{"product_id":"musicology-and-performance-hardcover","title":"Musicology and Performance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Henry Lang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlfred Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGeorge J. Buelow\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the \u003ci\u003eMusical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film \u003ci\u003eAmadeus\u003c\/i\u003e, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of \u003cbr\u003eauthenticity in performance.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of America's foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of music subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred Mann \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. \u003cb\u003eGeorge J. Buelow \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of musicology at Indiana University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.56 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53099925831987,"sku":"9780300068054","price":138.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aitSdU8rQ0RxWXJuc1A0N3BsZzJvdz09.webp?v=1772481489","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/musicology-and-performance-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}