Hearing and Knowing Music - The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone

Zusatztext "While eclectic in its subject matter! this invaluable collection of Cone's final essays offers a great deal to readers. Whether the essays arguably reflect autumnal or emerging ideas! Cone's astonishing clarity of exposition and openness! his intellectual reach! and continual self-reflexivity . . . almost make his writing seem timeless in its appeal for musicians and music scholars across the disciplinary spectrum." ---David Trippett! Fontes Artis Musicae Informationen zum Autor Edward T. Cone (1917-2004) was professor emeritus of music at Princeton University! where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1985. He wrote two of the twentieth century's most influential books about Western music! Musical Forms and Musical Performance (Norton) and The Composer's Voice . Robert P. Morgan is professor emeritus of music at Yale University and the editor of Cone's Music: A View from Delft ! a collection of previously published essays. Zusammenfassung Edward T Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. This title collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years. It represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Cone, Edward T. Cone, Cone Edward T.
• Assisted by: Robert P. Morgan (Editor), Morgan Robert P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2009
• EAN: 9780691140117
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14011-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology