Crotchets : a few short musical notes /
| Основен автор: | Scholes, Percy Alfred, 1877-1958. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Freeport, N.Y. :
Books for Libraries Press,
[1966]
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| Серия: |
Essay index reprint series.
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| Предмети: | |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Crotchets. |
Съдържание:
- Concerts and audiences. What does the audience hear? ; A plea for all-round art ; Annotated programmes ; A holiday task ; Our pauper public ; The ethics of applause
- What the public wants. Beastly tunes ; The popular programmes
- "For the good of music"
- The present-day problem [inadequately-trained listeners]
- Welsh singers and English critics
- A few suggestions upon popular music. "Dope" ; Some "serious criticism" ; More "serious criticism" ; Quality in music
- A few remarks on opera. The pace of opera ; Operatic improbabilities ; Opera as seen by an actor ; Debussy and "dash"
- A haunted head
- The music or the making? Silk purses and sow's ears ; Somethig from nothing
- What is melody?
- Some notes on Scriabin. Scriabin as student ; Scriabin's processes of composition ; Scriabin and "law" ; Scriabin as prophet ; Scriabin as thinker
- Some views on Stravinsky. The "Rite" and the wrong of it ; Honest doubt ; Stravinsky in the nursery
- Polytonality and atonality. Polytonality ; Atonality
- Colour and sound
- The mind made up
- Handel and Bach. Handel and the horse's leg ; Handel and Bach as we hear them to-day
- Shakespeare's music : a theory
- Words and music. We want the words ; "A concerto on the larynx"
- Choral society problems
- Kreisleriana. The fiddler's repertory ; Chaconne a ̀son gout
- The promise of the past
- Youth and music. Back to school ; The child and the gramophone ; An unmitigated curse
- Impersonal truth in criticism
- Shall we reconsider Wolf?
- Santley
- Church music. What the organist said ; Church music abroad
- The O.B. and music [Oscar Browning]
- "Re your letter to hand."