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 157
... musician's fancy to revel in . Often when gazing on the city from the heights above , I have thought how frequently Beethoven's eyes may have glanced restlessly over the distant line of the Alps ; how Mozart may have dreamily followed ...
... musician's fancy to revel in . Often when gazing on the city from the heights above , I have thought how frequently Beethoven's eyes may have glanced restlessly over the distant line of the Alps ; how Mozart may have dreamily followed ...
Page 180
... musician , he is music itself . He does not com- mand his familiar spirit , he is its slave . Those who know his writings know how he was simply possessed and exhausted by his musical emotions . They were really fits of ecstasy or ...
... musician , he is music itself . He does not com- mand his familiar spirit , he is its slave . Those who know his writings know how he was simply possessed and exhausted by his musical emotions . They were really fits of ecstasy or ...
Page 350
... musicians will successfully follow his example , marketing themselves as personalities without appear- ing in person . But the economics of recording are not charitable to serious musicians , so most will probably have to keep ...
... musicians will successfully follow his example , marketing themselves as personalities without appear- ing in person . But the economics of recording are not charitable to serious musicians , so most will probably have to keep ...
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 |