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Perspectives on music / [edited by] Leroy Ostransky.

Author/creator Ostransky, Leroy
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Description430 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Contents How we listen / Aaron Copland -- Image processes and connotation / Leonard B. Meyer -- The language of music / Oscar Thompson -- Listening to the musical elements / Henry E. Krehbiel -- The beginning of orchestration / Louis Adolphe Coerne -- The orchestra & the conductor / Hector Berlioz -- Program music and Richard Strauss / Frederick Niecks -- The national schools / Homer Ulrich -- Introduction to form / Albert Lavignac -- A digest of form / U.S. Navy School of Music -- Chamber music / Donald Francis Tovey -- Four Russians called Budapest / Philip Hart -- Introduction to the symphony / Philip H. Goepp -- The invention of the symphony / Frederic Louis Ritter -- Jascha Heifetz / Charles O'Connell -- Vladimir Horowitz / Abram Chasins -- The amateur pianist / Ernest Hutcheson -- Chopin at 38 / Herbert Weinstock -- The dawn of the art / William J. Henderson -- Tenors & baritones / Henry C. Lahee -- The heyday of opera / Lionel Salter -- The grand romantic ballets / Humphrey Searle -- The ritual chant of the Catholic church / Edward Dickinson -- The chorale in the church service / Albert Schweitzer -- Troubadours, Trouvères, and Minnesingers / Wilhelm Langhans -- Orlande de Lassus / Edna Richolson Sollitt -- Bach / Richard Anthony Leonard -- The weather at Mozart's funeral / Nicolas Slonimsky -- Beethoven and his contemporaries / Ludwig Nohl, editor -- The impressionists / Kurt Pahlen -- Bartók in America / Halsey Stevens -- Whatever happened to that great American symphony ? / Leonard Bernstein -- Jazz : some early difficulties / Leroy Ostransky.
Abstract Aaron Copland, Hector Berlioz, Leonard Bernstein, Albert Schweitzer and other musicians of past and present comment on music; its elements, orchestration, form, the symphony, chamber music, tenors and baritones, ballet, ritual chants, and jazz. Each author makes a strong plea for a better understanding of music, and gives insights to greater and deeper enjoyment of music. Thirty-three unique essays show how the vital cycle of music continues through the ages. This is the first collection of writings by acknowledged authorities in music - each giving his views on his own particular musical discipline. It offers a fresh approach to music appreciation and understanding that has been developed by Dr. Ostransky over a period of fifteen years' teaching experience.
LCCN 63009750

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML90.O75 P4 1963 ✔ Available Place Hold