The attentive listener : three centuries of music criticism / edited by Harry Haskell.

Other author Haskell, Harry, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxvii, 398 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Part I. The eighteenth century. On Italian opera (1711) / Joseph Addison -- Preface to Critica musica (1722) / Johann Matteson -- 'Defence of operas' (1735) / Anonymous -- A plea for German opera (1737) / Johann Adolph Scheibe -- The attentive listener (1749) / Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg -- 'Zoroastre' (1756) / Marc-Antoine Laugier -- Obituary of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1764) / Friedrich Melchior Grimm -- Report on the comic opera Lisuart und Dariolette (1767) / Johann Adam Hiller -- Letter on the musical properties of the French language (1773) / Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon -- The evening wasted at the opera (1776) / Francois Arnaud -- On the best means of naturalizing a taste for good music in France (1777) / Nicolas Etienne Framery -- On the state of music in France (1781) / Georg Joseph Vogler -- On musical performance (1782) / Johann Friedrich Reichardt -- From a letter from Hamburg (to the Magazin der Musik) (1748) -- Review of Observations on the Preset State of Music in London, by William Jackson of Exeter (1791) / Charles Burney -- On fashion in music: second letter (1793) -- Difference of opinion about works of music (1799) / Friedrich Rochlitz -- Part II. The nineteenth century. Pantomime with its tongue cut (1809) / Leigh Hunt -- Casual reflections on the appearance of this journal (1820) / E.T.A. Hoffman -- To the editor (of the Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review) (1824) -- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1825) / William Ayrton -- Lost loves, or German composers in Paris (1827) / Adolf Bernhard Marx -- Moser's symphony soiree (1828) / Ludwig Rellstab -- On the future of music (1830) / Francois-Joseph Fetis -- To Chiara (1835) / Robert Schumann -- Letter to a music lover about and opera by Glinka: Ivan Susanin and a new Russian opera: Ivan Susanin (1836-7) / Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky -- On musical imitation (1838) / Castil-Blaze -- Contemporary musical composers: Giuseppe Verdi (1844) / Henry F. Chorley -- Musical season of 1844 (1844) / Heinrich Heine -- Mr. Fry and his critics (1854) / John Sullivan Dwight -- Italy and music (1855) / Abramo Basevi -- A Leonine virtuoso (1858) / James W. Davidson -- Beethoven in the ring of Saturn: mediums (1860) / Hector Berlioz -- Music and citizenship (1860) / Jozef Sikorski -- Academy of music (1862) / William Henry Fry -- Musical chronicle (1863) / Arrigo Boito -- Public musical life in Prague: opera (1864) / Bedrich Smetana -- Ruslan and the Ruslanists (1867) / Aleksandr Nikolayevich Serov -- Wagner: musical voyage in the land of the future (1870) / Filippo Filippi -- Zubiaurre and his first opera (1874) / Antonio Pena y Goni -- Musical chronicle: Don Giovanni and Zora at the Italian opera (1874) / Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky -- The new Russian school: Boris Godunov, opera by M. Mussorgsky (1880) / Cesar Cui -- Wagner cult (1882) / Eduard Hanslick -- Twenty-five years of Russian art: our music (1883) / Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov -- Haydn's Creation (1885) / Hugo Wolf -- Carmen and The Bridegrooms (1887) / Leos Janacek -- Boredom in music (1888) / Camille Bellaigue -- A mishmash of eroticism and prayer (1890) / Willy (Henry Gauthier-Villars) -- The Debussy quartet (1894) / Paul Dukas -- Wagner as a dramatic poet (1894) / George Bernard Shaw -- Canons (1898) / William Foster Apthorp -- Part III. The twentieth century. English music in the nineteenth century (1900) / John F. Runciman -- Conversation with monsieur Croche (1901) / Claude Debussy -- The post-Wagnerians (1906) / Silvio Benco -- Snobs (1906) / Felipe Pedrell -- The Salome of Wilde and Strauss (1907) / Edward H. Krehbiel -- Debussy's Pelleas stirs up critics (1908) / Phillip Hale -- Mahler's Ninth Symphony (1912) / Julius Korngold -- The function of musical criticism (1915) / William J. Henderson -- On the occasion of the premiere of Bluebeard's Castle (1918) / Zoltan Kodaly -- Goyescas and "local colour" (1921) / Adolfo Salazar -- The music of yesterday? (1921) / James Gibbons Huneker -- On Vitezslav Novak's Storm (1923) / Max Brod -- Arnold Schonberg, Pierrot Lunaire (1923) / Emile Vuillermoz -- Race and modernity (1924) / Adolf Weissmann -- A proletarian music (1924) / Boris de Schloezer -- Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto (1925) / Boris Asafyev [Asafiev] -- The mechanization of music (1925) / Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt -- Stravinsky (1925) / Bruno Barilli -- Neo-classicism (1926) / Willem Pijper -- Pan-Germanism and Der Rosenkavalier (1927) / Adolphe Boschot -- A "physiology" of criticism (1928) / Ernest Newman -- In search of genius (1930) / Leo-Pol Morin -- Sibelius (1933) / Elmer Diktonius -- What would Leos Janacek do if he were still among us? (1933) / Alois Haba -- Background music (1934) / Theodor Adorno -- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (1934) / Ivan Sollertinsky -- On musical form (1936) / Wilhelm Peterson-Berger -- On misreading meanings into Sibelius (1937) / Olin Downes -- Karol Szymanowski (1937) / Zofia Lissa -- Works by German Nazi composers (1937) / Robert Aloys Mooser -- Cinematic images and musical images (1938) / Gianandrea Gavazzeni -- Universality and music today (1938) / Alfred Einstein -- Ive's Concord sonata (1938) / Paul Rosenfeld -- To please (1946) / Reynaldo Hahn -- Farewell to Schonberg (1951) / Heinrich Strobel -- Stravinsky and tradition (1952) / Willi Schuh -- Two kinds of music of the future (1956) / Willem Andriessen -- The pioneer's dusty path (1957) / Neville Cardus -- To know music (1958) / Guido Pannain -- Music's tradition of constant change (1959) / Virgil Thomson -- The seventh Autumn (1963) / Stefan Kisielewski -- To change only opinions? (1963) / Ivan Vojtech -- Composers and the influence of politics (1969) / Martin Cooper -- Music and recordings (1973) / Joachim Kaiser -- Benjamin Britten is dead (1976) / Massimo Mila -- Television music (1977) / Jorge Velazco -- Consonances for tomorrow (1986) / Gerard Conde -- The paradox of Russian non-liberty (1992) / Alexander Ivashkin -- A feast for the willing ear (1993) / Andrew Porter.
Abstract This historical anthology shows the evolution of music journalism and its place in Western culture over the past three centuries and illustrates the richness, variety, and vitality of music criticism as both an intellectual enterprise and a literary genre.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 387-392) and index.
LCCN 95046364
ISBN0691026416 (cl : alk. paper)