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The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (2020)
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Baragwanath, N. (2020). The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514085.001.0001

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition,... Read More about The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici (2019)
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PARKES, H. (2019). Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers

This volume offers the first modern edition and study of the liturgical writings of Bern, abbot of Reichenau (d. 1048). Dealing with some of the more ordinary questions facing medieval worshipping communities – such as how to find the correct date fo... Read More about Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici.

Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde (2018)
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Boyd-Bennett, H. (2018). Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718476

Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth... Read More about Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde.

Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (2018)
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O'Briain, L. (2018). Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626969.001.0001

© Oxford University Press 2018. Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, many of the one million Hmong in Vietnam have strategicall... Read More about Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam.

The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050 (2015)
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Parkes, H. (2015). The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316014752

This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest... Read More about The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050.