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Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles
Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi,
and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is
perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past
half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is
encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on theliving "canonical"
repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness
and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging
work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the
world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such
issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and
modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close
examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language
and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music.
However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on
the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the
modern Western musical tradition. Contributors: Pierre Boulez,
Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David
Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard
Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras,
Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian
Rushton, David Schulenberg, Laszlo Somfai, Leo Treitler, James
Webster, and Robert Winter. Robert Curry is principalof the
Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is
Assistant Professor of Music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L.
Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus
of Music at Brandeis University.
Elliott Carter (b.1908) is now generally acknowledged as America's
most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays
and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows
his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing
in parallel with his career as a composer; his reputation became
established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an
important and knowledgeable commentary on the course of American
and European music in the succeeding decades. Carter's articles on
his own music have become classic texts for students of his oeuvre;
he also writes on the state of new music in Europe and the United
States and the relations between music and the other arts. Other
pieces range from a consideration of aspects of music to the work
of individual composers. As a whole, the collection is the
expression of Carter's musical philosophy, and a valuable record
for historians of modern music.
Additional Authors Include W. H. Mellers, Aaron Copland, E. Power
Biggs And Others. Edited By Minna Lederman.
Additional Authors Include W. H. Mellers, Aaron Copland, E. Power
Biggs And Others. Edited By Minna Lederman.
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