Vindications : essays on romantic music / by Deryck Cooke ; with a memoir of the author by Bryan Magee.
| Author/creator | Cooke, Deryck |
| Other author | Magee, Bryan. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1982. |
| Description | 226 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Deryck Cooke: a memoir / Bryan Magee -- The musical symbolism of Wagner's musical dramas -- Wagner's operatic apprenticeship -- The Bruckner problem simplified -- The facts concerning Mahler's tenth symphony -- Mahler's melodic thinking -- The word and deed: Mahler and his eighth symphony -- Delius: a centenary evaluation -- Delius and form: a vindication -- The unity of Beethoven's late quartets -- Strauss, Stravinsky, and Mozart -- Shakespeare into music -- Reading and re-reading Wuthering Heights -- Reactionary -- The Lennon-McCartney songs -- The futility of music criticism -- The future of musical language -- The future of the language of music. |
| Abstract | The legendary musicologist Hans Keller described his friend and colleague Deryck Cooke as 'one of our time's two or three major analytic intellects'. The posthumous collection of his writings which comprises Vindications, published by Faber in 1982, was selected both from Cooke's published and unpublished articles and from his many radio talks. His was a constantly enquiring mind, and the subjects of the essays range widely: from the four composers Cooke cared for most passionately - Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler and Delius - to a justification of the Lennon-McCartney songs (a superb piece of no-nonsense analysis) and an illuminating radio talk on Wuthering Heights. His insights always offer new perspectives, while the longest essay in the book, 'The Unity of Beethoven's Late Quartets', puts forward an important and cogent theory which challenges most accepted views of these great works. The author's sadly early death, at the age of 57, deprived us of one of the century's major thinkers about music, who still had much to offer. With a moving and informative Foreword by the writer and broadcaster, Brian Magee, Vindications stands alongside Cooke's The Language of Music as a major contribution to musical literature. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 82004305 |
| ISBN | 0521247659 |
| ISBN | 0521289475 (pbk.) |
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