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 119
... listener imperiously forward into the spirit world of the infinite ! ... No doubt the whole rushes like an ingenious rhapsody past many a man , but the soul of each thought- ful listener is assuredly stirred , deeply and intimately , by ...
... listener imperiously forward into the spirit world of the infinite ! ... No doubt the whole rushes like an ingenious rhapsody past many a man , but the soul of each thought- ful listener is assuredly stirred , deeply and intimately , by ...
Page 120
From Addison to Barzun Jack Sullivan. the listener firmly in a single mood . This relationship is sometimes clear to the listener when he overhears it in the connecting of two movements or discovers it in the fundamental bass they have ...
From Addison to Barzun Jack Sullivan. the listener firmly in a single mood . This relationship is sometimes clear to the listener when he overhears it in the connecting of two movements or discovers it in the fundamental bass they have ...
Page 321
... listener , of course , " says Carter , " is not meant , on first hearing , to identify the details of this continually shifting web of sound ... but rather to hear and grasp the character of this kaleidoscope of musical themes as they ...
... listener , of course , " says Carter , " is not meant , on first hearing , to identify the details of this continually shifting web of sound ... but rather to hear and grasp the character of this kaleidoscope of musical themes as they ...
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 |