In this book, Lydia Goehr describes how the concept of a musical work fully crystallized around 1800, and subsequently defined the norms, expectations, and behavioral patterns that have come to characterize classical musical practice. The description is set in the context of a more general philosophical account of the rise and fall of concepts and ideals, and of their normative functions; at the same time, debates amongst conductors, early-music performers, and avant-gardists are addressed.
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In this book, Lydia Goehr describes how the concept of a musical work fully crystallized around 1800, and subsequently defined the norms, expectations, and behavioral patterns that have come to characterize classical musical practice. The description is set in the context of a more general philosophical account of the rise and fall of concepts and ideals, and of their normative functions; at the same time, debates amongst conductors, early-music performers, and avant-gardists are addressed.
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To a reader who is deeply enmeshed in composition and performance of the "classical" repertoire, this investigation offers little new insight. Some segments are enjoyable in terms of transcending conventional norms of music criticism, but the great lengths exploring artificial criteria (e.g., why Beethoven's Fifth should be considered a landmark) remain oddly inconclusive.