Music – View from Delft (Paper): A View from Delft. Selected Essays - Softcover

Cone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226114708 ISBN 13: 9780226114705

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

Included in these eighteen essays by Cone are his never-before-published essay, "The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants," the unabridged version of "Music: A View from Delft," an introduction to this collection by the author himself, and a complete bibliography of his published writings. "This selection of [Cone's] writings includes all the most incandescent and influential articles. We should have had such a book long ago."--Joseph Kerman, University of California at Berkeley Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for 1990

About this title

About the Author

Robert P. Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University. Active as both a theorist and historian, his book Twentieth-Century Music (1991) has been a standard text for over twenty years. He has published numerous other books as editor, including Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives (1991), Modern Times (1993) and Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone (2009). He has served as Chair of the Music Departments at both the University of Chicago and Yale University and was a recipient of grants from the German Government and the National Endowment for the Humanities, plus a Burlington Northern Achievement Award for distinction in graduate teaching in Humanities at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of numerous advisory, executive, and editorial boards and was Chair of the Visiting Committee of the Music Department at Harvard University and twice a faculty member of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226114708
• ISBN 13: 9780226114705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352