Music: A View from Delft. Selected EssaysUniversity of Chicago Press, 24/04/1989 - 334 من الصفحات Included in these eighteen essays by Cone are his never-before-published essay, "The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants," the unabridged version of "Music: A View from Delft," an introduction to this collection by the author himself, and a complete bibliography of his published writings. "This selection of [Cone's] writings includes all the most incandescent and influential articles. We should have had such a book long ago."—Joseph Kerman, University of California at Berkeley Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for 1990 |
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الصفحة vii
... writer - with remarkable balance . One conse- quently senses the " complete musician " in everything he writes . His is not the work of someone interested in abstraction and obfuscation , but of a musician concerned with the flesh and ...
... writer - with remarkable balance . One conse- quently senses the " complete musician " in everything he writes . His is not the work of someone interested in abstraction and obfuscation , but of a musician concerned with the flesh and ...
الصفحة viii
... writing . In general , the essays were chosen according to two essentially contradictory criteria . Some are included because they are so well known and so frequently cited as to be imme- diately associated with the author ( e.g. ...
... writing . In general , the essays were chosen according to two essentially contradictory criteria . Some are included because they are so well known and so frequently cited as to be imme- diately associated with the author ( e.g. ...
الصفحة ix
... writer , composer , and pianist , he has provided a remarkably individual , and unmistakably creative , voice . Mr. Cone's own contribution to the editing of this volume has been considerable , ranging from advice on the choice of ...
... writer , composer , and pianist , he has provided a remarkably individual , and unmistakably creative , voice . Mr. Cone's own contribution to the editing of this volume has been considerable , ranging from advice on the choice of ...
الصفحة 1
... writing , alongside composition and performance , as important compo- nents of my calling . Moreover , he was not like those academic adminis- trators who , realizing their own inadequacies as creators or scholars , surround themselves ...
... writing , alongside composition and performance , as important compo- nents of my calling . Moreover , he was not like those academic adminis- trators who , realizing their own inadequacies as creators or scholars , surround themselves ...
الصفحة 2
... writing but also the analysis of music . Sessions , unlike many composers of his day , believed in the value of analysis ; but unlike many analysts , he used it as a practical tool , not as the support of a theoretical superstructure ...
... writing but also the analysis of music . Sessions , unlike many composers of his day , believed in the value of analysis ; but unlike many analysts , he used it as a practical tool , not as the support of a theoretical superstructure ...
المحتوى
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 |
Music and Words | 113 |
The Composers Approach to the Text | 115 |
The Late Bagatelles | 179 |
Schuberts Unfinished Business | 201 |
The Music of Berlioz | 217 |
An Introduction to Schoenbergs Harmony | 249 |
Weberns Apprenticeship | 267 |
Stravinsky and His Models | 281 |
The Progress of a Method | 293 |
The Contribution of Roger Sessions | 303 |
The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants | 125 |
The Grande messe des morts | 139 |
Verdis Last Operas | 159 |
Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Masters | 177 |
A Chronological Bibliography | 323 |
Acknowledgments | 327 |
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