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New Publication: Sonic Transformations of Literary TextsAmong the possible pairings between two art forms that express themselves in different sign systems (verbal, pictorial, sonic, kinetic, etc.), the relationship between words and images is the one that is most widely explored. And in fact, the most securely established terminology is found in a field that has experienced a significant revival in recent years: ekphrasis. The literary topos through which a poem (or any other text) addresses itself to the visual arts has received much attention in recent years and been subjected to intense scrutiny. Full details and ordering information are at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=622. 2008-11-17 16:04:01 |
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New Publication: Charles Ives OmnibusCentral to the evolution of American music is the legacy of Charles Ives. This grand-scale reference work provides details surrounding the multifarious responses to the achievement of this singular businessman/musician for more than a century. Performances, recordings, journalistic reports, reviews, and scholarly studies of all kinds as well as assorted Ivesiana in the form of literature, art, film, dance, and other expressions of homage are included. Many of the entries are amplified with contextual information or carefully selected excerpts. Professor Burk has been an enthusiastic connoisseur of Ives’s music and a thoughtful student of the Ives literature for many years; his systematic presentation results in much more than a glorified work list or another ambitious bibliography. Full details and ordering information are at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=591. 2008-11-17 16:01:08 |
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New Publication: Fétis Treatise on Harmony (1844)Few theorists have had such in-depth command of the diverse disciplines relating to the history of music theory as François-Joseph Fétis. Superbly lucid and systematic, his Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Harmony is one of the most important and influential documents of the nineteenth century, witness its twenty-one printings between 1844 and 1903. This excellent new translation is based on the ninth edition (1867), the last to be modified by the author, and includes the introduction to the ninth edition, the philosophical preface to the third edition, and Fétis's response to criticisms of his theory in a twenty-page addendum.
Full details and ordering information are at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=584. 2008-10-23 11:15:44 |
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New Publication: Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and TrinityOlivier Messiaen’s reception of texts by Thomas Aquinas is one of the principles guiding the interpretations in this study. While Thomas’ theological aesthetics appears as a thread woven through a texture in a way that brings it only periodically to the foreground, the statements from Thomas’s writings provide essential foundations determining the musical content and its musical rendering in La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, and Saint François d’Assise.
This book is part of Siglind Bruhn's Messiaen Trilogy:
2008-10-08 10:40:23 |
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New publication: Music and ArchitectureMusic and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations by Iannis Xenakis, translated by Sharon Kanach, fills a major lacuna in the literature by bringing together, for the first time, all the texts relating to architecture by the multi-faceted Xenakis, who worked with Le Corbusier for 12 years. Sharon Kanach assisted the composer in gathering the texts for this, his last ambitious project. Her commentary throughout the book seeks to bridge the reciprocal influences between music and architecture in the Xenakis oeuvre.
Pendragon Press is grateful to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Dragan Plamenac Publication Endowment Fund of the American Musicological Society for their support in the publication of this edition.
Full details and ordering information are at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=467. 2008-09-25 10:27:31 |
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Sharon Kanach to deliver Xenakis lecture at Columbia's GSAPPSharon Kanach, Vice President of CCMIX (Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis), will deliver the Open Seminar Lecture IANNIS XENAKIS: Architecture + Music as part of the ARCHITECTONICS OF MUSIC seminar on Friday, September 12, 2008, 12:00 pm -2:00 pm in Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Composer, engineer and architect Iannis Xenakis designed the Philips Pavilion, La Tourette Convent, etc.. while working for Le Corbusier. Sharon Kanach was Xenakis's assistant for two decades, and edited the new book Music and Architecture by Iannis Xenakis, published this month by Pendragon Press. More details of the book can be found at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=467. 2008-09-09 16:20:02 |
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Armstrong Hot Five wins ARSC AwardGene Anderson's The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrong, the latest title in the CMS Sourcebooks in American Music series, has been selected as a winner for the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in the category Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music. The goal of the ARSC Awards program is to recognize and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research. More details about ARSC, its awards, and conference may be found on the ARSC website. 2008-09-04 14:17:15 |
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New publication: Valved Brass: The History of an InventionPendragon Press has just published an English translation by Steven Plank of Christian Ahrens's important monograph, Eine Erfindung und ihre Folgen: Blechblasinstrumente mit Ventilen (1986). The work traces the early use of valved brass instruments in the realms of art music, military music, and Volksmusik. Stressing social and aesthetic issues over the more familiar mechanical aspects, the author draws on a rich body of journalistic source material to detail a compelling reception history.
More details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=619
2008-08-21 09:51:29 |
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New publication: Elliot Carter: A Centennial CelebrationThis collection of essays, discussions, pictures, and music honors one of America's finest composers on his 100th birthday. It contains articles and reminiscences by Pierre Boulez, Fred Lerdahl, Paul Griffith, Alvin Curran, Louis Karchin, Charles Rosen, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Wilson, John Ashbery, and Walter Zimmerman.
More details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=617
2008-08-21 09:47:27 |
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AMS Publication Subvention for Xenakis Music and ArchitectureThe forthcoming volume Music and Architecture, the writings of Iannis Xenakis edited by Sharon Kanach, now in the final stages of the pre-publication process, has been awarded a publication subvention by the Dragan Plamenac Publication Endowment Fund of the American Musicological Society. The AMS Publications Committee wrote, "We found this to be a very impressive and important project and we are delighted to be able to support it."
This important work fills a major lacuna in the literature by bringing together for the first time all the texts relating to architecture by the multi-faceted Xenakis, who worked with Le Corbusier for 12 years. Sharon Kanach assisted the composer in gathering the texts for this, his last ambitious project. Her commentary throughout the book seeks to bridge the reciprocal influences between music and architecture in the Xenakis oeuvre.
Pendragon Press expects to have bound books in time for an important Xenakis event scheduled for 12 September 2008 in New York City.
2008-07-03 14:54:56 |
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New publication: Nijinsky's Bloomsbury BalletVaslav Nijinsky's Jeux—to a commissioned score by Claude Debussy—is a daring dance poem about the libertine manners and mores of the Bloomsbury artists he and designer Leon Bakst observed at a nocturnal tennis party in London's Bedford Square. The ambiguous coupling and tripling Nijinsky explored in Jeux startled the public, as did Debussy's music, in which both the tango and turkey trot, as well as pleasure-garden themes inspired by Wagner's Parsifal are quoted. Critics attacked not so much the ethics of Jeux as its post-impressionist aesthetics, influenced by the French painters that Bloomsbury had revealed to England since 1910. Despite contemporary references, athletic moves and pure spatial geometry, Jeux disarmed spectators in 1913 because it still looked like a ballet. Nijinsky had discovered neoclassicism in dance. In 1996 Millicent Hodson, choreographer and graphic artist, together with Kenneth Archer, scenic consultant and art historian, premiered the reconstructed Jeux in Verona at the Teatro Filarmonico. During the spring 2000 restaging in London at the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, Hodson completed the reconstruction dance score. Nijinsky's Bloomsbury Ballet presents the dance score with its verbal and visual documentation of the period, as well as Hodson's choreographic drawings and text collated with music. Archer contributes an essay on Bakst's costumes and décor. The book is a companion volume to Hodson's reconstruction score for Le Sacre du Printemps, Nijinsky's Crime Against Grace, published by Pendragon Press in 1996. More details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=546 2008-06-05 14:24:32 |
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Armstrong Hot Five a Finalist for ARSC AwardGene Anderson's The Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrong, the latest title in the CMS Sourcebooks in American Music series, has been selected as a finalist for the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The goal of the ARSC Awards program is to recognize and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research. More details about ARSC, its awards, and conference may be found on the ARSC website. 2008-05-19 14:14:45 |
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New publication: Messiaen’s Explorations of Love and DeathPendragon Press has just published Messiaen’s Explorations of Love and Death by Siglind Bruhn. The focus of this study is the in-depth analysis and interpretation of six works on love Messiaen composed during the years 1936-1948: five cycles of vocal music to his own texts, and the Turangalîla Symphony, the monumental centerpiece of his “Tristan Trilogy.” Full details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=618 2008-05-06 09:24:08 |
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New publication: The Era After The BaroquePendragon Press has just published The Era After The Baroque: Music and Fine Arts 1750-1900 by Robert Tallant Laudon. The book advances an expressive ideal that is traced in both vocal and instrumental music during the century and a half after 1750. It stresses that music was not an art unique and set apart but rather participated in the great dissemination of education and artistic opportunity that was then emerging in the context of an increasingly human-centered concept of freedom. Full details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=567. 2008-04-17 12:49:34 |
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New publication: A Different StoryPendragon Press has just published A Different Story:Aesthetics and the History of Western Music, by Olle K. Edström, translated by Joel Speerstra. Richard Leppert (University of Minnesota) wrote of the book: “Wide-ranging across time and space, written in jargon-free, plain language, Aesthetics and the History of Western Music, simply put, teaches. The spectrum of original sources is impressively broad, and all of the principal “usual suspects” are included. But perhaps more important, Olle Edström likewise incorporates the work of writers outside the mainstream of established aesthetics discourse; and the same holds for the secondary sources that he cites and invariably reads critically. Much of the value of this book develops from Edström’s concern to move aesthetics from an exercise of language to one of musical practices, and to include not only the music of high art but that of the popular as well, both in past times and in our own. His achievement is noteworthy.” Full details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=548. 2008-03-10 16:16:29 |
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Revised due dates for 12 forthcoming titlesNew due dates have been posted for twelve forthcoming titles. One is now scheduled to appear earlier than previously announced. For details please see Books->In Press in the navigation bar at left. 2008-02-25 09:23:55 |
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New publication: Music Theory from Boethius to ZarlinoMusic Theory from Boethius to Zarlino is a companion volume to Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide by David Damschroder and David Russell Williams (Harmonologia, No. 4, Pendragon Press). Like the previous work, the goal of the volume is to create a logically organized introduction to the major theorists of the time and a thorough review of the scholarly work about these writers. While specialists in the history of music theory may find new materials in these pages, this work is primarily designed for the non-specialist as a practical and basic introduction to the treatises, people, and scholarship of Medieval and Renaissance theory.
Full details at http://www.pendragonpress.com/books/bookdetail.php?PPNo=608 2008-02-05 11:55:01 |
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Pendragon Press database now onlineThe new Pendragon Press website aims to provide accurate and timely information about our publication series, titles, and authors. To stay up-to-date with these constantly changing details please subscribe to our RSS feed and sign up for our Reader Notification Program.
To find a particular publication, enter its Title, Author, ISBN, or Order Number on our Advanced Search page. We will be adding e-commerce capability to our website soon. For the time being titles that are in print and available may be ordered at Amazon.com from the book's detail page, or of course you can order from us directly. Libraries, agencies, and distributors, please see our Ordering page. 2008-01-29 22:35:35 |
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*UPDATED* Louis Armstrong Recordings study nominated for ARSC awardThe Original Hot Five Recordings of Louis Armstrong by Gene H. Anderson has been nominated for a 2007 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. The annual award recognizes excellence in published research on any subject related to recorded sound.
2008-01-21 12:57:11 |
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Honorary Doctorate for Siglind Bruhn from Växjö University, SwedenVäxjö University in Sweden announces the award of this year’s honorary degree of Dr. phil. honoris causa to one of Pendragon's regular authors, the founder of "musical ekphrasis" and admired scholar of Messiaen and Hindemith, Dr. Siglind Bruhn. Members of the University's Forum for Interarts Studies are particularly proud that the most prestigious award the university has to give goes to one in the field. The brief publicity statement reads:
"The German musicologist and concert pianist Siglind Bruhn has a unique profile in today's musicological and intermedial research as she is both an artist and an academic. She has, in particular, made internationally relevant contributions to the relation between music and other disciplines. Given her unique combination of artistic intelligence, an impressive productivity with about 20 books, and her broadly influential work, we think that Siglind Bruhn constitutes an excellent choice.
"Siglind Bruhn was born in Germany in 1951 and holds a Dr. phil. summa cum laude from the
University of Vienna. She currently works as a lifetime research associate at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities and is at the same time a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Christianity and the Arts and at the Sorbonne's Institut d’esthétique des arts contemporains. Moreover, she has lectured at a large number of European, American, and Asian universities and is or has been a leader in a number of important international commissions and organizations." 2008-01-21 12:55:00 |
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