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The Oxford Companion to Music defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". [1] In this sense, it is a branch of musical aesthetics. With the concurrent expansion of interest in music and information media since the ...
Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [2] The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to ...
Sir Donald Francis Tovey 's Essays in Musical Analysis[1][2] are a series of analytical essays on classical music. The essays came into existence as programme notes, written by Tovey, to accompany concerts given (mostly under his own baton) by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh. Between 1935 and 1939, they were published in six volumes as Essays ...
Peter Stadlen, music critic from 1959, chief music critic, 1976–85. [40] Colin Mason, music critic from 1964. Anthony Payne, 1965-1987. Gerald Abraham, 1967–68 (filling in for both Stadlen and Cooper). Michael Kennedy, staff music critic from 1950, joint chief music critic, 1986–2005.
The paper accepted, published, and paid for the article. "And suddenly," Page writes in his memoir, "I was a music critic." [4] Over the next several years, Page continued writing for the SoHo Weekly News and other publications while hosting a contemporary music program on the Columbia radio station WKCR. [12]
Hector Berlioz, active as a music journalist in Paris in the 1830s and 1840s. Music journalism has its roots in classical music criticism, which has traditionally comprised the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of music that has been composed and notated in a score and the evaluation of the performance of classical songs and pieces, such as symphonies and concertos.
Eduard Hanslick (11 September 1825 – 6 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. [1] Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the Neue Freie Presse from 1864 until the end of his life. His best known work, the 1854 treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (On the Musically Beautiful), was a ...
Schenkerian analysis is a method of analyzing tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal is to demonstrate the organic coherence of the work by showing how the "foreground" (all notes in the score) relates to an abstracted deep structure, the Ursatz. This primal structure is roughly the same for any tonal ...