WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILLY BRAGGOver the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich.
Der Roman Schwammerl von Rudolf Hans Bartsch und das darauf basierende Singspiel Das Dreimaderlhaus sind oft dafur kritisiert worden, ein allzu suliches und verharmlosendes Bild des Komponisten Franz Schubert gezeichnet zu haben.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER His storytelling is vivid, humorous, and refreshingly honest' DUA LIPA'Compelling, wry, self-aware, genuinely endearing' THE GUARDIAN A ride you have to take ZANE LOWE A heartfelt love letter to a bygone era BBC The most life-affirming coming-of-age story I ve read in an age' PETE PAPHIDESDISCOVER MARK RONSON S ELECTRIFYING MEMOIR ABOUT HIS DJ DAYS IN 90s NEW YORKMark Ronson was born a night person.
Unser Bild vom Norden Europas ist in der langen Begegnungsgeschichte von Projektionen und Sehnsüchten geprägt: Von Berserkern und Kriegsgräueln, vom schlechten Wetter, einer grandiosen Natur, stabilen Institutionen, von sozialer Vorsorge, Gleichheit und Wohlstand, von Friedfertigkeit, geringer Korruption, von Hygge und Bullerbü – all dies gehört zum Norden-Narrativ.
Ursprünglich ein Eintreibelied von Hirten zu milchwirtschaftlichen Zwecken, avanciert der Schweizer Kuhreihen (Ranz des vaches) in den Jahrzehnten um 1800 zum intellektuellen Anschauungsobjekt in Medizin und Ästhetik.
Um 1900 wird Rhythmus in der Wissenschaft sowie in Kunst und Literatur zu einem relevanten Phänomen: Nietzsche erhebt ihn zum wirkungsvollsten künstlerischen Mittel, bei den Untersuchungen über den Zeitsinn im Umfeld der Gestaltpsychologie spielt Rhythmuswahrnehmung eine zentrale Rolle und bei den auratischen Darbietungen des George-Kreises wurde ein besonderer Leserhythmus gepflegt.
In der Kulturgeschichtsschreibung zur Frühen Neuzeit stellt die Ausstrahlung Italiens auf die europäischen Länder unter Rekurs auf den Modellbegriff seit Fernand Braudels "Modèle italien" eine wirkmächtige Konstante dar.
Der italienische Schriftsteller Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938) und der deutsche Komponist Richard Wagner (1813–1883) waren bereits zu Lebzeiten höchst umstrittene und stark verehrte Persönlichkeiten.
In besonderer Deutlichkeit lassen sich an der Gründung der Gluck-Edition Spezifika von Musikforschung im "Dritten Reich" und ihrer bruchlosen Fortführung in der Nachkriegszeit rekonstruieren: Noch in der letzten Phase des Zweiten Weltkriegs erhielt der etablierte Gluck-Experte Rudolf Gerber vom Staatlichen Institut für deutsche Musikforschung den Auftrag, in Karl Vötterles Bärenreiter-Verlag eine Gesamtausgabe der Werke Christoph Willibald Glucks herauszugeben.
'Reveals the stories and the people behind your favourite film scores' - Nick de Semlyen, editor of Empire'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' - Richard AyoadeHow can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air?
A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding'It took me ten years to go from shy young girl to punk rocker, if I'd had this book I'd have got there much quicker Viv AlbertineFor millennia, women s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous.
The name John Lennon immediately conjures up thoughts and images of the iconic sixties band 'The Beatles', the 'Let It Be' roof top concert, a pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road Studios, a white room, the song 'Imagine' and Yoko Ono.
A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist.
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, superb (The Atlantic), and entirely fresh (Rolling Stone) journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivalsfrom John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove.
As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades.
Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth.
After the Mass Ordinary, the Magnificat was the liturgical text most frequently set by Renaissance composers, and Orlando di Lasso's 101 polyphonic settings form the largest and most varied repertory of Magnificats in the history of European music.
The Courage To Love: From Abuse to Happiness, a Healing Memoir From a childhood marked by abuse and silence, Guy Giard's extraordinary journey spans four continents in search of healing, joy, and true purpose.
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers.
During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life.
Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored.
Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.
Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history.
This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies.
Although, according to the author, much sound research, has been done in the Dufay era in recent years,"e; Charles Hamm's book marks the first time an attempt has been made at a comprehensive chronology of the works of this composer.
Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine.
