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Music at the limits
- Title
- Music at the limits / Edward W. Said.
- Author
- Said, Edward W.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xiii, 325 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The Eighties -- 1. The Music Itself: Glenn Gould's Contrapuntal Vision -- 2. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in The Pianist's Art -- 3. Pomp and Circumstance (on Musical Festivals) -- 4. On Richard Strauss -- 5. Die Walkure, Aida, X -- 6. Music and Feminism -- 7. Maestro for the Masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) -- 8. Middle Age and Performers -- 9. The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos -- 10. The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni -- 11. Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum -- 12. Giulio Cesare -- 13. Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung -- 14. Extreme Occasions (on Celibidache) -- 15. Peter Sellars's Mozart -- 16. Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall -- Pt. II. The Nineties -- 17. Richard Strauss -- 18. Wagner and the Met's Ring -- 19. Opera Productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the Dead, Doctor Faust) -- 20. Style and Stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) -- 21. Alfred Brendel: Words for Music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts) -- 22. Die Tote Stadt, Fidelia, The Death of Klinghoffer -- 23. Uncertainties of Style (The Ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) -- 24. Musical Retrospection -- 25. The Bard Festival -- 26. The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner -- 27. Music as Gesture (on Solti) -- 28. Les Troyens -- 29. Child's Play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life) -- 30. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould -- 31. Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift (review of Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation) -- 32. Why Listen to Boulez? -- 33. Hindemith and Mozart -- 34. Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner -- 35. In the Chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the Tragedy of Genius) -- 36. On Fidelio -- 37. Music and Spectacle (La Cenerentola and The Rake's Progress) -- 38. Review of Gottfried Wagner's He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy - An Autobiography -- 39. Bach for the Masses -- Pt. III. 2000 and Beyond -- 40. Daniel Barenboim (Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries) -- 41. Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual -- 42. Cosmic Ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician) -- 43. Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo -- 44. Untimely Meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven).
- ISBN
- 9780231139366 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231139365 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231511551 (electronic)
- 0231511558 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2007002276
- OCLC
- ocm80020003
- SCSB-14489342
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries