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African Studies . . . . . . . . . . 4, 7 Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 5, 8-10
Early modern history. . . 10 Modern history. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
History of science
& Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . 4, 10-11
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night
STAPLETON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Cooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Otero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Schulenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work Narrating War and Peace in Africa
Meyering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Falola/ter Haar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
“Claude Debussy As I Knew Him” Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History
Hsu/Grolnic/Peters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Falola/Aderinto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Communities & Health Care: Rochester, New York, Experiment Origins of Organ Transplantation
Liebschutz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Schlich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America Pleasure of Modernist Music
Spencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ashby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Good Music for a Free People Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers
Newman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Armstrong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration
Lindfors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Glazer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
John Romano and George Engel: Their Lives and Work Reading & Writing Women’s Lives: Study of the Novel of Manners
Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Bowers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust A Reception-History of George Eliot’s Fiction
Weindling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Kant and the Concept of Community Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers
PAYNE/THORPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 VARGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kantian Virtue at the Intersection of Politics and Nature Understanding Purpose: Kant and the Philosophy of Biology
Roulier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Huneman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music
Riggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 KAMINSKY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: Expanded Ed. Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor
Lupack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Siena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Looking for the “Harp” Quartet: Investigation into Musical Beauty White Chief, Black Lords
THAKAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 McClendon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata
Balinska/Schneider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 NEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Marianna Martines: Vienna of Mozart and Haydn Women’s Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa
Godt/Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Saidi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Men and Women We Want
Petit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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N e w & N ote wo rth y t i tles
Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers Looking for the “Harp” Quartet
Bálint András Varga An Investigation into Musical Beauty
Do today’s composers draw Markand Thakar
inspiration from life Music—at its best—can
experiences or from, say, provide an experience of
the natural world? ultimate beauty: a most
What influences, past and magical, transcendent loss-
present, have influenced of-self experience. Looking
recent composers? for the “Harp” Quartet is an
How essential is it for a in-depth exploration of
composer to develop a how the listener, the
personal style, and when does this degenerate composer, and the
into self-repetition? performer all contribute to this optimal
experience.
In this pathbreaking book, Bálint András
Varga puts these three questions to such The book is written in the form of five
renowned composers as Luciano Berio, Pierre dialogues followed by three related prose
Boulez, Alberto Ginastera, Sofia Gubaïdulina, articles. The dialogues, which take place over
Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, the course of a hypothetical academic year, are
György Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi between Icarus, an inquiring student intensely
Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm, concerned with fulfilling his highest potential
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, as a musician, and Daedalus, a curmudgeonly,
and Iannis Xenakis. Varga’s sensitive English iconoclastic teacher who guides his search for
renderings capture the subtleties of their understanding. A student performance of
sometimes confident, sometimes hesitant Beethoven’s String Quartet, Opus 74 “Harp,”
answers. serves as a point of departure and a recurring
theme for these investigations.
All statements from English-speaking
composers—such as Milton Babbitt, John Supplementary online audio files and musical
Cage, Elliott Carter, Morton Feldman, Lukas examples.
Foss, Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, Michael
Tippett, and Peter Maxwell Davies—consist of Markand Thakar is Charles A. &
the composers’ own carefully chosen words. Carolyn M. Russell Music Director, Duluth
Superior Symphony Orchestra; music director,
The Hungarian music publisher Bálint Baltimore Chamber Orchestra; principal
András Varga has spent nearly forty conductor, Duluth Festival Opera; and co-
years working for and with composers. He has director of the graduate conducting program,
published several books, including extensive Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins
interviews with Lutoslawski, Berio, and University.
Xenakis.
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Widor: A Life Beyond the Toccata illuminates Contributors include prominent scholars of
the life and work of one of France’s most Ravel’s and fin-de-siècle music: Elliott Antokoletz,
distinguished, yet neglected musicians of the Gurminder Bhogal, Sigrun Heinzelmann, Volker
belle époque. Helbing, Steven Huebner, Peter Kaminsky,
Barbara Kelly, David Korevaar, Daphne Leong,
John Near is William Martin and Mina Michael Puri, and Lauri Suurpää.
Merrill Prindle Professor of Fine Arts and
College Organist at Principia College. Peter Kaminsky is professor of music at
the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa: Good Music for a Free People: The
Nation and African Modernity Germania Musical Society in
Kwaku Larbi Korang 19th-Century America
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György Kurtág: Three Interviews & Ligeti Homages
Bálint András Varga
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Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String
Busoni as Pianist Quartet 2-volume SET
Grigory Kogan, Translated by Svetlana Belsky Edited by Evan Jones
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White Chief, Black Lords: Death, Modernity, & the Body: Sweden 1870-1940
Shepstone and the Colonial State Eva Åhrén
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Gender, Race, and the Progressive
Era Literacy Test Debate International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain,
Jeanne D. Petit Germany, and the United States to World War II
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Ludwik Hirszfeld:
The Story of One Life
Edited & Translated by Marta A.
Balinska, Also Edited by William
H. Schneider
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