Opera as Drama by Of Music Joseph Kerman
PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITIONS:If you are for opera, this book is for you.--New York Times Book Review
The most influential recent book on opera criticism.in the English-speaking world--New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Affords the serious reader and listener an absorbing encounter with a sensitive and superbly trained intelligence in the act of thinking about music and music criticism. We come away remembering the sound of Kerman's prose voice, mellifluous, elegant, eminently civilized, beneath its cool control a ground bass of urgent feeling.--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
The author's clarity and pungency.make for enjoyable, challenging reading. It is a collection that can tease the person who is primarily interested in opera into wanting to explore the song literature of the English Renaissance or to listen more knowledgeably to Mozart's piano concertos and Beethoven's symphonies.--William Ashbrook, Opera Quarterly
Kerman's musicological activity is technical without neglecting the importance of text, cultural context, meaning, expression, and value, and is likely to appeal to educated lay people. Kerman's scholarship is careful and sensitive, and often subtle and witty. Yet this subtle scholarship has evoked strong and widespread reaction and provided significant leadership within musicology and beyond.--Renü¾Ž–”¼e Cox Lorraine, Notes
Lucid, lively. Many aspects of his work can provide inspiration.--Oliver Neighbour, Music and Letters
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394700885 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394700880 |
| Title | Opera as Drama |
| Author | Of Music Joseph Kerman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House Trade |
| Year published | 1956-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
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