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For the love of music : invitations to listening / Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009, author.
- Rothe, Larry, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music appreciation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Articulate and impassioned, sophisticated but never esoteric, Steinberg and Rother offer invigorating reflections on music that will delight both the beginning and the seasoned listener.
- Contents:
- Beginnings. How I fell in love with music ; Preliminary : the professor's legacy
- Creators. Another word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The sacred, the profane, and the gritty affirmations of music ; Franz Schubert, a rich possession ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and the great tradition ; First-rate second-class composer ; Sibelius and Mahler : what more could there be? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold : a meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and others) ; On the trail of W.A. Mozart ; What they saw ; A short life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's ear-stretching, joy-giving legacy
- The recent scene. A visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle : composing a way of life ; A quintet for American music ; Three American composers in pursuit of the white whale ; A century set to music
- Missionaries. Making America musical : a salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, someone you should know ; Isaac Stern on music and life ; B.H. Haggin the contrarian
- Affairs to remember. Loving memories of movie music ; Vienna trilogy : vignettes from the city of music ; Music, true or false ; Why we are here
- Postlude. The sounds we make.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772792-1
- 0-19-983976-X
- 1-280-83848-5
- 0-19-803673-6
- 1-4294-2057-X
- OCLC:
- 609830282
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