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Title: The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen ISBN: 0-393-31712-9 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic writing about Classical music
Comment: Charles Rosen by now has attained a place among musical analysts on a par with the likes of Tovey and Grout, though his style is very different from either of these luminaries. Taking the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as the pinnacle of the musical style that developed in the late eighteenth-century, Rosen explains how around 1775 there was a decisive shift away from the High Baroque style of Bach and Handel, and why this new music was different. After his general introduction to the style most of the book explores different genres, symphony, opera, concerto and string quartet among them, to create a lucid and multi-faceted picture of how these three great composers approached and solved common musical and formal problems. The new edition adds a preface that addresses criticisms of the original book and an additional late chapter on Beethoven.
Rosen's writing, though it can be dense and repetitive, at its best is unmatched in its ability to relate analysis to what actually is heard by a listener. To this end, an ability to read and understand the copious and detailed musical examples is essential to fully grasping his points--this book is not for the casual amateur. But to those willing to do the work, The Classical Style remains as richly rewarding after three-plus decades as when it first appeared. As another reviewer has mentioned, it is a book one returns to again and again simply for the sheer pleasure of reading it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rosen's The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
Comment: I am not a Classical Music Expert but I am slowly learning it (most of my book reviews are in mathematics and physics). One of the reviewers criticizes Rosen for some technical reasons that I cannot evaluate. However, I do know that many universities recommend Rosen's book, so the critic is not entirely without his own critics. I find this book endlessly engrossing, as some of the reviewers have. You cannnot come away from this book without understanding many of the main differences between and among Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and between Classical, Baroque, and Romance music. I was especially interested to find that Beethoven, widely touted as an immoral person in some of the popular media, was in fact a person of great moral character (and the popular impression of Mozart seems to be wrong too, although there is less information on this). Those who believe that creative genius is stimulated by severe suffering (Beethoven, Van Gogh in art, Godel in mathematical logic, Galileo in physics and astronomy, etc.) will find much material in this book that seems to indicate the accuracy of this theory more or less. This is also a book that tells you what Haydn learned from Mozart and Mozart from Haydn, what Beethoven thought of Mozart and Schubert, what classical music learned from Baroque music and so on.
Rating: 5
Summary: If this is a three star book what's a five star book?
Comment: This is a beautifully written and illustrated book on a noble subject. On the basis of that rarity alone it deserves five stars.
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Title: The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen ISBN: 0674779347 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sonata Forms by Charles Rosen ISBN: 0393302199 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen ISBN: 0743203828 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion by Charles Rosen ISBN: 0300090706 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Beethoven by Maynard Solomon ISBN: 0825672686 Publisher: Schirmer Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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