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Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering work examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination.
Pastoral music (Secular) --- Music --- Music, Pastoral --- Pastoral music --- Pastorale (Music) --- History and criticism.
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For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by its physical presence as by its musical potential. But just as geographical perspectives and attitudes on seascapes have evolved over time, so too have cultural assumptions about their meaning and significance. Changes in how Britons have used the sea to travel, communicate, work, play, and go to war have all irresistibly shaped the way that maritime imagery has been conceived, represented, and disseminated in British music.
By exploring the sea's significance within the complex world of British music, this book reveals a network of largely unexamined cultural tropes unique to this island nation. The essays are organised around three main themes: the Sea as Landscape, the Sea as Profession, and the Sea as Metaphor, covering an array of topics drawn from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. Featuring studies of pieces by the likes of Purcell, Arne, Sullivan, Vaughan Williams, and Davies, as well as examinations of cultural touchstones such as the BBC, the Scottish fishing industry, and the Aldeburgh Festival, The Sea in the British Musical Imagination will be of interest to musicologists as well as scholars in history, British studies, cultural studies, and English literature. ERIC SAYLOR is Associate Professor of Musicology at Drake University. CHRISTOPHER M. SCHEER is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Utah State University. CONTRIBUTORS: Byron Adams, Jenny Doctor, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, James Brooks Kuykendall, Charles Edward McGuire, Alyson McLamore, Louis Niebur, Jennifer Oates, Eric Saylor, Christopher M. Scheer, Aidan J. Thomson, Justin Vickers, Frances Wilkins
Music --- Ocean --- Sea songs --- History and criticism. --- Oceans --- Sea, The --- Bodies of water --- Boatmen's songs --- Chanteys --- Chanties --- Chantys --- Merchant mariners' songs --- Sailor songs --- Sailors' songs --- Sea chanteys --- Sea chanties --- Sea shanties --- Seas --- Shanties --- Sea poetry --- Songs --- Program music --- Songs and music --- Programmatic music --- Narrative in music --- History and criticism --- Aldeburgh Festival. --- Arne. --- BBC. --- British musicians. --- British studies. --- Davies. --- English literature. --- Purcell. --- Scottish fishing industry. --- Sea. --- Sullivan. --- Vaughan Williams. --- cultural studies. --- cultural tropes. --- history. --- landscape. --- maritime imagery. --- metaphor. --- musicology. --- profession.
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'Blackness in Opera' critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence Cameron White's Ouanga! to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera.
Opera. --- Blacks in opera. --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- Blacks in opera --- Black people in opera.
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