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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
interdisciplinary approach --- scientific/humanitarian methods --- ethnomusicology --- empirical musicology --- musilanguage --- musicological analysis --- organology --- geomusicology
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On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnányi’s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of émigré life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohnányi’s late works—in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician’s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohnányi’s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.
Composers --- Expatriate composers --- Hungarians --- aesthetic dilemmas. --- american shores. --- commonly held beliefs. --- composer. --- conservative artist. --- emigre life. --- ernst von dohnanyi. --- europe. --- hungarian musical life. --- hungarian. --- intellectual collaboration with facism. --- internationally admired musician. --- late works. --- music culture. --- musicological literature. --- pianist. --- political charges. --- political smear campaign. --- teacher. --- unique oeuvre. --- united states. --- Dohnányi, Ernő,
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Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London and Paris, the most dynamic musical centers of nineteenth-century Europe. In their day, performers such as these provoked an avalanche of commentary and analysis, inspiring debates over the nature of mind and body, emotion and materiality, spirituality and mechanism, artistry and skill. J. Q. Davies revisits these debates, examining how key musicians and their contemporaries made sense of extraordinary musical and physical abilities. This is a history told as much from scientific and medical writings as traditionally musicological ones. Davies describes competing notions of vocal and pianistic health, contrasts techniques of training, and explores the ways in which music acts in the cultivation of bodies.
Music --- Performance --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- castrato. --- celebrity pianists. --- franz liszt. --- frederic francois chopin. --- giovanni battista rubini. --- giovanni battista velluti. --- historical. --- history of music. --- history. --- live entertainment. --- maria felicia malibran. --- medical approach to music. --- music and physical impacts. --- music. --- musical expression. --- musical performers. --- musicians. --- musicological. --- opera. --- pianistic health. --- pianists. --- piano. --- scientific approach to music. --- sigismond thalberg. --- singers. --- techniques of musical training. --- virtuosic musicians. --- vocal health.
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In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres-from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera-became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"-one European, the other American-Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill's artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.
Musical theater --- Lyric theater --- Theater --- History --- Weill, Kurt, --- Ṿail, Ḳurṭ, --- Weil, Kurt, --- Weill, Kurt --- וייל, קורט --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 20th century composers. --- 20th century music. --- 20th century musical theater. --- 20th century opera. --- american entertainment. --- american music. --- american musical theater. --- broadway musicals. --- european history. --- european musicals. --- european opera. --- european theater. --- famous composers. --- german composer. --- historic composers. --- history of broadway. --- history of opera. --- history of theater. --- music and theater. --- music studies. --- musical composers. --- musical fans. --- musical lovers. --- musicological study. --- performing arts history. --- theatre biographies. --- Music theater
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