Write All These Down - Essays on Music

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List of contents

Preface
CRITICISM
1 A Profile for American Musicology
2 How We Got into Analysis, and How to Get Out
3 A Few Canonic Variations
4 Critics and the Classics
BYRD, TALLIS, ALFONSO FERRABOSCO
5 William Byrd and Elizabethan Catholicism
6 Byrd, Tallis, and the Art of Imitation
7 "Write All These Down": Notes on a Song by Byrd
8 The Missa Puer natus est by Thomas Tallis
9 An Italian Musician in Elizabethan England
BEETHOVEN
10 Tovey's Beethoven
11 An die ferne Geliebte
12 Taking the Fifth
13 Beethoven's Minority
OPERA AND CONCERTO 
14 Translating The Magic Flute 
15 Wagner: Thoughts in Season 
16 Verdi's Use of Recurring Themes 
17 Two Early Verdi Operas; Two Famous Terzetti 
18 Reading Don Giovanni 
19 Mozart's Piano Concertos and Their Audience 
20 Tristan und Isolde: The Prelude and the Play 
Acknowledgments

About the author

Joseph Kerman is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a founding editor of the journal 19th-Century Music and author of several books, most recently Contemplating Music (1986).

Summary

A selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute" and "Tristan and Isolde".

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Kerman
• Assisted by: Joseph Kerman (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.1998
• EAN: 9780520213777
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21377-7
• No. of pages: 359
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Essays, Theory of music & musicology, Literary essays, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music