1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452215003321

Autore

King Wilma <1942->

Titolo

The essence of liberty [[electronic resource] ] : free black women during the slave era / / Wilma King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8262-6527-8

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 290 p. : ill

Disciplina

305.48/896073

Soggetti

Free African Americans - History

African American women - History

Free African Americans - Social conditions

African American women - Social conditions

Free African Americans - Intellectual life

African American women - Intellectual life

Liberty - History

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"King uses a wide range of sources to examine the experiences of free black women in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation, showing how they became free, educated themselves, found jobs, maintained self-esteem, and developed social consciousness--even participating in the abolitionist movement"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822436103321

Autore

Mirka Danuta

Titolo

Metric manipulations in Haydn and Mozart : chamber music for strings, 1787-1791 / / Danuta Mirka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-19-973828-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Music Theory

Disciplina

785/.70922

Soggetti

Musical meter and rhythm

Chamber music - 18th century - Analysis, appreciation

Chamber music - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Note on Terminology, Language, and Musical Examples; 1 Musical Meter between Composition and Perception; 1.1 The Concept of Meter in the Late Eighteenth Century; 1.2 The Revival of the Hierarchical Concept of Meter in the Twentieth Century; 1.3 Toward a Dynamic Model of Meter; 1.4 Borrowing from a Different Model; 2 Finding Meter; 2.1 Statistical Parameters; 2.2 Harmony; 2.3 Streaming and the Role of Bass; 2.4 Cadence (Structural Accent); 3 Sustaining Meter-Challenging Meter; 3.1 Metrum and Regularity of Beats; 3.2 Missing Beats; 3.3 General Pauses; 3.4 Fermatas

3.5 Syncopations4 Changing Meter I: Change of Period; 4.1 Imbroglio; 4.2 Submetrical Dissonance; 4.3 Hemiola; 5 Changing Meter II: Change of Phase; 5.1 Chains of Rhythmical Dissonances; 5.2 Other Parameters in Displacement Dissonances; 5.3 Imitation; 5.4 Ligaturae, Retardation, Anticipation; 5.5 Syncopated Accompaniment; 5.6 A Remark on Subliminal Dissonances; 6 Changing Meter III: Change of Tactus; 6.1 Changes of Taktteile in Compound Meters; 6.2 Changes of Taktteile in Double Measures; 6.3 Perceptual Factors; 6.4 Taktteile and the Tactus; 7 Analyses of Long-Range Metrical Strategies

7.1 Haydn, String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50 No. 2, First Movement7.2 Haydn, String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 2, Finale; 8 Wit, Comedy,



and Metric Manipulations in Haydn's and Mozart's Personal Styles; 8.1 Haydn; 8.2 Mozart; 8.3 Haydn's Earlier and Later String Quartets; 8.4 Inconclusive Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Compositions; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the period of most intense metric experimentation in the work of both Haydn and Mozart, author Danuta Mirka presents here a systematic discussion of the composers' metric strategies. Combining historical music theory with the cognitive study of music, Mirka's award-winning book sheds new light on this repertoire and redefines the role of meter and rhythm in Classical music.