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Unfinished music / Richard Kramer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Richard, 1938- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Psychological aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Composition (Music)--Psychological aspects.
- Composition (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 405 p.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- '...the work is the death mask of its conception'. From the riddling aphorism by Walter Benjamin with which the book opens, 'Unfinished Music' explores with subtle insight the uneasy relationship between the finished work and the elusive, provocative traces of the imponderable labours buried in its past.
- Contents:
- First things
- Emanuel Bach and the allure of the irrational
- Between enlightenment and romance
- Beethoven : confronting the past
- Fragments
- Death masks.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-398) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772953-3
- 1-281-34216-5
- 0-19-988682-2
- 9786611342166
- 0-19-804380-5
- OCLC:
- 213393370
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