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 169
... stage more solemn and affecting than the hymn in the monastery ( a good example of the deep pathos which is consistent with the use of the major key ) . So passionate is the romance for the tenor that it is hardly possible to sing it ...
... stage more solemn and affecting than the hymn in the monastery ( a good example of the deep pathos which is consistent with the use of the major key ) . So passionate is the romance for the tenor that it is hardly possible to sing it ...
Page 231
... stage concert , as most of you seem to think . Let us give up our habit of sacrificing our common sense to the vanity of our singers , and let us compose and orchestrate our airs , our duets , our recitatives , and our sinfonias in such ...
... stage concert , as most of you seem to think . Let us give up our habit of sacrificing our common sense to the vanity of our singers , and let us compose and orchestrate our airs , our duets , our recitatives , and our sinfonias in such ...
Page 423
... stage brought me but little nearer to the drama . For the terrible cutting involved by modern hours of performance ; the foredoomed futility of the attempt to take a work originally conceived mainly as a long story told on the stage ...
... stage brought me but little nearer to the drama . For the terrible cutting involved by modern hours of performance ; the foredoomed futility of the attempt to take a work originally conceived mainly as a long story told on the stage ...
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 |