Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... course with the sweet smell of dissertations on jazz and Rock . As a result of this course I decided to attempt to write an introduction to music now that would give consideration to the stance of those potentially hostile to classical ...
... course with the sweet smell of dissertations on jazz and Rock . As a result of this course I decided to attempt to write an introduction to music now that would give consideration to the stance of those potentially hostile to classical ...
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... course , Mendelssohn , whose adulation by Queen Victoria had made him virtually a patron saint of music throughout the British Empire . And then there was Tchaikovsky , who was very popular and therefore suspected of vulgarity , and of ...
... course , Mendelssohn , whose adulation by Queen Victoria had made him virtually a patron saint of music throughout the British Empire . And then there was Tchaikovsky , who was very popular and therefore suspected of vulgarity , and of ...
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... course of musical events well into our own century . For it is in the nature of the post - Renaissance musical tradition that acquiring a taste for it involves a considerable exercise of the intellect , as a necessary filter into the ...
... course of musical events well into our own century . For it is in the nature of the post - Renaissance musical tradition that acquiring a taste for it involves a considerable exercise of the intellect , as a necessary filter into the ...
Contents
2100351 | 7 |
The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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