248 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterlands. Its six separate chapters follow a very broad trajectory from close-ups of traditional music (chapters 1-4) towards wide-angle studies of art music (chapters 5-6), and each of them opens windows to big, border-crossing themes about music and place. A wide variety of... Read more
Chapter 1 Homo Polyphonicus
Chapter 2 Giants, Heroes and Circassians
Chapter 3 Not Only Greeks
Chapter 4 Across the Sea
Chapter 5 Building Houses
Chapter 6 Placing Composers
Biography
Jim Samson has published widely on the music of Chopin and Liszt, on analytical and aesthetic topics in 19th and 20th century music, and on the cultural histories of East Central and South Eastern Europe.
