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Concise History of Western Music

By: Barbara Russano Hanning

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Concise History of Western Music

By: Barbara Russano Hanning

Barbara Hanning’s Concise History of Western Music offers students a manageable introduction to the forces that shaped music. Combining concision with the imaginative pedagogy that her text pioneered, Hanning focuses on an essential repertoire of 109 characteristic works—from the Middle Ages to the present—providing students with the cultural and historical context to illuminate the music and remember its significance. The new Total Access program unlocks a full suite of media resources with every new book, including instant access to streaming recordings of the complete Norton Anthology of Western Music repertoire, an ebook, audio for nearly every short example in the text, and stunning Metropolitan Opera video."--Résumé du site web de l'éditeur.

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039366385X

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9780393663853

Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

By: Barbara Russano Hanning

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Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

By: Barbara Russano Hanning

Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, examine the role of images in shedding light on the cultural context in which these and other works came into being (music iconography), and explore the binaries and similarities of the arts in this period. Insights about early opera are complemented by discussions of accompanied solo song, or monody, both genres new to Italian music at the turn of the seventeenth century. Many chapters focus on specific images, ranging from the figure of Apollo and his significance as the earliest operatic protagonist, to an early eighteenth-century representation of a salon concert and its “ensemblisation” of events that likely occurred serially. Others include discussions and analyses of musical poetics, from Tasso’s influence on the Italian madrigal to Rinuccini’s authorship of the earliest opera libretti. Another focuses on history while narrating the circumstances under which opera came into being in late Renaissance Florence. Addressed in large measure to teachers and students, Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe presents a range of subjects that broaden our perspective on the era. Certain essays take a specifically pedagogical approach, while others are more apt to interest music historians or those familiar with Italian versification. All are presented with a view toward making more accessible essays that do not fit neatly into one subject area but cross boundary lines between music, words, and images.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040106773

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9781040106778

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World

Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

By: Robert W. Hanning

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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World

Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

By: Robert W. Hanning

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.

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Oxford University Press

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0192894757

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9780192894755

Concise History of Western Music

Fifth International Student Edition, Anthology Update

By: Hanning, Barbara Russano

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Concise History of Western Music

Fifth International Student Edition, Anthology Update

By: Hanning, Barbara Russano

This update to Barbara HanningÕs concise survey aligns it with the Eighth Edition of the Norton Anthology of Western Music and supports your students with a more robust media package. New resources include Audio Timelines, tutorials to help build music history skills, and adaptive activities to reinforce concepts.

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W.W. Norton & Company

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039342166X

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9780393421668

Serious Play

Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

By: Robert W. Hanning

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Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

By: Robert W. Hanning

In this thoughtful, scholarly, often humorous analysis of literary works--including Ovid's amatory poetry, excerpts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--Hanning (emer., Columbia Univ.) presents a raucous account of misdirected desire and mismanaged political authority. The author describes his readings as "appreciations" that interrogate "how these privileged individuals, writing basically for elite audiences, make comedy out of two very dangerous topics, desire and authority." The success of these celebrated writers stems from their ability to negotiate the "tensions between private and public imperatives." Hanning argues that his book is not a "scholarly work" and that his target audience is not academics. To the extent that the book is genuinely funny he succeeds, at least hypothetically, but the overall analysis is sophisticated, critically informed, and occasionally tendentious and political. His pose as elucidator and commentator is both an attraction--the tone and tenor of the book are inviting and approachable--and a distracting comic ruse in and of itself, as if a mock-serious disavowal of the academic mode could disguise the very serious re-visioning of cultures (ancient, modern, and contemporary) that takes place here. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by D. Pesta.

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Columbia University Press

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0231152108

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9780231152105

Concise History of Western Music

Fifth International Student Edition, Anthology Update

By: Hanning, Barbara Russano

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Fifth International Student Edition, Anthology Update

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Concise History of Western Music

Concise History of Western Music

Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Studies in Music, Words, and Imagery in Early Modern Europe

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World

Concise History of Western Music

Concise History of Western Music

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Concise History of Western Music

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