This book suggests ways in which Debussy's sketches and drafts may be used to explain how he composed one of his last great symphonic scores: Iberia (from mages for orchestra, 1903-10). Part 1 shows how we might understand the process of musical composition as a form of expert problem solving; Part 2 reconstructs the genesis of each of the three movements in turn.
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A wide range of music -- from Bach to Mozart and Brahms -- is marked by its use of some form of what is generally called -tonality-: the tendency of music to focus melodically on some stable pitch or tonic and for its harmony to use functional triads. Yet few terms in music theory are more enigmatic than that seemingly simple word -tonality.- Matthew Brown's Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond considers a number of disparate ways in which functional tonality has been understood. In particular, it focuses on the comprehensive theory developed by Heinrich Schenker in his...

An interdisciplinary interrogation of the concept of British 'informal empire' in Latin America.

• Builds upon recent advances in the historiography of imperialism and studies of the nineteenth-century modern world, most obviously the work of Ann Stoler, Catherine Hall and C.A. Bayly
• Combines a comparative perspective with the juxtaposition of political economy, cultural history, gendered and postcolonial approaches
• By proposing and debating alternative explanatory models, the book breathes new life into the flagging concept of 'informal empire'
• Illuminates...