The 15 essays collected in this volume span a number of years and address a wide variety of topics. Considered as a whole, they strive to forge a productive synthesis among pressing issues in philosophy and cultural studies, musicological methodology and current music-theoretica…
The 15 essays collected in this volume span a number of years and address a wide variety of topics. Considered as a whole, they strive to forge a productive synthesis among pressing issues in philosophy and cultural studies, musicological methodology and current music-theoretica…
"...Greater concentration on fewer topics, more focus on harmony, considerable improvement in the exercises, and careful reevaluation of the pieces in the Anthology [make up the 2nd edition.]..takes a holistic view of Western music, making little of the timeworn distinctions bet…
Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1960s, he often composed in non-standard musical notations, including a groundbrea…
Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1960s, he often composed in non-standard musical notations, including a groundbrea…
This title presents for the first time, an extended 1974 essay by David Lewin on 'Morgengruß', a 23 measure strophic song from Schubert's 'Die Schöne Müllerin'. The essay was central to Lewin's graduate teaching, and copies of it have circulated by hand through the music-scholar…
This title presents for the first time, an extended 1974 essay by David Lewin on 'Morgengruß', a 23 measure strophic song from Schubert's 'Die Schöne Müllerin'. The essay was central to Lewin's graduate teaching, and copies of it have circulated by hand through the music-scholar…
Arguably one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music theory, David Lewin (1933-2003) revolutionized the field through his work on transformational theory and theoretical methodology. David Lewin's Morgengruss: Text, Context, Commentary presents in print…
