American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the fir
Leonard, an independent scholar and author of articles and another book on music, examines film versions of Shakespeare's three political tragedies--Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear--and their musical t
This contributed volume explores the significant role that music plays in the works of Joss Whedon, investigating the uses and meaning of music and sound in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, S
The history of the Conservatoire Americain, the French musical institution responsible for training generations of American musicians, is captured for the first time in this full-length narrative, whi
Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western examines the use and function of musical tropes and gestures traditionally associated with the American Western in new and different contexts ranging from Elizabe
