Sound judgment : selected essays / by Richard Leppert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leppert, Richard D.

Series:

Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology

Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Aurality. On reading Adorno hearing Schubert (2005) ; Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo (2007) ; Everybody's lonesome for somebody : age, the body, and experience in the music of Hank Williams (1990) / [co-authored with George Lipsitz] ; Gender sonics : the voice of Patsy Cline (forthcoming, 2008)

Visuality. The prodigal son : Teniers and Ghezzi (1974) ; Concert in a house : musical iconography and musical thought (1979) ; Imagery, musical confrontation and cultural difference in early l8th-century London (1986) ; Male agony : awakening conscience (1993) ; The musician of the imagination (2004)

Practice. Music teachers of upper-class amateur musicians in eighteenth-century England (1985) ; Music and the body : dance, power, submission (1988)

Utopia. Nature and exile : Adorno, Mahler, and the appropriation of kitsch (2005) ; Four hands, once again / [by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Jonathan Wipplinger] (2005) ; Four hands, three hearts : a commentary (2005) ; Music pushed to the edge of existence (Adorno, listening, and the question of hope) (2005).

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754626831

0754626830

OCLC:

123377321