Witnesses and Scholars: Studies in Musical Biography

by H. Lenneberg

Overview

First Published in 1988. This is Volume 5 of seven in the Musicology: A Book Series. Witnesses and Scholars, is a collection studies in musical biography. The series covers a creative range of musical topics, from historical and theoretical subjects to social and philosophical studies. Volumes thus far published show the extent of this broad spectrum. disciplinary studies, ethnomusicological works, and performance analyses. With this series, it is the aim to expand the field and definition of musical exploration and research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134287659
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Series:	Musicology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	385 KB

About the Author

Hans Lennerberg University of Chicago

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series

Acknowledgments

Biography and History

Collecting Musical Biographies in the Eighteenth Century

Giorgio Vasari and Musical Biography

Toward a Composite Portrait of the

Eighteenth-Century Musician

Collective Biography and National Pride

Witnesses, Scholars and Would-Be Scholars:

Musical Biography at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

The Composer as Romantic Hero

Around Wasielewski and his Schumann Biography

The Memoirs of Eduard Hanslick

Does Documentary Biography Have a Future?

Autobiography, Creativity and Musical Meaning

Bibliography

Index