Concerto conversations
By: Joseph Kerman.
Series: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures -- 1997-98; Charles Eliot Norton lectures -- 1997-1998.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Concerto
Description: "The Concerto has attracted relatively little attention as a genre, Joseph Kerman observes, and his urbane and wide-ranging Norton Lectures fill the gap in a way that will delight all music listeners. Kerman addresses the full range of the concerto repertory, treating both the general and the particular."--BOOK JACKET.

"Concertos model human relationships, according to Kerman, and his description of the conversation between solo instrument and orchestra brings this observation vividly to life. What does the solo instrument do when it first enters in a concerto? How do composers balance claims of solo-orchestra contrast and solo virtuosity? When do they deploy the sumptuous musical textures that only concertos can provide?

Kerman's unexpected answers offer a new understanding of the concerto and a stimulus to enhanced listening."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Accompaning disc contains performances of 12 concerto excerpts and is keyed to the text.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.

For accompanying material ask at loan desk for ML1263.K47 1999 compact disc.