Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Musicology.
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Performance practice (Music)
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Descript |
1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Descript |
data file |
Note |
Consists of published and unpublished essays. |
Contents |
Foreword / by Christoph Wolff -- Introduction -- On musicology. Musicology and musical letters -- Musicology and related disciplines -- Music and history -- From an editorial -- Music past and present: an epilogue -- New thoughts on old music. Palestrina across the centuries: a review -- Purcell -- Bach: artist and poet -- On Handel scholarship: an introduction for a symposium -- Bach and Handel: ancillary rivals -- Pergolesi -- Mozart -- Beethoven -- Wagner: the master of Tristan -- Music in twentieth-century civilization. Dodecaphony -- Marxist theory and music -- Stravinsky -- Bartok at Columbia University -- A tribute to music scholarship at mid-century -- Devotional music at mid-century -- The film Amadeus -- A music master for the White House -- Menace of the machine -- On performance practice. From the preface for a book on performance practice -- Authenticity -- Performance practice and the voice -- Period instruments -- Ornamentation and improvisation -- Allegory and symbolism in music. |
Note |
English. |
Alt author |
Mann, Alfred, 1917-2006, editor.
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Buelow, George J., editor.
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ISBN |
9780300146394 (electronic bk.) |
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0300146396 (electronic bk.) |
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0300068050 |
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9780300068054 |
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