Screen LibraryCritical entertainments：music old and new
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | 2000. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 328 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0674177304 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J605 |
| CLC: | J605 |
| Call Number: | J605/R813-1 |
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Includes index. The aesthetics of stage fright -- The discipline of philology : Oliver Strunk -- Keyboard music of Bach and Handel -- The rediscovering of Haydn -- Describing Mozart -- Beaumarchais : inventor of modern opera -- Radical, conventional Mozart -- Beethoven's career -- Brahms : influence, plagiarism, and inspiration -- Brahms, the subversive -- Brahms : Classicism and the inspiration of awkwardness -- The benefits of authenticity -- Dictionaries : the old Harvard -- Dictionaries : the new Grove's -- The new musicology -- Schoenberg : the possibilities of disquiet -- The performance of contempora 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. |