Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard Von Bingen to the Beatles (Eastman Studies in Music, 105)

Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard Von Bingen to the Beatles (Eastman Studies in Music, 105)

by Roberta Montemorra Marvin (Editor), Craig A. Monson (Author)

Synopsis

This collection of essays examines the diverse ways in which music and ideas about music have been disseminated in print and other media from the sixteenth century onward. Contributors look afresh at unfamiliar facets of the sixteenth-century book trade and the circulation of manuscript and printed music in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They also analyze and critique new media forms, showing how a dizzying array of changing technologies has influenced what we hear, whom we hear, and how we hear. The repertoires considered include Western art music -- from medieval to contemporary -- as well as popular music and jazz. Assembling contributions from experts in a wide range of fields, such as musicology, music theory, music history, and jazz and popular music studies, Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von Bingen to The Beatles sets new standards for the discussion of music's place in Western cultural life. Contributors: Joseph Auner, Bonnie J. Blackburn, Gabriela Cruz, Bonnie Gordon, Ellen T. Harris, Lewis Lockwood, Paul S. Machlin, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Honey Meconi, Craig A. Monson, Kate van Orden, Sousan L. Youens. Roberta Montemorra Marvin teaches at the University of Iowa and is the author of Verdi the Student -- Verdi the Teacher (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 2010) and editor of The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Craig A. Monson is Professor of Musicology at Washington University (St Louis, Missouri) and is the author of Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 338
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 01 Dec 2013

ISBN 10: 1580464165
ISBN 13: 9781580464161

Media Reviews
There is a wealth of marvellous material here, some of it highly original, some of it highly informative. One example is the exploration of the differences between no fewer than seven consecutive takes the jazz pianist Teddy Wilson made of 'China Boy' in 1941, recently released for the first time and subjected to the most detailed analysis with new technology. Another is the truly fascinating study -- based largely on unpublished correspondence -- of how his Jewish background and exile influenced some of the most controversial views of [Renaissance-music scholar] Edward E. Lowinsky. GRAMOPHONE [David Fallows] With contributions from some of the brightest minds in musicology, Music in Print and Beyond captures the imagination as few recent volumes have. As musicology increasingly confronts the power of media to shape the production of music and our experiences of it, these essays provide crucial historical and theoretical perspectives on creative and scholarly landscapes in transition. --Kevin C. Karnes, Associate Professor of Music History, Emory University