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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... scene in Madame Bovary , a prose work notoriously designed to exhibit the prosaic in life . In the novel , Flaubert makes one of the principal love scenes take place in a cab that keeps driving aimlessly round and round the provincial ...
... scene in Madame Bovary , a prose work notoriously designed to exhibit the prosaic in life . In the novel , Flaubert makes one of the principal love scenes take place in a cab that keeps driving aimlessly round and round the provincial ...
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... scene of madness , such as occur by scores in every south- ern serious opera ; the funeral , with its one superfluous mourner and unbidden guest , abolished to make room for the long final scene so cherished by tenors ; the character of ...
... scene of madness , such as occur by scores in every south- ern serious opera ; the funeral , with its one superfluous mourner and unbidden guest , abolished to make room for the long final scene so cherished by tenors ; the character of ...
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From Addison to Barzun Jack Sullivan. closed by its long - drawn death - scene ( the darling scene of tenor singers ) , may prepare himself to be stoned for heresy . Yet through- out that scene ( with the exception of the dialogue ...
From Addison to Barzun Jack Sullivan. closed by its long - drawn death - scene ( the darling scene of tenor singers ) , may prepare himself to be stoned for heresy . Yet through- out that scene ( with the exception of the dialogue ...
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 |