From my list on scholarly and popular-science books that both pros and amateurs can enjoy.
Why am I passionate about this?
I am an academic researcher and an avid non-fiction reader. There are many popular books on science or music, but itās much harder to find texts that manage to occupy the space between popular and professional writing. Iāve always been looking for this kind of book, whether on physics, music, AI, or math ā even when I knew that as a non-pro, I wouldnāt be able to understand everything. In my new book Iāve been trying to accomplish something similar: A book that can intrigue readers who are not professional economic theorists, that they will find interesting even if they canāt follow everything.
Ran's book list on scholarly and popular-science books that both pros and amateurs can enjoy
Why did Ran love this book?
Although I am a classical music fan, 19th-century romanticism isnāt generally my cup of tea. And yet, I couldnāt stop reading Charles Rosenās book about the romantic composers in 1830-1850.
While Richard Taruskin was an academic scholar with a side gig as a performer, with Charles Rosen, the situation was reversed. His identity as a professional pianist is quite palpable in this book. However, as with Taruskin, I enjoyed how Rosen was able to move back and forth between analyses of musical scores and discussions of the wider European culture in the 19th century.
This book helped me become a huge fan of Schumannās piano music. What more can one ask from a book on music?
1 author picked The Romantic Generation as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sense of Romantic music. In readings uniquely informed by his performing experience, Rosen offers consistently acute and thoroughly engaging analyses of works by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bellini, Liszt, and Berlioz, and he presents a new view of Chopin as a masterā¦
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