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Joseph Kerman - Write All These Down: Essays on Music - 9780520213777 - V9780520213777
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Write All These Down: Essays on Music

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Description for Write All These Down: Essays on Music Paperback. A selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute" and "Tristan and Isolde". Num Pages: 359 pages, 80 music examples, 3 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
If one name stands out among musicologists writing today, that name is Joseph Kerman. Eminent, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable, Kerman's writing on musicology, opera, Beethoven, and Elizabethan music has informed and inspired an extensive audience both in America and abroad. There is much to interest both the general reader and the musicologist in this collection of twenty essays. Included are several notable pleas addressed by Kerman to his professional colleagues in an effort to get them to adopt a more critical orientation for their work. Other essays range from a moving account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the beleaguered Elizabethan Catholic minority to a discerning analysis of Beethoven's well-known obsession with the key of C minor. The controversial tenets of Kerman's classic Opera as Drama (1956) are reaffirmed in essays on Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Tristan und Isolde, Ernani and I Lombardi. Kerman's legacy to a younger generation is here, too: in an exemplary writing style, he offers challenging models for a humane and historically informed music criticism. An added gem is the Preface, which provides an intellectual and anecdotal road map of the place of the essays in Kerman's academic and public expeditions. Joseph Kerman has been at the very center of musicology for almost four decades. This overview of his work will be warmly received and greatly valued.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520213777
SKU
V9780520213777
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About Joseph Kerman
Joseph Kerman is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a founding editor of the journal 19th-Century Music and author of several books, most recently Contemplating Music (1986).

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