Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... 19th century . Understandably , the majority of audiences felt more at home with the popular waltz than with the symphonies of Schubert , Brahms , Bruckner and Mahler . Though all these composers tried to elevate the ländler folk dances ...
... 19th century . Understandably , the majority of audiences felt more at home with the popular waltz than with the symphonies of Schubert , Brahms , Bruckner and Mahler . Though all these composers tried to elevate the ländler folk dances ...
Page 109
... 19th - century notion of the Artist as Hero . When theories are put into practice , they often seem less attractive ... century after the founding of Bayreuth , the Wagner cult continues unabated . If history is any guide , that would ...
... 19th - century notion of the Artist as Hero . When theories are put into practice , they often seem less attractive ... century after the founding of Bayreuth , the Wagner cult continues unabated . If history is any guide , that would ...
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... 19th century underlined ( as did the technology of railroads , tunnels and suspension bridges ) . During the second half of the 19th century , Vienna entered its last phase of imperial splendour - an ephemeral brilliance , pompously ...
... 19th century underlined ( as did the technology of railroads , tunnels and suspension bridges ) . During the second half of the 19th century , Vienna entered its last phase of imperial splendour - an ephemeral brilliance , pompously ...
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The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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