Patricia Hall

Yorkshire reporter Laura Ackroyd finds some unsettling connections between a local election, a campaign to "out" elected officials, and a murder on the moor, which leads to her being noticed by both Inspector Michael Thakeray and the murderer.

Death by Election

After 50 years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu. Patricia Hall's new book represents a primary contribution to that understanding—the first detailed analysis of the sketches for the opera as well as other related autograph material and previously inaccessible correspondence to Berg. In 1959, Berg's widow deposited the first of Berg's autograph manuscripts in the Austrian National Library. The complete collection of autographs for Lulu was made accessible to scholars in 1981, and a promising new phase in Lulu scholarship unfolded. Hall begins her study by examining the format and chronology of the sketches, and she demonstrates their unique potential to clarify aspects of Berg's compositional language. In each chapter Hall uses Berg's sketches to resolve a significant problem or controversy that has emerged in the study of Lulu. For example, Hall discusses the dramatic symbolism behind Berg's use of multiple roles and how these roles contribute to the large-scale structure of the opera. She also revises the commonly held view that Berg frequently invoked a free twelve-tone style. Hall's innovative work suggests important techniques for understanding not only the sketches and manuscripts of Berg but also those of other twentieth-century composers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Through the Autograph Sources

A View of Berg's Lulu

Yorkshire detective Michael Thackeray investigates violent activities at a popular nightclub that may be related to drugs and a local mosque, while his girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, looks into the suspicious heroin death of a believed-clean young ma

A Yorkshire Mystery

Death in Dark Waters

Playing with Fire

When Jay decides to move back home to Pendlebridge she discovers a dark and deadly secret in Pendle House. What is the meaning of the sinister cannibal bird masks?

The Masks of Darkness

Kathy Mitter

While Marcella is at the fair, Raggedy Ann and the other dolls create a fair of their own in her room and almost get into trouble.

Day at the Fair

Earnshaw's Mill, one of last remaining foundations of Bradfield's industrial heritage, harkening back to Yorkshire's glorious past, has seen better days. As the times have changed, the future of the Earnshaw mill has become even more uncertain. With impending staff cuts necessary to keep the mill alive, the union is unhappy and the workers are threatening to strike. Racial tensions are already high enough in Bradfield's Muslim community, so with the possibility of large unemployment in town looming, trouble is in the air. When one of the Earnshaw children turns up dead, DCI Michael Thackeray heads up the investigation into his death. The victim, a major shareholder in the company, has left no will and the future of the mill has become even more unclear. In the meantime, Thackeray's girlfriend, reporter Laura Ackroyd, is researching a story on the racial tensions in the Muslim community. After witnessing a hostile race-related mishap on the street, she wanted to take a closer look at the circumstances underlying Bradfield's racial problems. Then she learns about the case of Saira Khan, a gifted student from a Muslim family who has gone missing and her story takes off, plunging her right into the middle of an escalating crisis. As both industrial and race relations reach the boiling point, Patricia Hall is at the top of her game in this gripping and emotional novel.

Dead Reckoning

Friedemann Sallis

Associate Professor of Music Theory Patricia Hall

This indispensable handbook explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts.

A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches

The dark of the night. Two girls are running for their lives. Terrified, one falls and, unable to get up, she forces her friend to go on without her, to save herself. For her, there is no escape as their attackers close in... When the body of an unidentified young girl is found in the canal, DCI Thakeray is put on the case. Meanwhile, Thackeray's girlfriend, Laura Ackroyd, is reporting on the controversial appointment of a female chairman at the town's football club. It seems some people are prepared to stoop to any depths to force her out. Thackeray and Ackroyd soon suspect their two inquiries are linked, but as Laura becomes more involved in her case, does she risk putting Thackeray's job - and her life - in danger?

Death in a Far Country

False Witness scrutinizes racial tension within the police force and in the local community

False Witness

Kate O'Donnell pursues a career in photography and searches for her missing brother Tom, who may have been involved in the murder of his gay roommate, with police officer Harry Barnard in 1960s London.

Dead Beat

"Hall was the first to study this material whole and in such depth; the result of her study remains an important, and in many ways path-breaking, piece of work."--Douglas Jarman, author of The Music of Alban Berg

A View of Berg's Lulu Through the Autograph Sources

A past crime causes new murder in the latest intriguing Kate O’Donnell mystery 1964. Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray Robertson, who hasn’t been seen for several days. The case takes on a greater urgency when a battered body is discovered at the gym Ray owns. Is Ray the killer ... or is he a victim? Photographer Kate O’Donnell meanwhile is working on a feature about the regeneration of Canvey Island, finally being rebuilt after the devastating East Coast floods of 1953. But as Kate and Harry are about to discover, the Canvey Island floods, the murder and Ray Robertson’s disappearance are connected in more ways than one ...

Deep Waters

The fanciful postcards, compiled from Raggedy Ann and More: Johnny Gruelle's Dolls and Merchandise, contain several previously unpublished images and show some of the rarest merchandise known to exist. The book depicts many of the most loved and sought-after creations of Johhny Gruelle.

Raggedy Ann and Andy Postcard Book

1964. A woman's found dead. Assuming she's a prostitute, DCI Jackson wants to dismiss the case. DS Harry Barnard disagrees.Harry's partner, Kate, works on a magazine feature about Liverpool. Harry's investigations point to a cover-up and Kate uncovers a darker side to Liverpool - are they getting into something too deep for them to handle?

Cover Up

C. Kurt Dewhurst

Charlie Seemann

This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.

Twenty-First Century Perspectives

Folklife and Museums

Stepping over the threshold of a once-happy family home turned charnel house, DCI Michael Thackeray knows he'll be faced with a grim sight. After all his years in the force, he's come to realise that you can never truly become inured to the sight of death. Especially when there are children involved. On entering the kitchen he is faced with the unthinkable: the bloodstained bodies of a mother and her young child. Outside the horror continues; a trail of crimson in the white snow leads them to another victim. With the father, Gordon Christie, and his son missing, the police come to the inevitable conclusion that this cruel tragedy is the result of a domestic row turned violent. But are things really that simple? Laura Ackroyd, Thackeray's journalist lover, thinks not, and she soon begins to wonder just who the absent Gordon Christie really is. As things fall apart, Laura and Thackeray become tangled in carefully constructed layers of mystery, and their lives hang in the balance as the full tragedy of the elusive Gordon Christie is eventually uncovered...

Sins of the Fathers

A tense and gripping mystery set in 1960s London and Liverpool - When photographer Kate O'Donnell takes off for London from swinging Liverpool she has two things in mind: to make a career and to track down her missing older brother. But when she does find a trace of Tom, he's still missing - leaving behind a dead flatmate and some very suspicious cops, including Harry Barnard of the vice squad. Kate determines to clear her brother's name, but her investigations take her on a terrifying journey, and soon she isn't sure if even the charming Barnard can be trusted . . .

Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Büchner's play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complete his opera until 1922, with the Berlin premiere taking place in 1925. Using compositional sketches, diaries, notebooks and other archival material, Hall reveals the challenges Berg faced in completing his masterpiece.

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