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Joseph Kerman


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
April 03, 1924

Died
March 17, 2014

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Joseph Wilfred Kerman -- born Zukerman -- (1924 - 2014) was an American critic and musicologist. One of the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (published in the UK as Musicology) was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field." He was Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of California, Berkeley. ...more

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Opera as Drama

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Contemplating Music: Challe...

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Musicology

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“Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.”
Joseph Kerman, Concerto Conversations: With a 68-Minute CD

“Not even the stretto fugues of The Art of Fugue are as single-minded as the Fugue in C Major, whose twenty-seven bars include no episodes and, apart from subject entries, no more than a total of two bars of transitional music preparing the fugue’s three cadences . . . plus a miniature peroration in which the whole thing gently goes up in smoke, up to a high C we have never heard before.”
Joseph Kerman, The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715–1750

“Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger in the dyke but with his whole frame spreadeagled on a board swept along by the surf of history.”
Joseph Kerman, Musicology