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Music, a view from Delft : selected essays / Edward T. Cone ; edited by Robert P. Morgan.
LIBRA ML60.C773 M9 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cone, Edward T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 334 pages : music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- PrefaceIntroduction1. Aesthetics, Criticism, and AnalysisMusic: A View from DelftMusical Theory as a Humanistic DisciplineAnalysis TodayBeyond AnalysisThree Ways of Reading a Detective Story--Or a Brahms IntermezzoThe Authority of Music Criticism2. Music and WordsWords into Music: The Composer's Approach to the TextThe World of Opera and Its InhabitantsBerlioz's Divine Comedy: The Grande messe des mortsThe Old Man's Toys: Verdi's Last Operas3. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century MastersBeethoven's Experiments in Composition: The Late BagatellesSchubert's Unfinished BusinessInside the Saint's Head: The Music of BerliozSound and Syntax: An Introduction to Schoenberg's HarmonyWebern's ApprenticeshipThe Uses of Convention: Stravinsky and His ModelsStravinsky: The Progress of a MethodIn Defense of Song: The Contribution of Roger SessionsEdward T. Cone: A Chronological BibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
- Contents:
- 1 Aesthetics, Criticism, and Analysis
- Music: A View from Delft 13
- Musical Theory as a Humanistic Discipline 29
- Analysis Today 39
- Beyond Analysis 55
- Three Ways of Reading a Detective Story
- Or a Brahms Intermezzo 77
- The Authority of Music Criticism 95
- 2 Music and Words
- Words into Music: The Composer's Approach to the Text 115
- The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants 125
- Berlioz's Divine Comedy: The Grande messe des morts 139
- The Old Man's Toys: Verdi's Last Operas 159
- 3 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Masters
- Beethoven's Experiments in Composition: The Late Bagatelles 179
- Schubert's Unfinished Business 201
- Inside the Saint's Head: The Music of Berlioz 217
- Sound and Syntax: An Introduction to Schoenberg's Harmony 249
- Webern's Apprenticeship 267
- The Uses of Convention: Stravinsky and His Models 281
- Stravinsky: The Progress of a Method 293
- In Defense of Song: The Contribution of Roger Sessions 303.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 323-326.
- ISBN:
- 0226114694
- 0226114708
- OCLC:
- 18290659
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