Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New Softcover - 2000
by Rosen, Charles
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- Paperback
- first
This collection of essays by gifted musician and writer Rosen covers a broad range of musical forms, historical periods, and issues. They court controversy and offer enlightenment on subjects as diverse as music dictionaries and the aesthetics of stage fright.
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Details
- Title Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New
- Author Rosen, Charles
- Binding softcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Fine copy
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 2000
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS103094I
- ISBN 9780674006843 / 0674006844
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.24 x 0.88 in (22.86 x 15.85 x 2.24 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99088602
- Dewey Decimal Code 780
From the jacket flap
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.
