For the Love of Music : Invitations to Listening.
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For the Love of Music : Invitations to Listening.
Yazar:
Steinberg, Michael.
ISBN:
9780198036739
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1 online resource (207 pages)
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. BEGINNINGS -- How I Fell in Love with Music (MS) -- Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy (LR) -- II. CREATORS -- Another Word for Mozart (MS) -- Thinking of Robert Schumann (MS) -- The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music (LR) -- Franz Schubert, "A Rich Possession" (MS) -- Encountering Brahms (LR) -- Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition (MS) -- First-Rate Second-Class Composer (LR) -- Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There Be? (LR) -- Remembering Rachmaninoff (MS) -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation (LR) -- Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others') (MS) -- On the Trail of W. A. Mozart (LR) -- What They Saw (LR) -- A Short Life of J. S. Bach (LR) -- Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy (MS) -- III. THE RECENT SCENE -- A Visit with Lou Harrison (MS) -- George Perle: Composing a Way of Life (LR) -- A Quintet for American Music (MS) -- Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale (LR) -- A Century Set to Music (MS) -- IV. MISSIONARIES -- Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas (MS) -- Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know (LR) -- Isaac Stern-On Music and Life (MS) -- B. H. Haggin the Contrarian (MS) -- V. AFFAIRS TO REMEMBER -- Loving Memories of Movie Music (LR) -- Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music (LR) -- Music, True or False (LR) -- Why We Are Here (MS) -- VI. POSTLUDE -- The Sounds We Make (MS) -- Footnotes -- Page 6 -- Page 26 -- Page 28 -- Page 29 -- Page 44 -- Page 78 -- Page 80 -- Page 82 -- Page 152 -- Page 183 -- Page 206 -- Page 242.
Özet:
The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience. In For the Love of Music, Steinberg and Rothe draw on a lifetime of listening to, living with, and writing about music, sharing the delights and revelatory encounters they have had with Mozart, Brahms, Stravinsky, and a host of other great (and almost-great) composers. At once highly personal and immediately accessible, their writings shed light on those who make music and those who listen to it--drawing readers into the beautiful and dangerous terrain that has meant so much to the authors. In recounting how they themselves came to love music, Steinberg and Rothe offer keys for listening. Here you will find the story of a boy discovering a lifelong passion as he huddled in an alley behind a movie theater in World War II England, listening to the Fantasia soundtrack. You will meet the man who created the sound of Hollywood's Golden Age. You will learn how composers have addressed issues as contemporary as AIDS and the terrorist attacks of September 11. You will sit in on strange and enlightening listening sessions with one of America's quirkiest music critics. And you will enter a world of mind- and soul-nourishing pleasures. Articulate and impassioned, sophisticated but never esoteric, Steinberg and Rothe offer invigorating reflections on music that will delight both the beginning and the seasoned listener.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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