Musicology and Performance

by Paul Henry Lang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068050
• ISBN13: 9780300068054
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"