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Download or read book Musical Lives and Times Examined written by Richard Taruskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gathering chiefly of talks given either by invitation or at conferences throughout the world over the last quarter century. The topics range widely, but recurrent themes include the place of classical music in contemporary society and culture, the fraught relationship between aesthetics and ethics, and the responsibilities of scholarship in an age of spin"--