Volume 41, Number 12 · June 23, 1994
Music à la Mode
By Charles Rosen
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process
by Lewis Lockwood
Harvard University Press, 320 pp., $39.95
Haydn and the Classical Variation
by Elaine R. Sisman
Harvard University Press, 311 pp., $45.00
Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of the Classical Style
by James Webster
Cambridge University Press,402 pp., $69.95
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality
by Susan McClary
University of Minnesota Press, 220 pp., $39.95; $14.95 (paper)
Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception
edited by Richard Leppert and Susan McClary
Cambridge University Press, 202 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship
edited by Ruth A. Solie
University of California Press, 355 pp., $35.00
Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas
Routledge, 357 pp., $49.95; $16.95 (paper)
Almost everyone agrees that performing and listening to music are primary activities; writing about music is secondary, parasitical. Ideally, musicologists ought to write for listeners and performers. In real life, they write for other musicologists. Because they have to.
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