The not quite innocent bystander : writings of Edward Steuermann / edited by Clara Steuermann, David Porter, and Gunther Schuller ; translations by Richard Cantwell and Charles Messner.

Author/creator Steuermann, Edward
Other author Steuermann, Clara.
Other author Porter, David H., 1935-2016
Other author Schuller, Gunther.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1989.
Descriptionxiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Biographical information. -- Edward Steuermann a chronology -- Edward Steuermann notes for a biography / Clara Steuermann -- Clara Steuermann notes for a biography / Rachel Steuermann -- Steuermann on composers and their compositions. -- Pierrot lunaire in retrospect -- Schoenberg piano music -- The piano music of Schoenberg -- Music of the future -- A great mind and a great heart -- Busoni piano music -- On Anton Webern and his music -- The possibilities and impossibilities of serial composition an unscientific inquiry -- On music in the 1950s and 1960s -- Steuermann on his own composing and compositions -- Steuermann on performance and interpretation. -- Convocation address -- Stage fright -- Concerning the tasks of the modern pianist -- The appropriateness of the piano for modern music -- Urtext and practical edition -- The picture puzzle -- Solving the puzzle notes on the interpretation of Schoenberg's six little piano pieces op 19 -- Does the style of musical interpretation change -- On music and change -- Musical hearing -- What is analysis -- Brief jottings -- New school lectures. -- Who has to be better -- How to practice -- Romanticism in music and the Kreisleriana -- Brahms's piano music -- Fragments -- On Edward Steuermann. -- A conversation with Steuermann / Gunther Schuller -- In quest of a star / David Porter -- A conversation with Russell Sherman / Gunther Schuller -- Edward Steuermann / Elliot Carter -- After Steuermann's death / Theodor W Adorno -- The silence of Edward Steuermann / Rene Leibowitz -- Edward Steuermann's musical works -- Index.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 89005293
ISBN0803241917 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML60 .S84513 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold