Hearing and Knowing Music : : The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone / / Edward T. Cone; ed. by Robert P. Morgan.

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• VerfasserIn: Cone, Edward T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Morgan, Robert P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 line illus. 12 tables. 31 musical examples.

Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and that were left unpublished at his death. Edited and introduced by Robert Morgan, these essays cover a broad range of topics, including music's position in culture, musical aesthetics, the significance of opera as an art, setting text to music, the nature of twentieth-century harmony and form, and the practice of musical analysis. Fully matching the quality and style of Cone's published writings, these essays mark a critical addition to his work, developing new ideas, such as the composer as critic; clarifying and modifying older positions, especially regarding opera and the nature of sung utterance; and adding new and often unexpected insights on composers and ideas previously discussed by Cone. In addition, there are essays, such as one on Debussy, that lead Cone into areas he had not previously examined. Hearing and Knowing Music represents the final testament of one of our most important writers on music.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Musical Examples -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Aesthetics -- Introduction -- Essay One: The Missing Composer -- Essay Two: The Silent Partner -- Essay Three: The Irrelevance of Tonality? -- Essay Four: Hearing and Knowing Music -- Part II: Opera and Song -- Essay Five: Mozart's Deceptions -- Essay Six: Siegfried at the Dragon's Cave: The Motivic Language of The Ring -- Essay Seven: Schubert's Heine Songs -- Part III: The Composer as Critic -- Essay Eight: The Composer as Critic -- Essay Nine: Schubert Criticizes Schubert -- Part IV: Analysis -- Essay Ten: Schubert's Symphonic Poem -- Essay Eleven: Debussy's Art of Suggestion -- Essay Twelve: Stravinsky at the Tomb of Rimsky-Korsakov -- Essay Thirteen: Stravinsky's Version of Pastoral -- Essay Fourteen: Stravinsky's Sense of Form -- Published Works of Edward T. Cone -- Index