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Does it make sense to refer to bird song-a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate-as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire rain forest? Redefining music as "the art of possibly animate things," Musical Vitalities charts a new path for music studies that blends musicological methods with perspectives drawn from the life sciences. In opposition to humanist approaches that insist on a separation between culture and nature-approaches that appear increasingly untenable in an era defined by human-generated climate change-Musical Vitalities treats music as one example of the cultural practices and biotic arts of the animal kingdom rather than as a phenomenon categorically distinct from nonhuman forms of sonic expression. The book challenges the human exceptionalism that has allowed musicologists to overlook music's structural resemblances to the songs of nonhuman species, the intricacies of music's physiological impact on listeners, and the many analogues between music's formal processes and those of the dynamic natural world. Through close readings of Austro-German music and aesthetic writings that suggest wide-ranging analogies between music and nature, Musical Vitalities seeks to both rekindle the critical potential of nineteenth-century music and rejoin the humans at the center of the humanities with the nonhumans whose evolutionary endowments and planetary fates they share.

Music --- Nature in music. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Robert Schumann. --- aesthetics. --- biosemiotics. --- critical plant studies. --- formalism. --- nineteenth-century music. --- nonhuman. --- organicism. --- posthumanism. --- systems theory.

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Stories of Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fétis explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the term in the nineteenth century. Thomas Christensen weaves a rich story in which tonality emerges as a theoretical construct born of anxiety and alterity for Europeans during this time as they learned more about "other" musics and alternative tonal systems. Tonality became a central vortex in which French musicians thought-and argued-about a variety of musical repertoires, be they contemporary European musics of the stage, concert hall, or church, folk songs from the provinces, microtonal scale systems of Arabic and Indian music, or the medieval and Renaissance music whose notational traces were just beginning to be deciphered by scholars. Fétis's influential writings offer insight into how tonality ingrained itself within nineteenth-century music discourse, and why it has continued to resonate with uncanny prescience throughout the musical upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Tonality --- Music theory --- History --- Fétis, François-Joseph, --- Fétis, François-Joseph, --- Music --- Key (Music theory) --- Keys (Music theory) --- Musical key --- Musical intervals and scales --- Theory --- E-books --- Muziektheorie --- Tonaliteit --- Fétis, François-Joseph (1784-1871) --- 18e eeuw --- Fétis. --- chromaticism. --- music historiography. --- musical modality. --- musical tonality. --- nineteenth-century music. --- non-Western musical scales.

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Examines the history of musical self-quotation, and reveals and explores a previously unidentified case of Schubert quoting one of his own songs in a major instrumental work.

Quotation in music. --- Borrowing (Music) --- Musical borrowing --- Music --- Schubert, Franz, --- Schubert, Franz --- Schubert, Franz Peter, --- Shu-po-tʻe, --- Shubert, F. --- Shubert, Frant︠s︡, --- Šubertas, F. (Francas), --- Šubertas, Francas Peteris, --- שוברט, פרנץ --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Schubert, Franz ; 1797-1828 ; Ellens Gesang ; D. 839. --- Schubert, Franz ; 1797-1828 ; Trios ; D. 929 ; piano, violin, cello ; E♭ major. --- Schubert, Franz ; 1797-1828 ; Criticism and interpretation. --- Austrian history. --- Beethoven. --- Lieder. --- Music history. --- Schumann. --- composer. --- dedication. --- intertextuality. --- nineteenth-century music. --- reuse.