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Book Reviews: Classical Music - "Unlocking The Masters" Series, Marie Sumner Lott
Book Reviews: Classical Music - "Unlocking The Masters" Series, Marie Sumner Lott
Music Faculty Publications
The following informal guides to Western classical music are briefly reviewed (Amadeus Press): (1) "Decoding Wagner: An Invitation to His World of Music Drama," by Thomas May; (2) "The Mahler Symphonies, An Owner's Manual," by David Hurwitz; (3) "Getting the Most Out of Mozart, the Instrumental Works," by Hurwitz; (4) "Getting the Most Out of Mozart, the Vocal Works," by Hurwitz; (5) "Exploring Haydn: A Listener's Guide to Music's Boldest Innovator," by Hurwitz; and (6) "The Great Instrumental Works," by M. Owen Lee.
Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus
Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus
Publications and Research
The emerging interdisciplinary field of disability studies takes as its subject matter the historical, social, and cultural construction of disability. After a brief introduction to disability studies, this article explores the interconnected histories of disability and music as they are manifested in three theoretical approaches to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western art music (the musical Formenlehre and the tonal theories of Schoenberg and Schenker) and in three works by Beethoven and Schubert. Around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe, disability began to be understood not as something natural and permanent but rather as a deviation from …