- Hardcover: 492 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (27 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906497214
- ISBN-13: 978-1906497217
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.2 x 3.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 288,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Adorno is one of the most subtle, incisive, and critically profound thinkers active today. A creative musician himself, he is simultaneously gifted with an analytical ability and capacity for verbal expression whose precision and illuminating power are unparalleled." - Thomas Mann"
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Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. "Night Music" presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorno - "Moments musicaux", containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and "Theory of New Music", a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955. In "Moments musicaux", Adorno echoes Schubert's eponymous cycle, with its emphasis on aphorism, and offers lyrical reflections on music of the past and his own time. The essays include extended aesthetic analyses that demonstrate Adorno's aim to apply high philosophical standards to the study of music. "Theory of New Music", as its title indicates, presents Adorno's thoughts and theories on the composition, reception, and analysis of the music that was being written around him. His extensive philosophical writing ultimately prevented him from pursuing the compositional career he had once envisaged, but his view of the modern music of the time is not simply that of a theorist, but clearly also that of a composer. Though his advocacy of the Second Viennese School, comprising composer Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, is well known, many of his writings in this field have remained obscure. Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts in "Night Music" show the breadth of Adorno's musical understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this significant thinker.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I fully agree with Mr. Alvarez that it is great to have an English translation of these text, but that the edition is lacking in many respects: not having an index, there are no references to the original texts (only to the edition of collected works), not including any notes. All these aspects make this edition not very useful for academic work, while that would appear to be the most obvious reason to translate such a work.
And, but that is my personal opinion, the styling of the book is absolutely fiendish. Both the glittering dust jacket and the curly font of the page headers seem strangely inappropriate for Adorno.
And, but that is my personal opinion, the styling of the book is absolutely fiendish. Both the glittering dust jacket and the curly font of the page headers seem strangely inappropriate for Adorno.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Although the work of the new translator for these texts is praise worthy, it's such a pity that it has been so poorly edited and printed. For the same price I would have preferred a better edited Paperback rather than this cheap Hardcover edition. An Index and some notes would also have made this wonderful compilation of texts much better.
As the translator himself explains in his brief introduction, the book's claim to be a collection of writings chosen by Adorno himself is slightly wrong, as that is the case only for the first part of the book (the second part being compiled by Rolf Tiedemann).
As the translator himself explains in his brief introduction, the book's claim to be a collection of writings chosen by Adorno himself is slightly wrong, as that is the case only for the first part of the book (the second part being compiled by Rolf Tiedemann).
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8 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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22 Dec 2009
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While it is good to have translations of these essays, the lack of editorial ambition in comparison to Leppert's Adorno: Essays on Music is disappointing, the translator Wieland Hoban's disclaimer notwithstanding. With the exception of the Introduction, all we are given is the date of composition/revision at the end of each essay. Granted the intention was not to produce a scholarly edition, but I suspect that the reader of this collection is unlikely to be satisfied by the unvarnished text and the basic information found in the Introduction. The 1928 essay 'Schubert', found in an earlier translation (by Rodney Livingstone) in the collection 'Can One Live After Auschwitz' as Hoban notes, has also been rendered into English by Jonathan Dunsby and Beate Perrey in the journal 19th-Century Music (Vol. 29/1, 2005, p. 3-14). Their accompanying discussion (short but stimulating) of the difficulties of translating the essay surely warrants a footnote here for the benefit of curious readers.
Whatever one may think of Adorno (and, I have to confess, I have yet to be convinced), it certainly does not help to publish what seems to be a well-designed book with a pagination error: pages 353-368 occur in the order 357, 354-5, 360, 353, 358-9, 356, 365, 362-3, 368, 361, 366-7, 364. I was tempted to return it, but, short of a reprint, another copy is unlikely to be any better. And speaking of footnotes, is it too much to ask that they appear on the same page as the reference?
Whatever one may think of Adorno (and, I have to confess, I have yet to be convinced), it certainly does not help to publish what seems to be a well-designed book with a pagination error: pages 353-368 occur in the order 357, 354-5, 360, 353, 358-9, 356, 365, 362-3, 368, 361, 366-7, 364. I was tempted to return it, but, short of a reprint, another copy is unlikely to be any better. And speaking of footnotes, is it too much to ask that they appear on the same page as the reference?
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