Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music
Author:   Joshua S. Walden (Musicology Faculty, Musicology Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190653507


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Joshua S. Walden (Musicology Faculty, Musicology Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780190653507


ISBN 10:   0190653507
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Portraiture as a Musical Genre Chapter 1: Musical and Literary Portraiture Chapter 2: Musical Portraits of Visual Artists Chapter 3: Listening in on Composers' Self-Portraits Chapter 4: Celebrity, Music, and the Multimedia Portrait Epilogue: Musical Portraiture, the Posthumous, and the Posthuman Bibliography

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Walden's book is still to be highly commended, since its unique aim -- to show how music has depicted individuals throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- has certainly been achieved. -- Maurice Windleburn, Context This is the first study to delve deep into the intersection of musical and artistic portraiture. The specialized nature of this volume makes it most valuable to those doing focused work on the arts and portraiture. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. -- CHOICE


""Walden's book is still to be highly commended, since its unique aim -- to show how music has depicted individuals throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- has certainly been achieved."" -- Maurice Windleburn, Context ""This is the first study to delve deep into the intersection of musical and artistic portraiture. The specialized nature of this volume makes it most valuable to those doing focused work on the arts and portraiture. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers."" -- CHOICE


This is the first study to delve deep into the intersection of musical and artistic portraiture. The specialized nature of this volume makes it most valuable to those doing focused work on the arts and portraiture. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *


Author Information

Joshua S. Walden is the author of Sounding Authentic: The Rural Miniature and Musical Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2014) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music (2015) and Representation in Western Music (2013). His writings on music have received awards from ASCAP and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.

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