Making sense of music / Susan McClary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClary, Susan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music appreciation.

Musical analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

One of the best-known prose stylists in contemporary musicology, Susan McClary brings together a fascinating set of essays in 'Making Sense of Music' that focus on temporality and the body as ways of understanding music. McClary grounds her readings within the specifics of historical time and place, even as she shows how the music itself relies on gesture and the body. In sum, this book demonstrates in case studies taken from a wide variety of practices how music draw upon and shapes human subjective experience.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

About the Companion Website

Fundamentals An Introduction

I. Why I Do What I Do

II. Messing with Early Music

III. Sex and Gender, Redux

Part I WHY I DO WHAT I DO

1 A Life in Musicology Stradella and Me

2 In Praise of Contingency The Powers and Limits of Theory

3 Evidence of Things Not Seen History, Subjectivities, Music

4 Writing about Music-and the Music of Writing

5 The Bodies of Angels

6 The Lure of the Sublime Revisiting the Modernist Project

7 Playing the Identity Card Of Grieg, Indians, and Women

8 The Object/the Objective of Analysis The Case of Florence Price

Part II MESSING WITH EARLY MUSIC

9 Unwashed Masses Music for the Morning After

10 Tumescence and Detumescence in a Monteverdi Madrigal

11 Doing the Time Warp in Seventeenth-Century Music

12 In the Realm of All the Senses: Two Sarabandes by Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

13 Salome in the Court of Queen Christina

14 Adorno Plays the WTC On Political Theory and Performance

Part III SEX AND GENDER REDUX

15 The Classical Closet

16 Soprano Masculinities,

17 Sister Campers

18 Kaija Saariaho, Mater

19 Mahler Making Love Mengelberg's Adagietto

Mengelberg and Performance Practice

Mengelberg's Adagietto

Music and Sexuality, Redux

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 19, 2025).

ISBN:

9780197779774

0-19-777979-4

0-19-777978-6

0-19-777977-8

OCLC:

1509689199