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Brandy of the damned : discoveries of a musical eclectic / Colin Wilson.
LIBRA MT6.W555 B7 1964
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music appreciation.
- Music--Instruction and study.
- 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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