Products and services
Peter Brook’s The Empty Space famously begins, I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.[1] Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, […]
Read More
One of the most enriching aspects of working on Clara Schumann Studies was the opportunity to rethink and listen afresh to Schumann’s rich and varied contributions to musical culture in the nineteenth century and beyond. Bound up with the project, the first in the Cambridge Composer Studies series to address a woman, was an enticing […]
Read More
In song, the refrain—a portion of text and music repeated between stanzas—gives singers and listeners an opportunity to join together on the most memorable and predictable part of a song. As any singer can attest, refrains are retained in the memory even as the rest of the words and melodies of a song slip away. […]
Read More
In his 1997 song, “Ten Crack Commandments,” The Notorious BIG offered some rules to the drug game: I’ve been in this game for years; it made me an animal.There’s rules to this shit; I wrote me a manual.A step-by-step booklet for you to get,Your game on track, not your wig pushed back. These rules have […]
Read More
This book represents a first attempt inclusively to map out patterns of liturgical and musical culture across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales over a 500-year period. Extending from the eve of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 (and the subsequent Norman Invasion of Ireland in 1169) to the Protestant Reformation under King Henry VIII, […]
Read More
By the end of the 20th Century festivals were springing up all over the world like mushrooms. Events that used merely to be events had become, in current jargon, “festivalized” as the world experienced the “eventification” of culture, “the experience economy,” “city branding,” and the global emergence of “creative cities” and lucrative urban “festivalscapes” as […]
Read More
How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Performance, in other words, is not just a medium through which other arts forms such as music and literature find expression; it […]
Read More
Even 135 years after his death, Liszt’s glamour continues to fascinate. He was the rock star of the nineteenth century, women swooning at his feet as he performed the most demanding music of his age with almost supernatural ability. It is a powerful image and one that has inspired many biographies and films. However, that […]
Read MoreKeep up with the latest from Cambridge University Press on our social media accounts.
