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  • Improvision

    Orphic Art in the Age of Jazz

    by Professor Simon Shaw-Miller ...
    Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater) that the most appropriate paradigm for non-figurative art was music. The assumption has always been that this model was most effectively understood as Western art music (classical music).However, the musical form that was abstract art's true twin is ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

    Edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg, Simon Shaw-Miller ...
    Series Book 16 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    Edited by Daniel Warner, Professor Christoph Cox ...
    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Brian Ferneyhough

    by Lois Fitch, Martin Iddon ...
    One of contemporary music’s most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multi-layered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Spectral Piano

    From Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy to the Digital Age

    by Marilyn Nonken ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey sought to create a cooperative committed to exploring the evolution of timbre in time as a basis for ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Next Week, Swan Lake

    Reflections on Dance and Dances

    by Selma Jeanne Cohen ...
    An important book of essays on "dance and ideas about dance" ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Medium

    by Craig Dworkin ...
    Close readings of ostensibly “blank” works—from unprinted pages to silent music—that point to a new understanding of media.In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Vermeer’s Wager

    Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums

    by Ivan Gaskell ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Vermeer’s Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He argues that art history as generally practised, while successfully asserting certain claims to knowledge, fails to take into account aspects of the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening

    by Jonathan D. Kramer ...
    Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

    Edited by Nicholas Till ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-garde and Postdramatic Theatre

    by Mladen Ovadija ...
    Sound is born and dies with action. In this surprising, resourceful study, Mladen Ovadija makes a case for the centrality of sound as an integral element of contemporary theatre. He argues that sound in theatre inevitably "betrays" the dramatic text, and that sound is performance.Until recently, theatrical sound has largely been regarded as supplemental to the dramatic plot. Now, however, sound is ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

    Edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Marcello Ruta ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD