«Rosen conoce la música a la perfección: sus secretos, sus asombrosas innovaciones armónicas y estructurales, y también los problemas y placeres de su interpretación. Escribe no como un musicólogo, sino como...
¿Cómo actúa la música sobre los sentidos para despertar sentimientos de alegría, tristeza, entusiasmo o nostalgia? Aunque el sentimiento y la emoción desempeñan un papel vital en la composición, inte...
Las sonatas para piano de Beethoven constituyen una de las colecciones de obras más importantes de la historia de la música. Compuestas a lo largo de varias décadas de la vida del artista, no tardaron en ser consideradas el primer...
Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-centuryâs greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards.
This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary societyâs dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Ervin...
This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary societyâs dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Ervin...
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music...
Among the world's instruments, the piano stands out as the most versatile, powerful, and misunderstood -- even by those who have spent much of their lives learning to play. In Piano Notes, a finalist for a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, Charles...
Originally the content of three lectures given in Rome in 1993, this work offers a study of music, as text, as performance, and as listening experience.
In this remarkable study, now an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971, Charles Rosen surveys the language of the music of the classical period. He concentrates on the three major figures of the time - Haydn,...
What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic...
In this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge to conventional musical forms. Rosen argues that Schoenberg's music, with its atonality and dissonance,...
In his prize-winning book The Classical Style, Charles Rosen says of sonata form: "[It] is not a definite form like a minuet, a da capo aria, or a French overture; it is, like the fugue, a way of writing, a feeling for proportion, direction, and texture...