An extraordinarily gifted musician and writer, Charles Rosen is a
peerless commentator on the history and performance of music.
Critical Entertainments brings together many of the essays that
have established him as one of the most influential and eloquent
voices in the field of music in our time.
These essays cover a broad range of musical forms, historical
periods, and issues -- from Bach through Brahms to Carter and
Schoenberg, from contrapuntal keyboard music to opera, from
performance practices to music history as a discipline. They
revisit Rosen's favorite subjects and pursue some less familiar
paths. They court controversy (with strong opinions about
performance on historical instruments, the so-called New
Musicology, and the alleged "death" of classical music) and offer
enlightenment on subjects as diverse as music dictionaries and the
aesthetics of stage fright. All are unified by Rosen's abiding
concerns and incomparable style. In sum, Critical Entertainments is
a treasury of the vast learning, wit, and insight that we have come
to expect from this remarkable writer. It will delight all music
lovers.
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