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A musical tour through the land of the past / by Romain Rolland; translated by Bernard Miall.
LIBRA ML390.R644
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Music--18th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Composers.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vi pages, 1 ., 235 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt and company, 1922.
- Contents:
- Preface.
- A humourous novel by an eighteenth-century musician.
- [Der musicalische quack-salber (The musical charlatan by J. Kuhnau]
- An English amateur (Pepys's Diary)
- A portrait of Händel.
- The origins of the "classic" style in eighteenth-century music.
- The autobiography of a forgotten master: Telemann, the successful rival of J. S. Bach.
- Metastasio: the forerunner of Gluck.
- A musical tour across Europe in the eighteenth century.
- Notes:
- "The majority of these papers appeared in the Revue de Paris (1st July, 1900, 13th August, 1903, 13th February, 1906, 15th April, 1910)"
- OCLC:
- 1228142
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