...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...

...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 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 and...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... the old but durable, of the future at the expense 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...

...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...

...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, a...

... reader more as prose than as music does. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Donald Davie “Movement” poets Boris Pasternak French Symbolism Augustan poetry Symposium: Xenophilia, Part 2 ENGLISH EMERGENCIES AND RUSSIAN RESCUES, c. 1875 – 2000...

... fields in which diagrams and diagrammatic modes of thought currently play a critical role: not only art history, visual studies, and design, but also computer science, “Bildwissenschaft,” and the history of literature and science, as well as music history and composition. Each participant, including the...

... suffers by limiting itself to Anglophone works, when the most relevant work is perhaps in French, and by limiting its reach to fiction, when the most relevant genres of art are perhaps poetry, painting, and music. The review concludes by regretting Quigley's making T. S. Eliot her study's straw man and by...

... can be observed as they emerge, mature, and rapidly decay. Central European modernism, represented here by Adolf Loos in architecture and by Arnold Schoenberg and Leoš Janáček in music, experimented with blurry regions between presence and absence, light and shadow, sound and silence. Loos disrupted...

... rest of the world, but also into more lastingly important events in popular culture, especially popular music. He concludes by memorializing what now appears to him the most important event of all, certain records broken that year in sports. Duke University Press 2009...