Words on music : essays in honor of Andrew Porter on the occasion of his 75th birthday / edited by David Rosen and Claire Brook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Andrew, 1928-2015.

Rosen, David, 1938-

Brook, Claire.

Series:

Festschrift series ; no. 20.

Festschrift series ; no. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Porter, Andrew, 1928-2015.

Porter, Andrew.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 346 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, [2003]

Contents:

A Birthday Greeting / Elliott Carter ii

An Appreciation / Stanley Sadie, Joseph Kerman vii

Sibelius and the Kalevala / John Allison 1

The Literary Afterlife of Die Zauberflote / Peter Branscombe 14

Don Carlos: the four-note matrix / Julian Budden 30

Corteccia's Motets for the Medici Marriages of 1558 / Frank D'Accone 36

Handel's Giustino, A Janus Opera? / Winton Dean 74

Royal Palace and its Critics / David Drew 91

Piracy in Venice: The Selling of Semiramide / Philip Gossett 120

Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide / Daniel Heartz 138

The Three Chapters of the Orpheus Myth / Owen Jander 152

From Casti to Capriccio: Strauss's Theatrical Fugue / Michael Kennedy 171

A (Bach) Motet for Andrew / Joseph Kerman 192

"An island entire of it self:" Gluck's Telemaco / Max Loppert 199

The Making of Gerontius / Diana McVeagh 207

Anglo-New Yorker. a review / Jeremy Noble 225

Enigmatic Variation / George Perle 229

Handel and the Shepherds of Ansbach / John H. Roberts 230

Let Us Remember / Ned Rorem 256

Dopo una lunga quarantena: Cavalli, Melosio, and L'Orione / Ellen Rosand 259

Tempo as a Structural Element in Verdi's Operas? / David Rosen 284

Unknown Words and Music, 1939- 44 by Stravinsky for Dr: Alexis Kall / H. Colin Slim 300

Two Meyerbeer Letters / Patrick J. Smith 320.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1576470970

1576470911

OCLC:

53331628