Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New Paperback - 2001
by Charles Rosen
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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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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- Title Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New
- Author Charles Rosen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-10-20
- 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
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