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Contemplating Music

Door Joseph Kerman

Contemplating Music
CategorieAlgemeen Muziek
Boeknummer#388848
TitelContemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology
AuteurKerman, Joseph
BoektypePaperback
UitgeverijCambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave1985
ISBN100674166787
ISBN139780674166783
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingPaperback, 8vo.
SamenvattingContemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale compendium of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years, a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joseph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music—with which musicology is traditionally equated—but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music toward a critical orientation. As examples, he presents fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950s and Beethoven studies in the 1960s. He sketches the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Milton Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster’s songs into the canons of “black” music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Contemplating Music is filled with wisdom and trenchant commentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.
Pagina's255
ConditieRedelijk — Underlinings on margins.
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