Poetics of music in the form of six lessons
Bilingual ed.
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Author
Publication
1970 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
46,750 words, Guess
Page Count
187 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL4438800M
- ISBN-100674678559
- OCLC Control Number76632
- Library of Congress Control Number79099520
- LibraryThing379933
and 1 more
- Goodreads3644261
Classifications
- DDC780
- LCCML410.S932 A13 1970
Description
One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book [Publisher description]
Description
One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Throughout the volume are his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution, as well his comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music.
Subjects
Series Statement
- The Charles Eliot Norton lectures,
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