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The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory

Author : Glenn Watkins
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393071022
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory written by Glenn Watkins and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today. In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo—a life suffused with scandal and bordering on the fantastical. An isolated prince, Gesualdo had a personal life that was no less eccentric and bewildering than the music he composed; his biography has often clouded our perception of his oeuvre, which music scholars have periodically dismissed as a late Renaissance deformation of little consequence. Today, however, Gesualdo’s music, once deemed so strange as to be unperformable, stands as one of the most vibrant legacies of the late Italian Renaissance with an undeniable impact on a host of twentieth-century musicians and artists. The incendiary details of Gesualdo’s life recede, and his grip on our musical imagination comes to the fore. Watkins challenges our preconceptions of what has become a nearly mythic persona, weaving together the cumulative experience of some of the most vibrant artists of the past century from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Abbado and Herzog. Beyond questions of mere influence, however, The Gesualdo Hex offers a profound meditation on cultural memory and historical awareness: how composers attempt to shape the legacy they will bequeath to the world, and how music and history inevitably take on a new guise as they are revisited by subsequent generations and reinterpreted in light of contemporary experience. In examining Gesualdo’s life, music, myth, and memory intertwine with one another to reveal an uncanny affinity with our own time. With his elegant and engaging prose, Watkins asks us to grapple with our understanding not only of art and the artists who create it but also of history itself.

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Musician and Murderer

Author : Cecil Gray
Publisher : London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited etc. 1926.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, Musician and Murderer written by Cecil Gray and published by London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited etc. 1926.. This book was released on 1926 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Art, Crime and Madness

Author : Shlomo Giora Shoham
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1836241496
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Art, Crime and Madness written by Shlomo Giora Shoham and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Crime and Madness explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity. To innovate, one has to be able to view the medium and the object of creativity in a different, hitherto unexplored manner. The essence of art is creative innovation, coupled with an ability, in varying degrees, to transcend the boundaries of consciousness. But this 'ability' is also the prerogative of the mentally deranged. Likewise, the criminal and the deviant are more likely to transcend normative barriers while creating, hence the wide range of criminal and deviant behaviour in society. Although the inverse hypothesis does not hold -- the mere existence of deviance or morbidity does not predispose the individual to creativity -- nevertheless criminal and mad behaviour are often very innovative. This thesis is illustrated by historical case histories of creative deviance and genius madness, and contemporary observations. The painter Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio killed a man while still a teenager, and a second victim during a ball game. In his lifetime he was considered degenerate, but today he is considered the greatest painter of the Italian Settecento, and his portrait adorns the Hundred-Thousand Lira note. Jean Genet the homosexual thief was born out of wedlock and as a teenager he transgressed almost all the paragraphs of the French criminal code. But he became a famous French playwright, the mouthpiece for criminals and deviants. His plays built up a philosophical apology for the raison d'etre of the criminal group.

Night's Lies

Author : Gesualdo Bufalino
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9781846555541
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Night's Lies written by Gesualdo Bufalino and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Mediterranean island fortress-prison under the Bourbon monarchy four political prisoners suspected of conspiracy spend their last night before execution, discussing their lives, old hopes and ambitions.

Law and Opera

Author : Filippo Annunziata
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319686496
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Law and Opera written by Filippo Annunziata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various connections between Law and Opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (with approaches from jurists, philosophers, musicologist, historians) resource on the subject. Further, it makes a valuable contribution to studies on law and the humanities. While, for example, the relationship between law and literature has been extensively researched, the relationship between Law and Opera remains largely overlooked. The book approaches the topic from three perspectives in three main sections: Law in Opera, Law on Opera, and Law around Opera.

Stravinsky

Author : Eric Walter White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520013353
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Stravinsky written by Eric Walter White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A strong shaping hand and cultivated mind has produced this big, beautiful all-purpose Stravinsky book. Anyone interested in the composer must acquire it.' --'American Record Guide'

Reader's Guide to Music

Author : Murray Steib
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942625
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Mannerism in Italian Music and Culture, 1530-1630

Author : Maria Rika Maniates
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719007378
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Mannerism in Italian Music and Culture, 1530-1630 written by Maria Rika Maniates and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mastro-don Gesualdo, by Giovanni Verga

Author : Giovanni Verga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mastro-don Gesualdo, by Giovanni Verga written by Giovanni Verga and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Essential Canon of Classical Music

Author : David Dubal
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865476646
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Canon of Classical Music written by David Dubal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism.

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love's Sacrifice

Author : John Ford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719015571
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Love's Sacrifice written by John Ford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpretation. The text for this edition is based on a fresh study of the quarto of 1633, the only authoritative early text. In his introduction to the play, Moore reappraises the evidence for the play's date of composition. He also looks at the circumstances of the play's genesis, presenting detailed discussions of both the theater where "Love's Sacrifice" was first performed and the acting company for which it was written. Arguing that Ford's adaptation of his source materials is the key to interpreting this remarkably allusive play, Moore provides a wealth of new information about Ford's sources.The introduction also includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. This new volume in the "Revels Plays" series is the most detailed and comprehensive edition of "Love's Sacrifice" ever published - and the first modern-spelling edition of Ford's tragedy in more than a century. The play's textual history is discussed in an appendix. A second appendix examines possible links between "Love's Sacrifice" and the real-life story of the murdered Italian prince and musician Carlo Gesualdo.

The madrigal at Ferrara : 1579 - 1597. 2. Musical examples

Author : Anthony Newcomb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The madrigal at Ferrara : 1579 - 1597. 2. Musical examples written by Anthony Newcomb and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: need index past index 6 (Matter of N.Y. State Labor Relations Bd. V. Amer. Surety Co.) need index past index 6 (Matter of N.Y. State Labor Relations Bd. V. Amer. Surety Co.) need index past index 6 (Matter of N.Y. State Labor Relations Bd. V. Amer. Surety Co.) need index past index 6 (Matter of N.Y. State Labor Relations Bd. V. Amer. Surety Co.)

Reappraising the Seicento

Author : Andrew Cheetham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858706
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Reappraising the Seicento written by Andrew Cheetham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reappraising the Seicento presents new perspectives on some relatively well-researched areas of music history and adumbrates some more arcane aspects of the period, offered by fledgling scholars and early career researchers in the field of musicology. The scope of the title has the potential to warrant a tome on the subject, but it is not the intention to provide a comprehensive survey of music in the seventeenth century. Instead, five essays are presented, divided into two sections, which represent the research activities of young scholars with an interest in the seicento. In the first part of this book, compositional procedure in seicento Italy is examined through two different analytical procedures. Musical styles and fashions changed considerably throughout Europe in the seventeenth century; at the forefront of these changes were Italian composers and performers, who found fame and influence in their native countries as well as abroad. In the second part of this book, the dissemination of Italian music in seventeenth-century England and the appropriation and assimilation of contemporary Italian compositional techniques by English composers are considered. The phenomenal interest shown in Italian music by English patrons and musicians of the seventeenth century is placed into context, and is revealed to be part of a larger historical trend.

Frescobaldi Studies

Author : Alexander Silbiger
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822307112
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Frescobaldi Studies written by Alexander Silbiger and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) occupies a special place in the history of music as the first significant European composer who concentrated his major creative efforts into the realm of instrumental music. In this collection of papers based on the Quadricentennial Frescobaldi Studies Conference, sixteen American and European specialists examine important aspects of the life and works of this composer and of his role in the creation of a new musical language of the Baroque.