Description

• Gives readers tools for approaching topics in music within the specifics of historical time and place, as well as gesture and body
• Contains new essays alongside updated landmark pieces in musicology
• Shows readers gems from the career of a prominent writer in music

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

1. Foreword by Peter Sellars
2. Fundamentals: An Introduction
3. I. Why I Do What I Do
4. 1. A Life in Musicology: Stradella and Me
5. 2. In Praise of Contingency: The Powers and Limits of Theory
6. 3. Evidence of Things Not Seen: History, Subjectivities, Music
7. 4. Writing about Music – and the Music of Writing
8. 5. The Bodies of Angels
9. 6. The Lure of the Sublime: Revisiting Postwar Modernism
10. 7. Playing the Identity Card: Of Grieg, Indians, and Women
11. 8. The Object/The Objective of Analysis: The Case of Florence Price
12. II. Messing With Early Music
13. 9. Unwashed Masses: Music for the Morning After
14. 10. Tumescence and Detumescence in a Monteverdi Madrigal
15. 11. Doing the Time Warp in Seventeenth-Century Music
16. 12. In the Realm of All the Senses: Analyzing the Music of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la
17. Guerre
18. 13. Salome in the Court of Queen Christina
19. 14. Adorno Plays the WTC
20. III. Sex and Gender, Redux
21. 15. The Classical Closet
22. 16. Soprano Masculinities
23. 17. Sister Campers
24. 18. Kaija Saariaho, Mater
25. 19. Mahler Making Love: Mengelberg’s Adagietto
26. Index