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Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature

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Description for Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature Hardback. Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is perpetual negotiation required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 music examples. BIC Classification: AV; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 802.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674047525
SKU
V9780674047525
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About Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen was a concert pianist, Professor of Music and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and the author of numerous books, including The Classical Style, The Romantic Generation (Harvard), and Freedom and the Arts (Harvard).

Reviews for Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature
Even those of us who admire Charles Rosen as the most remarkable critic writing today must be startled by the polymathy in his new collection, Freedom and the Arts… Just to see the spectrum provided by [his essays’] titles is to marvel: ‘Structural Dissonance and the Classical Sonata,’ ‘Theodore Adorno: Criticism as Cultural Nostalgia,’ ‘Lost Chords and the Golden Age ... Read more

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