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Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born
Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence
on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more
than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia
University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the
American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New
York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical
scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously
uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career
on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished
chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at
the time of his death. Lang was concerned above all with
safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both
scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow
musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly
humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining
writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the
historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music,
and the controversial issue of authenticity in performance.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Essays On Music (Hardcover)
Alfred Einstein; Introduction by Paul Henry Lang
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Based on Dr. Lang s experience as music critic of the New York
Herald Tribune, this book preserves the immediate reactions of a
working reviewer, his on-the-spot responses to the actual
experience of theatrical productions, spanning the active repertory
from Gluck to the present day. It is at once an introduction to the
art of opera and a rich repository of perceptions about the
changing nature and esthetics of the musical theater. All of the
major composers are discussed: Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini,
Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Berg, and
Stravinsky. There are also chapters on opera buffa, verismo, French
opera, Russian opera, American opera, operetta, opera in English,
and opera in concert form."
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Santa Catharina Und Parana, Mit Rucksicht Auf Die Deutsche
Kolonisation 2 Henry Lange Paul Frohberg, 1885 History; Latin
America; South America; Brazil; Germans; History / General; History
/ Latin America / South America; Parana (Brazil: State); Rio Grande
do Sul (Brazil: State); Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil); Travel / South
America / General
More than any other of the classic masters of music except perhaps Bach, Mozart continues to be the subject of intensive investigation. Every phase of his career and output, the workings of his mind, and his relations with other composers are being studied by scholars in various countries. This collection of articles were written for the Musical Quarterly by internationally known authorities who examine various aspects of Mozart's style, his works, and his life. The introduction is an essay on the special nature of Mozart's genius. Erich Hartzmann leads us into the composer's workshop; Edward E. Lowinsky and Hans T. David analyze his rhythm and harmony; Nathan Broder describes the instrument for which the piano works were written; Ernst Fritz Schmid contrasts Mozrt's personality and output with those of his friend and older contemporary, Haydn; Friedrich Blume unravels the tangled skein of the creation of the requiem; Frederick W. Sternfeld establishes the relationship between Papageno's song and Bach's motet Singet dem Herren ein neues lied; Nathan Broder assesses A. E. Muller's Guide to the accurate performance of Mozartean Piano Concertos; and Otto Erich Deutsch investigates the errors and fallacies in Mozart biography.
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Essays on Music (Paperback)
Alfred Einstein; Introduction by Paul Henry Lang
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Alfred Einstein in Essays on Music brings his far-ranging
scholarship, his writing abilities, and his wit and humor to bear
on a variety of musical subjects, such as the mortality of opera,
early concert life, words and music, Strauss and Hoffmansthal,
Wagner and Ludwig II, Opus I and Opus Ultimum of many famous
composers, together with a series of essays on Mozart. With his
sharp eye for problems and an uncanny instinct for their solutions,
Dr. Einstein has here made not only significant additions to
musical letters, but also enjoyable and rewarding reading for the
music lover.
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