Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations

Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and beyond.

How do we know what notes a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be played and sung? -- the nature of musical life in Bach's Leipzig, Schubert's Vienna? -- how music related to literature and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580463010
• ISBN13: 9781580463010
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"