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Essays on music / Hans Keller ; edited by Christopher Wintle with Bayan Northcott and Irene Samuel.
- Title
- Essays on music / Hans Keller ; edited by Christopher Wintle with Bayan Northcott and Irene Samuel.
- Author
- Keller, Hans, 1919-1985
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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- Description
- xx, 269 p. : music; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Music > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-264) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Criticism. Problems in writing about music -- Resistances to Britten's music : their psychology -- National frontiers in music -- Sport and art: the concept of mastery -- Music and psychopathology.
- pt. 2. Composers and their music. Art as departure (Haydn) -- New music : Beethoven's Choral fantasy -- Schubert : tune and melody -- Little known greatness (Mendelssohn and Mozart) -- Schumann was a symphonist -- Tristan and the realism of adolescence (Wagner) -- Resistances to Brahms -- Elgar the progressive -- The unpopularity of Mahler's popularity -- The sentimental violin (Glazounov) -- The 'Lucky' hand and other errors (Schoenberg) -- Natural master (Schmidt) -- Schoenberg : A survivor from Warsaw -- Film music : The Harry Lime theme (Karas and Weill) -- Mátyás Seiber 1905 1960 -- Gloriana as music drama (a reaffirmation) (Britten) -- Shostakovich's Twelfth quartet -- Stravinsky v. Stravinsky -- The state of the symphony : not only Maxwell Davies's -- Britten's last masterpiece -- The man and the music (Simpson).
- pt. 3. Towards a theory of music. Towards a theory of music -- The musical analysis of music -- Functional analysis No. 9A : Mozart's Piano sonata in A minor, K 310 -- A slip of Mozart's : its analytical significance (1956/57) -- Knowing things backwards -- Mozart's wrong key signature -- Key characteristics -- Strict serial technique in classical music -- Schoenberg : the future of symphonic thought -- Whose fault is the speaking voice? -- Why this piece is about Billy Budd -- Rhythm : Gershwin and Stravinsky -- Principles of composition.
- ISBN
- 0521673488 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006271446
- OCLC
- 69241889
- SCSB-12260616
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library