Klassisk musik og orkestermusik

Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice. There is insult in the music we hear, how we express our musical preferences, as well as our reactions to settings and sites of music and music making. More than that, when music and insult overlap, the effects can both promote social justice or undermine it, foster connection or break it apart. The coming together of music and insult shapes our sense of self and view of other people, underlining and  constructing difference, often in terms of race and gender.  In the last decade, music's power dynamics have become an increasingly important concern for music scholars, critics, and fans. Studying musicians such as Frank Zappa, Nickleback, Taylor Swift, and the Insane Clown Posse, and musical phenomena such as musician jokes, the use of music to torture people, and the playing of music in restaurants, this book shows the various and contradictory ways insults are used to negotiate those existing dynamics in and around music.

Johan Adam Krygell (1835-1915) var en usædvanlig skikkelse i 1800-tallets danske musikliv. Krygell var født og opvokset i Næstved, men selv om familien var fattig, så lykkedes det Krygell at blive organist takket være hans store musikalske talent. Krygell kom på Kjøbenhavns Musikkonservatoriums første elevhold, og efter små tyve år som organist i Herlufsholms Kirke blev han i 1880 den første organist i den nybyggede Sankt Matthæus Kirke i København. Her slog han sit navn fast som en af tidens førende organister, berømt for sit improvisationstalent. Udover orgelmusik skrev Krygell musik i de fleste genrer. Hans musik er en usædvanlig blanding af et senromantisk følelsesladet udtryk og en kontrapunktisk barokinspireret teknik, som han mestrede som få andre. Denne biografi er den første nogensinde om Johan Adam Krygell.

Offers a major new contribution to understanding Schubert's creative approach and the gothic imagination more generally.

Substantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford's career as composer, conductor and teacher, as well as promoter of opera in English and arranger of Irish folk music.