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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... turn upon and criticize their critics . ( No critics ' club would have any right to the name unless it included — but the printer warns me that I have reached the limit of my allotted space . ) ( World , September 3 , 1890. ) 3 A man ...
... turn upon and criticize their critics . ( No critics ' club would have any right to the name unless it included — but the printer warns me that I have reached the limit of my allotted space . ) ( World , September 3 , 1890. ) 3 A man ...
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... turn upon itself in pity . Listen to those orchestral gasps ; those chords in dialogue between winds and strings , which alternate and grow weaker , like the painful breathing of a dying man , then give way to a phrase full of violence ...
... turn upon itself in pity . Listen to those orchestral gasps ; those chords in dialogue between winds and strings , which alternate and grow weaker , like the painful breathing of a dying man , then give way to a phrase full of violence ...
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... turn — that must be obeyed in the interests of an orderly , controlled ensemble flow . Rituel is set out on the page in a more conventional fashion . The program note for a London perfor- mance last November said that " nothing is left ...
... turn — that must be obeyed in the interests of an orderly , controlled ensemble flow . Rituel is set out on the page in a more conventional fashion . The program note for a London perfor- mance last November said that " nothing is left ...
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 |