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Six String Quartets, Opus 32 and Opus 33

<jats:p>Kozeluch, Mozart's greatest rival in Vienna, published his only string quartets... more <jats:p>Kozeluch, Mozart's greatest rival in Vienna, published his only string quartets in 1790 and 1792, at a time when he was being described by the lexicographer Gerber as "the most loved among living composers." A study of these works offers much-needed insights into this significant composer, the string quartet genre, and the fascinating decade that saw the musical shift from classicism to romanticism.</jats:p>

Romance

Gyrowetz [Gyrowez, Girowetz], Adalbert

Two symphonies, them. index D1, G5 . One symphony, them. index 159 . One symphony, them. index 1

Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music

Ideal for nonmajors, the text introduces the basic elements of music and narrative film to help b... more

Janina Müller, Musik im klassischen Film noir

Journal of Film Music, 2021

Janina Müller, Musik im klassischen Film noirWürzburg, Germany. Königshausen & Neumann, 2019 [Ger... more

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The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies, 2014

Sondheim provided original music for five movies: one or more songs forThe Seven-Per-Cent Solutio... more Sondheim provided original music for five movies: one or more songs forThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution(1976),Dick Tracy(1990), andThe Birdcage(1996), and scores forStavisky(1974) andReds(1981). The two scores reflect divergent trends in this era. Warren Beatty’sRedsuses music sparingly, and Alain Resnais’sStaviskycontains a complicated score that reflects compositional trends of the 1930s. Sondheim’s songs for the other films are crafted to entertain and to further their respective stories. ForDick Tracy, Sondheim composed five songs; several accompany montages, others crosscut with live action, and two, both performed by Madonna, have multiple reprises. Among the latter is the Oscar-winning “Sooner or Later.”

Michael V. Pisani, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York

Journal of Film Music, 2015

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014. [xxvi, 386 (388) p. ISBN: 978-1-60938-230-8. $36.00 (t... more

The Ben-Hur Legacy

Journal of Film Music, 2013

Lew Wallace completed his third literary effort, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 1880. The work... more Lew Wallace completed his third literary effort, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 1880. The work quickly became America’s top selling novel of the nineteenth century, and a spectacular melodrama was staged in 1899. After watching a rehearsal, Wallace remarked, “My God, did I set all of this in motion?” One can only imagine what his reaction might have been to the two major films based on his novel produced by MGM in 1925 and 1959. According to one historian, Ben-Hur was the “most dependable theatrical war horse of the twentieth century.” The melodrama Ben Hur created an enormous sensation. It is estimated that it was performed over 6,000 times for an aggregate audience of twenty million people, making this the most widely seen dramatic presentation by an American author. Part of the success of this theatrical blockbuster is Edgar Stillman Kelley’s original musical score, which includes orchestral excerpts, choral numbers, and a solo song. This study provides an historical overview of the Ben-Hur story, including the background of the novel and stage play, a comparison of the melodrama and early epic films, and the general similarities between Kelley’s incidental music and the two subsequent film scores.

Wavering Sonorities and the Nascent Film Noir Musical Style

Journal of Film Music, 2010

... 5 One of the earliest scholarly works to recognize the role of film noir in the expansion of ... more

Book Review: James Buhler, David Neumeyer, and Rob Deemer. Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. [xxiv, 470 p. ISBN 0195327793. $54.95 (trade paper)]

Journal of Film Music, 2011

The appropriateness of reviewing Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History in a musicol... more The appropriateness of reviewing Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History in a musicology journal is questionable. Authors James Buhler, David Neumeyer, and Rob Deemer are not historians, but two theorists and a composer. They make no pretense of writing a survey of film music: "We do not aim to promote a particular historical narrative that valorizes certain repertories" (p. xv). Holding to this perspective, music is consistently approached in a theoretical manner; passages appropriate to discussion are examined in detail, but the music is rarely placed in the context of the film score as a whole, within a composer's course of development, or in a broad historical overview. Moreover, music is not even the primary subject of the book: "we focus on music in the context of the film sound track and on the sound track in the context of a history of film technology" (p. xv). Indeed, the last portion of the book presents a technological history of the sound track, not (as suggested on the back cover) a history of film music. Still there are three compelling reasons to call attention to this new addition to literature on film music in this forum. (1) The authors are highly respected. Neumeyer has contributed an article to the first issue of this journal, and he and Buhler are

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Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet

Notes, 1975

Background: Lejeunea is a largely epiphytic, subcosmopolitan liverwort genus with a complex taxon... more Background: Lejeunea is a largely epiphytic, subcosmopolitan liverwort genus with a complex taxonomic history. Species circumscriptions and their relationships are subject to controversy; biogeographic history and diversification through time are largely unknown. Methodology and Results: We employed sequences of two chloroplast regions (trnL-trnF, rbcL) and the nuclear ribosomal ITS region of 332 accessions to explore the phylogeny of the Harpalejeunea-Lejeunea-Microlejeunea complex. Lejeunea forms a well-supported clade that splits into two main lineages corresponding to L. subg. Lejeunea and L. subg. Crossotolejeunea. Neotropical accessions dominate early diverging lineages of both main clades of Lejeunea. This pattern suggests an origin in the Neotropics followed by several colonizations from the Neotropics into the Paleotropics and vice versa. Most Afro-Madagascan clades are related to Asian clades. Several temperate Lejeunea radiations were detected. Eighty two of the 91 investigated Lejeunea species could be identified to species level. Of these 82 species, 54 were represented by multiple accessions (25 para-or polyphyletic, 29 monophyletic). Twenty nine of the 36 investigated species of L. subg. Lejeunea were monoicous and 7 dioicous. Within L. subg. Crossotolejeunea, 15 of the 46 investigated species were monoicous and 31 dioicous. Some dioicous as well as some monoicous species have disjunct ranges. Conclusions/Significance: We present the first global phylogeny of Lejeunea and the first example of a Neotropical origin of a Pantropical liverwort genus. Furthermore, we provide evidence for the Neotropics as a cradle of Lejeunea lineages and detect post-colonization radiations in Asia, Australasia, Afro-Madagascar and Europe. Dioicy/monoicy shifts are likely nonrandomly distributed. The presented phylogeny points to the need of integrative taxonomical studies to clarify many Lejeunea binomials. Most importantly, it provides a framework for future studies on the diversification of this lineage in space and time, especially in the context of sexual systems in Lejeuneaceae.

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The censored publications of The Art of Playing on the Violin , or Geminiani unshaken

Early Music, 1983

... to be sure how far Moore's high opinion of Renaissance polyphony was his own rather than... more

Six Bohemian masters of the string quartet in the late eighteenth century

Publication View. 33630925. Six Bohemian masters of the string quartet in the late eighteenth cen... more

Six String Quartets, Opus 32 and Opus 33

Romance

Gyrowetz [Gyrowez, Girowetz], Adalbert

Two symphonies, them. index D1, G5 . One symphony, them. index 159 . One symphony, them. index 1

Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music

Ideal for nonmajors, the text introduces the basic elements of music and narrative film to help b... more

Janina Müller, Musik im klassischen Film noir

Journal of Film Music, 2021

Janina Müller, Musik im klassischen Film noirWürzburg, Germany. Königshausen & Neumann, 2019 [Ger... more

More Sondheim

The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies, 2014

Michael V. Pisani, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York

Journal of Film Music, 2015

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014. [xxvi, 386 (388) p. ISBN: 978-1-60938-230-8. $36.00 (t... more

The Ben-Hur Legacy

Journal of Film Music, 2013

Wavering Sonorities and the Nascent Film Noir Musical Style

Journal of Film Music, 2010

... 5 One of the earliest scholarly works to recognize the role of film noir in the expansion of ... more

Journal of Film Music, 2011

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Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet

Notes, 1975

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The censored publications of The Art of Playing on the Violin , or Geminiani unshaken

Early Music, 1983

... to be sure how far Moore's high opinion of Renaissance polyphony was his own rather than... more

Six Bohemian masters of the string quartet in the late eighteenth century

Publication View. 33630925. Six Bohemian masters of the string quartet in the late eighteenth cen... more

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