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 80
... written for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , is a good example of his writing at it most terse and jovial . The " irrepressible vivacity and goodwill ” he finds in this composer is fully in tune with his own sensibility . D ...
... written for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , is a good example of his writing at it most terse and jovial . The " irrepressible vivacity and goodwill ” he finds in this composer is fully in tune with his own sensibility . D ...
Page 170
... written , has gained universal acceptance out of Paris , and , under translation , has established itself as among the brightest and the last of comic Italian operas . There is a careless gaiety amounting to merriment , there is a ...
... written , has gained universal acceptance out of Paris , and , under translation , has established itself as among the brightest and the last of comic Italian operas . There is a careless gaiety amounting to merriment , there is a ...
Page 375
... written , words and music , in Breslau . The big trio , “ Ange adoré dont la céleste image , " I composed near Rouen at the country place of the Baron de Mont- ville , where I spent a few days on my return to France . ― The rest was written ...
... written , words and music , in Breslau . The big trio , “ Ange adoré dont la céleste image , " I composed near Rouen at the country place of the Baron de Mont- ville , where I spent a few days on my return to France . ― The rest was written ...
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 |