Musicology and Performance / David R. Mayhew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayhew, David R., Author.

Contributor:

Mann, Alfred, 1917-2006.

Buelow, George J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Musicology.

Performance practice (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death.Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue ofauthenticity in performance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Musicology and Musical Letters

Musicology and Related Disciplines

Music and History

From an Editorial

Music Past and Present: An Epilogue

Palestrina across the Centuries: A Review

Purcell

Bach: Artist and Poet

On Handel Scholarship: An Introduction for a Symposium

Bach and Handel: Ancillary Rivals

Pergolesi

Mozart

Beethoven

Wagner: The Master of Tristan

Dodecaphony

Marxist Theory and Music

Stravinsky

Bartok at Columbia University

A Tribute to Music Scholarship at Mid-Century

Devotional Music at Mid-Century

The Film Amadeus

A Music Master for the White House

Menace of the Machine

From the Preface for a Book on Performance Practice

Authenticity

Performance Practice and the Voice

Period Instruments

Ornamentation and Improvisation

Allegory and Symbolism in Music

Postscript

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300146394

0300146396

OCLC:

861792749