Music and criticism, a symposium / edited by Richard F. French.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

French, Richard F. (Richard Frederic), 1915-2001.

Conference Name:

Symposium on Music Criticism (1947 : Harvard University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 181 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press, 1948.

Contents:

Introductory remarks, by A. T. Davison.

The raison d'être of criticism in the arts, by E. M. Forster.

The scope of music criticism, by Roger Sessions.

The critical nature of a work of art, by Edgar Wind.

The performer as critic, by Olga Samaroff.

The art of judging music, by Virgil Thomson.

Consequences of the recorded performance, by Otto Kinkeldey.

The equipment of the musical journalist, by P. H. Lang.

The future of musical patronage in America, by Huntington Cairns.

OCLC:

2152180