The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism

by Harry Haskell and Annabeth Albert

This historical anthology shows the evolution of music journalism and its place in Western culture over the past three centuries and illustrates the richness, variety, and vitality of music criticism as both an intellectual enterprise and a literary genre. Because little music criticism in foreign languages is accessible to English-speaking readers, Harry Haskell has made a special point of exemplifying regional traditions of critical writing from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026416
• ISBN13: 9780691026411
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.6"