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  • Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions

    by Vesa Kurkela, Markus Mantere ...
    During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard’s grand narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our ’postmodern condition’, has become more or less an established and unquestioned point of departure among historians. This suspicion, at its most extreme, has ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Confronting the National in the Musical Past

    Edited by Elaine Kelly, Markus Mantere, Derek Scott ...
    This significant volume moves music-historical research in the direction of deconstructing the national grand narratives in music history, of challenging the national paradigm in methodology, and thinking anew about cultural traffic, cultural transfer and cosmopolitanism in the musical past. The chapters of this book confront, or subject to some kind of critique, assumptions about the importance ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Jean Sibelius and His World

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bartók

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    This Companion is an accessible guide to Bartók's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of the book sets out the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's interest in and research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

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    Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

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