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Musicology and Performance

Door Paul Henry Lang

Categorie	Algemeen Muziek
Boeknummer	#411855-YB16
Titel	Musicology and Performance
Auteur	Lang, Paul Henry
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	0300068050
ISBN13	9780300068054
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, frontispiece, ediyted by Alfred Mann and George J. Buelow, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) 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, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowle... (Lees verder)dge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of authenticity in performance.
Pagina's	254
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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