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Kerman, Joseph Wilfred was born on April 3, 1924 in London. United States citizen.
(The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as...)
The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as a genre, Joseph Kerman observes, and his urbane and wide-ranging Norton Lectures fill the gap in a way that will delight all music listeners. Kerman addresses the full range of the concerto repertory, treating both the general and the particular. His perceptive commentary on individual works is alive with enthusiasm, intimations, and insights into the spirit of concerto. Concertos model human relationships, according to Kerman, and his description of the conversation between solo instrument and orchestra brings this observation vividly to life. What does the solo instrument do when it first enters in a concerto? How do composers balance claims of solo-orchestra contrast and solo virtuosity? When do they deploy the sumptuous musical textures that only concertos can provide? Kerman's unexpected answers offer a new understanding of the concerto and a stimulus to enhanced listening. In language that the Boston Globe's Richard Dyer calls always delightfully vivid, Kerman conducts readers and listeners into the conversations that concertos so eloquently enact. Amid the musical forces at play, he renews the dialogue of music lovers with the language of the concerto--the familiar, the lesser-known, the cherished, and the undervalued. The CD packaged with the book contains movements from works that Kerman treats most intensively--by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Bartok, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.
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Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.
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( Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lov...)
Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lovers. Here is the first full-scale of ideas and ideologies in music over the past forty years; a period during which virtually every aspect of music was transformed. With this book, Joesph Kerman establishes the place of music study firmly in the mainstream of modern intellectual history. He treats not only the study of the history of Western art music--with which musicology is tradtionally equated--but also sometimes vexed relations between music history and other fields: music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and music criticism. Kerman sees and applauds a change in the study of music towarda critical orientation, As examples, he presents a fascinating vignettes of Bach research in the 1950's and Beethoven studies in the 1960's. He sketched the work of prominent scholars and theorists: Thurston Dart, Charles Rosen, Leonard B. Meyer, Heinrich Schenker, Miltion Babbit, and many others. And he comments on such various subjects as the amazing absorption of Stephen Foster's songs into the cannons of "black" music, the new intensity of Verdi research, controversies about performance on historical instruments, and the merits and demerits of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Comtemplating Music is fulled with wisdom and trenchant commmentary. It will spark controversy among musicologists of all stripes and will give many musicians and amateurs an entirely new perspective on the world of music.
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( Consistently praised as the best book of its kind, List...)
Consistently praised as the best book of its kind, Listen uses readable, enjoyable prose and the highest quality recordings to introduce students to the art of focused listening. Captivating discussions and concise "Listening Charts" guide students through important musical works and cultivate listening skills. With informative images, useful historical and cultural background, and interesting biographical information, the text continues to offer students the best preparation to appreciate the styles and traditions of Western music. The seventh edition of Listen is more accessible than ever before with new, more teachable listening examples and a more focused and streamlined introduction to music fundamentals. An expanded range of formats for the text and recordings—including a new, affordable streaming music option and a new, all-inclusive e-book—gives you more flexible choices and more ways to listen.
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( A critical study of the structure, style, and significa...)
A critical study of the structure, style, and significance of the sixteen string quartets. Beethoven's quartets show a technical mastery, depth of thought, and intensity of musical inspiration unsurpassed by any other composer. This brilliant survey, by one of America's leading musical scholars, has already achieved classic status.
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Notice: Kerman/Tomlinson, Listen, Eighth Edition is moving to W.W. Norton and Company Publishers. For instructors and students currently using Listen, W.H. Freeman will continue to support your teaching and learning with the textbook and its accompanying print and media resources, including LaunchPad, until July 31, 2015. Instructors interested in using Listen after August 1, 2016, should contact Norton. Generations of students have developed a love of music and focused listening skills through the enjoyable prose, high-quality recordings, unmatched Listening Charts, and historical context in Listen. In the eighth edition this classic text gets a fresh face, with a new design that enhances its clarity and accessibility, new features that help students review and synthesize important concepts, new perspectives on twentieth-century music, and new repertory that enhances students’ exposure to the forms and genres of classical music. With an array of media options including CDs, downloads, and LaunchPad with streaming music, Listen works well for any course format and any budget.
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( If one name stands out among musicologists writing toda...)
If one name stands out among musicologists writing today, that name is Joseph Kerman. Eminent, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable, Kerman's writing on musicology, opera, Beethoven, and Elizabethan music has informed and inspired an extensive audience both in America and abroad. There is much to interest both the general reader and the musicologist in this collection of twenty essays. Included are several notable pleas addressed by Kerman to his professional colleagues in an effort to get them to adopt a more critical orientation for their work. Other essays range from a moving account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the beleaguered Elizabethan Catholic minority to a discerning analysis of Beethoven's well-known obsession with the key of C minor. The controversial tenets of Kerman's classic Opera as Drama (1956) are reaffirmed in essays on Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Tristan und Isolde, Ernani and I Lombardi. Kerman's legacy to a younger generation is here, too: in an exemplary writing style, he offers challenging models for a humane and historically informed music criticism. An added gem is the Preface, which provides an intellectual and anecdotal road map of the place of the essays in Kerman's academic and public expeditions. Joseph Kerman has been at the very center of musicology for almost four decades. This overview of his work will be warmly received and greatly valued.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Listen Author: Kerman, Joseph/ Tomlinson, Gary Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education Publication Date: 2011/01/05 Number of Pages: Binding Type: CD/SPOKEN WORD Library of Congress:
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(Turn-of-the-century modernists were involved, implicated,...)
Turn-of-the-century modernists were involved, implicated, and often locked in a struggle with all the formidable legions of nineteenth-century music.The focus of this collection, essays originally published in the journal "19th-Century Music, is upon modernism in relation to its immediate heritage. Major composers whose reflections on the past come under consideration include Debussy, Mahler, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Ives, while older composers such as Liszt and Wolf figure as precursors of modernist harmony and sensibility. The contributors include many leading musicologists, critics, and music theorists known for their work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Some of the essays deal closely with the new musical languages that evolved in that era; others deal with reception and performance issues. Many of them bring together insights from various subdisciplines to achieve a richer kind of composite scholarship than is available to traditional musical studies.
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(Great book featuring the connections between the visual a...)
Great book featuring the connections between the visual arts and music. 31 color and 274 black and white illustrations of works of art - painting, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, drawings and other works. Also includes 10 diagrams, maps, chart, chronology of art and music history, bibliography. Softcover 318 pages. Measures 7 by 10 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated.
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(The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as...)
The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as a genre, Joseph Kerman observes, and in Concerto Conversations he renews the dialogue of music lovers with the language of the concerto--the familiar, the lesser-known, the cherished, and the undervalued. Concertos model human relationships, according to Kerman, and he enthusiastically conducts readers and listeners into the conversations that concertos so eloquently enact. The accompanying CD contains illustrative movements from works that Kerman treats most intensively--by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Bartók, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.
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Facsimiles and transcriptions to modern musical notation of the Beethoven papers in the Kafka sketchbook, British Museum Additional Ms. 29801.
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(A selection of the author's critical essays on music, whi...)
A selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute" and "Tristan and Isolde".
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Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues—some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving. These witty, insightful pieces, addressed to musical amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are beautifully augmented by a CD with new performances made specially for this volume. In addition to the complete scores for all the music discussed in the book, the CD features Karen Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues from TheWell-Tempered Clavier—C Major, book 1; and B Major, book 2—and recordings by Davitt Moroney of the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689, on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on harpsichord.
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Kerman, Joseph Wilfred was born on April 3, 1924 in London. United States citizen.
Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Princeton University, 1951.
Instructor music, Princeton University, 1948-1949; director graduate studies, Westminster Choir College, 1949-1951; from assistant professor to associate professor, Westminster Choir College, 1951-1960; department chairman, Westminster Choir College, 1961-1964, 91-93; professor music, University of California, Berkeley, since 1960; Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers professor music, University of California, Berkeley, 1985-1987; C.E. Norton professor poetry, Harvard University, 1997. Heather professor music University of Oxford, 1972-1974. Valentine professor music AmherstColl., 1988, Phi Beta Kappa, scholar, 1993.
(A selection of the author's critical essays on music, whi...)
(The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as...)
(The concerto has attracted relatively little attention as...)
( Consistently praised as the best book of its kind, List...)
( Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has be...)
(Turn-of-the-century modernists were involved, implicated,...)
(Facsimiles and transcriptions to modern musical notation ...)
(Designed to be an authoritative reference work, useful fo...)
( A critical study of the structure, style, and significa...)
(Focusing on operatic criticism, this work is of interest ...)
( If one name stands out among musicologists writing toda...)
( If one name stands out among musicologists writing toda...)
(Great book featuring the connections between the visual a...)
( Notice: Kerman/Tomlinson, Listen, Eighth Edition is mov...)
( Contemplating Music is a book for all serious music lov...)
(Historical study of the field by preeminent scholar.)
(Book annotation not available for this title. Title: List...)
(Dictionary of music and musicians)
(Book by Janson, Horst W., Kerman, Joseph)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
(OPERA USED FOR DRAMA.)
( Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote f...)
Fellow American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, British Academy (correspondent), Royal Musical Association (honorary foreign), American Musicol. Society (honorary).
Married, 1946; 3 children.