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 25
... present the sensations missing from the verbal signs of an experience explains why as a general rule the text of the best songs and operas is inferior to the musical setting . A great poem is complete in itself and needs no addition ...
... present the sensations missing from the verbal signs of an experience explains why as a general rule the text of the best songs and operas is inferior to the musical setting . A great poem is complete in itself and needs no addition ...
Page 117
... present high estate is due , we may be sure , less to the more readily handled means of expression ( the greater perfection of the instru- ments , the greater virtuosity of the players ) than to the more pro- found , more intimate ...
... present high estate is due , we may be sure , less to the more readily handled means of expression ( the greater perfection of the instru- ments , the greater virtuosity of the players ) than to the more pro- found , more intimate ...
Page 429
... present anarchic toleration . For just in proportion as you like bungling on a piano yourself does the bungling of others offend and disturb you . In truth , just as the face a man sees when he looks in the glass is not his face as his ...
... present anarchic toleration . For just in proportion as you like bungling on a piano yourself does the bungling of others offend and disturb you . In truth , just as the face a man sees when he looks in the glass is not his face as his ...
Contents
The Elusive Art Jack Sullivan | 3 |
Music into Words Jacques Barzun | 14 |
Three Diatribes George Bernard Shaw | 32 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America Mark N. Grant,Eric Friedheim No preview available - 1998 |