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Looking for the "Harp" Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Beauty (82)

Author(s): Markand Thakar (Author)

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Publication Date: 30 Jan. 2011
Language: English
Print length: 227 pages
ISBN-10: 1580463460
ISBN-13: 9781580463461

Book Description

This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores — with insight, patience, and humor — profound issues at the essence of our experience. A student pSupplementary online audio files and musical examples.

Markand Thakar is Music Director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and a member of the graduate conducting faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Thakar’s ideas are valuable, his exposition of them is clear, and the book is supported by materials on his website, including sound files. . . . Would be useful as the main text in an upper-level or graduate seminar, or as a component of a survey of analA journey to discover where beauty lives in music. . . . It is rare for schooling to be this blissful. –Composer and radio host Kile Smith. See his full posting at http://www.kilesmith.com/2011/04/20/looking-for-the-harp-quartet

A thoughtful inquiry into the nature of beauty and the aesthetic experience. . . . Will serve not only those interested in exploring the “transcendent” aesthetic experience, but also those who labor to embody their art through performance. CHOICE

A 225-page tour de force. . . . An exercise in academic excellence and a seminal contribution for personal, professional, and academic Classical Music Studies reference collections and supplemental readings lists. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

Markand Thakar’s playful Socratic-like dialogue acts out a kind of performer’s odyssey toward the ideal performance, toward making one particular strand of Western classical music all that it can be. SCOTT BURNHAM, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

About the Author

MARKAND THAKAR is an American conductor and music director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.

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Looking for the "Harp" Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Beauty (82)

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