The substance of things heard : writings about music

著者

• Griffiths, Paul

書誌事項

The substance of things heard : writings about music

Paul Griffiths

（Eastman studies in music）

University of Rochester Press, 2005

注記

Erratum slip inserted

Includes bibliographical references and discography (p. [347]-349) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A choice selection of essays, reviews and interviews providing insights into musical performance, composition in the late 20th century and very early 21st, and the nature of opera. Paul Griffiths offers his own personal selection of some of his most substantial and imaginative articles and concert reviews from over three decades of indefatigable concertgoing around the world. He reports on premieres and other important performances of works by such composers as Elliott Carter, Sofia Gubaidulina, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Steve Reich, as well as Harrison Birtwistle and other important British figures. Griffiths vividly conveys the vision, aura, and idiosyncrasies of prominent pianists, singers, and conductors [such as Herbert von Karajan], and debates changing styles of performing Monteverdi and Purcell. A particular delight is his response to the worldof opera, including Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande [six contrasting productions], Pavarotti and Domingo in Verdi at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron, and two wildly different Jonathan Miller versions of Mozart's Don Giovanni. From the author's preface: "We cannot say what music is. Yet we are verbal creatures, and strive with words to cast a net around it, knowing most of this immaterial stuff will evadecapture. The stories that follow cover a wide range of events over a period of great change. Yet the net's aim was always the same, to catch the substance of things heard. "Criticism has to work largely by analogy and metaphor. This is no limitation. It is largely through such verbal ties that music is linked to other sorts of experience, not least the natural world and the orchestra of our feelings." Paul Griffiths's reviews and articleshave appeared extensively in both Britain [Times, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement] and the United States [New Yorker, New York Times]. He has written numerous books on Bartok, Cage, Messiaen, Boulez, Maxwell Davies, twentieth-century music, opera, and the string quartet, and is the author of the recent Penguin Companion to Classical Music. He is also author of The Sea on Fire: Jean Barraque.

目次

A Debut Berio Paths to Montsalvat Carter Da lontano Gubaidulina A Handful of Pianists Purcell Around New York Tippett Being in Assisi Boulez The Composer's Voice Mozart 1991 A Decade of Don Giovannis Henze Operatic Passions Vivier At the Movies Schoenberg on the Stage Five British Composers Lachenmann Mapping Mtsensk Stockhausen Behind the Rusting Curtain Verdi at the Met A Quintet of Singers Schnittke How It Was, Maybe Reich Tracks in Allemonde Birtwistle A Departure

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA76461285
• ISBN:
  • 1580462065
• LCCN: 2005018351
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Rochester, NY
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 378 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : ML60
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Music -- History and criticism
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA27676296