TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barzun,Jacques
TI  - Pleasures of music: a reader's choice of great writing about music and musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw 
AV  - ML55.B296.P543 1951 
PY  - 1951///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking Press
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 1 (pages 611-617); Music and words; Jacques Barzun --; Fiction  --; A tale of Don Juan; E.T.A. Hoffmann  --; Mr. Jack, composer; Bernard Shaw  --; A pilgrimage to Beethoven; Richard Wagner  --; An artist from the grocer's; Hector Berlioz  --; Natasha sings for her lover; Leo Tolstoy  --; Wine, woman, and song; Thomas Love Peacock  --; A meeting of the House of David; Robert Schumann  --; Parting serenade at Todgers's; Charles Dickens  --; Allegory on the composer's life; Franz Schubert  --; Dinner with Gambara; Honore de Balzac  --; The rough diamond; Ivan Turgenev  --; The wandering minstrel; Carl-Maria von Weber  --; Murder to music; Ann Radcliffe  --; Christmas at Mellstock; Thomas Hardy --; Criticism  --; Music at large  --; Making the rounds; Romain Rolland  --; Music with meals; G.K. Chesterton  --; The secret power of musick; Robert Burton  --; The spirit of jazz; Constant Lambert  --; Music is infinite; Sidney Lanier  --; The unity of music; Ferruccio Busoni  --; Music and nature; Jules Renard and Maurice Ravel  --; How music imitates; Thomas De Quincey  --; In praise of music; Martin Luther  --; The ear is not enough; P.E. Vernon  --; Music and the deity; Sir Thomas Browne  --; The idea of a song; Philip Heseltine  --; Music and drama  --; The Paris Opera in 1760; Jean-Jacques Rousseau  --; Semi-operas; Roger North  --; The fallacy of music-drama; Edmund Gurney  --; Banish the libretto; Stendhal  --; The passionate style; Claudio Monteverdi  --; Mangled operas and the star system; Thomas Love Peacock  --; A new kind of opera; Beaumarchais  --; The greatness of Wagner; Friedrich Nietzsche  --; The limits of music; Hector Berlioz  --; The composer as psychologist; Camille Saint-Saens  --; Bury the program; W.J. Turner  --; Composers and performers  --; Palestrina; Charles Gounod  --; Johann Sebastian Bach; Romain Rolland  --; Lulli and Rameau; Voltaire  --; Beethoven's day; Richard Wagner  --; The conductor; Claude Debussy  --; Handel; Samuel Butler  --; Cesar Franck is inspired; Vincent d'Indy  --; Sir George Grove and Beethoven; Bernard Shaw  --; Chopin, a national poet; Franz Liszt  --; Mozart and modernism; Eugene Delacroix  --; Meyerbeer's achievement; Joseph Mazzini  --; The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt; Heinrich Heine  --; Wagner as actor; Friedrich Nietzsche  --; Rossini's "Barber of Seville"; Stendhal  --; The Russian school; Hugo Wolf  --; Some premieres  --; Johann Strauss in London; Ignaz Moscheles  --; Fiasco in the White House; John Hill Hewitt  --; The first Handel festival; Charles Burney  --; Beethoven's "Third" and "Fifth"; Various hands  --; First baton in London; Louis Spohr  --; "La traviata" in Venice; Giuseppe Verdi and Louis Engel  --; "Boris Godunov"; Vladimir Stassov  --; Bizet's "L'Arlesienne"; Lafcadio Hearn  --; Brahms' Second symphony; Eduard Hanslick --; The musical life  --; Politics and patronage  --; Art and revolution; George Sand  --; Statement to the Soviet; Sergei Prokofiev  --; An interview with the police; Hector Berlioz  --; Patron and professional; Moliere  --; The Jenny Lind enterprise; P.T. Barnum  --; An opera is rehearsed; Leo Tolstoy  --; Coaching the aspirant; James Agate  --; When to applaud; Hugo Wolf  --; Rameau's nephew; Denis Diderot  --; Cabals and cantatori; Max Maretzek  --; What gives us pause; Bernard van Dieren and Ferruccio Busoni  --; Apropos of instruments  --; The organ blower's complaint; Thomas Hardy  --; The Russian horn; Arthur Schopenhauer  --; Of bells; Chateaubriand  --; The solitary cello; Charles Dickens  --; The flute; Hector Berlioz  --; An instrument for war and peace; Jeremy Collier  --; The concert hall; Frederic Harrison  --; The barrel organ; Princess Lieven  --; Music on records; B.H. Haggin  --; Notes on drums; Tom S. Wotton  --; The orchestra; Anonymous --; Fantasies and confessions  --; Sonata form in food; W.F. Apthorp  --; A chapter on ears; Charles Lamb  --; The prayer from "Moses"; Gioacchino Rossini  --; Musical memories; Leigh Hunt  --; The value of a deaf left ear; Jean-Paul Richter  --; My taste in classics; P.I. Tchaikovsky  --; Music and my father; Benvenuto Cellini and Michel de Montaigne  --; A cantata, with comments by other hands; Jonathan Swift  --; Musical brows; Rudolf Kassner  --; My life and works; Modeste Moussorgsky  --; Sing for your life; Brillat-Savarin --; 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; 2
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