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... is characterized by its disavowal of the market. Commercial transactions are disguised or renounced, while ostensibly altruistic gifts (of time, money, labor, or prestige) are valorized. Controversies involving pianist Joyce Hatto and composer Giacinto Scelsi are examined to show why fraudulence represents...

... to a mutually complementary set of publications. The duty to which I called my distinguished colleague was particularly arduous, requir- ing him to draw not only on his considerable scholarly gifts, but also on the linguistic talents he put to work translating quotations and Americanizing our European...

... differently had the “mute” tradition of the partimento been given a theoretical voice. A toccata follows by Giorgio Sanguinetti. As both a gifted keyboard performer and a skilled archival researcher, he is able to show how the “potential” music of a partimento can be coaxed into an artistic...

... of Murino, the poet-composer Machaut. In his Prologue , written circa 1370 and transmitted in several of his deluxe complete works manuscripts, Machaut relates how Nature and Amours gave him the gifts that enabled his remarkable creative oeuvre (Machaut 1993 : 2–18). Relevant in the present context...

... Science: Hearing , edited by Plack Christopher , 71 – 104 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Christensen Thomas . 1993 . Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Cohen David E. 2001 . “ The ‘Gift of Nature’: Musical...

...: “The last quotation is especially characteristic, in that Epstein gives the performer latitude with one hand only to take it away with the other. After all, he sniffs, ‘some of us are more gifted than others’ when it comes to matters of tempo ([Epstein], 362). This is a truism in any aspect of musical...

... and conversed with Lewin, seeing what many others subse- quently saw in him—a gifted teacher with a unique capacity to invent new and better ways of communicating analytical insights. Referring to Lewin’s teaching, Cavell writes, “Whatever bouts of intellectual loneliness I may since then have been...

...-culturally and against taking classification schemes for granted. For those of us who teach and organize conferences, chapters 3 and 4 offer global case studies that should inspire us to reevaluate our agendas. Music Theory in Ethnomusicology is a gift for historians of music theory. Beyond surveying...

... an important role to “mistakes” completely misunderstands the accom- plishments of musicians like Bill Evans. Of course, one may reasonably assert that Bill Evans was an unusually gifted improviser and that his improvisations differed from others’ in this regard. However, in my experience...

.... It is, after all, an act of generosity to write clearly, and he does so on every page. With such writing, Steinbeck makes an entire body of challenging music accessible to a wide readership. That's a gift, both to the musicians who made it, and to the readers who now have a far greater opportunity to hear...

... Schubert song whose course appears to be unambiguously monotonal. Krebs, a gifted analyst of Schenkerian persuasion, offers detailed linear analyses of both songs in his title, but I will focus primarily on “Der Wanderer.” Much of this song moves between C≥ minor and E major, and a great deal...

...- thing. But Schachter’s gifts go well beyond analysis per se; over the years, he has demonstrated a strong sense of history and tradition. This is par- ticularly evident from his interest in early music, as well as in his forays into sketch studies.1 Last, but by no means least, Schachter’s writings...

... as a representative of uninformed practice, but Guido implies a positive view of the bird as a naturally gifted musician in contrast to the unmusical donkey. Aegidius of Zamora cites Pliny and Ambrose as author- ities for his depiction of the nightingale as consummate musical practitioner, able to learn...

... a conceptual space for imagining an improvisational, nonverbal art in earlier European musics. Maybe we are ready to accept accounts of earlier musicians improvising sonatas as the norm rather than as a mark of some special and innate gift. Whatever the reasons for this reappraisal, now is an exciting...

... result from letting contrasting viewpoints bleed into one another can be outweighed by the propriety of its inclusivity and the suitability of its diversity to a distinctively eclectic medium. In that spirit, I give to this gifted author the last word, which is the last sentence of his book, and which...

... different from the jobbing cocktail or jazz pianist’s, and a gift from Schenker. As already indicated, there is little to complain about in the book’s presentation, and although errors can inevitably be spotted here and there (“Rodgers and Hammerstein” for “Rodgers and Hart” on p. 197 is an un...

... of understanding of the composition; for example, Rudolf Serkin, in a Mozart recital (1925), is “without doubt basically musical by nature, also has good hands, which could achieve the greatest delicacies, but he lacks that [necessary] depth, and conse- quently lacks the possibility of using the gifts he has...

..., 56). According to legend, the flower (Helleborus niger) was created when a young shepherdess named Madelon lamented that she had no gifts to bring to the Christ child. In response, an angel brushed back the snow to reveal her gift: the Christmas rose...

... “A Matter of Meaning It.” Because both essays Journal of Music Theory  54:1, Spring 2010 DOI 10.1215/00222909-2010-010  © 2010 by Yale University 37 38 Journal of Music Theory outstanding stylistic gifts, are recognizable...

... illustrated, and now listing at seven hundred dollars, the Oxford History is the most substantial, single- authored work in the history of music history. This much is already known. So is this: Taruskin is a gifted and fluent writer, perhaps the best prose stylist in music scholarship today...