Music, the Arts, and Ideas

by Leonard B. Meyer

Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

780.15 T918m

DDC/MDS

780.15 T918m

Series

Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago

Genres

Publication

University of Chicago Press (1993)

Description

Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967.

Subjects

Music 20th century History and criticism
Music History and criticism
Music Philosophy and aesthetics

Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Arts and Letters — 1968)
Gordon J. Laing Award (1969)

Physical description

7.9 inches

ISBN

0226521419 / 9780226521411

Similar in this library

Emotion and meaning in music by Leonard B. Meyer
The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen
Poetics of music in the form of six lessons by Igor Stravinsky
Music in transition: A study of tonal expansion and atonality, 1900-1920 by Jim Samson
Style and idea : selected writings of Arnold Schoenberg by Arnold Schoenberg
23 more
Orientations by Pierre Boulez
Contemplating music : challenges to musicology by Joseph Kerman
The unanswered question : six talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein
Theory of harmony by Arnold Schoenberg
Treatise on harmony by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Music in the baroque era, from Monteverdi to Bach by Manfred F. Bukofzer
Harmony by Heinrich Schenker
Introduction to Schenkerian analysis by Allen Forte
Harmony by Walter Piston
The romantic generation by Charles Rosen
Introduction to contemporary music by Joseph Machlis
The structure of atonal music by Allen Forte
Serial composition and atonality : an introduction to the music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern by George Perle
Source readings in music history by W. Oliver Strunk
Silence; lectures and writings by John Cage
Counterpoint, based on eighteenth century practice by Kent Wheeler Kennan
Music and the mind by Anthony Storr
What to listen for in music by Aaron Copland
The Boulez-Cage correspondence by Pierre Boulez
Notes of an apprenticeship by Pierre Boulez
The music of Béla Bartók : a study of tonality and progression in twentieth-century music by Elliott Antokoletz
The life and music of Béla Bartók by Halsey Stevens
Twentieth-century music: an introduction by Eric Salzman

More

Amazon.comLibraryThing
Page: 0.8975 seconds