Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
Part IV - Entering the Twentieth Century
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The development of serious music criticism in Canada and the United States has paralleled in many ways the more general growth of music in the two nations. Musical independence from Europe came somewhat later than in the other arts. Eurocentric critics based their evaluative criteria on European models; even today vestiges of this subservience remain. Nevertheless, reviews in the United States and Canada have usually been more reportorial than their European counterparts, which tend more towards analysis and reflection; as a result, the focus has been on timeliness and objectivity, although certainly biases are by no means absent.
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- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism , pp. 291 - 456Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019