Looking for the "Harp" Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Beauty - Couverture souple

Thakar, Markand

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1580465471 ISBN 13 : 9781580465472

Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores -- with insight, patience, and humor -- profound issues at the essence of our experience. A student performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, known as the "Harp," serves as a point of departure and a recurring theme. For the layperson the core of the book is five dialogues betweenIcarus, an inquiring student intensely concerned with fulfilling his highest potential as a musician, and Daedalus, a curmudgeonly, iconoclastic teacher who guides Icarus's search. Three technical articles, geared to the music professional and academic, treat the issues in greater depth.
Supplementary online audio files and musical examples.

Markand Thakar, music director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, is an internationally renownedpedagogue of conducting. A protégé of the legendary Sergiu Celibidache and former assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Thakar is author of On the Principles and Practice of Conducting (University of RochesterPress, 2016) and Counterpoint: Fundamentals of Music Making (Yale University Press, 1990).

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MARKAND THAKAR is an American conductor and music director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Rochester Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1580465471
• ISBN 13: 9781580465472
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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