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The University of Rochester Press launched the Eastman Studies in Music series in May 1994 with the publication of its first title - a revised edition in hardback and paperback of <i>The Poetic Debussy: A Collection of His Song Texts and Selected Letters</i>, by Margaret G. Cobb. With over one hundred fifty titles in print and more new titles scheduled for publication in the coming year, Eastman Studies in Music is a well-established endeavor committed to publishing quality titles in music scholarship.

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147 results in Eastman Studies in Music

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The "Musica" of Hermannus Contractus
  • Edited and translated by Leonard Ellinwood
  • Revised by John L. Snyder
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2015
  • Long recognized as one of the most important medieval treatises on music, the Musica of Hermannus Contractus is here presented in a newly revised translation, with commentary reflecting the best current scholarship.

    A polymath and monk, Hermannus Contractus (1013-54) contributed to the important advancements made in European arts and sciences in the first half of the eleventh century, writing on history, astronomy, and time-keeping devices, among other topics, and composing several chants. His music theory, founded on a systematic treatment of traditional concepts and terminology dating back to the ancient Greeks, is concerned largely with the organization of pitch in Gregorian chant. Hermann's approach stems from Germanic species-based thought, and is marked by a distinction between aspects of form and aspects of position, privileging the latter. He expresses this in terms imported from then-new developments in Italian music theory, thus acting as a nexus for the two traditions. Numerology and number symbolism play significant roles in Hermann's theories, and his critiques of other theorists offer insights into medieval intellectual life. Hermann also uses chant citations and exercises to help his readers apply theory to practice.

    John L. Snyder's revised edition of Ellinwood's long-standard 1952 text and translation offers a new introduction, including codicological descriptions of the sources; a critical edition of the Latin text with an annotated English translation on facing pages; appendices detailing the documents pertaining to Hermann's life, his citations of plainsong, and his original diastematic notation system; and greatly expanded indexes. Snyder's Musica will serve as the standard version of this major historical document for years to come.

    Leonard Ellinwood (1905-94) served in the Library of Congress cataloging divisions in music and in the humanities for thirty-five years. He published scholarly works and editions of both medieval music and church music. John L. Snyder is Professor of Music Theory and Musicology at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music.

Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys
  • A Selected Correspondence
  • Edited by Kimberly A. Francis
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 June 2018
  • Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.

Formal Functions in Perspective
  • Essays on Musical Form from Haydn to Adorno
  • Edited by Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, Nathan John Martin, Steven Vande Moortele
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2021
    Print publication:
    01 November 2015
  • Among the more striking developments in contemporary North American music theory is the centrality that questions of musical form (Formenlehre) have enjoyed in recent decades. Formal Functions in Perspective presents thirteen studies that engage with musical form in a variety of ways. The essays, written by established and emerging scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European continent, run the chronological gamut from Haydn and Clementi to Leibowitz and Adorno; they discuss Lieder, arias, and choral music as well as symphonies, concerti, and chamber works; they treat Haydn's humor and Saint-Saëns's politics, while discussions of particular pieces range from Mozart's arias to Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. Running through all of these essays and connecting them thematically is the central notion of formal function.

    CONTRIBUTORS: Brian Black, L. Poundie Burstein, Andrew Deruchie, Julian Horton, Steven Huebner, Harald Krebs, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Nathan John Martin, François de Médicis, Christoph Neidhöfer, Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Janet Schmalfeldt, Peter Schubert, Steven Vande Moortele

    Steven Vande Moortele is assistant professor of music at the University of Toronto. Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers is assistant professor of music at the University of Ottawa. Nathan John Martin is assistant professor of music at the University of Michigan.

Gay Guerrilla
  • Julius Eastman and His Music
  • Edited by Renée Levine Packer, Mary Jane Leach
  • With contributions by David Borden , Luciano Chessa , Renee Levine Packer , Ryan Dohoney , Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek , R. Nemo Hill , Matthew Mendez , John Patrick Thomas and Kyle Gann
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 December 2015
  • Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others assault us with his obsessions. Eastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as recounted in legendary scandals he unleashed like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, or the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. These episodes areexamples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights.

    In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in Gay Guerrilla provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist that is compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights.

    Contributors: David Borden, Luciano Chessa, Ryan Dohoney, Kyle Gann, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, R. Nemo Hill, Mary Jane Leach, Renée Levine Packer, George E. Lewis, Matthew Mendez, John Patrick Thomas

    Renée Levine Packer's book This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union.

The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste

Brahms and the Shaping of Time

George Rochberg, American Composer
  • Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity
  • Amy Lynn Wlodarski
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 April 2019
  • Based on private diaries, correspondence, and unpublished writings, George Rochberg, American Composer reveals the impact of personal trauma on the creative and intellectual work of a leading postmodern composer.

Sara Levy's World
  • Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin
  • Edited by Rebecca Cypes, Nancy Sinkoff
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 April 2021
    Print publication:
    20 June 2018
  • A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonniŠre and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past
  • An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics
  • Edmund J. Goehring
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 April 2021
    Print publication:
    25 June 2018
  • A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans.

Bernstein and Robbins

Augusta Browne
  • Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Bonny H. Miller
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 October 2020
    Print publication:
    01 May 2020
  • The first comprehensive biography of any American woman musician born before the Civil War brings to life a composer whose story is both old-fashioned and strikingly modern.

Brahms's A German Requiem
  • Reconsidering Its Biblical, Historical, and Musical Contexts
  • R. Allen Lott
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 May 2020
  • Examines in detail the contexts of Brahms's masterpiece and demonstrates that-contrary to recent consensus-it was performed and received as an inherently Christian work during the composer's life.

Nadia Boulanger

Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

The Music of Leos Janacek
  • Motive, Rhythm, Structure
  • Zdenek Skoumal
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 October 2020
    Print publication:
    20 June 2020
  • The first thorough theoretical study of Janácek's compositions, focusing on motivic and rhythmic structure and identifying elements that give the music coherence, character, and interest.

Self-Quotation in Schubert
  • Ave Maria, the Second Piano Trio, and Other Works
  • Edited by Scott Messing
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    06 October 2020
    Print publication:
    01 May 2020
  • Examines the history of musical self-quotation, and reveals and explores a previously unidentified case of Schubert quoting one of his own songs in a major instrumental work.

Liszt and Virtuosity

The New Beethoven
  • Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation
  • Edited by Jeremy Yudkin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 September 2020
    Print publication:
    01 September 2020
  • Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works.

Greek and Latin Music Theory

Stravinsky s "Great Passacaglia"
  • Recurring Elements in the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  • Donald G. Traut
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 August 2020
    Print publication:
    01 November 2016
  • Stravinsky's ‘Great Passacaglia’ marks the first full-length analytic study devoted to the Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, an important neoclassic piece composed by one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Donald Traut examines the complex significance of this piece for Stravinsky and his contemporaries. For the composer, the Concerto was both a major artistic accomplishment in his burgeoning neoclassic style and a vehicle for financial gain as a touring soloist, an endeavor that took him throughout Europe and was instrumental in bringing him to America for the first time. For many of Stravinsky's critics it came to represent all that was wrong with his new style, while for others it pointed the way forward through the past, taking on an important role in the Bach revival of the 1920s. By combining sketch studies, musicological context, and straightforward analyses of all three movements, the book paints a comprehensive picture of the piece's creation, impact, and structure that will be of interest not only to musicologists and music theorists, but to pianists, conductors, and concert-goers as well.Donald Traut is associate professor of music theory at the University of Arizona.

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