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 170
... once in London to hear it laid hold of by a party of such connoisseurs , including more than one composer who would have found it hard to write eight bars having the faintest echo of hilarity in them . Some were decrying it , too , for ...
... once in London to hear it laid hold of by a party of such connoisseurs , including more than one composer who would have found it hard to write eight bars having the faintest echo of hilarity in them . Some were decrying it , too , for ...
Page 314
... once dramatic and disturbing in the right way . On the surface , Billy Budd - Melville's or Britten's - is a fable of diagrammatic simplicity . The plot can be told in a few sentences — such as these from E. M. Forster's 1927 lectures ...
... once dramatic and disturbing in the right way . On the surface , Billy Budd - Melville's or Britten's - is a fable of diagrammatic simplicity . The plot can be told in a few sentences — such as these from E. M. Forster's 1927 lectures ...
Page 350
... once the cathedral of culture had been wrecked , to take home the bits you liked and arrange them as you pleased . Once again a mechanical invention had met capitalism's need to recreate all of life in its image . The cathedral of ...
... once the cathedral of culture had been wrecked , to take home the bits you liked and arrange them as you pleased . Once again a mechanical invention had met capitalism's need to recreate all of life in its image . The cathedral of ...
Contents
The Elusive Art Jack Sullivan | 3 |
Music into Words Jacques Barzun | 14 |
Three Diatribes George Bernard Shaw | 32 |
Copyright | |
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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 |