Musicology and performance / Paul Henry Lang ; edited by Alfred Mann and George J. Buelow.

Author/creator Lang, Paul Henry
Other author Mann, Alfred, 1917-2006 editor.
Other author Buelow, George J., editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxii, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.
Musicology.
Performance practice (Music)

Contents Foreword / by Christoph Wolff -- Introduction -- On musicology. Musicology and musical letters -- Musicology and related disciplines -- Music and history -- From an editorial -- Music past and present: an epilogue -- New thoughts on old music. 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 -- Music in twentieth-century civilization. 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 -- On performance practice. 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.
Abstract Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, the author 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, the author became one of America's foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of music subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death.
General noteConsists of published and unpublished essays.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96039636
ISBN0300068050 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Music Music Stacks ML60 .L2362 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold