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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... opera — its meaning , appeal , historical significance , and peculiar separateness from the rest of music . As with his exploration of program music in “ Literature in ... opera is a form of art dedicated to Why Opera?, Jacques Barzun.
... opera — its meaning , appeal , historical significance , and peculiar separateness from the rest of music . As with his exploration of program music in “ Literature in ... opera is a form of art dedicated to Why Opera?, Jacques Barzun.
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... opera . For opera , as I hope to have shown , is spectacle — not drama , not even theater . This truth perhaps explains why the operas generally called great are not the most popular : they distract by some excess - of music , of drama ...
... opera . For opera , as I hope to have shown , is spectacle — not drama , not even theater . This truth perhaps explains why the operas generally called great are not the most popular : they distract by some excess - of music , of drama ...
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... opera ― or were until dramatic music transfigured them . To illustrate the difference , one need only compare what Gou- nod makes of the Faust legend with what Goethe , Berlioz , Boito or Busoni made of it . In the admirable Faust of ...
... opera ― or were until dramatic music transfigured them . To illustrate the difference , one need only compare what Gou- nod makes of the Faust legend with what Goethe , Berlioz , Boito or Busoni made of it . In the admirable Faust of ...
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 |