Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 37 träffar
Beyond the Soundtrack
This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping …
Paterson Great Falls: From Local Landmark to National Historical Park
The story of Paterson is the story of its Great Falls. European settlers were awed by the natural wonder that the Lenni-Lenape called Acquackanonk. Fulfilling Alexander Hamilton's …
Franz Schubert
This is the first book to examine Schubert’s songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era rather than as mere reflections of it. Responding to rising new forms of …
Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'
Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics— a charge that became …
The Hum of the World
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this …
Classical Music in a Changing World
In recent years classical music has become a test case for debates over the future of culture. As times have changed, the value traditionally placed on this music has been …
Women and Death
Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past. The theme of women and death is pervasive in the …
Expression and Truth
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this …
Interpreting Music
"Interpreting Music" is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and …
Walt Whitman and Modern Music
Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this …
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music--the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and …