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Roads to and from the Abyss: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie and the Comedy of Desire
Authors: Evans Peter William 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Like the Sade of the poem ‘El prisionero’ (1949) by Octavio Paz (Buiiuel-admirer and fellow Mexican Surrealist), the sextet of friends in Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie are both liberated and trapped: liberated by Sadean appeals to self-gratifying desires and by economic and social privilege, trapped by le hasard and by culture-their brisk stroll along an anonymous country road suggesting urgent flight from rational urbanity. Though this image often acts as a sort of counterpoint to the atmosphere of claustrophobia elsewhere built up in the film, the road seems to be leading the friends nowhere, and we are never allowed to see their journey’s end. The open road remains an interminable blind alley, its phantom travellers’ destination, like Pedro Páraamo’s Comala, only the dream of a vanished world (Rulfo 1973).
Male Desire
Authors: Evans Peter William 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Even though women provide the main narrative focus in various films (e.g. Tristana, Viridiana, Susana, Una mujer sin amor), Buiiuel more regularly prioritizes masculinity and the orientations of male desire. From the earliest ones to the very last, the films dramatize the highs and lows of male subjection to the vicissitudes of desire. Less lyrical than some of the other celebrants of amourJou—because more familiar with the traditions of desengaiio associated with the work of the great Spanish writers, especially his fellow-Aragonese mentor Gracian-Buñuel leans towards narratives exposing the dangers as well as the rewards of sexuality. His males usually suffer from a common affliction, defined by Peter Middleton in a general discussion of masculinity (1992) as a failure to direct their gaze inwardly, towards a healthy introspection of their motivating forces. Suffering for love and seduction by the temptations of ‘obscure’ (partly because un-investigated) desires are not in these films patterns of behaviour restricted to the young. Middle-aged and even elderly, as well as youthful, lovers are condemned to endure the torments of raging passions.
Postscript: Borges, or the Essayistic Spirit
Authors: De Obaldia Claire 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Borges, a writer of poems, essays, and short stories continues after his death to be hailed as one of the greatest masters of modern fiction; yet in relation to his production of poems and essays, the short stories form a relatively small part of his work. Moreover, the short story, far from being the genre of’modern fiction’, has conventionally been considered as a rather archaic or at least ‘minor’ genre, especially when conspicuously deriving from the traditional (folk-)tale, as it does in Borges. In contradistinction, the scarce attention paid to the essay in the already vast and ever-growing corpus of critical studies on Borges is striking, given the crucial role it plays in the writer’s career.
Art and Intellect: Conflicts in German culture, 19w
Authors: Reed T J 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Self-Justification and self-criticism mingle uneasily in Mann’s writing throughout the decade following Buddenbrooks. This is the most complex phase of his work to unravel, although perhaps for this reason not the most happy artistically. If we grasp its essentials, we have grasped not only Der Zauberberg, the first work to treat the conflicts of this period with artistic freedom and thus transcend them, but also Doktor Faustus, which returns to them to pass a final judgement, coloured by the experience of later political events which had their roots in that decade.
Unpolitics
Authors: Reed T J 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
What Thomas Mann wrote during the First World War has frequently been excused and extenuated, or romanticized, or explained away as a kind of play-acting, or appreciated for the piecemeal value of certain ideas taken from context. These approaches are wrong, because they trivialize an episode which Thomas Mann himself was unable to dispose of so easily. Only by taking his war writings seriously as what they clearly were—the expression of a whole-hearted emotional commitment desperately seeking to rationalize itself—can we make sense fully of the novels that refer back to them, critically and tragically: Der Z,auberberg and Doktor Faustus.
Republic Politics 191g-1933
Authors: Reed T J 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The wartime commitment of the ‘unpolitical’ Thomas Mann typified the highly political consequences of ideals which Germans who cherished them believed were purely cultural. Mann’s political involvement after the First World War is not typical in this way, but it is in another. What he experiences and struggles with in the years of the Weimar Republic is a recurrent problem of German political history, in the particular form it took at that time. His response is not that of the majority of Germans, but it is, mutatis mutandis, that of a distinguished minority in the past.
‘The Meeting is the Polity’: The National Media Forum
Authors: Hartley John , McKee Alan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The idea was simply to get journalists and Indigenous people into better contact with each other, to promote excellence in the reporting of Indigenous issues, and to promote Aboriginal media organizations themselves. This seemed like something media academics might properly take on, since of course neither state nor federal governments could directly implement Royal Commission recommendations relating to private and editorially independent media.
Telling the Stories: Indigenous Media, lndigenizing Australian Media
Authors: Hartley John , McKee Alan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter we present the last of the material from the 1996 National Media Forum. It follows two sessions: the first on Indigenous media, focusing in this instance on Aboriginal broadcasting, especially radio stations that are part of the National Indigenous Radio Service (NIRS), a world-class example of a nascent ‘broadcast public sphere’ for dispersed, remote, and impecunious communities. The second session brought together contributions by Indigenous people working in the ‘mainstream’-that is, largely non-Aboriginal-Media.
Introduction: Time, Space, Subjectivity
Authors: Smith Paul Julian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Contemporary Spanish culture is a uniquely rich and varied field. Yet Spanish cultural studies is still in its infancy.1 Academic scholars have rarely ventured beyond literature and, more recently, cinema;2 and popular commentators are unversed in critical theory. The aim of this book is thus twofold: to change the object of contemporary Hispanism, by incorporating new media, such as photography, town planning, and popular music; and to analyse that new object by engaging for the first time with (mainly French) cultural theory on such themes as (post)modernity, urbanization, and everyday life.
Introduction
Authors: Edwards Rachel , Reader Keith 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
No case in the annals of everyday crime in France has had so powerful and widespread an impact as that of the Papin sisters-Christine and Lea, two housemaids who savagely slew their mistress and her daughter in 1933. The ‘everyday’ is there in order to exclude crimes with an explicitly political dimension to them-from Ravaillac’s assassination of Henri IV in 1610 through the Terror to the Occupation years. Among what may rather cynically be described as the ‘competition’ might figure the names of Lacenaire, the nineteenth-century fraudster and would-be poet who allegedly served as inspiration for Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment; Marcel Petiot, the doctor who robbed and murdered at least twenty-seven Jews under the Occupation on the pretext that he would help them to freedom; and Thierry Paulin, who with his accomplice Jean-Thierry Mathurin killed twenty-one old ladies in northern Paris between 1984 and 1987. Celebrated female killers include Violette Nozieres, who poisoned her father and mother in the same year that the Papins murdered their mistresses (the mother survived). Christine Villemin was finally cleared in 1993 of the murder of her young son more than eight years before, despite a luridly lyrical article by Marguerite Duras strongly implying her guilt.
‘The Place of a Musicon in Ordinary’ Place and Patronage at Court
Authors: Holman Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Tudor England was one of the most centralized countries in Europe. Most of her wealth and perhaps a fifth of her population (about 4,000,000 in 1600) was concentrated in the home counties. London, with a population of over 200,000, was more than ten times the size of her nearest rivals, Norwich, Bristol, and York; an extraordinarily large proportion of the nation’s commercial, intellectual, and artistic life was conducted in her noisy and crowded streets. Above all, London was the seat of England’s highly centralized form of government, organized around the court and the person of the monarch.
The Development of Ornamentation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Authors: Badura-Skoda Paul , Clayton Alfred 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
If we study the development of ornamentation symbols in the two centuries in which Bach lived, it becomes apparent that the same ornaments sometimes had different names in different provinces or countries, and that, vice versa, the same name could designate ornaments executed in a variety of different ways. This was the state of affairs in the Renaissance, and it did not change significantly in the Baroque era.
Introduction
Authors: Schroeder David P 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The advent of an Austrian Enlightenment occurred much later than in most other nations, and until recently there has been no agreement on the very existence of such a phenomenon in the Habsburg empire. Scholarship of the last two decades has confirmed, however, that the existing social order was challenged by a new outlook on issues such as education, religion, and social justice. Literature played a major role in the process since it was the most effective means of satirizing the old order or providing concrete demonstration of the new sense of morality. Haydn reached his own artistic mastery at the time of this intellectual and social ferment in Austria (c. 1 770-90), and it seems highly unlikely that the man who ultimately gained an international reputation as the greatest living composer would have been immune to these powerful forces.
Symphonic Ascent Pre-Paris to the Loge Olympique
Authors: Schroeder David P 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Haydn wrote symphonies over a period of about forty years, and during that time theories about music as well as approaches to composition went through extraordinary changes. In the r 750s, the symphony was just beginning to emerge as a genre, and a concert public had scarcely become visible. By the end of the century, the symphony was considered by some to be the most significant of all artistic achievements, and there was a large public eagerly awaiting the arrival of new, highly individual works. Haydn was the composer most responsible for the high estimation in which the symphony was held in the r 790s, and it is useful to note some of the steps he took during these four decades. His ultimate arrival was not a haphazard or fortuitous achievement, since he appears to have had a singular, clearly envisaged goal from the very beginning which allowed him to reach the summit. While his changing approaches reflect new musical possibilities, they are also related to the larger changes through which thinking on aesthetics was moving as writers and theorists sought to illuminate more effective means of expression.
Symphonic Intelligibility and Sonata Form
Authors: Schroeder David P 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
For Haydn’s biographer G. A. Griesinger, a perfectly logical and appropriate question to put to the most celebrated symphonist of his time was ‘to know from what motives Haydn wrote his compositions, as well as the feelings and ideas that he had in mind and that he strove to express through musical language’ (Not. 62). There was no doubt for Haydn that it was appropriate to answer this question, although given his age, it would have been ‘irksome’ to elucidate each work in this way. Haydn’s answer, which has already been cited in earlier chapters, should now be given in full: For those who doubt the capacity of the symphony to do anything other than serve a purely musical function, Haydn’s reply could be successfully dismissed in a number of ways. These could be the words of an elderly man whose thinking is no longer lucid. On the other hand, it could be yet another demonstration of Haydn’s famous sense of humour. However, in the context of the eighteenth century, this reply is entirely lucid and genuine. As we have seen, his choice of the term ‘moral characters’ was borrowed from the practice of the moral weeklies, a tradition over a century old by this time. His reference to an abandoned sinner raises an interesting matter as well. Supporters of programmatic music may wish to take these remarks as evidence that Haydn attempted to represent specific objects, persons, or events in his symphonies.
The Early Years: 1560–1590
Authors: Watkins Glenn , Stravinsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THE village of Gesualdo sits lonely and isolated in the foothills one hundred kilometres east of Naples. It is not an unpleasant country and the view which the castle commands is impressive. This is no accident, for the castle was built in its present position as early as the middle of the seventh century in order to serve as a fortress.
The Last Years: 1597–1613
Authors: Watkins Glenn , Stravinsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
IT cannot be precisely determined when Don Carlo left for Gesualdo after his extended sojourn in Ferrara.1 There are reports that Gesualdo’s conduct had not always been beyond reproach while still at Ferrara, and that certain of his amorous adventures were so overt as to disgust the Court and Ferrarese society.2 Talk of maltreatment of his new wife, a recurring complaint later, also begins to enjoy some circulation. Whatever the reason for the Prince’s decision to leave for Gesualdo, we know that again Leonora did not accompany him. During the period 1594–6, however, she had given birth to a baby boy, Alfonsino, and it could easily be argued that she preferred to avoid the rigours of an arduous journey with a new infant.
The Question of Mannerism
Authors: Watkins Glenn , Stravinsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THE music of Gesualdo may be viewed as leading from the central movement of the Renaissance, while standing somewhat apart from it; and moving toward, but stopping short of, the Baroque. As such, it is characteristic of the spirit which prevailed between the High Renaissance and the Early Baroque. The richer the time the greater the variety of possible interpretations, and the century from 1520 to 1620 is sufficiently rich to have inspired an abundant and diverse literature. Yet for all its chronological breadth, which to a degree guarantees some over lapping, this period increasingly emerges as one which possesses a clearly perceivable orientation and an identifiable stylistic character—that of an Age of Mannerism.
The Madrigals: Books I & II
Authors: Watkins Glenn , Stravinsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THE form most consistently cultivated by Gesualdo was the five voice madrigal. Of the seven books of madrigals only one, the posthumous collection of 1626, developed the madrigal a sei. There are three excursions into the six-voice medium in the earlier volumes, the last piece of Book III and the last two (actually a single madrigal of two parts) of Book IV. Otherwise six-voice polyphony is reserved by Gesualdo for two sacred collections, the Sacrae Cantiones in sex vocibus of 1603 and the Responsoria of 1611.
The Late Style: Models and Successors
Authors: Watkins Glenn , Stravinsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
WE have seen that the resemblances between Gesualdo’s style and that of his best-known predecessors, Marenzio, Wert, Rore, Caimo, and especially Luzzaschi, ultimately related more to the larger issues—form, textual quality, and madrigalism, and only partially to expressive nuance. These composers do not share to any great extent the idiosyncratic gestures peculiar to Gesualdo’s personality, the harmonic and rhythmic daring and the exaggerated emotionalism. Even so the question remains whether in the smaller details Gesualdo stands in any demonstrable relation with one or more of his contemporaries.
Miscellanea
Authors: Watkins Glenn , Stravinsky Igor 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
AFEW of Gesualdo’s previously published madrigals, particularly those of the earlier volumes, were also included in the anthologies of the time.1 Other collections include items by Gesualdo which appeared nowhere else. Psalms of Compline by Gesualdo are to be found amongst psalms by various Neapolitan composers published by Ottavio Beltrano in 1620 (Salmi de!le Compiete de diversi Musici Neapolitani), and two canzonette by him appear at the end of Pomponio Nenna’s eighth book of madrigals of 1618. So far as is known, this accounts for all of the Prince’s music that found its way into print.
Handel and the English Verse Anthem: His First Setting of As pants the hart, c.1712
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Handel’s first English church music was written in London while he was still in the employ of the Hanoverian court. The post of Kapellmeister to which he was appointed in June 1710 must have been, from the first, something of an honorary post: the Hanover opera was in abeyance and the routine music of the Hanover court was in the hands of a Konzertmeister, who was in charge of the court musicians.
Other Chapel Royal Music from the First Period, 1712–1714
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Queen Anne granted Handel a pension of £200 per annum on 28 December 1713. This sum was identical to the salary of the Master of the Queen’s Musick, and roughly comparable to the 1,000 Thaler carried by Handel’s former post as Kapellmeister at Hanover. By the end of 1713 Handel had, in fact, achieved the object of entering the Queen’s service that was reported as his intention in Kreienberg’s letter quoted at the beginning of the previous chapter.
New Versions of As pants the hart
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter is concerned with the versions of As pants the hart that Handel composed during the 1720s. It will refer also to his other settings of the anthem, because the topic relates both to the chronology of the various versions and to the processes of composition in which Handel utilized or rejected material from his preceding settings of the text. The versions will be identified by letters deriving from the suffixes to the HWV numbers in the thematic catalogue.
Princess Anne’s Wedding Anthem, 1733–1734
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Hanoverian family was part of a large dynastic structure, characterized by much intermarriage and an instinctive concern to preserve and increase power, influence, and territory through marriage. There were no royal marriages during George I’s reign: the King’s two children were already married by 1714 and his grandchildren were too young to be of marriageable age. Nevertheless, dynastic plans for the future would have been second nature to George I, and involved both political and personal considerations.
The London Choirs
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Chapel Royal, the Royal Musicians, and the Royal Trumpeters were all within the Department of State administered by the Lord Chamberlain. The Master of the Musick and the Musicians in Ordinary were among the ‘Servants above Stairs’ under the direct control of the Chamberlain, but the Chapel Royal was a separate sub-department of the Chamber and had a greater measure of independence: the management of the Chapel was the responsibility of the Dean, though (as the Cheque Books show) the Sub-Dean in practice acted for him in most matters of routine administration.
The Chapel’s Resources and Handel’s Music
Authors: Burrows Donald 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
From the Foundling Hospital accounts for Handel’s Messiah performances in the 1750s it appears that four or six boys from the Chapel were provided by Bernard Gates for the chorus, and this provides an indication of the usual number of able musicians among the trebles: of the nominal group of ten, the younger ones would have been musically inexperienced, and the reliability of the older ones would have been unpredictable on account of changing voices.
Mendelssohn and Hanover Square
Authors: Ehrlich Cyril 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Argyll Rooms were destroyed by fire on 6 February I 830, three weeks before the season’s opening concert. The Philharmonic library, which already contained precious scores and documents, was rescued, but had to be stored in the librarian’s private residence. This lack of a permanent base weakened the Society’s image and would become increasingly burdensome as rents rose in central London. It probably also encouraged a rather perfunctory attitude towards papers, some of which apparently found their way profitably into the open market.
Francesco Berger and Recovery
Authors: Ehrlich Cyril 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
By the summer of 1880 the Philharmonic Society was known to be a wreck, about to go down with the few who cared to remain on board. Yet salvage and refitting were undertaken with such speed and efficiency that within a decade it was being described as a flagship for the nation. ‘Foreigners’, declared the Musical Times in April 1890, ‘will largely judge our musical condition by the state of the Society which, in their eyes, represents it’.
Johannes Brahms
Authors: Avins Styra , Eisinger Josef 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This book is the first comprehensive collection of the letters of Johannes Brahms ever to appear in English. Over 550 are included, virtually all uncut, and there are over a dozen published here for the first time in any language. Although he corresponded throughout his life with some of the great performers, composers, musicologists, writers, scientists, and artists of the day, and although thousands of his letters have survived, English readers have until now had scant opportunity to meet Brahms in person, through his words, and in his own voice. ’I am aware of my bad habit of writing briefly but obscurely’, Brahms once wrote to a friend. He was needlessly hard on himself, for his letters describe many significant events in his life, throw light on his friendships and music, and reveal his wit, idealism, intelligence, generosity, sarcasm, and above all his powerful sense of integrity. The letters in this volume range from 1848 to just before his death. They include all Brahms’s letters to Robert Schumann, over a hundred letters to Clara Schumann, and the complete Brahms-Wagner correspondence. They are joined by a running commentary to form an absorbing narrative, documented with scholarly care, provided with comprehensive notes, but written for the general music lover. The result is a lively biography. The book is generously illustrated, and contains several detailed appendices and an index.
Maknpkeces
Authors: Girdharn Jane 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Storace moved to Drury Lane in 1788, after returning from Vienna a year earlier then working at the King,s Theatre for a year or so. He composed a total of six mainpiece operas in English, at first deliberately conforming to English operatic conventions, later approaching the dramatically integrated form of opera buffa that had been his first love.