Musicology and performance /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lang, Paul Henry, 1901-1991
Other Authors: Mann, Alfred, 1917-2006 (Editor), Buelow, George J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Music > History and criticism.
Musicology.
Performance practice (Music)
Musique > Histoire et critique.
Musicologie.
Pratique de l'exécution (Musique)
musicology.
MUSIC > Reference.
Music.
Muziekwetenschap.
Uitvoeringspraktijk.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Christoph Wolff
  • Introduction
  • On musicology. Musicology and musical letters
  • Musicology and related disciplines
  • Music and history
  • From an editorial
  • Music past and present: an epilogue
  • New thoughts on old music. Palestrina across the centuries: a review
  • Purcell
  • Bach: artist and poet
  • On Handel scholarship: an introduction for a symposium
  • Bach and Handel: ancillary rivals
  • Pergolesi
  • Mozart
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner: the master of Tristan
  • Music in twentieth-century civilization. Dodecaphony
  • Marxist theory and music
  • Stravinsky
  • Bartok at Columbia University
  • A tribute to music scholarship at mid-century
  • Devotional music at mid-century
  • The film Amadeus
  • A music master for the White House
  • Menace of the machine
  • On performance practice. From the preface for a book on performance practice
  • Authenticity
  • Performance practice and the voice
  • Period instruments
  • Ornamentation and improvisation
  • Allegory and symbolism in music.

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