{"product_id":"musicology-and-performance-9780300068054","title":"Musicology and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Henry Lang | Alfred Mann | George J. Buelow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Reference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the \u003ci\u003eMusical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film \u003ci\u003eAmadeus\u003c\/i\u003e, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of \u003cbr\u003eauthenticity in performance.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614701568151,"sku":"9780300068054","price":7192.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300068054.webp?v=1775095649","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/musicology-and-performance-9780300068054","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}