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...Philip Gossett Freitas Roger , Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 ), 431 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Philip Gossett Tunstall Tricia , Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music . ( New York : Norton , 2013 ), 336 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 and exported all overYouth(notably, all Bólivar Orchestra). Simon the exported...

...Michiko Urita This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” demonstrates how, even as religious strife is pervasive in India, classical Hindustani music has remained a transreligious and intercommunal medium. Indeed, music is one of the few domains in which Hindu-Muslim...

...Philip Gossett Kivy Peter , Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 ), 275 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir...

...Philip Gossett Tymoczko Dmitri , A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 ), 480 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE...

...Erika Supria Honisch Abstract This article uses music and the discourse about music to understand the practice of tolerance in Prague during the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War. Drawing on Las ensaladas (Prague, 1581), a collection of vernacular polyphony compiled...

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...James H. Johnson [email protected] Mark Everist , Genealogies of Music and Memory: Gluck in the Nineteenth-Century Parisian Imagination ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 ), 210 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The music of Christoph Willibald von...

...Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Brodbeck David , Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 365 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Alexander Goehr Duke University Press 2002 USING MODELS . . . FOR MAKING ORIGINAL MUSIC Alexander Goehr Sometime in the early sixties, when faith in formalism was at its height, serialism was the basis for musical composition...

...William Weber Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.1-07 Weber 10/31/02 1:30 PM Page 78 CONSEQUENCES OF CANON The Institutionalization of Enmity between Contemporary and Classical Music William Weber...

...William Weber Deutsch David , British Literature and Classical Music: Cultural Contexts, 1870–1945 ( London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2015 ), 272 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

...Philip Gossett William Weber, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 334 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren...

... the fragmentary musical and literary materials that survive are framed by a consideration of the marginal position that musical improvisation occupies in the history of eighteenth-century music, and alternative historiographical and ethnographical methods are explored for the insights they can offer into praxes...

... of the past, echoing countless theorists and historians of American culture from Emer- son and Tocqueville through Boorstin and Handlin. —Michael P. Kramer Mara Parker, The String Quartet, 1750–1797: Four Types of Musical Conversation (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002), 315 pp. Parker applies the new...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Weber William , The Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual, and Ideology ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1992 ), 274 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...William Weber A paradigm shift occurred in musical culture in the early nineteenth century, whereby revered old works—newly called “classics”—began to rival contemporary ones as the guiding authority over taste. This article explores the less well-known composers found on programs in the period...

...Jeffrey Kallberg When we view Chopin's later works in the context of his biography, we find a conjunction of real-life machines (trains, the telegraph), mimetic mechanical music (music boxes), and prolific textual variants. Particularly fascinating are several late pieces that feature canons...

...Michiko Urita This autobiographical, sociological, and musicological essay, written for a symposium on xenophilia, concerns how the love of a foreign culture can lead to a better understanding and renewed love of one’s own. The author, a Japanese musicologist, studied Hindustani music with North...