Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives by Davinia Caddy (Eng

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Explores well-known European music through the lens of dance, including music by Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Mahler, Fauré, and Debussy. It features genres such as cantatas, concertos, opera, ballet, and Protestant hymns, in contexts including the stage and ballroom, high art and popular entertainment, and professional and amateur performances.

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Long treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.

Author Biography

Davinia Caddy writes about the interrelations between music, the visual arts and gesture. She is the author of The Ballets Russes and Beyond (Cambridge, 2012), and is currently working on projects related to contemporary musical culture, archival theory and practice. Maribeth Clark is Associate Professor of Music at New College of Florida. Her articles on theatrical and social dance in mid-nineteenth-century Paris have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Music, Musical Quarterly and several edited volumes. She is currently writing a monograph on the cultural history of whistling.

Table of Contents

Introduction Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark; Part I. Conceptual Studies: 1. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind John Butt; 2. Dance as 'other': contrasting modes of musical representation Suzanne Aspden; 3. Thinking on our feet: a somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet Joseph Fort; 4. Making moves in reception studies: music, listening and Loie Fuller Davinia Caddy; Part II. Case Histories: 5. The 'splendid and shameful art': dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk Thomas Grey; 6. Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song Marian Wilson Kimber; 7. Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan Carlo Caballero; Part III: Critical Readings: 8. Nijinsky, modernism, repression: the Faune ballet – once again – under analysis David J. Code; 9. Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary Wayne Heisler, Jr; 10. Embodied heritage: English country dance in Austen screen adaptations Maribeth Clark.

Review

'An engaging, erudite, and brilliantly edited collection of important essays on music and dance. Here the producers and process of art are valued as much as the product. While honoring the embodied knowledge of dancers themselves and respecting the all too human aspects of dance, the authors also, in complementary ways, address the sublime – the beauty beyond our mortal ken.' Simon Morrison, Princeton University, New Jersey'This refreshing and thoughtful book contributes to the body of research that has been synthesizing dance and music for more than 30 years … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. E. Handfield, Choice'Dance has proved an increasingly rich site of musicological study since the 1980s, and a new collected volume edited by Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark from Cambridge University Press makes a valuable contribution to that growing body of literature … Scholars in this interdisciplinary space will welcome a work brimming with the diversity of conceptual, historical, and interpretative approaches that this text provides.' Lena Leson, Revue de musicologie'The glimpses of live performance directly referenced in Musicology and Dance are not only informative but, dare it be said, entertaining too … [The book] offers many fresh insights into relationships between dance and music.' Jeremy Barlow, Dance Chronicle

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Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

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'An engaging, erudite, and brilliantly edited collection of important essays on music and dance. Here the producers and process of art are valued as much as the product. While honoring the embodied knowledge of dancers themselves and respecting the all too human aspects of dance, the authors also, in complementary ways, address the sublime - the beauty beyond our mortal ken.' Simon Morrison, Princeton University, New Jersey

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Explores music, gesture and embodiment through the work of composers such as Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Debussy, and Mahler.

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Explores well-known European music through the lens of dance, including music by Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Mahler, Faur

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Explores well-known European music through the lens of dance, including music by Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Mahler, Faur

Details ISBN110847618X Author Maribeth Clark Pages 320 Year 2020 ISBN-10 110847618X ISBN-13 9781108476188 Format Hardcover Short Title Musicology and Dance Language English Subtitle Historical and Critical Perspectives Publisher Cambridge University Press DEWEY 781.55409 Publication Date 2020-08-27 UK Release Date 2020-08-27 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-08-27 NZ Release Date 2020-08-27 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 25 Printed music items; 7 Tables, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white Alternative 9781108469951 Edited by Maribeth Clark Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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