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Title

Hans Keller : essays on music / edited byChristopher Wintle with Bayan Northcott and Irene Samuel.

Author

Keller, Hans, 1919-1985.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Wintle, Christopher.
• Northcott, Bayan.
• Samuel, Irene, 1955-

Description

xx, 269 pages : illustrations, music; 26 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• Music > History and criticism

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• 1. Problems in Writing about Music (1969) -- 2. Resistances to Britten's Music: Their Psychology (1950) -- 3. National Frontiers in Music (1954) -- 4. Sport and Art: the Concept of Mastery (1969) -- 5. Music and Psychopathology (1971) -- 6. Art as Departure (Haydn) (1980) -- 7. New Music: Beethoven's Choral Fantasy (1961) -- 8. Schubert: Tune and Melody (1978) -- 9. Little-known Greatness (Mendelssohn and Mozart) (1980) -- 10. Schumann was a Symphonist (1971) -- 11. Tristan and the Realism of Adolescence (Wagner) (1958) -- 12. Resistances to Brahms (1978) -- 13. Elgar the Progressive (1957) -- 14. The Unpopularity of Mahler's Popularity (1971) -- 15. The Sentimental Violin (Glazunov) (1972) -- 16. The 'Lucky' Hand and Other Errors (Schoenberg) (1957) -- 17. Natural Master (Schmidt) (1984) -- 18. Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw (1951) -- 19. Film Music: the Harry Lime Theme (Karas and Weill) (1951) -- 20. Matyas Seiber 1905-1960 -- 21. Gloriana as Music Drama: a Reaffirmation (Britten) (1966).
• 22. Shostakovich's Twelfth Quartet (1970) -- 23. Stravinsky v. Stravinsky (1971) -- 24. The State of the Symphony: not only Maxwell Davies's (1978) -- 25. Britten's Last Masterpiece (1979) -- 26. The Man and the Music (Simpson) (1981) -- 27. Towards a Theory of Music (1970) -- 28. The Musical Analysis of Music (1957) -- 29. Functional Analysis No. 9A: Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor, K 310 (1959) -- 30. A Slip of Mozart's: Its Analytical Significance (1956/57) -- 31. Knowing Things Backwards (1958) -- 32. Mozart's Wrong Key Signature (1972) -- 33. Key Characteristics (1956) -- 34. Strict Serial Technique in Classical Music (1955) -- 35. Schoenberg: The Future of Symphonic Thought (1974) -- 36. Whose Fault is the Speaking Voice? (1965) -- 37. Why This Piece is about Billy Budd (1972) -- 38. Rhythm: Gershwin and Stravinsky (1957) -- 39. Principles of Composition (1960).

ISBN

0521462169 (hc)

LCCN

93044291

OCLC

ocm29357745

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries