Fugue and Its Discontents - Joseph Kerman
Fugues, Form, and Fingering: Sonata Style in Bach's Preludes and
Fugues - David Schulenberg
Notational Irregularities as Attributes of a New Style: The Case of
Haydn's "Sun" Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, no. 5 - Laszlo Somfai
The Fugal Moment: On a Few Bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major, K.
515 - Richard Kramer
A Tale of Two Quintets: Mozart's K. 452 and Beethoven's Opus 16 -
William Kinderman
Vestas Feuer: Beethoven on the Path to Leonore - Lewis Lockwood
Sonority and Structure: Observations on Beethoven's Early and
Middle-Period Piano Compositions - Robert L. Marshall
Recomposing the Grosse Fuge: Beethoven and Opus 134 - Prof. Robert
Winter
Schubert, the Tarantella, and the Quartettsatz, D. 703 - Julian
Rushton
On the Scherzando Nocturne - Jeffrey Kallberg
Chopin's Modular Forms - Robert P. Morgan
The Hot and the Cold: Verdi Writes to Antonio Somma about Re Lear -
Philip Gossett
The Ironic German: Schoenberg and the Serenade, Op. 24 - Walter
Frisch
Words for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen, and "Allover" Painting
- David Gable
Rosen's Modernist Haydn - James Webster
Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits: Should We Adore
Adorno? - Leo Treitler
The Music of a Classical Style - Scott Burnham
Montaigne hors de son propos - Charles Rosen
Tribute: Une culture vraiment intimidante - Pierre Boulez
Tribute: Charles Rosen for His Eightieth Birthday - Elliott
Carter
Tribute: Charles Rosen: A Personal Appreciation by a Contemporary -
Charles Mackerras
Appendix 1: A Discography of the Recordings of Charles Rosen -
David Gable
Appendix 2: A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Rosen -
Robert Curry
ROBERT L MARSHALL is the Louis, Frances, and Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University. JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK. ROBERT L MARSHALL is the Louis, Frances, and Jeffery Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
[Charles Rosen's] reviews show him tackling some of the major
issues and names in musicology with an authority that few could
muster and in a style that is compulsively readable, a combination
of acid and elegance. . . . A series of essays by well-established
scholars covering subject areas associated with the honoree [and]
three short tributes from Pierre Boulez, Elliot Carter, and Charles
Mackerras.
*MUSIC & LETTERS*
When it comes to superlatives, . . . [pianist and author] Charles
Rosen is the genuine article. . . . All of the essays in this fine
book are insightful or informative. . . . For [Scott] Burnham, . .
. Rosen's readers 'are in for something special.' The same can be
said for readers of this book.
*EARLY MUSIC AMERICA*
The eminence of most contributors is matched by the eminence of the
composers discussed: from Bach to Boulez and Stockhausen via Haydn,
Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Verdi, Brahms and
Schoenberg.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
It is difficult to imagine a more intellectually invigorating and
heartfelt tribute to the man Mackerras rightly describes as 'one of
the truly great musical minds of our time'.
*INTERNATIONAL PIANO*
Each of the essays . . . is on a subject that Rosen himself has
written on [or music that he's recorded] with magisterial
authority. . . . The final section comprises a trio of short
tributes by three 'big names' -- Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, and
Charles Mackerras. . . . [It] made me keen to go back to the music
and hear it again for myself, through more enlightened ears. One
can't ask more from a piece of writing about music than that.
*AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE*
As fine a collection of writings on music as has been created in
our time. --Maynard Solomon, author of Mozart: A Life, and Late
Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
*.*
It is hard to imagine a more vivid testimony to the far-reaching
and enduring impact of Charles Rosen's musical thoughts, words, and
deeds over the last half century than the extraordinary line-up of
scholars assembled in these pages. The copious new insights these
essays offer shows how much we can learn through encounters with
Rosen's provocative, inspiring, and energizing writings and
performances, all usefully cataloged in the extensive discography
and bibliography.
*Joseph Auner, Tufts University*
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