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 58
... tone - melody and the word - melody would separate under the shock ; whereas a Bach phrase would remain unbroken and insepar- able , his musical phrase being only the verbal phrase re - cast in tone . His music is indeed not so much ...
... tone - melody and the word - melody would separate under the shock ; whereas a Bach phrase would remain unbroken and insepar- able , his musical phrase being only the verbal phrase re - cast in tone . His music is indeed not so much ...
Page 64
... tone . And like the amazed traveler in the famous anteroom , the writer had to recognize that he had hitherto incompletely conceived the medium in which his beloved artist had worked ; that his conception of it had embraced merely one ...
... tone . And like the amazed traveler in the famous anteroom , the writer had to recognize that he had hitherto incompletely conceived the medium in which his beloved artist had worked ; that his conception of it had embraced merely one ...
Page 132
... tone than in range of tone colour . These differ- ences , again , cannot fail to have some effect on the architecture of the works designed for few or for many instruments , but such effects on the designs are not less subtle than ...
... tone than in range of tone colour . These differ- ences , again , cannot fail to have some effect on the architecture of the works designed for few or for many instruments , but such effects on the designs are not less subtle than ...
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 |