| Description |
xvii, 269 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
[1.] Musical life. Music in words -- Indispensable amateur -- Passing of a free spirit : Erich Kleiber -- Playwright as critic -of music -- Men, women, and pianos -- Toward new musics. Harry Parch and the moderns ; A request for the loan of your ears ; To praise Varèse -- Life of Stendhal-Rossini -- Meaning of meaning in music -- [2.] Berlioz. Berlioz after a hundred years -- Benvenuto Cellini in Wembley -- Postman rang thrice -- Berlioz and the bard -- Sketch of the artist as musician -- Berlioz style -- Misbehavior of Lélio -- Romeo and Juliet in music -- [3.] Culture and history. Romanticism : definition of an age -- Liberalism and the religion of art -- Truth in biography : Leonardo and Freud -- Delacroix : sketch of the artist in words -- Biography and criticism : a misalliance? -- Let the artists decide : an interview -- Case for cultural history -- Philosophy and the arts. |
| Genre/Form |
Music.
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Music.
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| Subject |
Arts.
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Arts. |
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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.
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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. |
| Indexed Term |
Arts |
| Added Author |
Friedland, Bea.
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| ISBN |
0226038637 : $17.50 (est.) |
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9780226038636 |
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