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 75
... pure artists who spoke to the people and for the people , not for themselves or for their confrères . Today the pure artists lock themselves within themselves , and those who speak to the people are most often mountebanks . The free ...
... pure artists who spoke to the people and for the people , not for themselves or for their confrères . Today the pure artists lock themselves within themselves , and those who speak to the people are most often mountebanks . The free ...
Page 339
... pure reason or half - imaginative memory . Poetry , again , works with words addressed in the first instance to the pure intelligence ; and it deals , most often , with a definite subject or situation . Sometimes it may find a noble and ...
... pure reason or half - imaginative memory . Poetry , again , works with words addressed in the first instance to the pure intelligence ; and it deals , most often , with a definite subject or situation . Sometimes it may find a noble and ...
Page 351
... pure phonography — a pure studio product — that is impossible . One must either rely on laboratory measurements , or follow one's tastes without regard for accuracy . The first course is unsatisfying ; the second is general among pop ...
... pure phonography — a pure studio product — that is impossible . One must either rely on laboratory measurements , or follow one's tastes without regard for accuracy . The first course is unsatisfying ; the second is general among pop ...
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 |