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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From Addison to Barzun Jack Sullivan. On Chopin's Piano Music ROBERT SCHUMANN FRANZ LISZT The piano music of Chopin inspired some of the most vivid nonfiction writing of the Romantic period . Chopin was the perfect exemplar of Romantic ...
From Addison to Barzun Jack Sullivan. On Chopin's Piano Music ROBERT SCHUMANN FRANZ LISZT The piano music of Chopin inspired some of the most vivid nonfiction writing of the Romantic period . Chopin was the perfect exemplar of Romantic ...
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... piano and the orchestra . The modern piano engendered the virtuoso , a kind of audible acrobat and prestidigitator . Liszt was one of those , and he produced his own repertory in the form of dazzling , thundering variations on tunes the ...
... piano and the orchestra . The modern piano engendered the virtuoso , a kind of audible acrobat and prestidigitator . Liszt was one of those , and he produced his own repertory in the form of dazzling , thundering variations on tunes the ...
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... piano just as they get used to the noise of cabs clattering past ; but in the end the pianos will make most people musical ; and then there will be an end of the present anarchic toleration . For just in proportion as you like bungling ...
... piano just as they get used to the noise of cabs clattering past ; but in the end the pianos will make most people musical ; and then there will be an end of the present anarchic toleration . For just in proportion as you like bungling ...
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 |