In <I>Composition and Cognition</I>, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented theories. At times personal an ...
On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877−1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached America ...
Воспоминания скрипача Леопольда Ауэра, в которых перед читателем предстает целая галерея выдающихся музыкантов и малоизвестные подробности их жизни, описывается борьба музыкальных направлений во второй половине XIX века, особенное внимание уделено русской музыкальной жизни и ее любопытным особенностям. Для широкого круга читателей. ...
