Landscapes in Music: Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music

by David B. Knight

Book Overview

Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of time and space; waterscapes; imagined and mythic spaces; the search for meaning in extreme landscapes; and realms of death, survival, and remembrance. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742541150
• ISBN13: 9780742541153
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"