Composers on music : eight centuries of writings / edited by Josiah Fisk ; Jeff Nichols, consulting editor.

Other author Fisk, Josiah, editor.
Other author Nichols, Jeff (Jeff William) editor.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoBoston, MA : Northeastern University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxvi, 512 pages : music ; 24 cm
Subjects
Musicians as authors.
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Preface -- Editor's note -- Hildegard von Bingen -- Marchetto da Padova -- Guillaume de Machaut -- Johannes Tinctoris -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- William Byrd -- Giulio Caccini -- Thomas Morley -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Heinrich Schütz -- Henry Purcell -- Francois Couperin -- Georg Philipp Telemann -- Jean Philippe Rameau -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Benedetto Marcello -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadè Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Louis Spohr -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Franz Schubert -- Hector Berlioz -- Mikhail Glinka -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Frédéric Chopin -- Robert Schumann -- Franz Liszt -- Richard Wagner -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Edouard Lalo -- Bedřich Smetana -- Johannes Brahms -- Alexander Borodin -- César Cui -- Camille Saint-Saëns -- Georges Bizet -- Modest Musorgsky -- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Antonín Dvořák -- Edvard Grieg -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Gabriel Fauré -- Leos Janácek -- Giacomo Puccini -- Hugo Wolf -- Gustav Mahler -- Frederick Delius -- Claude Debussy -- Richard Strauss -- Carl Nielsen -- Ferruccio Busoni -- Erik Satie -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Max Reger -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Charles Ives -- Maurice Ravel -- Manuel de Falla -- Ernest Bloch -- Béla Bartók -- Igor Stravinsky -- Zoltán Kodály -- Anton Webern -- Alban Berg -- Edgard Varèse -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Arthur Honegger -- Darius Milhaud -- William Grant Still -- Paul Hindemith -- Virgil Thomson -- Roger Sessions -- Henry Cowell -- George Gershwin -- Carlos Chávez -- Francis Poulenc -- Aaron Copland -- Ruth Crawford Seeger -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Olivier Messiaen -- Elliott Carter -- John Cage -- Milton Babbitt -- Leonard Bernstein -- Györgi Ligeti -- Ned Rorem -- Pierre Boulez -- Luciano Berio -- Gunther Schuller -- Hans Werner Henze -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Toru Takemitsu -- Sofia Gubaidulina -- Steve Reich -- Philip Glass -- John Harbison -- Oliver Knussen.
Abstract This volume is a greatly expanded version of the classic 1956 anthology by Sam Morgenstern. The editor has added 30 composers to the roster, mostly in the pre-Baroque and contemporary eras, and has taken advantage of recent scholarship to prune and update the entries. The result is a glimpse into the writings of 103 major composers, from Marchetto of Paduo (14th century) on the definition of musician, to the contemporary British composer Oliver Knussen on much the same topic, and Bach's famous memorandum to the Town Council of Leipzig as well as new discoveries, such as the elegant, cryptic prose of Toru Takemitsu.
Local noteLittle-301575--305131007355X
Local noteLittle-317280--305131018863$
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 481-497) and index.
LCCN 96027774
ISBN1555532780 (cl ; alk. paper)
ISBN1555532799 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML90 .C77 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold