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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... final test of our thesis . For music has taken rank among the high arts by virtue of its rela- tively recent emergence as a presentment that can stand by itself : all its claims to absoluteness and disconnection from life rest on the ...
... final test of our thesis . For music has taken rank among the high arts by virtue of its rela- tively recent emergence as a presentment that can stand by itself : all its claims to absoluteness and disconnection from life rest on the ...
Page 320
... final , sudden ascent and fall before coming to rest . A series of em- phatic descending figures from each orchestra in turn ends the introduction ( in the Crane opening , " elevators drop us from our day " ) , and the symphonic ...
... final , sudden ascent and fall before coming to rest . A series of em- phatic descending figures from each orchestra in turn ends the introduction ( in the Crane opening , " elevators drop us from our day " ) , and the symphonic ...
Page 329
... final section , built on motifs that have been heard before . Then , one by one , the groups fall from the ensemble . The last note is a soft unison E - flat , over the tolling of a gong . What else ? Boulez gave his introductory talk ...
... final section , built on motifs that have been heard before . Then , one by one , the groups fall from the ensemble . The last note is a soft unison E - flat , over the tolling of a gong . What else ? Boulez gave his introductory talk ...
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 |