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"The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking is a masterclass for music lovers. In interviews originally conducted and published in French, Rosen's friend Catherine Temerson asks carefully crafted questions to elicit his insights on the evolution of music-not to mention painting, theater, science, and modernism. Rosen touches on the usefulness of aesthetic reflection, the pleasure of overcoming stage fright, and the drama of conquering a technically difficult passage. He tells vivid stories on composers from Chopin and Wagner to Stravinsky and Elliott Carter. In Temerson's questions and Rosen's responses arise conundrums both practical and metaphysical. Is it possible to understand a work without analyzing it? Does music exist if it isn't played? Rosen takes readers to the heart of the musical matter. 'Music is a way of instructing the soul, making it more sensitive,' he says, 'but it is useful only insofar as it is pleasurable. This pleasure is manifest to anyone who experiences music as an inexorable need of body and mind.'"-- Provided by publisher

In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Rosen places Beethoven's sonatas in context and provides an understanding of the formal principles involved in interpreting and performing this unique repertoire. Includes a CD of the author performing extracts from several of the works.

This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Erving Goffman as total institutions." Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to exclude the audience, turning an encompassing stage structure a closed, controlling, absolute system into a protagonist that overwhelms the characters. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Styl klasyczny rozbija popularny mit o rzekomej jasności, spójności i ostatecznym kształcie naszego poglądu na tę – zdawało by się – najmniej kontrowersyjną i zupełnie niemodną wśród „ambitnych” badaczy epokę w historii muzyki. Zaletą Stylu klasycznego jest to, że napisał go człowiek łączący muzykologiczną erudycję (choć formalnie muzykologiem nie jest) i poszanowanie dla źródeł, ścisłość epistemologiczną i wrażliwość artysty. Analizy i syntezy Rosena nie są „publicznym odczytywaniem nut”, lecz subtelnym zapisem obcowania z muzyką w jej realnym dźwiękowym kształcie, zapisem niekiedy subiektywnym, ale zawsze bardzo sugestywnym, wspartym wiedzą historyczną, doświadczeniem praktyka i potężną dawką zdrowego rozsądku...

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Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is perpetual negotiation required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work.

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? This title details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. It traces the use of radically changing intensities in the Romantic works of the nineteenth century.

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 the book, Rosen concentrates on the three major figures of the time - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - because 'it is in terms of their achievements that the musical vernacular can best be defined'. In this expanded edition, Rosen follows the development of each composer's best known genres: for Haydn, the symphony and string quartet;

Americký klavirista a teoretik Charles Rosen na seba upozornil najmä týmto textom. Napísal ho roku 1971 a pre druhé vydanie (1997) pripravil jeho rozšírenú verziu. Autor s obdivuhodným pochopením podstaty problematiky odhaľuje rôzne aspekty hudobného klasicizmu vo svojich vrcholných prejavoch. Popričlenení na hudbu troch majstrov viedenského klasicizmu je tu azda ešte podnetnejšie členenie na charakteristické žánre: sláčikové kvarteto, vážna opera, koncert, sláčikové kvinteto, komická opera, klavírne trio atď. „Vzťah klasicistického štýlu k anonymnému štýlu či k bežnému hudobnému jazyku z konca 18. storočia spočíva v tom, že klasicistický štýl predstavuje nielen syntézu umeleckých možností doby, ale aj očistenie od nepodstatných zvyškov predošlej tradície.“