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Wagner's Meistersinger
  • Performance, History, Representation
  • Edited by Nicholas Vazsonyi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2023
    Print publication:
    31 March 2003
  • A volume of collected essays which engage Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the perspective of both active performers and academics in a wide range of disciplines.

The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
  • Edited by Christina Bashford, Roberta Montemorra Marvin
  • With contributions by George Biddlecombe , Hilary J. Grainger , Denise Gallo , Catherine Hennessy Wolter , Roberta Montemorra Marvin , Jann Pasler , Michela Ronzani , Jon Solomon , Jeffrey S. Sposato , Nicholas Vazsonyi and David C. H. Wright
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    27 May 2021
    Print publication:
    19 May 2016
  • Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to resist full investigation, particularly in the musical sphere.The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930, is a collection of essays that present fresh insights into the ways in which art music, i.e., classical music, functioned beyond its newly established aesthetic purpose (art for art's sake) and intersected with commercial agendas in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture. Understanding how art music was portrayed and perceived in a modernizing marketplace, and how culture and commerce interacted, are the book's main goals.
    In this volume, international scholars from musicology and other disciplines address a rangeof unexplored topics, including the relationship of sacred music with commerce in the mid nineteenth century, the role of music in urban cultural development in the early twentieth, and the marketingof musical repertories, performers and instruments across time and place, to investigate what happened once art music began to be understood as needing to exist within the wider framework of commercially oriented culture. Historical case studies present contrasting topics and themes that not only vary geographically and ideologically but also overlap in significant ways, pushing back the boundaries of the 'music as commerce' discussion. Through diverse, multidisciplinary approaches, the volume opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products wereshaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce.

    CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois.

    ROBERTA MONTEMORRA MARVIN is Director of the Opera Studies Forum in the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa, where she is also on the faculty.

    CONTRIBUTORS: Christina Bashford, George Biddlecombe, Denise Gallo, David Gramit, Catherine Hennessy Wolter, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Fiona Palmer, Jann Pasler, Michela Ronzani, Jon Solomon, Jeffrey S. Sposato, Nicholas Vazsonyi, David Wright

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Mark Berry, Royal Holloway, University of London, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Clemson University, South Carolina
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020, pp 1-56

  • Summary

    Comprehensive and quite lengthy introduction to Wagner and the Ring. Covers concept of the volume as well as basic biographical details and intellectual and cultural influences for Wagner. Explains the significance of the Ring in musical, literary, and cultural terms. Sections include mythological sources, musical structure, compositional process, discussion of overall “meaning,” approaches to interpretation, performance history and impact.

The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
  • Edited by Mark Berry, Nicholas Vazsonyi
  • Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020
  • The Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring, introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, and giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent chapters, written by leading Wagner experts, focus on musical topics such as 'leitmotif', and structure, and provide a comprehensive set of character portraits, including leading players like Wotan, Brünnhilde, and Siegfried. Further chapters look to the mythological background of the work and the idea of the Bayreuth Festival, as well as critical reception of the Ring, its relationship to Nazism, and its impact on literature and popular culture, in turn offering new approaches to interpretation including gender, race and environmentalism. The volume ends with a history of notable stage productions from the world premiere in 1876 to the most recent stagings in Bayreuth and elsewhere.

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