The Art of Music and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Music and Other Essays write by Hector Berlioz. This book was released on 1994-06-22. The Art of Music and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China.
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays write by Richard Taruskin. This book was released on 2010-11-11. The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.
Freedom and the Arts
Freedom and the Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom and the Arts write by Charles Rosen. This book was released on 2012-05-21. Freedom and the Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
Art and Music in the Early Modern Period
Art and Music in the Early Modern Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Music in the Early Modern Period write by KatherineA. McIver. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Art and Music in the Early Modern Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relationship between music and painting in the Early Modern period is the focus of this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished art historians and musicologists. Each writer takes a multidisciplinary approach as he or she explores the interface between music performance and painting, or between music and art theory. The essays reflect a variety and range of approaches and offer methodologies which might usefully be employed in future research in this field. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Franca Trinchieri Camiz, an art historian who worked extensively on topics related to art and music, and who participated in some of the conference panels from which many of these essays originate. Three of Professor Camiz's own essays are included in the final section of this volume, together with a bibliography of her writings in this field. They are preceded by two thematic groups of essays covering aspects of musical imagery in portraits, issues in iconography and theory, and the relationship between music and art in religious imagery.
Musical Understandings
Musical Understandings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Understandings write by Stephen Davies. This book was released on 2011-08-25. Musical Understandings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays by Stephen Davies on the philosophy of music. He explores a range of topics, including how music expresses emotion, modes of perception, and musical profundity. The volume includes original material, newly revised articles, and work published in English for the first time.
