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The Art Of Music And Other Essays
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Author : Hector Berlioz
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1994-06-22
The Art Of Music And Other Essays written by Hector Berlioz and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-22 with Music categories.
A Travers Chants is the collection of writings selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China.
The Danger Of Music And Other Anti Utopian Essays
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Author : Richard Taruskin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-12-02
The Danger Of Music And Other Anti Utopian Essays written by Richard Taruskin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-02 with Music categories.
The Danger of Music gathers some two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics, ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers such as the New York Times to full-scale critical essays for leading intellectual journals. Hard-hitting, provocative, and incisive, these essays consider contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and the fraught terrain where ethics and aesthetics interact and at times conflict. Many of the works collected here have themselves excited wide debate, including the title essay, which considers the rights and obligations of artists in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In a series of lively postscripts written especially for this volume, Taruskin, America's "public" musicologist, addresses the debates he has stirred up by insisting that art is not a utopian escape and that artists inhabit the same world as the rest of society. Among the book's forty-two essays are two public addresses—one about the prospects for classical music at the end of the second millennium C. E., the other a revisiting of the performance issues previously discussed in the author's Text and Act (1995)—that appear in print for the first time.
Judaism In Music And Other Essays
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Judaism In Music And Other Essays written by Richard Wagner and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Music categories.
Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. The letters and essays collected in Judaism in Music and Other Essays were published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser, " written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism, " an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and "Music of the Future." This volume concludes with letters to friends about the intent and performance of his great operas; estimations of Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz, and others; and suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. The Bison Book edition includes the full text of volume 3 of William Ashton Ellis's 1894 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Music Language And Cognition
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Author : Peter Kivy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007
Music Language And Cognition written by Peter Kivy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Music categories.
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Musicians And Music Lovers And Other Essays
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Author : William Foster Apthorp
language : en
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Release Date : 1894
Musicians And Music Lovers And Other Essays written by William Foster Apthorp and has been published by New York : C. Scribner's sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Composers categories.
Musical Understandings
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Author : Stephen Davies
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-08-25
Musical Understandings written by Stephen Davies and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with Philosophy categories.
Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of music, written by Stephen Davies—one of the most distinguished philosophers in the field. He explores a range of topics in the philosophy of music, including how music expresses emotion and what is distinctive to the listener's response to this expressiveness; the modes of perception and understanding that can be expected of skilled listeners, performers, analysts, and composers and the various manners in which these understandings can be manifest; the manner in which musical works exist and their relation to their instances or performances; and musical profundity. As well as reviewing the work of philosophers of music, a number of the chapters both draw on and critically reflect on current work by psychologists concerning music. The collection includes new material, a number of adapted articles which allow for a more comprehensive, unified treatment of the issues at stake, and work published in English for the first time.
Music As A Humanity
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Author : Daniel Gregory Mason
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-12
Music As A Humanity written by Daniel Gregory Mason and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with Music categories.
Excerpt from Music as a Humanity: And Other Essays These essays, published in various magazines during recent years, are here reprinted with but slight changes. In some cases, as in the accounts of the first three festivals of chamber music at Pittsfield, it seemed desirable to preserve first impressions just as they were received and expressed at the time, since whatever value the papers may have will be largely historical. The same thing is true of "A Society for Publication," "A Practical Suggestion," and "Music Patronage as an Art." The essays in the third division, "Of Æsthetics and Psychology," have been suggested, all but two, by books or articles which date them with some exactitude. Thus that on Vernon Lee has been reprinted substantially as it appeared in 1906. The idea of "A Note on Tonal Chiaroscuro" is due to a conversation with Mr. Leopold Stokowski, whose conducting is so beautiful in its adjustment of values. "An International Language," written for the American Association for International Conciliation before the war (June, 1913), retains now, it is hoped, any value it may have had then. The need for international sympathy is greater than ever, and it is now clearer than it was in 1913 that the way to political cooperation must be slowly and patiently opened up by art, literature, and other super-national interests, among which music has an important place. Acknowledgment of courteous permission to reprint is hereby made to the American Association for International Conciliation, Arts and Decoration, the Atlantic Monthly, the Columbia University Quarterly, the Harvard Musical Review, the Musical Quarterly (Schirmer), the New Music Review, the New Republic, and the Outlook. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Main Stream Of Music
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Author : Donald Francis Tovey
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1949
The Main Stream Of Music written by Donald Francis Tovey and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Music categories.
Freedom And The Arts
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Author : Charles Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-21
Freedom And The Arts written by Charles Rosen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-21 with Music categories.
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
A Critical Study Of Beethoven S Nine Symphonies With A Few Words On His Trios And Sonatas A Criticism Of Fidelio And An Introductory Essay On Music
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Author : Hector Berlioz
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
A Critical Study Of Beethoven S Nine Symphonies With A Few Words On His Trios And Sonatas A Criticism Of Fidelio And An Introductory Essay On Music written by Hector Berlioz and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Music categories.
A daring composer in his own right, Hector Berlioz made a considerable reputation and a modest living for himself writing about music. This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.