Description |
xvii, 447 pages: illustration, music ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989 ;
v. 65
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Eastman studies in music ; v. 65.
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Bibliography |
"Concise work catalogue and discography": pages 327-381. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-411) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : Schoeck and the Swiss -- Childhood and youth -- Wolf amidst the sheep -- Leipzig, Munich, and an awful little moustache -- Back in the fold -- Hermann Hesse, via the dentist -- Look back in melancholy -- Chamber music -- The art of counterpoint -- Busoni -- The picture on the wall -- Touch of Venus -- Silent bronze -- Sucking sweet folly -- Self portrait, with sandwich -- Elegy -- Goodbye to Geneva -- The bee in the rose -- Raging queen -- Storms in the pigeon loft -- Into the vortex -- Wrong-note rag -- Hildebill -- Variations and fugue on an age-old theme -- Put to the wheel -- Gisela -- Lost in the stars -- Whores and madonnas -- "...he can write music all right..." -- Tea with (Ms.) Hitler -- Aryanizing music -- Arms and the man -- Castles in the air -- Goering's bullshit -- Collapse -- The people at home -- The reckoning -- Transfigured summer nights -- Silent lights -- Fair measure -- Rather nice horn -- Sleepless in Wollishofen -- Echoes and elegies -- Running on empty -- Epilogue. |
Subject |
Schoeck, Othmar, 1886-1957.
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Schoeck, Othmar, 1886-1957. |
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Composers -- Switzerland -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Switzerland. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Catalogs.
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Catalogs.
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ISBN |
9781580463003 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1580463002 |
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