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Oxford Guides to Chaucer The Shorter Poems
Authors: Minnis A J , Scattergood V J , Smith J J
Published: November 2023

This third volume in the highly successful Oxford Guides to Chaucer series offers a much needed introduction to Chaucer's Shorter Poems. General chapters on the social and cultural contexts of the Shorter Poems are supplemented by a guide to the genre they mostly exemplify - the love-vision form. The volume then provides individual chapters on the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, the Legend of Good Women, and the short poems; there is also an extensive appendix on Chaucher's language. The views of critics who wrote over fifty years ago are interwoven with those of contemporary scholars; traditional work on dates and sources is combined with up-to-date theoretical approaches; established methods in literary history sit alongside today's historicist procedures; and medieval hermeneutics are discssed in the light of those of the modern era. Introducing Chaucer, the volume maintains, must entail the presentation of the diverse methods of reading Chaucer. Lively, provocative, and comprehensive, Chaucer's Shorter Poems will at last make accessible a crucial but often neglected part of Chaucer's oeuvre.
The Enemy’s Country
Authors: Hill Geoffrey
Published: November 2023

Geoffrey Hill is University Professor at Boston University. He holds an honorary D. Litt. from the University of Leeds and is an Honorary Fellow of both Keble College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Amongst many other recognitions of his work as a poet, he has received the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Award. He gave the Clark Lectures, on which this book is based, in 1986. `Well done!' is a familiar cry with a complex sense. It may applaud the merest knack, patronize a decent competence, or squarely recognize something at once finely-achieved and morally just. The language of true valuing is constantly shadowed by parodies of itself - sales-talk, sociable politeness, or gush. The Enemy's Country is concerned with the ways in which judgement is conveyed through language, and with the difficulty of clearing the terms of judgement not from but for the pressures of circumstance so that what is said may be fitting. Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt to the real conditions of poets' work, to their share of drudgery, their fears of misapprehension or their need to please, to the entanglements of meaning in historical communities. The 'sheer perfection' of lyric utterance is shown to involve a recognition and acceptance of the poet's place in `the scheme of things', a scheme of business and accommodation which is not ideally clean but which remains a ground of the art's refinement. Dryden is at the centre of the book. Around his exemplary figure, Geoffrey Hill describes with biting erudition and minutely sympathetic imagination the perplexities and felicity of genius in writers such as Donne, Hobbes, and Marvell. The book closes with a study of Pound's `Envoi:1919' in which Hill, characteristically, brings together humour, scrupulousness, and enquiring commitment to the hopes of poetry. The Enemy's Country enacts `virtue's struggle to clear and maintain its own meaning amid the commonplace approximation, the common practice of men'.
Unhappy Circumstances
Authors: Hill Geoffrey
Published: November 2023

Aubrey records that the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, although ‘marvellous happy and ready in his replies’ when baited by the ‘witts at Court’, was reluctant to ‘conclude hastily’ in questions of weight and import: ‘he turned and winded and compounded in philosophy, politiques, etc. as if he had been at Amlyticall worke.’ This distinction between the particular virtues of instant repartee and of protracted and complex deliberation merits some remark at the present time when, it could fairly be said, the force of the distinction has been largely forgotten and when to ‘turn’ and ‘wind’ and ‘compound’ in one’s arguments is to be taken as being contemptuously self-regarding, as holding oneself wilfully aloof from the proper business of discourse and communication.
Introduction
Authors: Kumar Udaya
Published: November 2023

There is an inescapable contemporaneity to Joyce’s texts, even half a century after his death. However, this contemporaneity is itself the symptom of a history-that of our ways of reading. More profoundly, it is also a symptom of the continuous modifications and redefinitions that have taken place in our understanding of the task of interpretation itself. The enigmas and puzzles that Joyce put in his texts have continued to ensure his immortality, but our notions of enigmas and puzzles in literary texts have also undergone changes. The context of a reading of Joyce involves these several levels of history. Inevitably, this book is itself a contemporary reading of Joyce. However, it also seeks to situate itself, recognizing that the ground occupied by a contemporary reading of Joyce is complex and rather ill-defined. The transformations in our understanding of literary texts, primarily due to a series of events in contemporary philosophy, literary theory, and other disciplines, have immensely contributed to a rereading of Joyce’s work. What has come to be called post-structuralist theory has been the primary strand in this rereading. It has taken the form of a psychoanalytical, or deconstructionist, or feminist reassessment of Joyce’s work.
Repetition: Its Modes and Levels
Authors: Kumar Udaya
Published: November 2023

In the Introduction, while discussing the theoretical implications of repetition, I cited Deleuze’s distinction between two kinds of repetition. The first, which he calls ‘naked’ repetition, involves the unvarying repetition of the same. The first occurrence of the element functions as an original model here, and the subsequent occurrences can be seen as copies of this model. The second kind, ‘clothed’ repetition, introduces difference at each of its occurrences. The relation between ‘model’ and ‘copy’ does not obtain in this case. While ‘naked’ repetition functions to reaffirm and stabilize an identity given at the beginning, ‘clothed’ repetition questions such stability. This distinction can serve as an introduction to Joyce’s use of repetition in Ulysses. The repetition of verbal elements is indeed one of the noticeable peculiarities of Ulysses. William Schutte’s compilation of recurrent elements runs into more than three hundred pages.1 However, all the elements that Schutte lists are not interpretatively significant acts of repetition. For example, the names of characters, while repeated, do not invite attention to their new occurrence as an act of repetition.2 There are several such elements in narrative discourse that are often repeated with unvaried meaning, such as places, objects, events. They function as acts of naked repetition, where repetition only confirms and reiterates the sense of the original use. It aids the reader’s retentive memory and stabilizes the identity of the element. This kind of repetition is not the object of discussion in this chapter.
The Dragon and the Dove
Authors: Gasper Julia
Published: November 2023

The Dragon and the Dove makes the original and controversial claim that Thomas Dekker, the author of plays blending satire, hagiography, and propaganda, was a militant Protestant. This study, whilst carefully analysing seven of his plays, takes The Whore of Babylon to be his central work and the definitive militant Protestant play. Militant Protestants were uncompromising in their beliefs and frequently came into conflict with the policies of the Crown. Apocalyptic ideas, and a vision of the international True Church struggling against the dragon of Rome, provide the key to understanding all Dekker's work. This book takes a completely fresh view of Dekker and presents him as a bold, pugnacious dramatist, writing for the London public, not merely the Court, and constantly experimenting with form in order to find a vehicle for his strong convictions.
A Shakespeare Music Catalogue
Authors: Gooch Bryan N S , Thatcher David
Published: November 2023

The five volumes of A Shakespeare Music Catalogue provide scholarship with an invaluable reference tool: a comprehensive and detailed documentation of all music - published and unpublished, from Shakespeare's day to our own - in any way related to Shakespeare's life and work. No single work has ever before attempted to draw together such a mass of information, from all countries of the world, on this neglected aspect of Shakespeare's dramatic art and cultural influence. The music includes operas, ballets, overtures, tone-poems, songs, and various types of incidental music (for stage, radio, film, and television productions). Each composition is cited with information on its vocal and instrumental requirements, its publication history, and, when known, its first performance. The first three volumes deal with music and musical stage-directions for the plays (arranged alphabetically) and settings of the sonnets and narrative poems. The fourth volume contains indices: of Shakespeare's titles and lines, the titles of musical works, and composers, arrangers, editors, librettists, etc. The final volume provides a further, and unprecedented, research tool: a selected, annotated bibliography of writings, in all languages, on the subject of Shakespeare and music. For the first time, readers of the Catalogue will have ready access to the broad range of musical works inspired by Shakespeare and to the diversity of critical viewpoints they have provoked. Theatrical directors will be able to consult it for appropriate music; musicologists and cultural historians study the history of taste; literary scholars examine any play or plays from a thoroughly documented musical standpoint. The Catalogue brings together the work of many scholars in the field, and goes far beyond existing available data.
The German Auden: Six Early Poems
Authors: Constantine David
Published: November 2023

Auden went to Germany in October 1928 and lived there, mainly in Berlin, until July 1929. In April 1930 he took up a teaching post at Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh on the Firth of Clyde. For the vacation that summer he went back to Berlin. It seems likely that these six poems in German, all published here for the first time, were written after his return from that holiday. The opening line of one, ‘Es regnet auf mir in den Schottische Lande’ (2), points definitely to Helensburgh, and others also have separation and absence as their given context. As was his habit with most of the poems that he wrote at this time, Auden sent them all to Christopher Isherwood who was still in Berlin.
W. H. Auden: A Bibliographical Supplement
Authors: Mendelson Edward
Published: November 2023

W H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969, 2nd edn. (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1972), compiled by B. C. Bloomfield and Edward Mendelson, described Auden’s publications from the start of his career through the end of 1969. This supplementary list extends the record to the end of 1987 and includes items mistakenly omitted from the Bibliography. This list is a summary only, without the full detail presented in the Bibliography. It lists Auden’s books, and his contributions to books and periodicals, but does not include interviews, published extracts fom private letters, recordings, broadcasts, or other forms of publication. A future edition of the Bibliography will include such items, as well as full descriptions of the books briefly listed here.
Colloquialism and Naïve Style in Aeschylus
Authors: West Martin
Published: November 2023

My title is not meant as a hendiadys. Colloquialism and naïve style are independent variables. The link between them is that they are both divergences from an ideal of elegance. I use ‘ideal‘ here in the sense of ‘abstract construct‘, not in the sense of ‘goal‘. The elegance in question is not necessarily an elegance sought or imagined by the author, or craved by his critic. It is something defined a posteriori by the student acquainted with the various possibilities of the language. I shall not involve myself in a protracted discussion of what the term ‘collo-quialism‘ means, or of the criteria by which colloquialisms in ancient Greek writers are to be identified. These are necessary questions, but they have been handled very satisfactorily by others. a Perhaps I can get away with saying that a colloquialism is an expression that some people would sometimes avoid as lacking in dignity.
Language and Identity
Authors: Swain Simon
Published: November 2023

In this first chapter I want to examine the language consciousness of the Greek elite in the second sophistic period, concentrating on the phenomenon of atticism, its causes, and its meaning. In the next chapter I shall be considering how various individuals encouraged or responded to the pressures of language purism. Here I shall be concerned. with the political and social meaning of atticism in general terms. The search for this will involve looking at the development of the so-called koine or ‘common’ language in the Hellenistic age, at the stylistic classicism and atticism championed by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Augustan Rome, and at the later combination of this stylistic atticism with the linguistic purism and formalism of the second sophistic. Changes in the Greek language, the political situation of the Greek elite under the High Empire, and the question of their reaction to Rome are other topics to be considered.
The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism
Authors: Vilain Robert
Published: November 2023

Hugo von Hofmannsthal became famous at the age of sixteen for poetry and lyrical drama of almost uncanny facility and beauty. Yet he ceased to write lyric poetry almost completely in the early 1900s and his fictional farewell to poetry, the so-called 'Chandos Letter', is a paradigm for the uncertainty and instability of Modernism. The verse of the 1890s, the 'lyrical decade', is generally felt to have been enhanced by his interest in the French Symbolists and the Symbolist-inspired tutelage of Stefan George. However, with analyses of verse and prose poetry from the 1890s, this book argues that Symbolism was a fundamentally inhibiting influence, ultimately responsible for the crisis in Hofmannsthal's poetic writing. 'Das Gespräch über Gedichte', written soon after 'Ein Brief', in 1903, makes it clear how the crisis was a personal one and does not imply the general impossibility of future writing, as is often suggested. As a theory of poetry, it acknowledges the importance of French Symbolism but suggests how it was ultimately a dummy aesthetic that had previously overlaid and stifled Hofmannsthal's own Romantic leanings.
’Musicke of Violenze’ The Elizabethan String Consort
Authors: Holman Peter
Published: November 2023

The accession of Elizabeth in 1558 ushered in a long period of stability for the royal violin consort. There were only nine changes of personnel in the forty-four years of her reign, a state of affairs that was partly caused by the remarkable longevity of its members: Ambrose, Peter and Joseph Lupo, Francis of Venice, Mark Anthony and Caesar Galliardello, and Innocent of Cremona all served forty years or more. But it also testifies to the strength of the relationship between the Protestant Tudor dynasty and its Jewish-Italian musicians: all Elizabeth’s violinists apparently continued in her service until retirement or death, despite the fact that, with their foreign contacts, they would have been well placed to obtain lucrative employment elsewhere.
Debussy’s Iberia
Authors: Brown Matthew
Published: November 2023

For well over a century musicologists have been fascinated by composers' manuscripts and by the insights they might reveal about the nature of musical composition. This book suggests ways in which Debussy's sketches and drafts may be used to explain how he composed one of his last great symphonic scores: Ibéria (from Images for orchestra, 1903-10). Part 1 shows how we might understand the process of musical composition as a form of expert problem solving; it describes the compositional history of the work, the various intentional goals and historical constraints that guided Debussy's thinking, and some of the technical problems Debussy faced while composing this remarkable score. Part 2 reconstructs the genesis of each of the three movements in turn.
Handel and the English Chapel Royal
Authors: Burrows Donald
Published: November 2023

Handel’s English church music spans the complete period of his active career in London: his first anthem and the Utrecht Te Deum were composed soon after his arrival in London, and his last works nearly 40 years later. The repertory, which includes the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, forms one of the most impressive and engaging areas of Baroque church music. Most of it was stimulated by Handel’s creative contact with the English Chapel Royal, a group of professional singers in a different tradition from the opera stars with whom he worked in the theatre. This is the first full-length study of Handel’s English Church music. As well as dealing with the many aspects of the compositions themselves, it traces the background to the diverse items in the repertory, which relates directly to Handel’s constant but changing relationship with the Hanoverian British royal family, and was affected by political and dynastic events. It also examines the circumstances of Handel’s performances, the building which (unlike his theatres) still survives in London today.
Parable Music I: The Canticles and Cantata misericordium
Authors: Elliott Graham
Published: November 2023

Donald Mitchell makes clear in the passage from which the second of these quotations is taken that he considers the ‘parable’ method to be an important aspect of Britten’s complete œuvre. Such a view is wholly consistent with the generally accepted notion that Britten expresses his humanitarian concerns through his music, and it justifies the search for other, more deeply spiritual, sympathies in his music. The number of works which have a direct or indirect spiritual dimension is considerable, and forms a large proportion of Britten’s output. While other commentators may claim that Britten was heavily concerned with the creation of homosexual allegories or, to a lesser extent, political polemics, the sheer weight of the spiritually orientated music is convincing indication of Britten’s major concerns.
Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597–1641
Authors: Reardon Colleen
Published: November 2023

Agostino Agazzari (c.1580-c.1642) has long been recognized as one of the most prominent theorists of the early Baroque. The enduring fame of his 1607 treatise on the basso continuo has, however, overshadowed his equally significant contributions as a composer. And for all his renown, relatively little has been written about his professional career in Siena. This book not only provides the first comprehensive study of his life and sacred works, it also opens a window on musical culture in Siena during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the use of archival materials, the author documents Agazzari’s long association with the Sienese Cathedral and furnishes valuable information on the personnel, repertory, and performance practices there. She argues for a reassessment of the influences that shaped the composer's style and challenges the generally held view that Sienese culture stagnated after the fall of the Republic in 1555. The book contributes significantly to our knowledge of musical life in the Tuscan ‘City of the Virgin’.
Horn Technique
Authors: Schuller Gunther
Published: November 2023

The first edition of this book was published in 1962 and quickly established itself as the classic guide to all aspects of horn-playing, with chapters on tone-production, exercises, legato and staccato playing, and the art of practising. For this new edition the author has greatly enlarged the Repertoire List, which gives details of over 1,000 pieces from the solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoires which include one or more horns. The author draws attention to key works in each genre. There are also a number of corrections and up-datings throughout the text and a new preface outlining recent developments in the horn world.
The Man’s World
Authors: Moore Jerrold Northrop
Published: November 2023

The children’s play had sought to solve the problems of childhood at the expense of the adult world. But its hope fell victim to inexorable time. Like the tune from Broadheath and the attempted Fugue, the play and its music remained unfinished and unperformed as Edward grew older.
Steffani’s Solo Cantatas
Authors: Timms Colin
Published: November 2023

In this connection one should also mention Agostino Steffani [1654-1728], who likewise through his teacher Ercole Bernabei is to be counted with the Roman school and who, though his life, as is well known, extends far into the eighteenth century, nevertheless remains throughout a spiritual child of the seventeenth. Indeed, Steffani is perhaps the most distinguished name in the whole field of vocal chamber music. It must be adinitted, however, that the master figures so prominently as the specialist of the chamber duet that, by comparison, his few surviving solo cantatas hardly come into the reckoning. At this point in our account, therefore, he can receive little but a general mention, for the notable refinement that he achieved in melodic expression overall, which indirectly—i.e. through its influence on his contemporariesthen bore fruit in the form of the solo cantata too.
Gluck
Authors: Howard Patricia
Published: November 2023

This book brings together a variety of eighteenth century sources in an attempt to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of that century. Celebrated today for his historical significance, as the one composer who did most to effect the transition between baroque and classical opera, Gluck in his lifetime was both a controversial figure and a colourful one: the sources portray a man of enormous energy, relish for good food and good company, and passion for his art. The basis of the book is the body of letters to and from Gluck. There has been only one previous attempt to collect and translate the material into English, and apart from the fact that it was universally deemed inadequate at the time of publication (1962), it has been superceded by discoveries of new material, now incorporated in this study. Besides the letters, the book includes a wealth of factual documents and informal anecdotes, not easily accessible in the original German, French and Italian languages, almost none of which has ever been made available in English. The material has been arranged and translated with the aim of providing readers with a lively, continuous narrative of Gluck’s life, while at the same time indicating the major locations of the published and unpublished sources, in order that scholars can access the material in its original languages.
Gorecki
Authors: Thomas Adrian
Published: November 2023

The Polish composer Henryk Górecki (born 1933) achieved world-wide renown in 1992 when his Third Symphony, written in 1976, was recorded on CD and became an international bestseller. It is now one of the best known musical compositions of recent years, yet Górecki's other music is still relatively little known. This study, by a leading enthusiast of Górecki's music, is the first detailed account of his works in any language, and provides biographical information as background to the music. Adrian Thomas discusses Górecki's position as leader of the Polish avant-garde in the late 1950s, and his subsequent discovery of the folk and church music of Old Poland, notably that of the Podhale region in southern Poland. He describes Górecki's unmistakable musical world, from the large orchestral scores (Sconti, Refrain, the Symphonies) and the choral works (Beatus Vir, commissioned by and dedicated to Pope John Paul II), to the more modest church songs and folk-song arrangements. There is a complete list of works since 1955 with details of instrumentation and recordings, and a select bibliography.
SONGS OF JOY AND RHYTHM
Authors: Thomas Adrian
Published: November 2023

BOLESl’:AW SzABELSKI was a man of few words, but his role as Gorecki’s composition mentor and as a figure in loco parentis was crucial. His taciturnity was complemented by Gorecki’s enthusiasm, and they shared a profound admiration for the music of Szymanowski, who had been Szabelski’s teacher in Warsaw in the late 1920s. They seem to have talked rarely about compositional technique or even Szabelski’s own music.1 Instead, Szabelski encouraged his pupil’s growing confidence and independence by giving him considerable space in which to develop his own ideas and projects. Several of the first pieces Gorecki wrote in 1955-6 were straightforward examples of the type of neo-classicism written in the post-war decade by older Polish composers such as Grazyna Bacewicz (1909--69), Kazimierz Serocki (1922-81), and Tadeusz Baird (1928-81). Characteristic of the style are the twists and turns introduced into fairly four-square rhythmic and metric patterns, uncomplicated formal structures, the frequent use in the fast movements of a broad melody set against a pulsating background, and a harmonic language that seeks consistency less in the diatonic triad than in perfect intervals, tritones, and chro¬ matic ostinatos.
Mensural Intertextuality in the Sacred Music of Antoine Busnoys
Authors: Wegman Rob C
Published: November 2023

One can say many things about Johannes Tinctoris, but not that he was afraid to hold unpopular views on music theory. His treatises show an unwavering adherence to ‘truth’ and ‘reason’, even in cases where no other compositions than his own (which modesty forbade him to mention)2 exemplified those criteria. Faced with almost universal contrary practice on several of his teachings (including in the works of Antoine Busnoys), Tinctoris was fighting a losing battle, it seems, yet battling on nevertheless.
Busnoys and ‘Caron’ in Documents from Brussels
Authors: Haggh Barbara
Published: November 2023

Avisitor to Brussels today can hardly imagine what the city must have been like when the court of Burgundy resided there. With the exception of the newly restored St Michael’s Cathedral (formerly the collegiate church of St Gudula), only a few black and encrusted churches remain, traffic swirls around the Coudenberg where the palace once stood, and part of the church of St Jan1cs, which was visited by the court on solemn occasions, now houses a bank.
Busnoys and Italy: The Evidence of Two Songs
Authors: Rifkin Joshua
Published: November 2023

Cholarship loves a vacuum; and the life of Antoine Busnoys provides an irresistible one. Between 17 April 1483, when he last appears in the household records of Maximilian of Austria, and 6 November 1492, when a notice from the church of Saint-Sauveur at Bruges records his presumably recent death, Busnoys drops completely out of sight. As with Shakespeare, more than a few scholars - myself hardly excluded - have felt inclined to wonder if he didn’t spend at least some of the missing years in Italy.
Celestial Sirens
Authors: Kendrick Robert L
Published: November 2023

This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women’s devotional life. The two centuries’ worth of battles over nuns’ singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns’ musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.
Joseph Haydn
Authors: Komlós Katalin
Published: November 2023

As Kapellmeister to Prince Esterhazy,Joseph Haydn presumably played violin in the princely Hof- und Cammermusique band;1 the various obligations included in his job, however, entailed plenty of keyboard activity as well. He always composed at the clavichord,2 and produced keyboard music throughout his career, from his earliest years. The documents concerning his instruments prior to the late 1780s, nevertheless, are scarce. It is the more surprising that from that time on he responded so eloquently to the potentials of the fortepianos at hand, Viennese and English.
Kenner und Liebhaber
Authors: Komlós Katalin
Published: November 2023

The double term connaisseur-amateur (Kenner—Liebhaber) appeared, in connection with the appreciation of the arts, in the first half of the eighteenth century. However, as a result of historical and sociological developments, it became widely used from the mid-century on.
New York
Authors: Kennedy Michael
Published: November 2023

They arrived in New York the week before Christmas. With Anna in Vienna, the loss of Putzi was even more poignantly felt by them both. But for Mahler there was the Metropolitan Opera. His impact on the New York scene was awaited apprehensively. An article in the New York Mail of 23rd September 1907 speculated about happenings at the Metropolitan under one who ‘is no respecter of anything but his art. The “stars” may be compelled to drop from their height and take rehearsals like ordinary mortals … and they may be compelled to accept comments not in harmony with their opinion of themselves.’ This publication also printed a candid description of Mahler by a young American conductor, Walter Rothwell, who had seen him in Europe:
Berlioz’s character
Authors: Macdonald Hugh
Published: November 2023

It is hard to explain the misunderstanding that Berlioz faced in his lifetime and has suffered widely since, when he was so articulate and honest about his attitude to life and art. Few composers have expounded their views with such insistence and such clarity. Any reader of his feuilletons, his Memoirs or his letters is instantly introduced to the forceful enthusiasm of his personality, and while it is easy to see how this provoked hostility, even his enemies should have known clearly what they were up against.
Brahms
Authors: MacDonald Malcolm
Published: November 2023

Brahms has long been considered an arch-conservative, the last Classical master, but modern research reveals a troubled and self-critical Romantic whose genius united the emotionalism of his times with Classical principles. Malcolm MacDonald demonstrates how the musical and personal character of this great composer are inextricably entwined: how the man speaks in his music.
Mendelssohn
Authors: Radcliffe Philip
Published: November 2023

In print for nearly fifty years and based on Philip Radcliffe's exceptionally wide knowledge of the Classical and Romantic repertoires, this 'life and works' of Mendelssohn has been periodically updated to incorporate modern research on the composer. In the second half of the twentieth-century Mendelssohn studies have ranged from his intellectual and social background to his attitude to Bach, Handel, and other earlier composers. His formative years have come under scrutiny, as well as his relationship with his sister Fanny, who has attracted interest as a musician in her own right. Of crucial importance to scholars has been the re-emergence in Krakow of the large number of Mendelssohn manuscripts considered lost since their removal from Berlin for safekeeping during World War II. Thanks to this discovery, virtually all the composer's manuscripts are once again available for study. Peter Ward Jones took account of all these developments in revising the text and appendices for this (1990) edition.
Years of refuge
Authors: Samson Jim
Published: November 2023

George Sand has been much maligned by Chopin biographers, as indeed she was by some of his friends. ‘The poor man cannot see that this woman has the love of a vampire’, was Custine’s verdict, and not his alone. Just after the composer’s death Grzymala remarked that had Chopin not had ‘the misfortune to meet G. S. who has poisoned his whole life, he might have lived to Cherubini’s age’. We should be careful of such pronouncements. In part at least they were motivated by jealousy. Wittingly or not, Chopin somehow brought out the worst in his friends, most of whom were confident that they alone knew what was best for him. Protectiveness all too easily bred possessiveness.
Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France
Authors: O’neill Mary
Published: November 2023

This book is the first full-length study of the courtly love songs of the trouvère to address the central musical problems of the repertoire as a whole, embracing source studies, interpretation, historiography, and analysis. The argument of the book revolves around three axes, each of which is essential to the appreciation of the others: problems concerning the extant manuscript tradition; the crucial role of orality; and stylistic changes and plurality in the reperotire. For the first time, a full overview of the sources and notation is undertaken. This reveals the idiosyncrasies of individual manuscripts but, more importantly, it identifies two basic phases in the manuscript tradition. The study of melodic variants reveals the performance art that lies at the heart of the courtly grand chant; processes and techniques of variation are examined, bringing us to a closer understanding of the tenets of the melodic art of the early trouvères. A close study of select trouvères from the different generation reveals stylstic change and plurality, particularly in the melodic art which in some respects was less prescribed than the poetic texts. Consequently the courtly songs of the trouvères truly come alive in this book.
Rome: The Late Years
Authors: Allsop Peter
Published: November 2023

The politics of reaction which seemed to govern successive papacies in the seventeenth cen tury was to work decidedly in Corelli’s favour after the accession of Alexander VIII (Ottoboni) in 1689. He immediately set about reversing some of the more extreme policies of the austere and parsimonious Innocent XI which had so deeply affected the arts. This new era of liberal ism and toleration was inaugurated by the re-establishment of the carnival season and the reopening of the public theatres, allowing the Teatro Tor di Nona once more to assume its intended function as the centre for public performances of drammi per musica. Alexander also reinstated the more questionable tendency of nepotism largely absent under his predecessor, but this was to have favourable repercussions on the fate of the arts and a profound influence on the fortunes of Arcangelo Corelli.
The Italian Legacy
Authors: Allsop Peter
Published: November 2023

Sonaten made specific reference to the master on their title-pages. The assumption that, given this general acclaim, instmmental composers could hardly have failed to fall under his all powerful influence has received much support over the centuries. Hawkins considered that he ‘had introduced a style which all the composers of Italy affected to imitate: as Corelli formed it, it was chaste, sober, and elegant, but with his imitators it degenerated into dulness’,2 while Newman concluded that ‘the influence of Corelli, direct or indirect, and the inevitable mutations of his styles and forms that began even before he died, define the most significant trends of the sonata during the late Baroque Era’.3 Such a categorical statement begs many questions. If this influence began before Corelli’s death, when precisely? Did the publication of Op.
Analysing Musical Multimedia
Authors: Cook Nicholas
Published: November 2023

Analysing Musical Multimedia is the first book to put forward a general theory of the manner in which different media - music, words, moving picture, and dance - work together to create multimedia. Though generally associated with contemporary developments, in particular music video and film, a general theory of musical multimedia also encompasses traditional genres such as song and opera. Critical writing in these areas, however, is genre-specific; this book seeks to establish principles, and a terminology for their description, that apply across the whole spectrum of musical multimedia. Beginning with a study of the way in which meaning is mediated in television commercials, Cook concludes with in-depth readings of Disney's Fantasia, Madonna's video Material Girl, and Armide (Godard's sequence from the collaborative film Aria). Analysing Musical Multimedia not only shows how approaches deriving from music theory can contribute to the understanding of multimedia, but also seeks to draw conclusions from the practice and further development of musical analysis.
1733: A Year of Changes
Authors: Stockigt Janice B
Published: November 2023

The year 1733 was a time of momentous change and uncertainty for all connected with the Dresden court. On 1 February Friedrich August I died in Warsaw. A letter from that city written to Sir Luke Schaub from Geo. Woodward, dated 14 February 1733, gives an account of the death. After describing the two days of violent pain experienced by the king, during which Abbé St Germain was in constant spiritual attendance, Woodward continues:
Handel
Authors: Burrows Donald
Published: November 2023

George Frideric Handel was a defining figure of the late Baroque era, shaping its music for the theatre in much the same way J.S. Bach dominated the writing of music for use in church. Perhaps best known for bringing the oratorio form to an English-speaking audience with masterworks such as Messiah, Handel also had a distinguished career, as a composer of Italian operas, and furthermore found time to influence the development of orchestral music by writing such works as the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Donald Burrows's new biography relates Handel's life and his music, devoting particular attention to two crucial junctures in Handel's development: his transition from a church-trained musician in Germany to a successful opera composer in London, and the gradual transformation of his theatre career from opera to oratorio, some thirty years later. In the oratorio form, as Burrows demonstrates, Handel was able to combine the techniques of large-scale construction and of aria writing that he had developed in his operas with an experience of choral music that went back to his earliest training as a church organist. The result was music that succeeds to this day in capturing the imagination of a vast audience. The last half-century has seen Handel take a major place in modern musical scholarship. This book takes into account not only recent knowledge of historical sources and significant studies of Handel's major works, but also research on Handel's `borrowing' practices, his habit of using the existing musical ideas of other composers as well as his own. Yet Handel remains unsurpassed as one of the greatest compositional architects in the history of Western music, with a sure instinct for both balance and originality in the final result. In this insightful study, Donald Burrows brings to life not only the glory of Handel's artistry, but also his sometimes elusive personality and the flavour of the times and places in which he lived.
Binchois and England: Some Questions of Style, Influence, and Attribution in his Sacred Works
Authors: Wright Peter
Published: November 2023

In1424 William dela Pole, Fourth Earl and subsequently First Duke of Suffolk, was convalescing in Paris after an accident. During his convalescence, according to a legal testimony made three years later by one of his servants, a certain Guillaume Benoit, the earl commissioned Binchois to create the rondeau Ainsi que a la foiz m’y souvient, granting him a substantial reward for his services. The song no longer survives, but the well-known circumstances of its creation have inevitably fuelled speculation about ways in which Binchois may have first encountered English music, including suggestions of a possible visit to England. More than a century after the publication of Benoit’s testimony, the nature and extent of the com poser’s contacts with English patronage remain obscure. What has become clear, however, is that Binchois’s relationship with English music was especially close—far more so, for instance, than that of his great contemporary, Guillaume Dufay, the only other composer specifically linked with Dunstable and the contenance angloise in Martin Le Franc’s Le Champion des dames.
Beethoven and his World
Authors: Clive Peter
Published: November 2023

Following the author's acclaimed biographical dictionaries on Schubert and Mozart, 'Beethoven and His World' offers an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the composer's relations with a multitude of persons with whom he associated on a personal or professional basis: relatives, friends, acquaintances, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and musicians. With more than 450 entries, the dictionary is the result of a wide-ranging examination of primary and secondary sources, and critically assesses the use which scholars have made of the considerable documentation now available. In particular, there are numerous references to Beethoven's correspondence and conversation books, which have recently been published in excellent new editions. The book places the composer and his music in a fuller context and a wider perspective than might be possible in a traditional biography; it will appeal to all music lovers, both the scholar and the non-specilaist alike.
Prologue: Early Years (1905-25)
Authors: Mccabe John
Published: November 2023

ALAN RAWSTHORNE is usually regarded as the epitome of urbane sophistication, elegant and worldly-wise, very much a man about town, yet in truth he was more of a countryman: he lived in the Essex countryside for the last eighteen years of his life, and spent his first eight years in Lancashire sheep farming country. He was born on 2 May 1905, at the family home of Dear dengate House, Haslingden, in Lancashire (the family moving to Sykeside House on the edge of Haslingden in 1908 on the sale to the Corporation of the previous property).
Apprenticeship (1925-35)
Authors: Mccabe John
Published: November 2023

WHEN Rawsthorne entered the RMCM (which later became the Royal Northern College of Music), he studied cello with Carl Fuchs, composition with Dr Thomas Keighley (a notoriously ineffective composition teacher to whom Rawsthorne did not in later years refer when discussing his tutors), and piano with Frank Merrick, of whom he said, ‘His methods of teaching were really invaluable because one learnt a great deal more about the actual com position of music from him than one would from most piano teachers’,and rapidly came to the fore as both pianist and composer.
Concerto In D (The ‘Coronation’), K. 537
Authors: Hutchings Arthur
Published: November 2023

‘All this talk about the imperial cities is mere chatter. True, I am famous, admired and popular here; on the other hand, the people of Frankfort are even more stingy than the Viennese.’ Joseph II died, and was succeeded in February 1790 by Leopold II, whose corona tion is associated with a concerto written two years previously. Prof. Blume writes:
The English Novel 1770-1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles
Authors: Garside Peter , Schöwerling Rainer , Skelton-Foord Christopher , ünsche Karin W
Published: November 2023

This bibliography provides the first complete and copy-based record of the production of new English fiction in the period 1800-1829. The main listings include 2,256 entries, all but forty of which (where no surviving copy could be found) are based on examination of a first edition of the actual novel described. As a result of ten years of Anglo-German co-operation the bibliography makes especial use of the recently discovered collection of English novels of Schloss Corvey in Germany, whose holdings in English fiction 1796-1834 almost certainly exceed those held by any other library, including the British Library. In particular the bibliography is able to record over 100 titles which investigations have suggested are entirely unique to Corvey. Numerous libraries have also been visited in Britain and North America, leading to further novels which have fallen from the record. In offering a full transcription of title page details, the bibliography offers a much sharper view than has been previously available of the ways in which novels were projected to their audience when originally published. A variety of new attributions are made, while at the same time existing attributions are challenged, An extensive historical introduction by Peter Garside offers a comprehensive overview of the main aspects of production, marketing and reception of fiction in the Romantic era.
The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal
Authors: Garside Peter , Raven James , Schöwerling Rainer
Published: November 2023

The years from 1800 to 1829 are indisputably of pivotal importance in the history of the novel. Traditionally the Romantic period in terms of fiction is viewed as the age of Walter Scott and Jane Austen, whose input into the larger tradition of the novel has been commented on at length, and whose published works have enjoyed intense bibliographical scrutiny. In recent years other novelists, such as Maria Edgeworth and Mary Shelley, have benefited from the bibliographical attention that goes with scholarly editing, and a broader interest in certain generic fields, notably the Gothic and women’s fiction, has led to both facsimile series and specialist check-lists. Commencing in the immediate wake of an efflorescence of female novel-writing, yet also characterized by some commentators as involving in its later stages the hijacking of prose fiction by male writers for male readers, the period evidently stands at an important crossroads in terms of the gender distribution of authorship.
John Gower: Metamorphosis In Other Words
Authors: Ricks Christopher
Published: November 2023

Any lover of Gower should begin with a confession. Mine is that, no medievalist, I confess my not being competent to sub stantiate—from the larger linguistic and literary context—those verbal felicities which I believe that I apprehend in Gower. Saying this may be suicidal of me, but I prefer to think of it as a cry for help. The crucial question, at any rate, is no different for those who are indeed scholars of fourteenth—century poetry.
Counter-Romance:Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances
Authors: Cooper Helen
Published: November 2023

It is an accident of history, in the shape of a damaged manuscript, that the very first sentences to survive of what is probably the earliest English prose romance describe a son’s killing of his father; but it is none the less a symbolic accident. The long-established tradition of metrical romances in English had occasionally allowed in ideas of family strife, but their general tenor was much more towards reunion, reconciliation, the due succession of father by heir-all the characteristics that are generally taken to be defining features of romance down through the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and beyond.