Music and Society
Subtitle: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception
Contributors: Richard Leppert (Editor); Susan McClary (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521379779
Subjects: Western music: periods & styles; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Music; Genres & Styles - Classical; Music / General; Music / History & Criticism; Music : Genres & Styles - Classical; General; Instruction & Study - Composition; Social aspects
First sentence: The last great Bach Year, 1950 (the bicentennial of Bach's death), inspired the undertaking of many monuments of Bach scholarship we now find indispensible.