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xv, 235 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Essay index reprint series
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Essay index reprint series.
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| Contents |
On the writing of articles -- Ancient Greece -- Indian Folksong -- Pan -- The Wiltshire festival -- Early opera -- A home of opera -- An impresario -- The bow on the baton -- The conductor in the making -- Haydn -- Stanford -- Elgar -- Sibelius -- Tallis -- Joachim -- Sensibility and vulgarity -- Young British composers -- The scope of criticism -- Inspiration -- Beethoven- Centenary literature -- On altering the music -- Chopin again -- Handel -- Autographs -- Biography -- The national anthem -- The Wesleys -- An eighteenth-century amateur -- The Worcester MSS. -- National art -- Pastoral symphony -- Christmas -- Day-to-day music -- Letters to listender -- Amateur and professional -- The B. B. C. and its critics -- Appraisal and criticism -- A critic's problems -- Terminology -- "Hackneyed" -- Musical psychology -- Imitation -- In tune -- Content and form -- Tempo Rubato -- Tempo -- The science of art -- Tune and line -- Musical singers -- Vocation -- Singing and whistling -- Music in a democracy -- Domestic instruments -- The musical voice -- The speaking voice -- The chocolate-mind -- The last of the "Promenades" -- Puritans and music -- Publicity -- "The symbolism of music" -- The use of satire -- Street music -- Donald Tovey's "analysis" -- The music of the spheres -- Poetry and music |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Added Author |
Wilson, Steuart.
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