Book Review
Apr. 27th, 2008 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariComposers on Music
An Anthology of Composers Writings from Palestrina to Copland
edited by Sam Morgenstern
This book was published in 1956 (I picked it up used and cheap at Powell's), and it does show its age: the introductions to each section suffer a bit from both the great man and developmental progression approaches to music history, and no women are included anywhere. However, many of the excerpts were quite interesting and also served to point me in the direction of other books I might like to read. I was particularly interested in the way certain themes kept recurring across eras and styles: the proper way to set text, the balance of music and drama in opera, the direction in which music and the composer's profession area headed.
An Anthology of Composers Writings from Palestrina to Copland
edited by Sam Morgenstern
This book was published in 1956 (I picked it up used and cheap at Powell's), and it does show its age: the introductions to each section suffer a bit from both the great man and developmental progression approaches to music history, and no women are included anywhere. However, many of the excerpts were quite interesting and also served to point me in the direction of other books I might like to read. I was particularly interested in the way certain themes kept recurring across eras and styles: the proper way to set text, the balance of music and drama in opera, the direction in which music and the composer's profession area headed.
