History of music

This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy.

While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming.

The presence of evil in a world said by God to be good is perhaps humanity's most vexing challenge.

This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical documents--many translated here for the first time--presents readers with a full picture of how the Lutheran movement developed in its thought and practice.

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The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work.

Why did jazz go Latin?

A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music.

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca.

This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute.

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music.

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D.

Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (18521870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds.

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century.

This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreography at the fin de siecle.

The minstrelsy play, song, and dance "e;Jump, Jim Crow"e; did more than enable blackface performers to spread racist stereotypes about Black Americans.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

The untold story of a British institution'Brilliant.

Over the last several decades, perceptive observers of Western civilization have documented what virtually everyone has perceived: as the old foundations of society have toppled, morality and personal character have been set adrift and often vanished altogether.

In einer Zeit politischer Umwälzungen und kultureller Blüte begegneten sich zwei außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten: der tschechische Klaviervirtuose und Komponist Jan Ladislas Dussek und Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen, ein leidenschaftlicher Musiker und Förderer der Künste.

Reveals how Aaron Copland's complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century.

Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation.

In this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.

Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Luthers writings related to pastoral work.

This book looks at the musical culture of death in early modern England.

Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music.

As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French music.

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This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world.

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time.

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.

Examines the decline and resurgence of Haydn's reputation in an effort to better understand the forces that shape critical reception on a broad scale.

One of Europe's foremost experts on early guitar music explores this little known but richly rewarding repertoire.

Die musikalische Moderne ist mehr als eine musikhistorische Epoche.

Der in Wien geborene Ernst Krenek begann schon als 16jähriger bei Franz Schreker Komposition zu studieren und erzielte 1927 mit seiner Oper "Jonny spielt auf" seinen größten Erfolg.