{"id":83452,"date":"2014-12-19T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=83452"},"modified":"2024-03-29T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:04:34","slug":"writing-about-music-eastman-music-series-fills-gap-in-scholarly-popular-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/writing-about-music-eastman-music-series-fills-gap-in-scholarly-popular-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing about music: Eastman Music Series fills gap in scholarly, popular understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Music can be a problematic topic for a book,&#8221; writes Ralph P. Locke, Eastman Professor of Musicology, at the <em>Musicology Now<\/em> blog of the American Musicological Society. &#8220;Unlike novels or poems, plays or paintings, musical works cannot easily be represented in words or visual images. Furthermore, musical notation and detailed technical description can feel opaque to many music lovers. The net result has been <strong>a looming gap, for centuries now, between music as it is understood by musicians and the often superficial ways in which it has tended to be written about in books, magazines, and newspapers<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urpress.com\/store\/catalog\/9781580462099.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Berlioz\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nThe Eastman Studies in Music, edited by Locke and published by the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Press, is <strong>helping to fill that gap with dozens of scholarly books<\/strong> on such varied topics as music publishing in sixteenth-century Venice, fugal theory in the Baroque era, the suites of Johann Sebastian Bach, and &#8220;the pleasure of modernist music.&#8221; For example, the 100th title in the series, published last year, is <em>The French Symphony at the Fin de Si\u00e8cle: Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition<\/em>. This monograph by Andrew Deruchie, Lecturer in Music at Otago University (New Zealand), focuses on the special challenges that composers in France faced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when composing in a genre previously dominated by German-speaking composers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the books in the series were <strong>written or edited by Eastman School professors or notable alumni<\/strong>. The Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, which is administered at the Eastman School of Music, has provided subventions to certain Eastman Studies books about music and musical life in America. And hot off the press this week is <em>Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past: <\/em><em>Constructing<\/em><em> Historical Legacies<\/em>, derived in large part from papers presented at the 2009 festival of EROI (the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative) and edited by J\u00fcrgen Thym, Professor Emeritus of Musicology. Works discussed in the book can be listened to at the Eastman School&#8217;s website in performances by Eastman organ professor David Higgs, former Eastman organ professor Hans Davidsson, and professor emeritus of organ William Porter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urpress.com\/store\/catalog\/bigs\/9781580463881.jpg\" alt=\"book cover on Verdi\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;By casting its net wide,&#8221; writes Locke, &#8220;the Eastman Studies in Music series provides a wide range of critical and nuanced perspectives on musical composition and performance, on close analysis of music&#8217;s formal and expressive qualities, on musical performance across the centuries and around the world, and on the many historical and cultural contexts that have shaped music and its meanings for those who make it and love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, at a time when funding for arts and humanities projects is under great 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