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Brandy of the damned : discoveries of a musical eclectic / Colin Wilson.

LIBRA MT6.W555 B7 1964
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
182 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
London : J. Baker, [1964]
Contents:
  • Introduction: Purely personal, on being a musical eclectic
  • The romantic half-century : Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Hanslick, Bruckner, Mahler
  • Mozart and Beethoven : a retrospect
  • Modern music : the problem : Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Stravinsky
  • The tragedy of Bartók
  • Two mystics : Scriabin and Bloch
  • The nature and spirit of jazz
  • Delius
  • Some English music : Sullivan, Elgar, Holst, Butterworth, Warlock, Vaughan Williams, Bax, Ireland, Bliss, Walton, Britten, Tippett, Searle
  • Some notes on opera : Orff, Strauss, modern Italian opera, Menotti, Poulenc, Janáček, Prokofiev, modern Russian opera.
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.
Other Format:
Online version: Wilson, Colin, 1931- Brandy of the damned.
OCLC:
855760

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