Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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Page 57
... concept of a low - brow is still with us as a seemingly inevitable corollary to ' art music ' . When the Renaissance took music from the many and transferred it to the privileged few , it created ' art music ' and , in the process ...
... concept of a low - brow is still with us as a seemingly inevitable corollary to ' art music ' . When the Renaissance took music from the many and transferred it to the privileged few , it created ' art music ' and , in the process ...
Page 106
... concept of his complete art work , one supreme will to overcome the impossible , and one all - embracing theatre . ' Every stone in that building , ' Wagner said to his wife , ' is red with our blood . ' There is a scrap of paper ...
... concept of his complete art work , one supreme will to overcome the impossible , and one all - embracing theatre . ' Every stone in that building , ' Wagner said to his wife , ' is red with our blood . ' There is a scrap of paper ...
Page 117
... concept of theatre music is about as far removed from Baroque opera as it is possible to get ; and , of course , it totally abnegates Wagner's operatic concept of voices and words enlarging a symphonic argument . It represents the ...
... concept of theatre music is about as far removed from Baroque opera as it is possible to get ; and , of course , it totally abnegates Wagner's operatic concept of voices and words enlarging a symphonic argument . It represents the ...
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The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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