Rethinking Hanslick Music, Formalism, and Expression (Eastman Studies in Music) by Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, WolfgangMarx Paperback, 374 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Rochester Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-522-9, ISBN: 1-58046-522-6
"Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests. The essays embrace ways of thinking about Hanslick's writings that go ..."
"Shortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication. György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds - based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students, colleagues and friends, who re ..."
Rethinking Hanslick Music, Formalism, and Expression (Eastman Studies in Music) by Nicole Grimes, Siobhán Donovan, WolfgangMarx Hardcover, 374 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Rochester Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-432-1, ISBN: 1-58046-432-7
"Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests. The essays embrace ways of thinking about Hanslick's writings that go ..."
"Among the elements of Hanne Darboven's title homage are "Picassoesque" hand-painted frames used by a Polish company on reproductions of Woman in Turkish Dress, and a brass goat, which her own goat Micky may have co-created. By alluding to Picasso's use of a goat motif and connecting his late period with her early one, she argues that the repetitiveness of Picasso's work in the later years revealed the limitations of painting, in contras ..."
""This thought-provoking volume of essays, wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, engages with questions surrounding the many meanings ascribed to death and the memorialisation of the dead. Eight essays traverse whole thought-continents: from those who muse that 'death has happened since the beginning of time; it is not to upset you today' to the stark presentation of a reality which erodes the human face and thus a ..."
"Essays on death explored through the disciplines of art history, classics, history, music, languages and literatures. The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration. The disciplines represented are as diverse as art history, classics, history, music, lan ..."
Music and Death Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life by Marx, Wolfgang Published by Boydell Press ISBN-13: 978-1-83765-064-4, ISBN: 1-83765-064-0
"Ludwig Feuerbach has stood in the shadow of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the past one-hundred and fifty years. This volume in The German Library redresses this situation by including some of the most influential and trenchant writings of all three socialist philosophers, together, in one volume."