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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... complete in itself and needs no addition from another art . Great music is complete in itself , and only a disagreeable overlap of inten- tions can result from its being harnessed to great literature . For- tunately , many musicians ...
... complete in itself and needs no addition from another art . Great music is complete in itself , and only a disagreeable overlap of inten- tions can result from its being harnessed to great literature . For- tunately , many musicians ...
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... complete and unchanged . I was stupid enough to answer them in the preface to the score . I have often wondered why these same critics have never lectured me about the libretto of my Romeo and Juliet symphony , which differs ...
... complete and unchanged . I was stupid enough to answer them in the preface to the score . I have often wondered why these same critics have never lectured me about the libretto of my Romeo and Juliet symphony , which differs ...
Page 434
... complete argument , to prove that the future of humanity depends at present on the pianoforte , I should render my case repugnant to the British mind , which sensibly objects to be bothered with logic . But let me , in allowing the ...
... complete argument , to prove that the future of humanity depends at present on the pianoforte , I should render my case repugnant to the British mind , which sensibly objects to be bothered with logic . But let me , in allowing the ...
Contents
The Elusive Art Jack Sullivan | 3 |
Music into Words Jacques Barzun | 14 |
Three Diatribes George Bernard Shaw | 32 |
Copyright | |
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admiration artist audience Bach Bach's Barzun beauty Beethoven Berlioz Billy Boulez Brahms called century Chopin chords composer composition concert death Debussy Don Giovanni dramatic E. T. A. Hoffmann effect emotions essay expression Faust feeling French genius German give Glenn Gould Gluck H. L. Mencken Handel harmony Haydn hear heard heart ideas imagination inspired Italian Jacques Barzun Les Huguenots less listener Liszt literary literature living master means melody ment Meyerbeer mind movement Mozart music criticism musician nature never Ninth Symphony once opera orchestra passages passion Paul Rosenfeld perfect performance perhaps phrase piano pianoforte piece played poem poetic poetry produced quartet Reprint rhythm Richard Strauss romantic scene Schubert Schumann score seems sense Shaw singers sonata song soul sound spirit Strauss Stravinsky strings style Tchaikovsky theme thing thought tion tone translated violin Virgil Thomson voice Wagner whole words writing wrote York
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 |