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Classical Style
Häftad, 2005
242 kr
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'Brilliant and epoch-making.' Times Literary SupplementThe Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. With his experience as a world-class pianist as well as as teacher at Harvard and Oxford, Charles Rosen produced the definitive …
Piano Notes
The Hidden World of the Pianist
Häftad, 2004
160 kr
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In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consider every aspect of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to suffering from stage fright, from the physical …
Sonata Forms
Häftad, 1988
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
349 kr
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Charles Rosen says of sonata form: "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture rather than a pattern."
Classical Style
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
Häftad, 1998
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
369 kr
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This outstanding book treating the three most beloved composers of the Vienna School is basic to any study of Classical-era music. Drawing on his rich experience and intimate familiarity with the works of these giants, Charles Rosen presents his keen insights in clear and persuasive language. For …
Romantic Generation
Häftad, 1998
308 kr
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“A magnum opus.”—George Steiner, New Yorker“Grippingly, even excitingly, readable.”—Edward Said, London Review of BooksWhat Charles Rosen’s National Book Award–winning The Classical Style did for the music of the Classical period, this volume brilliantly does for the Romantic Era. An exhilarating …
Music and Sentiment
Häftad, 2011
153 kr
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Acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music’s profound ability to convey emotion through soundHow does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and …
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
A Short Companion
Häftad, 2020
239 kr
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Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious works for piano suited to performance in large concert halls …
Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen
Häftad, 2000
362 kr
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Few can match Charles Rosen's cultivation and discernment, whether as pianist, music historian, or critic. Here he gives us a performance of literary criticism as high art, a critical conjuring of the Romantic period by way of some of its central texts."What is the real business of the critic?" …
Critical Entertainments
Music Old and New
Häftad, 2001
524 kr
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An extraordinarily gifted musician and writer, Charles Rosen is a peerless commentator on the history and performance of music. Critical Entertainments brings together many of the essays that have established him as one of the most influential and eloquent voices in the field of music in our …
Freedom and the Arts
Essays on Music and Literature
Inbunden, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
480 kr
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Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance …
Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking
Conversations about Art and Performance
Av Charles Rosen, Catherine Temerson
Inbunden, 2020
201 kr
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Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century’s greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards.Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined formidable intelligence with immense skill as a …
Piano Notes
The World of the Pianist
Häftad, 2004
255 kr
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Among the world's instruments, the piano stands out as the most versatile, powerful, and misunderstood -- even by those who have spent much of their lives learning to play. In Piano Notes, a finalist for a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, Charles Rosen, one of the world's most talented …
Piano Notes
The World of the Pianist
E-bok, 2002
173 kr
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Charles Rosen is one of the world''s most talented pianists -- and one of music''s most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, he …
Frontiers of Meaning
Three Informal Lectures on Music
Av Charles Rosen, Charles Rosen
Häftad, 2006
227 kr
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What does it mean to understand music? What, if anything, does music mean? Composers, performers, listeners, and academics may answer these questions differently, but what sense of music do they share? When music seems unfamiliar or unlike anything we have heard before, we may say that we don't …
