Pleasures of music : a reader's choice of great writing about music and musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw /
Pleasures of music : a reader's choice of great writing about music and musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw / [print]
edited with an introduction by Jacques Barzun.
- New York : Viking Press, (c)1951.
- 624 pages ; 22 cm.
Music and words Fiction -- A tale of Don Juan Mr. Jack, composer A pilgrimage to Beethoven An artist from the grocer's Natasha sings for her lover Wine, woman, and song A meeting of the House of David Parting serenade at Todgers's Allegory on the composer's life Dinner with Gambara The rough diamond The wandering minstrel Murder to music Christmas at Mellstock Criticism -- Music at large -- Making the rounds Music with meals The secret power of musick The spirit of jazz Music is infinite The unity of music Music and nature How music imitates In praise of music The ear is not enough Music and the deity The idea of a song Music and drama -- The Paris Opera in 1760 Semi-operas The fallacy of music-drama Banish the libretto The passionate style Mangled operas and the star system A new kind of opera The greatness of Wagner The limits of music The composer as psychologist Bury the program Composers and performers -- Palestrina Johann Sebastian Bach Lulli and Rameau Beethoven's day The conductor Handel Cesar Franck is inspired Sir George Grove and Beethoven Chopin, a national poet Mozart and modernism Meyerbeer's achievement The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt Wagner as actor Rossini's "Barber of Seville" The Russian school Some premieres -- Johann Strauss in London Fiasco in the White House The first Handel festival Beethoven's "Third" and "Fifth" First baton in London "La traviata" in Venice "Boris Godunov" Bizet's "L'Arlesienne" Brahms' Second symphony The musical life -- Politics and patronage -- Art and revolution Statement to the Soviet An interview with the police Patron and professional The Jenny Lind enterprise An opera is rehearsed Coaching the aspirant When to applaud Rameau's nephew Cabals and cantatori What gives us pause Apropos of instruments -- The organ blower's complaint The Russian horn Of bells The solitary cello The flute An instrument for war and peace The concert hall The barrel organ Music on records Notes on drums The orchestra Fantasies and confessions -- Sonata form in food A chapter on ears The prayer from "Moses" Musical memories The value of a deaf left ear My taste in classics Music and my father A cantata, with comments by other hands Musical brows My life and works Sing for your life Correspondence -- Johann Sebastian Bach ; -- Lord Chesterfield ; -- Empress Maria Theresa and Count de Mercy-Argenteau ; -- The Mozarts ; -- Christoph Willibald Gluck ; -- Joseph Haydn ; -- Thomas Jefferson ; -- Napoleon ; -- Lord Byron ; -- Ludwig van Beethoven ; -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes ; -- The Mendelssohns ; -- Carl-Maria von Weber ; -- Robert Schumann ; -- Anonymous ; -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; -- Nicolo Paganini ; -- Johannes Brahms ; -- Edgar Allan Poe ; -- Charles Baudelaire ; -- Alexander Borodin ; -- Emmanuel Chabrier ; -- Sydney Smith ; -- Giuseppe Verdi ; -- Franz Schubert -- Maxims and good stories -- Wisdom and faith ; -- Derision and invective ; -- Taradiddle ; -- Classic tales ; -- Envoy. Jacques Barzun -- E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Bernard Shaw -- Richard Wagner -- Hector Berlioz -- Leo Tolstoy -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Robert Schumann -- Charles Dickens -- Franz Schubert -- Honore de Balzac -- Ivan Turgenev -- Carl-Maria von Weber -- Ann Radcliffe -- Thomas Hardy -- Romain Rolland -- G.K. Chesterton -- Robert Burton -- Constant Lambert -- Sidney Lanier -- Ferruccio Busoni -- Jules Renard and Maurice Ravel -- Thomas De Quincey -- Martin Luther -- P.E. Vernon -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Philip Heseltine -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Roger North -- Edmund Gurney -- Stendhal -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Beaumarchais -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Hector Berlioz -- Camille Saint-Saens -- W.J. Turner -- Charles Gounod -- Romain Rolland -- Voltaire -- Richard Wagner -- Claude Debussy -- Samuel Butler -- Vincent d'Indy -- Bernard Shaw -- Franz Liszt -- Eugene Delacroix -- Joseph Mazzini -- Heinrich Heine -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Stendhal -- Hugo Wolf -- Ignaz Moscheles -- John Hill Hewitt -- Charles Burney -- Various hands -- Louis Spohr -- Giuseppe Verdi and Louis Engel -- Vladimir Stassov -- Lafcadio Hearn -- Eduard Hanslick -- George Sand -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Hector Berlioz -- Moliere -- P.T. Barnum -- Leo Tolstoy -- James Agate -- Hugo Wolf -- Denis Diderot -- Max Maretzek -- Bernard van Dieren and Ferruccio Busoni -- Thomas Hardy -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Chateaubriand -- Charles Dickens -- Hector Berlioz -- Jeremy Collier -- Frederic Harrison -- Princess Lieven -- B.H. Haggin -- Tom S. Wotton -- Anonymous -- W.F. Apthorp -- Charles Lamb -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Leigh Hunt -- Jean-Paul Richter -- P.I. Tchaikovsky -- Benvenuto Cellini and Michel de Montaigne -- Jonathan Swift -- Rudolf Kassner -- Modeste Moussorgsky -- Brillat-Savarin --
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Music and words Fiction -- A tale of Don Juan Mr. Jack, composer A pilgrimage to Beethoven An artist from the grocer's Natasha sings for her lover Wine, woman, and song A meeting of the House of David Parting serenade at Todgers's Allegory on the composer's life Dinner with Gambara The rough diamond The wandering minstrel Murder to music Christmas at Mellstock Criticism -- Music at large -- Making the rounds Music with meals The secret power of musick The spirit of jazz Music is infinite The unity of music Music and nature How music imitates In praise of music The ear is not enough Music and the deity The idea of a song Music and drama -- The Paris Opera in 1760 Semi-operas The fallacy of music-drama Banish the libretto The passionate style Mangled operas and the star system A new kind of opera The greatness of Wagner The limits of music The composer as psychologist Bury the program Composers and performers -- Palestrina Johann Sebastian Bach Lulli and Rameau Beethoven's day The conductor Handel Cesar Franck is inspired Sir George Grove and Beethoven Chopin, a national poet Mozart and modernism Meyerbeer's achievement The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt Wagner as actor Rossini's "Barber of Seville" The Russian school Some premieres -- Johann Strauss in London Fiasco in the White House The first Handel festival Beethoven's "Third" and "Fifth" First baton in London "La traviata" in Venice "Boris Godunov" Bizet's "L'Arlesienne" Brahms' Second symphony The musical life -- Politics and patronage -- Art and revolution Statement to the Soviet An interview with the police Patron and professional The Jenny Lind enterprise An opera is rehearsed Coaching the aspirant When to applaud Rameau's nephew Cabals and cantatori What gives us pause Apropos of instruments -- The organ blower's complaint The Russian horn Of bells The solitary cello The flute An instrument for war and peace The concert hall The barrel organ Music on records Notes on drums The orchestra Fantasies and confessions -- Sonata form in food A chapter on ears The prayer from "Moses" Musical memories The value of a deaf left ear My taste in classics Music and my father A cantata, with comments by other hands Musical brows My life and works Sing for your life Correspondence -- Johann Sebastian Bach ; -- Lord Chesterfield ; -- Empress Maria Theresa and Count de Mercy-Argenteau ; -- The Mozarts ; -- Christoph Willibald Gluck ; -- Joseph Haydn ; -- Thomas Jefferson ; -- Napoleon ; -- Lord Byron ; -- Ludwig van Beethoven ; -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes ; -- The Mendelssohns ; -- Carl-Maria von Weber ; -- Robert Schumann ; -- Anonymous ; -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; -- Nicolo Paganini ; -- Johannes Brahms ; -- Edgar Allan Poe ; -- Charles Baudelaire ; -- Alexander Borodin ; -- Emmanuel Chabrier ; -- Sydney Smith ; -- Giuseppe Verdi ; -- Franz Schubert -- Maxims and good stories -- Wisdom and faith ; -- Derision and invective ; -- Taradiddle ; -- Classic tales ; -- Envoy. Jacques Barzun -- E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Bernard Shaw -- Richard Wagner -- Hector Berlioz -- Leo Tolstoy -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Robert Schumann -- Charles Dickens -- Franz Schubert -- Honore de Balzac -- Ivan Turgenev -- Carl-Maria von Weber -- Ann Radcliffe -- Thomas Hardy -- Romain Rolland -- G.K. Chesterton -- Robert Burton -- Constant Lambert -- Sidney Lanier -- Ferruccio Busoni -- Jules Renard and Maurice Ravel -- Thomas De Quincey -- Martin Luther -- P.E. Vernon -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Philip Heseltine -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Roger North -- Edmund Gurney -- Stendhal -- Claudio Monteverdi -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Beaumarchais -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Hector Berlioz -- Camille Saint-Saens -- W.J. Turner -- Charles Gounod -- Romain Rolland -- Voltaire -- Richard Wagner -- Claude Debussy -- Samuel Butler -- Vincent d'Indy -- Bernard Shaw -- Franz Liszt -- Eugene Delacroix -- Joseph Mazzini -- Heinrich Heine -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Stendhal -- Hugo Wolf -- Ignaz Moscheles -- John Hill Hewitt -- Charles Burney -- Various hands -- Louis Spohr -- Giuseppe Verdi and Louis Engel -- Vladimir Stassov -- Lafcadio Hearn -- Eduard Hanslick -- George Sand -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Hector Berlioz -- Moliere -- P.T. Barnum -- Leo Tolstoy -- James Agate -- Hugo Wolf -- Denis Diderot -- Max Maretzek -- Bernard van Dieren and Ferruccio Busoni -- Thomas Hardy -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Chateaubriand -- Charles Dickens -- Hector Berlioz -- Jeremy Collier -- Frederic Harrison -- Princess Lieven -- B.H. Haggin -- Tom S. Wotton -- Anonymous -- W.F. Apthorp -- Charles Lamb -- Gioacchino Rossini -- Leigh Hunt -- Jean-Paul Richter -- P.I. Tchaikovsky -- Benvenuto Cellini and Michel de Montaigne -- Jonathan Swift -- Rudolf Kassner -- Modeste Moussorgsky -- Brillat-Savarin --
51014461
Music--History and criticism.
Music.
ML55.B296.P543 1951 ML55