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Is There A Moment In History When A Work Receives Its Ideal Interpretation? Or Is Negotiation Always Required To Preserve The Past And Accommodate The Present? The Freedom Of Interpretation, Charles Rosen Suggests In These Sparkling Explorations Of Music And Literature, Exists In A Delicate Balance With Fidelity To The Identity Of The Original Work. Rosen Cautions Us To Avoid Doctrinaire Extremes When Approaching Art Of The Past. To Understand Shakespeare Only As An Elizabethan Or Jacobean Theatergoer Would Understand Him, Or To Modernize His Plays With No Sense Of What They Bring From His Age, Deforms The Work, Making It Less Ambiguous And Inherently Less Interesting. For A Work To Remain Alive, It Must Change Character Over Time While Preserving A Valid Witness To Its Earliest State. When Twentieth-century Scholars Transformed Mozart's Bland, Idealized Nineteenth-century Image Into That Of A Modern Revolutionary Expressionist, They Paradoxically Restored The Reputation He Had Among His Eighteenth-century Contemporaries. Mozart Became Once Again A Complex Innovator, Challenging To Perform And To Understand. Drawing On A Variety Of Critical Methods, Rosen Maintains That Listening O

Author

Charles Rosen

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674065499

Subjects

History, Music, Literary Criticism

Rating

3.65 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14