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Variations on the Canon
Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on His Eightieth Birthday
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Edited by:
Robert Curry
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With contributions by:
Charles Mackerras
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English
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2008
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Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen.
Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on theliving "canonical" repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music. However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the modern Western musical tradition.
Contributors: Pierre Boulez, Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian Rushton, David Schulenberg, László Somfai, Leo Treitler, James Webster, and Robert Winter.
Robert Curry is principalof the Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is Assistant Professor of Music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on theliving "canonical" repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music. However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the modern Western musical tradition.
Contributors: Pierre Boulez, Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian Rushton, David Schulenberg, László Somfai, Leo Treitler, James Webster, and Robert Winter.
Robert Curry is principalof the Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is Assistant Professor of Music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
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Contributor: Robert L. Marshall
ROBERT L MARSHALL is the Louis, Frances, and Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
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Contributor: David Schulenberg
DAVID SCHULENBERG has performed on historical keyboard instruments across North America, Europe and Asia, and has recorded for Naxos, Hungaroton, and Brilliant Classics. His publications include The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2014). He has taught at Boston University, the Juilliard School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directed the Collegium Musicum. His website schulenbergmusic.org features numerous recordings and editions.
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Contributor: Julian Rushton
JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK.
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Contributor: Robert L. Marshall
ROBERT L MARSHALL is the Louis, Frances, and Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part One: Johann Sebastian Bach
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1 Fugue and Its Discontents
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2 Fugues, Form, and Fingering: Sonata Style in Bach’s Preludes and Fugues
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3 Notational Irregularities as Attributes of a New Style: The Case of Haydn’s “Sun” Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, no. 5
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4 The Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart’s Quintet in C Major, K. 515
39 - Part Three: Beethoven
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5 A Tale of Two Quintets: Mozart’s K. 452 and Beethoven’s Opus 16
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6 Vestas Feuer: Beethoven on the Path to Leonore
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7 Sonority and Structure: Observations on Beethoven’s Early and Middle-Period Piano Compositions
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8 Recomposing the Grosse Fuge: Beethoven and Opus 134
130 - Part Four: The Romantic Generation
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9 Schubert, the Tarantella, and the Quartettsatz, D. 703
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10 On the Scherzando Nocturne
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11 Chopin’s Modular Forms
185 - Part Five: Italian Opera
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12 The Hot and the Cold: Verdi Writes to Antonio Somma about Re Lear
207 - Part Six: The Modernist Tradition
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13 The Ironic German: Schoenberg and the Serenade, Op. 24
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14 Words for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen, and “Allover” Painting
247 - Part Seven: Criticism and the Critic
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15 Rosen’s Modernist Haydn
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16 Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits: Should We Adore Adorno?
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17 The Music of a Classical Style
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18 Montaigne hors de son propos
311 - Three Tributes
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Une culture vraiment intimidante
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Charles Rosen for His Eightieth Birthday
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Charles Rosen: A Personal Appreciation by a Contemporary
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Appendix 1: A Discography of the Recordings of Charles Rosen
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Appendix 2: A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Rosen
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List of Contributors
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Index
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About the Author
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Keywords for this book
Musicology; Music History; Classical Music; Music Analysis; Music Interpretation
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