[Ralph P. Locke]

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

New book…..                           

Music: A Connected Art / Die Illusion der absoluten Musik: A Festschrift for Jürgen Thym on His 80th Birthday

–Jürgen Thym, longtime musicology professor at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, just turned 80, and a festschrift in his honor—written and edited over the past three years—was officially published on the same day. https://www.liquidmusicology.org/aktuelles/2023jul-festschrift-juergen-thym/

–The (double-)title of the book is Music: A Connected Art / Die Illusion der absoluten Musik.

–Six of the 28 chapters are in German, the remaining 22 are in English. The book also contains greetings and reminiscences from other colleagues, including the late Robert S. Freeman, longtime Director of the Eastman School. The contributors and their topics are at the link given above. To whet the appetite, the names of the contributors are given below as well. (The co-editors, each of whom also contributed a chapter, are Ulrich J. Blomann, David B. Levy, Ralph P. Locke, and Frieder Reininghaus.)–No surprise, many of the most distinguished scholars working on nineteenth-century German and Austrian music, especially art song, have contributed. (JT is perhaps most widely known for his studies of text-music relations in German lieder.)–But there are also chapters on Broadway musicals, on musical life during the Nazi era, about the future viability of classical-music concerts, about the origins of music-making among the earliest humans, about the pedagogy of music history, about recent composers (e.g., William Albright, Sarah Nemtsov, John Adams, Leonardo Balada), early music (e.g, Simone Vesi and J. S. Bach), and much, much more.–A special feature: the volume also includes two new piano pieces written for the occasion by renowned composers Samuel Adler and Luca Lombardi.
–Here are the authors of the 28 chapters.

Theodore Albrecht

David Beach

Ulrich J. Blomann

Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Seth Brodsky

Michael Broyles

Caroline Ehman

Wilfried Gruhn

Rufus Hallmark

Rob Haskins

Hanns-Werner Heister

Kim H. Kowalke

Harald Krebs

David B. Levy

Ralph P. Locke

Yonatan Malin

Hartmut Möller

Mary Natvig

Douglas Reed

Frieder Reininghaus

Albrecht Riethmüller

Marie Rolf

Jennifer Ronyak

Stephen Rodgers

Kerala J. Snyder

Larry Todd

Matthew Valverde

Susan Youens

–The full table of contents is attached. It can also be found, along with the Introduction by the four co-editors, at https://www.liquidmusicology.org/aktuelles/2023jul-festschrift-juergen-thym/.

—Copies can be purchased directly from the publisher (Verlag Valentin Koerner, Baden-Baden: https://www.koernerverlag.de/) or, in time, from booksellers elsewhere.

For the four co-editors,

Ralph P. Locke

RLocke@esm.rochester.edu

Ralph.P.Locke@gmail.com

Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester

Research Affiliate, University of Maryland/College Park

Series Editor, Eastman Studies in Music (University of Rochester Press)

Advisory Editor, Music & Musical Performance: An International Journal

Selected list of publications: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/directory/locke-ralph/.

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