Publication

2001-03-23 - University of Illinois Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivesinginginwildern00mell
  • ISBN-100252025296
  • ISBN-139780252025297
  • LibraryThing3993327
  • Goodreads2098236
and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCML197 .M268 2001
  • LCCML197.M268 2001
  • LCCML 197 M268 2001

Description

"Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, Wilfrid Mellers offers a set of diverse reflections on how Western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

RICHARD WAGNER'S Tristan und Isolde, we are often told, was the beginning of modern music.

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