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 57
... give birth to anything durable , there has come for once a will equal to the ideal that hovered before the two previous generations , and that triumphs in spite of all the errors of its epoch , purely by the grandeur of its thought . At ...
... give birth to anything durable , there has come for once a will equal to the ideal that hovered before the two previous generations , and that triumphs in spite of all the errors of its epoch , purely by the grandeur of its thought . At ...
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... give up our habit of sacrificing our common sense to the vanity of our singers , and let us compose and orchestrate our airs , our duets , our recitatives , and our sinfonias in such a way that they shall always be appropriate to the ...
... give up our habit of sacrificing our common sense to the vanity of our singers , and let us compose and orchestrate our airs , our duets , our recitatives , and our sinfonias in such a way that they shall always be appropriate to the ...
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... gives us the run of the twelve keys on condition that they are all perceptibly out of tune . And the laws of nature ... give up the best part of our culture or else make it a curse to the people downstairs or next door . We seem hardly ...
... gives us the run of the twelve keys on condition that they are all perceptibly out of tune . And the laws of nature ... give up the best part of our culture or else make it a curse to the people downstairs or next door . We seem hardly ...
Contents
The Elusive Art Jack Sullivan | 3 |
Music into Words Jacques Barzun | 14 |
Three Diatribes George Bernard Shaw | 32 |
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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 |