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Examines the vicissitudes of Debussy's posthumous reception in the 1920s and '30s, and analyzes the confluence of factors that helped to overturn the initial backlash against his music. Rather than viewing Debussy's artistic greatness as the cause of his enduring legacy, the author considers it instead as an effect, tracing the manifold processes that shaped how his music was received and how its aesthetic worth was consolidated. Speaking to readers both within and beyond the domain of French music and culture, this study enters into a dialogue with research in the sociology of reputation and commemoration, examining the collective nature of the processes of artistic consecration. By analyzing the cultural forces that came to bear on the formation of Debussy's legacy, the author contributes to a greater understanding of the inter-war period - the cultural politics, debates, and issues that confronted musicians in 1920s and '30s Paris - and offers a musicological perspective on the subject of… Read More

Very good condition. Small amount of scuffing to spine, cover.Desription:
Die Monographie analysiert die Bedeutung des Religionsfriedens für die europäische Ideen- und Mentalitätsgeschichte und zeigt, daß ihm zentrale Bedeutung für die politische Ge-schichte Mitteleuropas im Konfessionellen Zeitalter zukommt. Einer verständlichen Hinführung zu den wichtigsten Bestimmungen des Religionsfriedens folgt die Analyse ihrer Entstehung am Reichstag von 1555. Die zentralen Kapitel des Buches stellen den Religionsfrieden als Schlüssel zur Geschichte des Reiches und seiner Territorien vom ausgehenden Mittelalter bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts Einerseits werden wie im Brennspiegel die Themen und Tendenzen der vorangehenden Epochen gebündelt, zumal als Summe der Reformationszeit läßt sich der Religionsfrieden lesen; andererseits gibt er aber auch dem Politikbetrieb und der Rechtsprechung des Konfessionellen Zeitalters jene Herausforderungen und Probleme vor, an denen sich diese Epoche abarbeiten… Read More

Very good condition.

Description: This is the second volume of a two-volume translation of Heinrich Schenker's Der Tonwille (1921-24). Among the foremost music theorists of the twentieth century, Schenker's methods of analysis continue to be one of the most important tools of musicology.

Very good condition

Ex. lib. No dust jacket. Spine and cover free of markings/stamps. Date due slip on fly leaf; property stamps on fly leaf, fore edges. Text is clean, like new.

Book description: Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences—a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials—and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries. Andre Wakefield shows that the cameral sciences were at once natural, technological, and economic disciplines, but, more important, they also were strategic sciences, designed to procure patronage for their authors and good publicity for the German principalities in which they lived and worked. Cameralism, then, was the public face of the prince's most secret affairs; as such, it was an essentially dishonest enterprise.

In an entertaining series of case studies on mining, textiles, forestry,… Read More

Very good condition. Spine and cover clean and free of markings.

Edited by Irving Godt.