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MUSIC 2020 Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC Works, Politics, Performances Augusta Browne The first comprehensive biography of an antebellum American woman composer Telemann Compendium The first guide to research on Telemann in any language Beethoven’s 250th A salute to the legendary composer PLUMBAGO BOOKS CONTENTS Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler MUGMON 9 Karl Muck Scandal BURRAGE 7 Aaron Copland’s Hollywood Film Scores MUSEGADES 9 Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster JONCUS 12 Adolf Busch POTTER 8 Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC WEAVER / KOPFSTEIN-PENK / ABRAHAM 9 “Allegri’s Miserere” in the Sistine Chapel O’REILLY 3 Listen with the Ear of the Heart GUARINO 14 Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music HIRSCH 9 Liszt and Virtuosity DORAN 5 Augusta Browne MILLER 6 Liszt’s Representation of Instrumental Sounds on the Piano KIM 6 Bach and Mozart MARSHALL 4 Maurice Duruflé FRAZIER 15 Bach’s Famous Choir MAUL / HOWE 4 Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media HILDER / STOBART / TAN 13 Beethoven’s Cello MOSKOVITZ / TODD 16 Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Beethoven’s Chamber Music in Context WAT SON 16 BUTLER / BASSLER 3 Beethoven’s Conversation Books ALBRECHT 16 Musical Exchange between Britain and Europe, 1500-1800 Beethoven’s String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 130 KELLER / WINTLE 16 CUNNINGHAM / WHITE 11 Before the Baton HOLMAN 4 Musical Journeys SCHEDING 11 Beyond Fingal’s Cave PORTER 12 Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century BUNZEL / LOGES 6 Brahms and His Poets LOGES 15 Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma BUTLER 12 Brahms’s A German Requiem LOTT 6 Music and Faith ARNOLD 11 British Music after Britten WHITTALL 10 Music for St Cecilia’s Day WHITE 4 Cheer Up! WRIGHT 13 Music in Elizabethan Court Politics BUTLER 14 City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 LASSER 13 Music in Their Time LLOYD / SPARKES / SPARKES 8 Claude Debussy LESURE / ROLF 7 Music in Vienna JONES 14 Composing History HECKERT 11 Music of James MacMillan COOKE 10 Composing Myself and Other Texts PANUFNIK / ANDERSON 9 Music of Peter Maxwell Davies JONES / MCGREGOR 10 Coquettes, Wives, and Widows RAY 12 Nadia Boulanger BROOKS / FRANCIS 8 Critical Companion to Medieval Motets HARTT 3 Operas of Sergei Prokofiev GUILLAUMIER 12 Cyril Scott Companion SCOTT / FOREMAN / DE’ATH 8 Opposing Apartheid on Stage FLEMING 12 Dedicating Music, 1785-1850 GREEN 5 Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian England THISTLETHWAITE 5 Discovering Berlioz CAIRNS 5 Paul Dukas WAT SON 7 Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert DAVIES / SOBASKIE 5 Piety and Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Holland JAS 4 Engelbert Humperdinck MELTON 7 Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts FRÜHAUF 11 From Silence to Sound YUDKIN 16 Richard Wagner in Paris COLEMAN 6 Gay Guerrilla PACKER / LEACH 15 Segovia Manuscript FUHRMANN / URCHUEGUÍA 3 George Rochberg, American Composer WLODARSKI 9 Self-Quotation in Schubert MESSING 5 Gregory Haimovsky SILVERMAN 10 Sir Henry Wood FRENCH 8 Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins ASHBEE 3 Songs for a Revolution JOHN / ROBB 11 Heinrich Neuhaus RAZUMOVSKAYA 8 Telemann Compendium ZOHN 4 Heinrich Schenker’s Conception of Harmony WASON / BROWN 13 Tuning the Kingdom KAFUMBE 13 Howard Skempton CAVETT / HEAD 10 Verse and Voice in Byrd’s Song Collections of 1588 SMITH 14 Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century EISENHARDT 14 Widor NEAR 15 Janáček Compendium SIMEONE 7 Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique NEAR 7 Julian Anderson ANDERSON / DINGLE 10 With Mornefull Musique GRAPES 3 Cover image: Leonard Bernstein on the White House lawn with the Presidential Scholars, June 10, 1964. Courtesy of the Leonard Bernstein Office and the White House Press Office. 2 www.boydellandbrewer.com EARLY MUSIC PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NEW PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED A Critical Companion “Allegri’s Miserere” in With Mornefull Musique to Medieval Motets the Sistine Chapel Funeral Elegies in Early Edited by JARED C. HARTT GRAHAM O’REILLY Modern England Motets constitute the most The Miserere attributed to the K. DAWN GRAPES important polyphonic genre Italian composer Gregorio This book looks at the of the thirteenth and Allegri (1582-1652) is one of musical culture of death in fourteenth centuries, the most popular, often early modern England. In intrinsically involved in its performed and recorded particular, it examines early development. This choral pieces of late musical funeral elegies and volume aims to provide a Renaissance/early Baroque the people related to comprehensive guide to music. This book is the first commemorative tribute – the them, from a number of detailed account of this departed, the composer, different disciplines and perspectives. It addresses iconic work’s performance history in the Sistine potential patrons, and friends such crucial matters such as how the motet Chapel, in particular focussing on its heyday in and family of the deceased – to determine the developed; the rich interplay of musical, poetic, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather place these musical-poetic texts held in a society and intertextual modes of meaning specific to the than looking at the Miserere as a work on paper, in which issues of death were discussed regularly, genre; and the changing social and historical the key to its genesis – as this book reveals – can producing a constant, pervasive shadow over circumstances surrounding motets in medieval only be found in a performance context. The book everyday life. France, England, and Italy. concludes with a look at today’s performance K. DAWN GRAPES is Assistant Professor of Music practice. Appendices present key source JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music History at Colorado State University. Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of transcriptions and two performance editions. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2018 Music. GRAHAM O’REILLY is founder and conductor 978 1 78327 351 5, library e-book 978 1 78744 324 2 For a full list of contributors, please visit of the French-based Ensemble William Byrd, 8 b/w illus.; 290pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB www.boydellandbrewer.com which recorded the Miserere from a late Vatican Music in Britain, 1600-2000 $99.00/£60.00(s) May 2018 manuscript in 2000. 978 1 78327 307 2 10 b/w illus.; 420pp, 24 x 17, HB $80.00/£45.00(s) May 2020 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 978 1 78327 487 1 30 b/w illus.; 368pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED Music, Myth and Story in Medieval NEW and Early Modern Culture NEW Edited by KATHERINE BUTLER The Segovia Manuscript The Harmonious Musick & SAMANTHA BASSLER A European Musical of John Jenkins Myths and stories offer a Repertory in Spain, c.1500 window onto medieval and Volume Two: The Fantasia-Suites Edited by WOLFGANG FUHRMANN early modern musical & CRISTINA URCHUEGUÍA ANDREW ASHBEE culture. Far from merely John Jenkins (1592–1678) was both the most offering material for musical The Segovia Manuscript settings, authoritative tales (Cathedral of Segovia, prolific and the most esteemed of English composers in the fifty years or so between the from classical mythology, Archivo Capitular) has ancient history and the Bible puzzled musicologists ever death of Byrd and the rise of Purcell. During his long life he was employed as a resident musician were treated as foundations since its rediscovery at the for musical knowledge. Looking beyond the beginning of the twentieth in households of the nobility, where his duties would include the composing and copying of well-known figure of Orpheus, this collection century. It is unique: no other explores the myriad stories that shaped not only manuscript of the period music. Although elderly, Jenkins briefly became a court musician to Charles II. musical thought, but also its styles, techniques, transmits a comparable blend and practices during this period. It shows that Jenkins’ preferred medium was instrumental of late fifteenth-century music consisting of 204 music itself performed and created knowledge in music, and he came to maturity in the 1620s, sacred works and vernacular pieces in Flemish, ways parallel to myth, and worked in tandem with when the consort fantasia of viols was in its prime. French, Italian, and Spanish. The essays here aim to old and new tales to construct social, political, This book – the second in a two-volume study treat every dimension of this fascinating source. and philosophical views. New discoveries help date the manuscript and of Jenkins and his music – focuses on Jenkins’ KATHERINE BUTLER is a senior lecturer in music explain how it came to Segovia; particular attention prodigious output of fantasia-suites. It is profusely at Northumbria University. SAMANTHA BASSLER is paid to the main scribe, now determined to be illustrated with music examples, and virtually is a musicologist of cultural studies, a teaching Flemish, and his relation with northern composers every work receives individual comment. artist, and an adjunct professor in the New York and repertory; and the vexed question of the $59.00/£45.00(s) November 2019 metropolitan area. conflicting attributions is considered afresh. 978 0 90768 947 8 8 b/w & 82 line illus.; 320pp, 22 x 14, HB For a full list of contributors, please visit WOLFGANG FUHRMANN is Professor of www.boydellandbrewer.com. TOCCATA PRESS Musicology at Leipzig University. CRISTINA $99.00/£60.00(s) March 2019 URCHUEGUÍA is Professor of Musicology at the 978 1 78327 371 3, library e-book 978 1 78744 440 9 University of Bern. 10 colour illus.; 5 b/w illus.; 342pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB For a full list of contributors, please visit Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music www.boydellandbrewer.com $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2019 978 1 78327 463 5, library e-book 978 1 78744 551 2 24 b/w illus.; 350pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music www.boydellandbrewer.com 3 EARLY MUSIC / 18TH CENTURY MUSIC PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NEW Piety and Polyphony in Music for St Cecilia’s Day Bach and Mozart Sixteenth-Century Holland From Purcell to Handel Essays on the Enigma of Genius The Choirbooks of BRYAN WHITE ROBERT L.