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 134
... later music . Even with an ordinary instrumental finale , the Ninth Sym- phony would have remained the most gigantic instrumental work extant ; its gigantic proportions are only the more wonderful from the fact that the forms are still ...
... later music . Even with an ordinary instrumental finale , the Ninth Sym- phony would have remained the most gigantic instrumental work extant ; its gigantic proportions are only the more wonderful from the fact that the forms are still ...
Page 213
... later wrote novels on her own ; his writings in German were collab- orations with Carolyne , who later produced a twenty - four - volume work on the salvation of Europe through a reform of the Catholic Church . These two women did not ...
... later wrote novels on her own ; his writings in German were collab- orations with Carolyne , who later produced a twenty - four - volume work on the salvation of Europe through a reform of the Catholic Church . These two women did not ...
Page 325
... later works the act of composition continues during his conducting of them . With the Philharmonic he has not done Pli selon pli , that towering orchestral masterpiece of our day , or Domaines , or the early cantata Le Soleil des eaux ...
... later works the act of composition continues during his conducting of them . With the Philharmonic he has not done Pli selon pli , that towering orchestral masterpiece of our day , or Domaines , or the early cantata Le Soleil des eaux ...
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 |