Sound judgment
Subtitle: selected essays
By: by Richard Leppert.
Series: Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754626831
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : judging sound; title: Aurality. On reading Adorno hearing Schubert (2005) ; Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo (2007) ; Everybody's lonesome for somebody : age, the body, and experience in the music of Hank Williams (1990) / [co-authored with George Lipsitz] ; Gender sonics : the voice of Patsy Cline (forthcoming, 2008); title: Visuality. The prodigal son : Teniers and Ghezzi (1974) ; Concert in a house : musical iconography and musical thought (1979) ; Imagery, musical confrontation and cultural difference in early l8th-century London (1986) ; Male agony : awakening conscience (1993) ; The musician of the imagination (2004); title: Practice. Music teachers of upper-class amateur musicians in eighteenth-century England (1985) ; Music and the body : dance, power, submission (1988); title: Utopia. Nature and exile : Adorno, Mahler, and the appropriation of kitsch (2005) ; Four hands, once again (2005) / [by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Jonathan Wipplinger] ; Four hands, three hearts : a commentary (2005) ; Music pushed to the edge of existence (Adorno, listening, and the question of hope) (2005).