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Pleasures of music : an anthology of writing about music and musicians / edited & with a new preface by Jacques Barzun.

Contributor(s): Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012 [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Cassell & Company Limited, 1977Copyright date: ©1951 ©1977Description: x, 371 pages : 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0304298468 (hardback).Subject(s): Music -- History and criticism | MusiciansDDC classification: 780.92
Contents:
Music at large: Making the rounds / Romain Rolland -- Music with meals / G.K. Chesterton -- The secret power of musick / Robert Burton -- The spirit of jazz / Constant Lambert -- Music is infinite / Sidney Lanier -- The unity of music / Ferruccio Busoni -- Music and nature / Jules Renard and Maurice Ravel -- How music imitates / Thomas De Quincey -- In praise of music / Martin Luther -- The ear is not enough / P.E. Vernon -- Music and the deity / Sir Thomas Browne -- The idea of a song / Philip Heseltine. Music and drama: The Paris Opera in 1760 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Semi-operas / Roger North -- Banish the libretto / Stendhal -- The passionate style / Claudio Monteverdi -- Mangled operas and the star system / Thomas Love Peacock -- A new kind of opera / Beaumarchais -- The greatness of Wagner / Friedrich Nietzsche. The limits of music / Hector Berlioz -- The composer as psychologist / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Bury the program / W.J. Turner. Composers and performers: Palestrina / Charles Gouno -- Johann Sebastian Bach / Romain Rolland -- Lulli and Rameau / Voltaire -- Beethoven's day / Richard Wagner. The conductor / Claude Debussy -- Handel / Samuel Butler -- César Franck is inspired / Vincent d'Indy -- Sir George Grove and Beethoven / Bernard Shaw -- Chopin, a national poet / Franz Liszt -- Mozart and modernism / Eugène Delacroix -- Meyerbeer's achievement / Joseph Mazzini -- The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt / Heinrich Heine -- Wagner as actor / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Rossini's 'Barber of Seville' / Stendhal. The Russian school / Hugo Wolf. Some premières: Johann Strauss in London / Ignaz Moscheles -- The first Handel festival / Charles Burney -- Beethoven's 'Third' and 'Fifth' -- First baton in London / Louis Spohr. "La traviata" in Venice / Giuseppe Verdi and Louis Engel -- "Boris Godunov" / Vladimir Stassov -- Bizet's "L'Arlésienne" / Lafcadio Hearn -- Brahms' Second symphony / Eduard Hanslick -- The musical life. Politics and patronage: Art and revolution / George Sand -- Statement to the Soviet / Sergei Prokofiev -- An interview with the police / Hector Berlioz -- Patron and professional / Molière -- An opera is rehearsed / Leo Tolstoy. Coaching the aspirant / James Agate -- When to applaud / Hugo Wolf -- Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot -- What gives us pause / Bernard van Dieren and Ferruccio Busoni. Apropos of instruments: The organ blower's complaint / Thomas Hardy -- The Russian horn / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Of bells / Chateaubriand -- The solitary cello / Charles Dickens -- The flute / Hector Berlioz -- An instrument for war and peace / Jeremy Collier -- The concert hall / Frederic Harrison -- The barrel organ / Princess Lieven -- Music on records / B.H. Haggin -- Notes on drums / Tom S. Wotton -- The orchestra -- Fantasies and confessions. Sonata form in food / W.F. Apthorp -- The prayer from "Moses" / Gioacchino Rossini -- Musical memories / Leigh Hunt -- The value of a deaf left ear / Jean-Paul Richter -- My taste in classics / P.I. Tchaikovsky -- Music and my father / Benvenuto Cellini and Michel de Montaigne -- A cantata, with comments by other hands / Jonathan Swift -- Musical brows / Rudolf Kassner -- My life and works / Modeste Moussorgsky -- Sing for your life / Brillat-Savarin -- Correspondence: Johann Sebastian Bach ; Lord Chesterfield ; Empress Maria Theresa and Count de Mercy-Argenteau ; The Mozarts ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Joseph Haydn ; Thomas Jefferson ; Napoleon ; Lord Byron ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Thomas Lovell Beddoes ; The Mendelssohns ; Carl-Maria von Weber ; Robert Schumann ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Nicolò Paganini ; Johannes Brahms ; Charles Baudelaire ; Emmanuel Chabrier ; Sydney Smith ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Franz Schubert -- Maxims and good stories: Wisdom and faith -- Derision and invective -- Taradiddle --Classic tales -- Envoy.

Bibliography: (pages365-371)

Music at large: Making the rounds / Romain Rolland -- Music with meals / G.K. Chesterton -- The secret power of musick / Robert Burton -- The spirit of jazz / Constant Lambert -- Music is infinite / Sidney Lanier -- The unity of music / Ferruccio Busoni -- Music and nature / Jules Renard and Maurice Ravel -- How music imitates / Thomas De Quincey -- In praise of music / Martin Luther -- The ear is not enough / P.E. Vernon -- Music and the deity / Sir Thomas Browne -- The idea of a song / Philip Heseltine. Music and drama: The Paris Opera in 1760 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Semi-operas / Roger North -- Banish the libretto / Stendhal -- The passionate style / Claudio Monteverdi -- Mangled operas and the star system / Thomas Love Peacock -- A new kind of opera / Beaumarchais -- The greatness of Wagner / Friedrich Nietzsche. The limits of music / Hector Berlioz -- The composer as psychologist / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Bury the program / W.J. Turner. Composers and performers: Palestrina / Charles Gouno -- Johann Sebastian Bach / Romain Rolland -- Lulli and Rameau / Voltaire -- Beethoven's day / Richard Wagner. The conductor / Claude Debussy -- Handel / Samuel Butler -- César Franck is inspired / Vincent d'Indy -- Sir George Grove and Beethoven / Bernard Shaw -- Chopin, a national poet / Franz Liszt -- Mozart and modernism / Eugène Delacroix -- Meyerbeer's achievement / Joseph Mazzini -- The Paris of Berlioz and Liszt / Heinrich Heine -- Wagner as actor / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Rossini's 'Barber of Seville' / Stendhal. The Russian school / Hugo Wolf. Some premières: Johann Strauss in London / Ignaz Moscheles -- The first Handel festival / Charles Burney -- Beethoven's 'Third' and 'Fifth' -- First baton in London / Louis Spohr. "La traviata" in Venice / Giuseppe Verdi and Louis Engel -- "Boris Godunov" / Vladimir Stassov -- Bizet's "L'Arlésienne" / Lafcadio Hearn -- Brahms' Second symphony / Eduard Hanslick -- The musical life. Politics and patronage: Art and revolution / George Sand -- Statement to the Soviet / Sergei Prokofiev -- An interview with the police / Hector Berlioz -- Patron and professional / Molière -- An opera is rehearsed / Leo Tolstoy. Coaching the aspirant / James Agate -- When to applaud / Hugo Wolf -- Rameau's nephew / Denis Diderot -- What gives us pause / Bernard van Dieren and Ferruccio Busoni. Apropos of instruments: The organ blower's complaint / Thomas Hardy -- The Russian horn / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Of bells / Chateaubriand -- The solitary cello / Charles Dickens -- The flute / Hector Berlioz -- An instrument for war and peace / Jeremy Collier -- The concert hall / Frederic Harrison -- The barrel organ / Princess Lieven -- Music on records / B.H. Haggin -- Notes on drums / Tom S. Wotton -- The orchestra -- Fantasies and confessions. Sonata form in food / W.F. Apthorp -- The prayer from "Moses" / Gioacchino Rossini -- Musical memories / Leigh Hunt -- The value of a deaf left ear / Jean-Paul Richter -- My taste in classics / P.I. Tchaikovsky -- Music and my father / Benvenuto Cellini and Michel de Montaigne -- A cantata, with comments by other hands / Jonathan Swift -- Musical brows / Rudolf Kassner -- My life and works / Modeste Moussorgsky -- Sing for your life / Brillat-Savarin -- Correspondence: Johann Sebastian Bach ; Lord Chesterfield ; Empress Maria Theresa and Count de Mercy-Argenteau ; The Mozarts ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Joseph Haydn ; Thomas Jefferson ; Napoleon ; Lord Byron ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Thomas Lovell Beddoes ; The Mendelssohns ; Carl-Maria von Weber ; Robert Schumann ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Nicolò Paganini ; Johannes Brahms ; Charles Baudelaire ; Emmanuel Chabrier ; Sydney Smith ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Franz Schubert -- Maxims and good stories: Wisdom and faith -- Derision and invective -- Taradiddle --Classic tales -- Envoy.

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