Engaging Haydn

Engaging Haydn

Author: Mary Kathleen Hunter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1107015146

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Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.


Modern Enchantments

Modern Enchantments

Author: Simon During

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780674013711

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Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?