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Looking for the Harp Quartet: An Investigation Into Musical Beauty

Looking for the Harp Quartet: An Investigation Into Musical Beauty

Thakar, Markand

Paperback

Series: Eastman Studies in Music, Book 82

Music Instruction: GeneralMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 1580465471
ISBN13: 9781580465472
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.80 Depth: 5.90
Language: English
This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores -- with insight, patience, and humor -- profound issues at the essence of our experience. A student performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, known as the Harp, serves as a point of departure and a recurring theme. For the layperson the core of the book is five dialogues betweenIcarus, an inquiring student intensely concerned with fulfilling his highest potential as a musician, and Daedalus, a curmudgeonly, iconoclastic teacher who guides Icarus's search. Three technical articles, geared to the music professional and academic, treat the issues in greater depth.

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