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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, by Rae Linda Brown. Music in American Life. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2020. xxiii, 295 pp. "This is a huge find," emphasized Rae Linda Brown...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBeethoven 1806, by Mark Ferraguto. AMS Smdies in Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxi, 245 pp. In Beethoven 1806, Mark Ferraguto addresses a number of issues that confront Beethoven scholarship some 250...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedElectronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde, by Jennifer Iverson. New Cultural History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xi, 303 pp. The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedClass, Control, and Classical Music, by Anna Bull. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxx, 232 pp. In Class, Control, and Classical Music, Anna Bull poses a key question to classical music stakeholders: "how are...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn February 1819, Beethoven found himself in the midst of a lengthy legal battle with his brother Caspar Carl's widow, Johanna. Caspar Carl had died just over three years earlier, and the composer was seeking custody of...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 1806, an autopsy was reportedly performed on the corpse of opera singer Brigida Giorgi Band. Curiously, the purpose was not to find the cause of her death, but rather to reveal the physiological source of her...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedComposing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice, by Jane D. Hatter. Music in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvii, 281 pp. Self-reference occurs in a number...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn a review of the Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune published in October 1895, Henry Gauthier-Villars (writing under one of his pseudonyms, "L'ouvreuse du cirque d'ete"--"The usher at the Cirque d'Ete") described the...
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From:Journal of the American Musicological Society (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices, by Richard Taruskin. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 450 pp. Both the feeling of ecstasy and the belief in the supernatural powers of music...