Words on Music: From Addison to BarzunJack Sullivan Ohio University Press, 1990 - 438 pages Features essays covering instrumental and vocal music from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. |
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Page 136
... become really popular it would be hard to deter- mine , because , as I have said , so many people come whenever it ... becomes sufficiently familiar with the work to delight in it . On the other hand , there must be a growing number of ...
... become really popular it would be hard to deter- mine , because , as I have said , so many people come whenever it ... becomes sufficiently familiar with the work to delight in it . On the other hand , there must be a growing number of ...
Page 167
... becoming something far more precious than it may have originally been . In music , at least , this is a huge and ... become stock pieces : thereby proved to be essentially superior to the generality of works of their class . He was ...
... becoming something far more precious than it may have originally been . In music , at least , this is a huge and ... become stock pieces : thereby proved to be essentially superior to the generality of works of their class . He was ...
Page 352
... becomes less familiar we become more apt to think of the music as sound , and more anxious to hear the sound of the original instruments . Now , if we had to depend on the pro- liferation of viols and clavichords , shawms and sackbuts ...
... becomes less familiar we become more apt to think of the music as sound , and more anxious to hear the sound of the original instruments . Now , if we had to depend on the pro- liferation of viols and clavichords , shawms and sackbuts ...
Contents
The Elusive Art Jack Sullivan | 3 |
Music into Words Jacques Barzun | 14 |
Three Diatribes George Bernard Shaw | 32 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America Mark N. Grant,Eric Friedheim No preview available - 1998 |