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 78
... whole ballet of premiers sujets dare I breathe such suggestions . " No doubt Mr Manns's three thousand five hundred choristers might better his instructions so heartily as to go considerably beyond the utmost licence of art if he told ...
... whole ballet of premiers sujets dare I breathe such suggestions . " No doubt Mr Manns's three thousand five hundred choristers might better his instructions so heartily as to go considerably beyond the utmost licence of art if he told ...
Page 145
... whole public is edified by his music , till his operas have poured into every heart the sentiments which he wishes to preach to the whole world ; in short , till he has put himself in touch with the whole of humanity . . . ... Les ...
... whole public is edified by his music , till his operas have poured into every heart the sentiments which he wishes to preach to the whole world ; in short , till he has put himself in touch with the whole of humanity . . . ... Les ...
Page 308
... whole is almost bare of cantilena - like passages . But , himself one of the surviving members of the Guillaume Apollinaire group moved almost as a whole by the skyscraper mysticism , Varèse has pretty consistently retained its feeling ...
... whole is almost bare of cantilena - like passages . But , himself one of the surviving members of the Guillaume Apollinaire group moved almost as a whole by the skyscraper mysticism , Varèse has pretty consistently retained its feeling ...
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 |