Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez (in Honor of Charles Rosen on his Eightieth Birthday) (Eastman Studies in Music) Review

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Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on his Eightieth Birthday
I. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Joseph Kerman. "Fugue and its Discontents."
David Schulenberg. "Fugues, Form, and Fingering: Sonata Style in Bach's
Preludes and Fugues."

II. HAYDN & MOZART
László Somfai. "Notational Irregularities Signalizing New Style. The Case of Haydn's F-minor `Sun' Quartet."
Richard Kramer. "The Fugal Moment: On a few bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major."
III. BEETHOVEN
William Kinderman. "A Tale of Two Quintets: Mozart's K. 452 and
Beethoven's Op. 16."
Lewis Lockwood. "Vestas Feuer: Beethoven on the Path to Leonore."
Robert L. Marshall. "Sonority and Structure: Observations on Beethoven's Early
and Middle-Period Piano Compositions."
Robert Winter. "Recomposing the Grosse Fuge: Beethoven and Op. 134."

IV. THE ROMANTIC GENERATION
Julian Rushton. "Schubert, the Tarantella, and the Quartettsatz D. 703."
Jeffrey Kallberg. "On the scherzando Nocturne."
Robert P. Morgan. "Chopin's Modular Forms."
V. ITALIAN OPERA
Philip Gossett. "The Hot and the Cold: Verdi Writes to Antonio Somma about Re Lear."
VI. THE MODERNIST TRADITION
Walter Frisch. "The Ironic German: Schoenberg and the Serenade, Op. 24."
David Gable. "Words for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen, and `Allover' Painting."
VII. CRITICISM & THE CRITIC [Rosen]
James Webster. "Rosen's Modernist Haydn."
Leo Treitler. "Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits:
Should We Adore Adorno?"
Scott Burnham. "The Music of a Classical Style."
Charles Rosen. "Montaigne hors de son propos."
TRIBUTES
Pierre Boulez: "Une culture vraiment intimidante."
Elliott Carter: "Charles Rosen for his 80th Birthday."
Charles Mackerras. "Charles Rosen: A Personal Appreciation by a Contemporary."
Charles Rosen: Discography & Bibliography.

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Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on the living "canonical" repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music. However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the modern Western musical tradition. Contributors: Pierre Boulez, Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian Rushton, David Schulenberg, László Somfai, Leo Treitler, James Webster, and Robert Winter. Robert Curry is principal of the Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is assistant professor of music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.

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