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Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone
Edward T. Cone
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Hardback. 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. This title collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years. It represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music. Editor(s): Morgan, Robert P. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 line illus. 12 tables. 31 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and that were left unpublished at his death.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. ... Read more
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 Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and that were left unpublished at his death.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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691140117
SKU
V9780691140117
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About Edward T. Cone
Edward T. Cone (1917-2004) was professor emeritus of music at Princeton University, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1985. He wrote two of the twentieth century's most influential books about "Western music, Musical Forms and Musical Performance" (Norton) and "The Composer's Voice". Robert P. Morgan is professor emeritus of music at Yale University and the editor of ... Read more
Reviews for Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone
"While eclectic in its subject matter, this invaluable collection of Cone's final essays offers a great deal to readers. Whether the essays arguably reflect autumnal or emerging ideas, Cone's astonishing clarity of exposition and openness, his intellectual reach, and continual self-reflexivity ... almost make his writing seem timeless in its appeal for musicians and music scholars across the disciplinary spectrum."
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