Kerman, Joseph

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KERMAN, Joseph

KERMAN, Joseph. American, b. 1924. Genres: Music. Career: Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley, since 1952. co-ed., 19th-Century Music, 1979-86; Heather Professor of Music, Oxford University, 1971-73. Publications: Opera as Drama, 1956, 1988; The Elizabethan Madrigal, 1962; The Beethoven Quartets, 1967; (with H. W. Janson) A History of Art and Music, 1968; (ed.) Beethoven: Autograph Miscellany (the Kafka Sketchbook), 1970; (with V. Kerman) Listen, 1972, 7th ed. 1999; The Masses and Motets of William Byrd, 1981; (with A. Tyson) The New Grove Beethoven, 1983; Contemplating Music, 1985; Write All These Down, 1994; Concerto Conversations, 1999. Address: 107 Southampton Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707, U.S.A.

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