Roger Sessions on Music (eBook)

Collected Essays

Roger Sessions (Autor)

Edward T. Cone (Herausgeber)

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2015
402 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7105-6 (ISBN)

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Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the essays deal with specific problems that musicians, especially composers, have faced during the past five decades: problems related to new musical styles and techniques, to the position of composers in society, to their responsibilities as teachers, to their role during the period of the world wars, to the mutual reactions of composer and audience, and to the basic questions of musical form and expression. The collection also includes a set of critical essays on such seminal figures as Bloch, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. Roger Sessions is the composer of a recently recorded cantata on Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" as well as numerous other works. He is the author of The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener (Princeton).Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alexander Scriabin • Altered chord • American Musicological Society • Anecdote • Antithesis • Anton Webern • Arnold Schoenberg • Art for art's sake • art movement • Art Music • Atonality • Bernard Berenson • Calculation • Centration • Composer • Concert program • Consonance and dissonance • contemporary Art • Creative Work • Darius Milhaud • declamation • Definition of music • Disenchantment • Domenico Scarlatti • Don Giovanni • Early Music • electronic music • elements of music • Ernest Bloch • Ernest Newman • ernst krenek • Fine Art • Gebrauchsmusik • Genre • Hans Pfitzner • Harmonic series (music) • Harmonielehre • Hector Berlioz • Heinrich Schenker • Igor Stravinsky • Interval (music) • Kitsch • Leitmotif • Ludwig van Beethoven • Luigi Dallapiccola • Mannerism • Melodic pattern • Modulation (music) • musical analysis • musical composition • Musical development • musical expression • Musical History • Musicality • musical language • Musical nationalism • musical note • musical syntax • Musical technique • Music Criticism • Music Education • Music Express • Music History • musician • Music Industry • music theory • Mystic chord • Neoclassicism • Opportunism • oratorio • Orientalism • Paul Hindemith • Phonograph • Phrase (music) • Physiognomy • Platitude • Polyphony • Polytonality • popular music • Program music • Publication • Rehearsal • repercussion • Richard Wagner • Rigoletto • Roger Sessions • Romanticism • Serialism • song cycle • Speak to Me • Suggestion • Symptom • Temporary Music • tonality • treatise • Tribute To • Twelve-tone technique • Ulisse • Victor Hugo • Wagnerism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7105-0 / 1400871050
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7105-6 / 9781400871056