Hearing and knowing music : the unpublished essays of Edward T. Cone
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Hearing and knowing music : the unpublished essays of Edward T. Cone
Princeton University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Published Works of Edward T. Cone": p [207]-210
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Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and that were left unpublished at his death. Edited and introduced by Robert Morgan, these essays cover a broad range of topics, including music's position in culture, musical aesthetics, the significance of opera as an art, setting text to music, the nature of twentieth-century harmony and form, and the practice of musical analysis. Fully matching the quality and style of Cone's published writings, these essays mark a critical addition to his work, developing new ideas, such as the composer as critic; clarifying and modifying older positions, especially regarding opera and the nature of sung utterance; and adding new and often unexpected insights on composers and ideas previously discussed by Cone. In addition, there are essays, such as one on Debussy, that lead Cone into areas he had not previously examined.
Hearing and Knowing Music represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music.
Table of Contents
List of Musical Examples ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I: Aesthetics 7 Essay One: The Missing Composer 11 Essay Two: The Silent Partner 16 Essay Three: The Irrelevance of Tonality? 38 Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music 49 Part II: Opera and Song 61 Essay Five: Mozart's Deceptions 65 Essay Six: Siegfried at the Dragon's Cave: The Motivic Language of The Ring 80 Essay Seven: Schubert's Heine Songs 106 Part III: The Composer as Critic 117 Essay Eight: The Composer as Critic 121 Essay Nine: Schubert Criticizes Schubert 135 Part IV: Analysis 149 Essay Ten: Schubert's Symphonic Poem 153 Essay Eleven: Debussy's Art of Suggestion 159 Essay Twelve: Stravinsky at the Tomb of Rimsky-Korsakov 170 Essay Thirteen: Stravinsky's Version of Pastoral 181 Essay Fourteen: Stravinsky's Sense of Form 190 Published Works of Edward T. Cone 207 Index 211
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