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How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various 'theories' and 'methods', but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interpreters of many kinds. Ranging widely, though taking writing within the Western tradition of art history as its primary focus, Interpreting Art highlights the norms, premises, and patterns that tend to guide interpretation along the way. Why, for example, is the concept of artistic 'intention' at once so reviled and yet so hard to let go of? What does it really involve when an interpretation appeals to an artwork's 'reception'? How can 'context' be used by some to keep things under control and by others to make the interpretation of art seem limitless? And how is it that artworks only seem to grow in complexity over time? Interpreting Art reveals subtle features of art writing central to the often unnoticed interpretative practices through which we understand works of art. In doing so, the book also sheds light on possible alternatives, pointing to how writers on art might choose to operate differently in the future.

Art appreciation.

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"Father Owen Lee is internationally known for his intermission commentaries featured during the Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne gathers together for the first time Father Lee's best broadcast and cassette commentaries, public lectures, and articles on twenty-three works for the musical stage. The essays range from the pioneering Orpheus of Monteverdi to the forward-looking Ariadne of Richard Strauss." "Opera lovers, or anyone interested in psychology and mythology, humanities and comparative literature, or the art of the essay will welcome this book."--Jacket.

Operas --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Analysis, appreciation

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Michael Steinberg presents a volume of descriptive-analytical essays on the great masterpieces in the supremely inspiring repertoire for chorus & orchestra.

Choral music --- Analysis, appreciation.

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Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this comprehensive and unique survey, here are the songs that sit at the heart of the jazz repertoire, ranging from ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" and ""Autumn in New York"" to ""God Bless the Child,"" ""How High the Moon,"" and ""I Can't Give You Anything But Love."" Gioia includes Broadway show tunes written by such greats as George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, and classics by such famed jazz musicians as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, an

Jazz --- Analysis, appreciation.

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Das Buch versucht ein in der Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnendes Verständnis von "Musik als Wahrnehmungskunst" (Helmut Lachenmann) für die Musikwissenschaft fruchtbar zu machen: Die ineinander verschränkten Konzepte der performativen Analyse und des performativen Hörens rücken Wahrnehmungsprozesse ins Zentrum musikologischer Methodik. Zum einen wird dabei die zentrale Stellung von Klang, Zeit und Raum in der neuen Musik seit 1900 in breite musikhistorische und -ästhetische Diskurse eingebettet, zum anderen wird mit dem Prinzip der musikalischen Morphosyntax klangliche Materialität als Ausgangspunkt hörend-analytischer Aktivität begriffen. Wahrnehmung posttonaler Musik ist als performative Aktivität durch die Erfahrungen des Alltags- und Musikhörens vielfältig ausgestaltbar und dabei durch eine Verflechtung von morphologischen und metaphorischen Schichten geprägt. Die Analysen werfen so neue Perspektiven auf ein breites Spektrum posttonaler Instrumentalmusik von Arnold Schönberg, Edgard Varèse, Giacinto Scelsi, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino und Isabel Mundry.

Music appreciation. --- Musical analysis.