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Opera and the morbidity of music

"In this wide-ranging collection of essays and reviews, Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, from the days of Guillaume Dufay, John Taverner, and William Byrd to contemporary operas by Philip Glass and John Adams."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2008
New York Review Books, New York, 2008
reviews (documents)
xv, 373 pages ; 22 cm.
9781590172650, 1590172655
166367932
Classical music: rise and fall, and rise
Opera and the morbidity of music
Two cheers for Rach 3
Labyrinth music
William Byrd and the Catholics
The operas of Monteverdi
Bach: a short life
A guide to the Well-tempered clavier
Wilfrid Mellers on Bach
Mozart: four biographies
Mozart's last year
Playing Mozart: the piano concertos
The magic flute
Sonata forms
Beethoven: works and life
Beethoven hero
Text and act: Beethoven's concertos
Three riffs on the nineth
The romantic generation
Schubert's songs
Berlioz: a life
Reading opera
Verdi: a life
Verdi: the late operas
Wagner and Wagnerism
A ring of San Francisco
Bayreuth, 2001
The art of the program note
Maria Callas (1923-1977)
Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004)