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2017

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Full-Text Articles in Musicology

Review Of Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich (New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Michael Kater, The Twisted Muse: Musicians And Their Music In The Third Reich (New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

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Review Of Pamela M. Potter, Most German Of The Arts: Musicology And Society From The Weimar Republic To The End Of Hitler’S Reich (New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1998), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Pamela M. Potter, Most German Of The Arts: Musicology And Society From The Weimar Republic To The End Of Hitler’S Reich (New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1998), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

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Review Of Erik Levi, Music In The Third Reich (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994), David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Review Of Erik Levi, Music In The Third Reich (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994), David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

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Johannes Brahms's Requiem Eines Unpolitischen, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

Johannes Brahms's Requiem Eines Unpolitischen, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

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"The Most German Of All German Operas": Die Meistersinger Through The Lens Of The Third Reich, David B. Dennis Sep 2017

"The Most German Of All German Operas": Die Meistersinger Through The Lens Of The Third Reich, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

A detailed analysis of the reception of Wagner's, Meistersinger, in the Third Reich.

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Michael H. Kater, "Carl Orff Im Dritten Reich," Vierteljahrshefte Für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (January 1995): 1-35., David B. Dennis Sep 2017

Michael H. Kater, "Carl Orff Im Dritten Reich," Vierteljahrshefte Für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (January 1995): 1-35., David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

A review of Michael H. Kater's article, "Carl Orff im Dritten Reich." Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (January 1995): 1-35.

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Edward Elgar's "The Apostles" - A Major Oratorio Standing Outside Tradition, Thomas Lloyd Aug 2017

Edward Elgar's "The Apostles" - A Major Oratorio Standing Outside Tradition, Thomas Lloyd

Thomas Lloyd

Classical composer Edward Elgar’s oratorio The Apostles (1903) presents the mission of Christ viewed primarily through the eyes of Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot is discussed. The title of the work itself is belied by featuring a woman who was not one of "The Twelve" and a man who was the one apostle to defect from the rest. Elgar's distinctive use of Wagnerian "leitmotif" technique permeates the expansive form of the work, resulting in an exceptional example of the late Romantic juxtaposition of the cosmic and the personal in a multi-layered texture. When Elgar began composing The Apostles in 1990 …

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Arnold Dolmetsch's "Green Harpsichord" And The Musical Arts And Crafts, Edmond Johnson Dec 2016

Arnold Dolmetsch's "Green Harpsichord" And The Musical Arts And Crafts, Edmond Johnson

Edmond Johnson

This study uses Arnold Dolmetsch’s “Green Harpsichord” as a starting point for a larger discussion of the relationship between Arnold Dolmetsch, William Morris, and other members of the Arts and Crafts movement who were active in London in the 1890s. Built in 1896 and displayed that same year by the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, the Green Harpsichord was the harpsichord built in England in nearly a century, and its design and decoration reflect its position as an object that had to negotiate the aesthetics of the past and the practical needs of the present. The article concludes by looking …

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