한국의 시대정신과 호흡 한서양 연극 수용의 역사100년이 채 되지 않는 짧은 시간 동안 한국에는 약 25개국의 400여 명의 극작가와 1,000편 이상의 드라마가 소개되었다. 서양의 연극 역사가 2,500년인 것에 비해 숨가쁘게 달려온 셈이다. 그렇기에 한국 연극의 오늘을 이해하기 위해서는 19세기 말에서 20세기 후반까지 한...

한국의 안무가들이 말하는 ‘춤’이란?움직임의 철학이 책에서 소개하는 스물 네 명의 현대 안무가들은 한국을 기반으로 활발하게 활동하는 한국의 대표 현대 무용가들이다. 인터뷰와 자서전을 통해 각 안무가의 삶과 성장 과정, 작품에 많은 영향을 미친 배경을 바탕으로 작품 성향에 주안점을 두어 설명하고 있다. 안무가...

서구의 저항 정신을 수용해 한국만의 전위를 꽃피우다한국 현대 추상 미술의 형성새로운 움직임이나 창조는 기존의 것을 비판하며 나오곤 한다. 세계대전 후 현대 회화에서 미국과 유럽의 움직임이 그랬다. 지식과 기술이 눈부시게 발전했던 서구에서, 지극히 반이성적이고 비합리적인 세계 대전이 두 차례에 걸쳐 일어났고...

Drawing on a range of contemporary performance documentation, including concert programmes, newspaper reviews and periodical reports, this book addresses what it refers to as the Philharmonic 'myth': the notion that London experienced a period of orchestral inactivity between the departure of Haydn ...

Decadence is a crucial yet often misunderstood aspect of European modernism. This book demonstrates how decadence as an idea, style or topic informs Central and Eastern European music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Combining close analysis with hermeneutic interpretation and c...

Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evoluti...

The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a new, detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the c...

Modern scholars have often portrayed the method of hexachordal solmization ��� the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo ��� as the diatonic foundation of early music. Stefano Mengozzi challenges this view by examining a re...

From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques ��� the key areas of traditional music histories;...

From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques ��� the key areas of traditional music histories;...

Providing a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this 2010 book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles from which each chapter proceeds differ from those of a traditional music guide, by examining t...

Operatic works by Italian composers of the nineteenth century have undergone countless transformations since their premieres, shifting shape in response to a variety of new geographic, temporal, technological, and performative contexts. These enduring works by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puc...

Arnold Schoenberg ��� composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vi...

While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this 2010 study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. CamPaperbackell examines signific...

One of Western music's great harmonists, Franz Schubert created a wondrous and treasured body of music that has retained its fascination to this day. His innovative harmonic practice has been a topic of lively discussion among analysts for generations. Harmony in Schubert, first published in 2010, p...

The musical writings of the German philosopher and theorist Ernst Bloch are extraordinarily rich, but also unusually dense, at times even cryptic. Bloch, a profoundly heterodox thinker, brilliantly wove cultural criticism into a larger project of what he termed 'revolutionary gnosis'. Listening for ...

This seminal 2010 study of Giuseppe Verdi's German-language reception provides important new perspectives on German musical culture and nationalism from the mid nineteenth century onwards. Kreuzer argues that the concept of Germany's musical supremacy, so dear to its nationalist cause, was continual...

In this 2010 book, John Haines presents a detailed survey of songs performed in Vulgar Latin and early Romance languages from around 500 to 1200. The first part of the book discusses this enormous body of neglected songs according to the categories of lament, love song, epic and devotional song. Med...

Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Ve...