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Why Classical Music Still Matters.
Classical music isn't necessarily that bad off, Kramer admits; there's still a diverse range of concert performances, and many listeners are choosing to download works from the Internet. But ''something still feels wrong, '' something he identifies as the loss of the ge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Classical music isn't necessarily that bad off, Kramer admits; there's still a diverse range of concert performances, and many listeners are choosing to download works from the Internet. But ''something still feels wrong, '' something he identifies as the loss of the genre's crucial role in our cultural lives. The reasons Kramer, a music and literature professor at Fordham University, offers for why one ought to appreciate classical music fall back on the usual high-culture arguments that it ''asks its listeners to imagine a work with more fullness and complexity than most other music does, '' c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520933644 0520933648 |