Musicology and Performance - Hardcover

Lang, Paul Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300068050 ISBN 13: 9780300068054

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death.

Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of
authenticity in performance.

About this title

About the Author:

Alfred Mann is professor emeritus of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. George J. Buelow is professor of musicology at Indiana University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0300068050
• ISBN 13: 9780300068054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Mann Alfred, Buelow George J.