Edition |
1st pbk. version. |
Description |
xx, 269 pages : music ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-264) and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Criticism. Problems in writing about music -- Resistances to Britten's music : their psychology -- National frontiers in music -- Sport and art: the concept of mastery -- Music and psychopathology. |
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pt. 2. Composers and their music. Art as departure (Haydn) -- New music : Beethoven's Choral fantasy -- Schubert : tune and melody -- Little known greatness (Mendelssohn and Mozart) -- Schumann was a symphonist -- Tristan and the realism of adolescence (Wagner) -- Resistances to Brahms -- Elgar the progressive -- The unpopularity of Mahler's popularity -- The sentimental violin (Glazounov) -- The 'Lucky' hand and other errors (Schoenberg) -- Natural master (Schmidt) -- Schoenberg : A survivor from Warsaw -- Film music : The Harry Lime theme (Karas and Weill) -- Mátyás Seiber 1905 1960 -- Gloriana as music drama (a reaffirmation) (Britten) -- Shostakovich's Twelfth quartet -- Stravinsky v. Stravinsky -- The state of the symphony : not only Maxwell Davies's -- Britten's last masterpiece -- The man and the music (Simpson). |
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pt. 3. Towards a theory of music. Towards a theory of music -- The musical analysis of music -- Functional analysis No. 9A : Mozart's Piano sonata in A minor, K 310 -- A slip of Mozart's : its analytical significance (1956/57) -- Knowing things backwards -- Mozart's wrong key signature -- Key characteristics -- Strict serial technique in classical music -- Schoenberg : the future of symphonic thought -- Whose fault is the speaking voice? -- Why this piece is about Billy Budd -- Rhythm : Gershwin and Stravinsky -- Principles of composition. |
Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
Added Author |
Wintle, Christopher, editor.
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Northcott, Bayan, editor.
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Samuel, Irene, 1955- editor.
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Added Title |
Essays. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93108710
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ISBN |
0521673488 paperback |
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9780521673488 paperback |
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