Collected essays on modern and classical music
By: George Edwards.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780810862036
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern music : currents, influences, performance, audience, prospects. Composition as research ; The pleasure of its being over : a view of contemporary music ; A conversation about new music ; Casting away the yoke, or how to be just a little ahead of your time ; Involuntary affinities : new music and performance in the 20th century; title: Postmodern musicology and literary theory. Music and postmodernism ; Taking the cult out of culture ; Music and semiotics ; Is Lessing more? : problems of time in contemporary music; title: Haydn and Schubert. The nonsense of an ending : closure in Haydn's string quartets ; Papa Doc's recap caper : Haydn and temporal dyslexia ; A palimpsest of Mozart in Schubert's Symphony no. 5.