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63674 results in Music

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  • 5 - Rossini ‘As the Viennese Liked It’

  • Nancy November, University of Auckland
  • Book:
    Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
    Published online:
    18 February 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 137-181

  • Summary

    This chapter explores why, in an era so strongly associated with Beethoven and Schubert, Rossini’s music was such a hit in Vienna, looking at the contribution of opera in the home to this popularity. Opera arrangements spread Rossini’s music around a wide public even before public performances were staged. Hit numbers such as ‘Di tanti palpiti’ from Tancredi were performed over and over in Vienna, in various venues and with various combinations of instruments and voices. The ‘judges of German art’ decried his work in newspaper reviews; but this did little or nothing to dampen the market’s enthusiasm. Sales of Rossini’s operas rocketed, as publishing catalogues from the era demonstrate. The popularity of Rossini, fuelled via opera arrangements, is linked to those aspects of Rossini’s music that the critics decried, especially repetition, noise, genre blurring, and theatricality. The thirst for arrangements that promoted and exacerbated these aspects is linked, in turn, to the context of surveillance and censorship in which the contemporary Viennese found themselves, and related to Habsburg politics and the Metternich System.

  • Introduction

  • Nancy November, University of Auckland
  • Book:
    Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
    Published online:
    18 February 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    This study takes a novel approach, privileging opera arrangements over original operatic compositions, and the perspectives of amateur performers over those of composers. Several studies of opera arrangements from the era in question have already been published, which focus on particular composers or particular arrangement forms; and the emphasis lies on arrangements’ function as reception documents. This study differs in considering arrangements’ multiple functions, and ‘end users.

Utopia, Innovation, Tradition
  • Bruno Maderna's Cosmos
  • Edited by Angela Ida De Benedictis
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 January 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2023
  • This book, the first collection of essays in English on Bruno Maderna, brings the reader closer to one of the greatest European composer and conductor of the last century.

String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples
  • Culture, Power, and Music Institutions
  • Guido Olivieri
  • Published online:
    13 January 2024
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023
  • Drawing on extensive archival work, this book examines the crucial contribution of Neapolitan string virtuosi to the dissemination of instrumental music and to the development of string practices and musical culture in Europe. It presents a fresh look at the central place of instrumental music in early modern Naples and considers aspects of music pedagogy, performance practices, patronage, and musicians' social mobility. Music examples, paintings, and lists of personnel of major music institutions inform the discussion and illustrate the opportunities for social mobility afforded by the music profession. Music production and consumption are considered within their cultural, political, and economic contexts and in connection with the rapid political changes of eighteenth-century Naples. This substantial contribution to the understanding of a previously under-studied repertory places the cultivation of Neapolitan instrumental music at the centre of aesthetic and cultural developments across eighteenth-century Europe.

Music and Death
  • Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life
  • Edited by Wolfgang Marx
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 January 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2023
  • Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals, consoles survivors, and celebrates the deceased.

Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century
  • Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice
  • Bode Omojola
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    30 June 2014
  • Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music.

Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones sacrae (1575)
  • A Sacred Argument
  • Jeremy L. Smith
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 April 2023
  • Offers a new interpretation by employing a musical, literary, theological and political discussion. Encourages new ways of interpreting Tudor and Elizabethan sacred music.

The Strasbourg Cantiones of 1539
  • Protestant City, Catholic Music
  • Daniel Trocmé-Latter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2023
  • Presents a critical study of the Cantiones in terms of their historical and confessional significance, assemblage, printing and the music itself.

The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe

The Choral Foundation of the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

Accenting the Classics

The Music for Victory at Sea
  • Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, and the Making of a TV Masterpiece
  • George J. Ferencz
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2023
  • This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodgers-Bennett score.

Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750

Women in American Operas of the 1950s
  • Undoing Gendered Archetypes
  • Monica A. Hershberger
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2023
  • The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life.

Opera and the Politics of Tragedy
  • A Mozartean Museum
  • Katharina Clausius
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2023
  • A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the 'Telemacomania' scandal, a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes.

Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein
  • A Study of Influence
  • Rebecca Schmid
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    20 June 2023
  • The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein.

  • Televising Talent: Musicality, Meritocracy, and the Aesthetics of Exclusion

  • Lindsay J. Wright
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Society for American Music / Volume 18 / Issue 1 / February 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 January 2024, pp. 33-55
    Print publication:
    February 2024

  • Throughout the history of television, American audiences have participated in a tradition of programs that follow a consistent structure: Amateur musicians and entertainers are offered an opportunity to display their talent on stage, competing for audience votes to win first prize and a chance at stardom. This article contributes to a growing literature on the significance of televised talent shows, demonstrating how their remarkable longevity and representational power stems from their configuration as a “format,” the set of guidelines that structure and constrain the content of each broadcast—an aesthetic process grounded in exclusion. Through their formatting, I argue, these programs reify the notion of “talent” at the heart of talent shows, transforming a multidimensional and context-contingent assemblage of musical abilities into a seemingly stable object able to be recognized, rated, and ranked. Musical auditions offer a microcosm of formatting's role as a means of training audiences’ attention. They normalize the practice of eliminating whatever (or whomever) is deemed unworthy—on these programs and in the wider world. Through analyzing examples from Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour (1948), The Gong Show (1978), and The Voice (2017), the article demonstrates how beneath the widely discussed content of contestant demographics, judge commentary, or audience voting results, the talent show format serves to obscure the contradictions upon which meritocracy's cruel optimism rests.

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