| Description |
xviii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Discography: pages 211-216. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Songs about Spring -- Sicilian limes -- Divertimento for piano and strings -- The resurrection of Don Juan -- Ode to the west wind -- String quartet -- The boor -- Six Elizabethan songs -- Colonel Jonathan the saint -- Christopher Sly -- The masque of angels -- Royal invitation, or homage to the Queen of Tonga -- Variations for orchestra (The mask of night) -- The revelation of Saint John the divine -- The shoemakers' holiday -- Letters from composers -- A nation of cowslips -- Bravo Mozart! -- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A ring of time -- Jonah and the whale -- To be sung upon the water -- A water bird talk -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf -- The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In praise of music -- Miss Havisham's fire -- A thanksgiving to God, for his house -- Let all the world in every corner sing -- Miss Havisham's wedding night -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Fire variations -- I hate and I love (Odi et amo) -- The Andrée exposition -- Prelude for Easter dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casanova's homecoming -- Le tombeau d'Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for clarinet and orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini cum verbis populi) -- The aspern papers -- Easter day -- The angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone sang -- The dream of Valentino -- To God "in memoriam M. B. 1994" -- Valentino dances -- Spirituals and Swedish chorales -- Miss Havisham's fire (revised) -- Valse triste -- Walden Pond -- A few words about Chekhov -- Reverie (reflections on a hymn tune) -- Miss Manners on music -- The vision -- The Bremen town musicians -- Sonnet 64 (in memoriam 9/11/01) -- Orpheus -- From a composer's journal -- Discography. |
| Subject |
Argento, Dominick.
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Argento, Dominick. |
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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
0816645051 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780816645053 alkaline paper |
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