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Lexicon of musical invective : critical assaults on composers since Beethoven's time / Nicolas Slonimsky.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3785 .S5 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995.
- Series:
- Norton paperback
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical criticism.
- Composers.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 325 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, 2000.
- Summary:
- Nicolas Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective is an anthology of critical assaults on well-known composers and their works. Here the reader will find biased, unfair, ill-tempered, and singularly unprophetic judgments by musicians and reviewers. Also included is the author's "Invecticon." an index to the nasty words and phrases found in the book.
- Contents:
- Prelude: Non-Acceptance of the Unfamiliar 3
- Bartok 39
- Beethoven 42
- Berg 53
- Berlioz 57
- Bizet 62
- Bloch 66
- Brahms 68
- Bruckner 80
- Chopin 83
- Copland 86
- Cowell 88
- Debussy 89
- Franck 104
- Gershwin 105
- Gounod 106
- Harris 107
- D'Indy 108
- Krenek 110
- Liszt 111
- Mahler 120
- Milhaud 124.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1965 2nd ed. by Coleman-Ross Company.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 039332009X
- OCLC:
- 44968044
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