A. Mozart's Ein musikalischer Spa� KV 522. The first, a chronological look at the first movement, shows the creative process of the "fictitious composer" of the work. The second analysis studies Mozart's comical treatment of both compositional techniques and individual musical elements. Lister traces a striking parallel between Mozart's humoristic compositional style and his play with the German language in his letters (the B�sle Briefen). Finally she discusses the extent to which the humor in Ein musikalischer Spa� would have been perceived in its time or could be recognized today. Contents: Expression in Music (Meaning in Music) * The Concept of Humor (Prerequisites for Humor) * Humor in Music (Referential, Absolute, Historizal Overview) * W.A. Mozart, Ein musikalischer Spa� KV 522 * Humor in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music
Sight Singing
Earl Henry, Webster University
Courses:
Chapters 1-12 were created for undergraduate freshman nusic courses, and
chapters 13-20 for sophomore courses in Sight Singing.
Basic Approach:
Fresh on the market, this interactive text helps beginning music majors
develop their acumen in sight singing. Organizing each chapter of the
creative workbook around one musical problem and one rhythmic problem, it
contains traditional sight singing materials as well as exercises for
composition and analysis, improvisation, and transportation.
Features:
+ Begins with an extensive foreword by an acknowledged expert in the field
of music theory pedagogy and aural skills.
+ Includes a substantial amount of explanatory prose that describes how to
hear patterns in relation to a tonal center--or, in tonal patterns, how
to realte the acquired knowledge from tonal studies to patterns that do
not revolve around a tonal center.
+ Presents hundreds of melodies alongside representative works from
music literature which are divided in two categories:
--Pedagogically effective tunes that focus on a single problem and
include sufficient repetition to insure student mastery.
--Melodies spanning the entire range of music literature from the
Renaissance to the present day and representing problems in the context
of major works of art.
+ Provides warm-up activities that allow students to focus on one
problem at a time, i.e., common rhythmic patterns without melodic
complications or pitch patterns without changing rhythms.
+ Offers a variety of ensembles, both newly-composed and from the
literature.
+ Includes an extensive glossary of foreign musical terms and symbols.
1997, 352 pp. Paper. (0-13-121336-9)
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Mastering the Fundamentals of Music
Rebecca M. Herrold, San Jose State University
Courses:
For courses in Music Fundamentals and Elements of Music.
Basic Approach:
Students gain competency in music fundamentals through a hands-on
approach to Rhythm, Melody, Intervals, Triads, and Harmony. Each new
concept is reinforced through singing, listening, written exercises,
keyboard practice, and creative activity. Exercises for individual and
group practice are included.
Features:
+ Examples are drawn from a variety of sources, including:
--World Musics.
--Folk Music.
--Western art music.
--Musicals.
+ Each new concept is accompanied by musical examples.
A CD Rom of listening selections is available for the instructor to
use in the classroom or a lab.
+ More than one example is used to introduce each new concept.
+ Practice questions, musical applications, mastery tests, and student
projects are included in each chapter.
+ Active class participation leads to greater student understanding.
Illustrations include:
--Keyboard fingerings for major and minor scales.
--Conducting patterns.
--The circle of fifths.
+ Photographs are used to present the instruments of the orchestra.
+ Appendices include:
--Software for pre-theory work.
--Chart of major composers and events in music history.
--Keyboard.
--Classified index of musical examples.
1997, 256 pp. Paper. (0-13-121872-7)
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The Technique of Orchestration
Fifth Edition
Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham, both of the University of Texas at Austin
Courses:
Both beginning and more advanced courses in orchestration.
Basic Approach:
As the leading text in the field since 1952, this text unites, as its
three most important features, accuracy, utility and clarity demonstrated
through both effective examples and commentary. As in the earlier
editions, the emphasis is on the practical fundamentals of
orchestration. The Fifth Edition has been expanded and revised to
reflect new developments in instruments and orchestral practice.
Features:
Offers coverage that is comprehensive, clear, practical and
plentifully supplied with examples, including many from contemporary
scores.
Contains a wealth of suggestions for assignments and for listening,
and provides material for scoring as well as valuable exercises.
Fits more easily than most similar texts into the extremely diverse
music curricula that exist around the country.
Includes a short chapter on scoring for high-school orchestra.
Provides information on nonorchestral instrumental groups, including
the band and the wind ensemble.
New to this Edition:
NEW--Major revision of Chapter 20 ("Writing Score and Parts"). Reflects
recent advances in computer notation and photocopying.
NEW--Adds an appendix giving material (basic, non-technical) on
synthesizers and samplers, which now play an important role in commercial
arrangements and in some music of a more serious nature.
NEW--Adds an appendix that gives vocal and choral ranges, along with some
related comments.
NEW--Updates the bibliography to include many recent publications.
NEW--Workbook has been revised with such changes as: elimination of items
less likely to be used in beginning courses, addition of some new items,
fewer pages, and reduced price.
1997, 432 pp. Cloth. (0-13-466327-6)
Supplements:
Workbook (0-13-495755-5)
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The Practice of Harmony
Third Edition
Peter Spencer, The Florida State University
Courses:
Appropriate for Music Majors Lower Division Theory 2-year sequence. Also
for advanced high school and adult continuing education Music Theory
courses.
Basic Approach:
With an emphasis on learning and understanding by doing, the text takes
the student from music fundamentals through harmony in common practice to
some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century. The
approach is "additive" throughout; to the extent that it is pedagogically
feasible, the student uses what was learned in one chapter to help to
comprehend the materials in the next.
Features:
+ Materials are covered in a logical and economical manner.
+ Emphasis is given to understanding governing princpiles rather than
memorizing rules.
+ Each Chapter:
--introduces its topic with a minimum of wordiness.
--includes pertinent but straightforward musical examples (highlighted
as necessary).
--draws attention to the technical features of the subject matter by
using a Note format.
--features a large number of carefully graduated evercises that may be
torn from the book without removing any pages of text.
+ Analytical exercises are drawn from three popular
anthologies--Burkhart (5th ed.), Turek (2nd ed.), and Wennerstrom.
+ The 3rd edition features an improved layout, making the text more
attractive to use.
1996, 416 pp. Paper. (0-13-181553-9)
Supplements:
Instructor's Manual with Tests (0-13-213687-2)
For each chapter of the text, the author:
--lists each chapter's topics.
--notes essential features associated with those topics.
--alerts the instructor to typical pitfalls for the student, and
suggests teaching strategies to help the student avoid them.
--occasionally includes a sample quiz with a key.
Wagner Michael Tanner In this fiery reasssessment of one of the greatest composers in the history of opera, Tanner presents one of the most intelligent and controversial protraits of Wagner to emerge for many years. While no one would dispute Wagner's ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of any other composer. Alleged to be an unscrupulous womanizer and megalomaniac, undeniably a racist, Wagner's personal qualities and attitudes have ofter provoked, and continue to provoke, intense hostility that has translated into a mistrust and abhorrence of his music. In this emphatic, lucid book, Michael Tanner discusses why people feel so passionately about Wagner, for or against, in a way that they do not about other artists who had personal traits no less lamentable than those he is thought to have possessed. Tanner lays out the various arguments made by Wagner's detractors and admirers, and challenges most of them. The author's fascination for the relationships among music, text, and plot generates an illuminating discussion of the operas, in which he persuades us to see many of Wagner's best-known works anew--The Ring Cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal. He refrains from lengthy and detailed musical examination, giving instead passionate and unconventional analyses that are accessible to all lovers of music, whether listeners or performers. Michael Tanner is a lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of Nietzsche as well as articles on music, literature, and philosophy. For sale in the U.S. only. 236 pages Cloth: $19.95 U.S. publication date: October 28, 1996. Princeton University Press Contact: Bill McIntyre phone: 609-258-5165 fax: 609-258-1335 e-mail: bill_m@pupress.princeton.edu ---------------------- Dvorak and His World Edited by Michael Beckerman "The image of the composer Antonin Dvorak as a Czech visionary who ventured into the exotic cultural habitat on nineteenth-century America is brilliantly portrayed in Michael Beckerman's two-part study."--Slavic Review (284 pp.) P058 hardcover 0-691-03386-2 $55.00 SALE: $24.50 ---------------------- The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 Anthony M. Cummings "In the course of this beautifully written and generously illustrated book, Cummings has expanded our knowledgedge of tspecific contextstexts and functions of Renaissance musical performance, while providing an insightful narrative of political and social events during a critical phase of Florentine history."--Music Librarian's Association Notes (260 pp.) P059 hardcover 0-691-09142-0 $45.00 SALE: $19.00 -------------------- Richard Strauss and His World Edited by Bryan Gilliam "This book of essays, letters, memoirs, and criticism is a most cordial study of Strauss and his music....This is a significant book that gives readers a very positive assessment of a very important 20th-century composer."--Choice (425 pp.) P060 hardcover 0-691-09146-3 $69.50 SALE: $29.00 ------------------------- Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation Jean-Jacques Nattiez Translated by Stewart Spencer "This is a serious, highly valuable addition to the literature on this composer....Nattiez pursues his theme through the structural analysis of Levi-Strauss, the disciplines of Marxism and feminism, and the theories of deconstruction and semiology."--Opera (359 pp.) P061 hardcover 0-691-09141-02 $45.00 SALE: $19.00 ------------------------------ Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart Frederick Neumann "A staggering achievement that raises questions of the most fundamental kind about our attitude toward Mozart's music."--__Opus (301 pp.) P062 hardcover 0-691-09130-7 $79.50 SALE: $39.50 ----------------------- Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers Pierluigi Petrobelli With translations by Roger Parker "The implication is that the justification of seemingly 'pure' compositional activity can be grasped only in terms of performance in a theater. These essays are elegant models for the efficacy of such a methodology."--Opera Quarterly (192 pp.) P063 hardcover 0-691-09134-X $45.00 SALE: $25.00 -------------------------- Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue Richard Taruskin With a foreword by Caryl Emerson "Illuminating studies of the composer whose operas are the living stuff of a continuing Russian tragedy."--The New York Times Book Review (415 pp.) P064 hardcover 0-691-09147-1 $45.00 SALE: $24.50 ------------------------- Janacek's Operas: A Documentary Account John Tyrrell "A splendid achievement, and one to send the reader back to the music with new enthusiasm."--The Times Literary Supplement (405 pp.) P065 hardcover 0-691-09148-X $39.50 SALE: $19.50 ------------------------- Hugo Wolf: A Biography Frank Walker "Remains the definitive biography of Wolf. Of particular importance are the interviews with Wolf's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, as well as the documentary evidence used to create an unparalleled portrait of this fascinating composer."--NATS Journal (522 pp.) P066 paperback 0-691-02720-X $22.50 SALE: $9.50 ------------------------ Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music Susan Youens "[This book] represents a powerfully impresive intellectual and aesthetic achievement. There has never been a better-informed and more perceptive commentary on its chosen musical subjects in this century; nor is there likely to be in the next."--The Musical Times (60 musical examples, 384 pp.) P067 hardcover 0-691-09145-5 $49.50 SALE: $24.00
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