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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... experience that he discussed . All take the connection as self - evident , which must be because these literary and ... experience absolutely self- contained . " The rejoinder to this reasoning is that the " literary " listener has ...
... experience that he discussed . All take the connection as self - evident , which must be because these literary and ... experience absolutely self- contained . " The rejoinder to this reasoning is that the " literary " listener has ...
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... experience . Again , the movements are called ( in Italian , to be sure ) gay , fast , walking , dying , joking , or retarded — all in defiance of plain fact , since nothing moves or dies , is suspended or resolved . Stranger still ...
... experience . Again , the movements are called ( in Italian , to be sure ) gay , fast , walking , dying , joking , or retarded — all in defiance of plain fact , since nothing moves or dies , is suspended or resolved . Stranger still ...
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... experience and imagination , that is at issue ; it is the role of ideas during Liszt's long life that explains , indeed justifies , his ad- vocacy and practice as a composer . The first important portion of verbalized experience that ...
... experience and imagination , that is at issue ; it is the role of ideas during Liszt's long life that explains , indeed justifies , his ad- vocacy and practice as a composer . The first important portion of verbalized experience that ...
Contents
The Elusive Art Jack Sullivan | 3 |
Music into Words Jacques Barzun | 14 |
Three Diatribes George Bernard Shaw | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America Mark N. Grant,Eric Friedheim No preview available - 1998 |