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 107
... nature . It represents redemption , the victory of soul over flesh . It varies from calm se- renity to active triumph , but joy is its thesis . In the Ninth Symphony a German ode on that subject is inserted to clinch the matter . The ...
... nature . It represents redemption , the victory of soul over flesh . It varies from calm se- renity to active triumph , but joy is its thesis . In the Ninth Symphony a German ode on that subject is inserted to clinch the matter . The ...
Page 117
... nature , you miserable composers of instrumental music , you who have labori- ously strained yourselves to represent definite emotions , even defi- nite events ? How can it ever have occurred to you to treat after the fashion of the ...
... nature , you miserable composers of instrumental music , you who have labori- ously strained yourselves to represent definite emotions , even defi- nite events ? How can it ever have occurred to you to treat after the fashion of the ...
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... Nature - melody to be derived , to bear a nobler , an eternal character ? For even that peasant- dance - tune of Haydn's had its chief attraction as a piquant curiosity , in nowise as a purely - human type of art for every age . Yet it ...
... Nature - melody to be derived , to bear a nobler , an eternal character ? For even that peasant- dance - tune of Haydn's had its chief attraction as a piquant curiosity , in nowise as a purely - human type of art for every age . Yet it ...
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 |