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 57
... spirit . If all their struggles towards the ideal were not to be in vain , a greater man had to come , who should make his chorale fantasias musical poems . Out of the motet , under the influence of Italian and French instrumental music ...
... spirit . If all their struggles towards the ideal were not to be in vain , a greater man had to come , who should make his chorale fantasias musical poems . Out of the motet , under the influence of Italian and French instrumental music ...
Page 139
... spirit , but spirit subject to the measurement of time ; it is matter , but matter that can dispense with space . We do not know what music is . But we know what is good music , and still better do we know what is bad music ; for our ...
... spirit , but spirit subject to the measurement of time ; it is matter , but matter that can dispense with space . We do not know what music is . But we know what is good music , and still better do we know what is bad music ; for our ...
Page 296
... spirit and a summoner of spirit ; woe to those who trivialize words of power . One way of beginning to hear Ives is to listen to how he sum- mons spirits : his martial music incorporates the chains of 296 Ives the Master.
... spirit and a summoner of spirit ; woe to those who trivialize words of power . One way of beginning to hear Ives is to listen to how he sum- mons spirits : his martial music incorporates the chains of 296 Ives the Master.
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 |