A Musical Offering

A Musical Offering
Author: Martin Bernstein
Publsiher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1977
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0945193831

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In the great tradition of the German Festschrift, this book brings together articles by Professor Bernstein's colleagues, friends and students to honor him on his 70th birthday. Ranging in subject from the trouv e song through esoteric aspects of Renaissance studies and authenticity in 18th-century musical sources to a lively and irreverent attack on performance practices today, the twenty essays by many of America's most distinguished scholars reflect the breadth and variety of Martin Bernstein's far-reaching interests and demonstrates the vitality and relevance of what is best in musicology today.

Libraries History Diplomacy and the Performing Arts

Libraries  History  Diplomacy  and the Performing Arts
Author: Carleton Sprague Smith,Israel J. Katz,Malena Kuss,Richard J. Wolfe
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 459
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0945193130

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For almost three decades (1931-59) Carleton Sprague Smith served as Chief of the Music Division of The New York Public Library. Utilizing his training as historian, musicologist, and musician, together with his exceptional administrative and linguistic skills, he helped develop one of the world's greatest music research libraries. As early as 1932, he drew up the initial concept of a Library-Museum of the Performing Arts, which ultimately materialized at Lincoln Center. Smith also served as President of both the Music Library Association

Libraries History Diplomacy and the Performing Arts

Libraries  History  Diplomacy  and the Performing Arts
Author: Carleton Sprague Smith
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 549
Release: 1991
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:883270181

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Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries

Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries
Author: Carolyn A. Sheehy
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1994-07-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780313363825

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This professional reference provides solid advice to academic and public librarians for managing performing arts collections. The volume is divided into sections on the history of performing arts librarianship, dance collections, film studies collections, music collections, and theater collections. Each chapter is written by one or more expert contributors and presents current and reliable information on collection management. They discuss personnel management, collection development, technical services, public services, the impact of new technologies, facilities management, financial planning, and political considerations. Each chapter closes with references cited in the chapter, and the volume concludes with a valuable selected, annotated bibliography of important background sources and management tools.

A Theater of Diplomacy

A Theater of Diplomacy
Author: Ellen R. Welch
Publsiher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812293869

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The seventeenth-century French diplomat François de Callières once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles." The comparison of the diplomat to an actor became commonplace as the practice of diplomacy took hold in early modern Europe. More than an abstract metaphor, it reflected the rich culture of spectacular entertainment that was a backdrop to emissaries' day-to-day lives. Royal courts routinely honored visiting diplomats or celebrated treaty negotiations by staging grandiose performances incorporating dance, music, theater, poetry, and pageantry. These entertainments—allegorical ballets, masquerade balls, chivalric tournaments, operas, and comedies—often addressed pertinent themes such as war, peace, and international unity in their subject matter. In both practice and content, the extravagant exhibitions were fully intertwined with the culture of diplomacy. But exactly what kind of diplomatic work did these spectacles perform? Ellen R. Welch contends that the theatrical and performing arts had a profound influence on the development of modern diplomatic practices in early modern Europe. Using France as a case study, Welch explores the interconnected histories of international relations and the theatrical and performing arts. Her book argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in this period. Through its examination of the early modern precursors to today's cultural diplomacy initiatives, her book investigates the various ways in which performance structures international politics still.

Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

Preserving Dance Across Time and Space
Author: Lynn Matluck Brooks,Joellen A. Meglin
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781134906383

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Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past. In this volume, a range of voices address the issue of dance preservation through memory, artistic choice, interpretation, imagery and notation, as well as looking at relevant archives, legal structures, documentation and artefacts. The intertwining of dance preservation and creativity is a core theme discussed throughout this text, pointing to the essential continuity of dance history and dance innovation. The demands of preservation stretch across time, geographies, institutions and interpersonal connections, and this book focuses on the fascinating web that supports the fragile yet urgent effort to sustain our dancing heritage. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

American Music Librarianship

American Music Librarianship
Author: Carol June Bradley
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781135476472

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The literature of American music librarianship has been around since the 19th century when public libraries began to keep records of player-piano concerts, significant donations of books and music, and suggestions for housing music. As the 20th century began, American periodicals printed more and more articles on increasingly specialized topics within music studies. Eventually books were developed to aid the music librarian; their publication has continued over the course of nearly a century. This book reflects the great diversity of the literature of music librarianship. The main resources included are items of historical interest, descriptions of individual collections, catalogues of collections, articles describing specific library functions, record-related subjects, bibliographies designed for music library use, literature from Canada and Britain when relevant to U.S. library practices, key discographies, and information on specialized music research. The material is ordered by topic and indexed by author, subject, and library name.

The University of Michigan Library Newsletter

The University of Michigan Library Newsletter
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1993
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UOM:39015082935563

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