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Author Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Title Why classical music still matters / Lawrence Kramer.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  781.68 K86w 2007    ---  Available
Description viii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Note "Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
Contents Classical music and its values -- The fate of melody and the dream of return -- Score and performance, performance and film : classical music as liberating energy -- But not for me : love song and the heartache of modern life -- The ghost in the machine : keyboard rhapsodies -- Crisis and memory : the music of lost time -- Persephone's fiddle : the value of classical music.
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
ISBN 0520250826 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520250826 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2486137
NLGGC 302418350

 
    
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