| Description |
232 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm. |
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Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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| Note |
"First published 1931." |
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"The essays, lectures, and reviews, reprinted here with some changes and many ... corrections, first appeared in the Musical Quarterly, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Boston Evening Transcript." |
| Contents |
Parallel octaves -- Schubert's fame -- The Beethoven week in Vienna -- "Home, sweet home" -- Suspensions -- The Mozart couple -- Die Wagnerdammerung -- Schonberg lunaire -- Cross-relations -- Music we shall never hear -- Why do we dance? -- Jazz -- Tritone -- Beethoven's mysterious malady -- Poet as prophet -- Indecency in music -- Deceptive cadences -- De gustibus -- Music, melodious and odious -- Harking back and looking forward |
| Genre/Form |
Music.
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Music.
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