Musicology and performance
By: Paul Henry Lang ; edited by Alfred Mann and George J. Buelow.
Contributors: Mann, Alfred, 1917-; Buelow, George J.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism; Musicology; Performance practice (Music)
Description: Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of America's foremost musical scholars and commentators.

This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of music subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Consists of published and unpublished essays.
Table of contents: title: On musicology; title: New thoughts on old music; title: Music in twentieth-century civilization; title: On performance practice.