Variations On The Canon (Eastman Studies In Music Vol. 58)
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Description:
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 the living 'canonical' repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challen...
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 the living 'canonical' repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challen...
Description:
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 the living '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. The contributors include 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 principal of 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; and Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
Review:
Variations on the Canon is written in honor of Charles Rosen, whose life -- as pianist, writer, critic, music historian -- has been devoted to the furtherance and appreciation of music. In Mozart's time, such achievement might have been marked by an instrumental serenade, including an assembly of musicians, a grand walk, a performance in the open air or in an auditorium. Nowadays we celebrate with words and music -- or with words about music. Variations on the Canon is one of the great collections of musical essays, bringing together a brilliant phalanx of contributors offering their best work in as fine a collection of writings on music as has been created in our time. -- Maynard Solomon, author of Mozart: A Life, and Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination It is hard to imagine a more vivid testimony to the far-reaching and enduring impact of Charles Rosen's musical thoughts, words, and deeds over the last half century than the extraordinary line-up of scholars assembled in these pages. The copious new insights these essays offer shows how much we can learn through encounters with Rosen's provocative, inspiring, and energizing writings and performances, all usefully cataloged in the extensive discography and bibliography. -- Joseph Auner, Tufts University, author of A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life
Author Biography:
Robert Curry is Principal of 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 Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
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 the living '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. The contributors include 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 principal of 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; and Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
Review:
Variations on the Canon is written in honor of Charles Rosen, whose life -- as pianist, writer, critic, music historian -- has been devoted to the furtherance and appreciation of music. In Mozart's time, such achievement might have been marked by an instrumental serenade, including an assembly of musicians, a grand walk, a performance in the open air or in an auditorium. Nowadays we celebrate with words and music -- or with words about music. Variations on the Canon is one of the great collections of musical essays, bringing together a brilliant phalanx of contributors offering their best work in as fine a collection of writings on music as has been created in our time. -- Maynard Solomon, author of Mozart: A Life, and Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination It is hard to imagine a more vivid testimony to the far-reaching and enduring impact of Charles Rosen's musical thoughts, words, and deeds over the last half century than the extraordinary line-up of scholars assembled in these pages. The copious new insights these essays offer shows how much we can learn through encounters with Rosen's provocative, inspiring, and energizing writings and performances, all usefully cataloged in the extensive discography and bibliography. -- Joseph Auner, Tufts University, author of A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life
Author Biography:
Robert Curry is Principal of 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 Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
| Autor | Curry, Robert; Gable, David; Marshall, Robert L. |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2008 |
| Kirjastus | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Köide | Kõvakaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 395 |
| Pikkus | 231 |
| Laius | 231 |
| Keel | American English |
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