Romanticism & Melody: Essays for Music Lovers
By George Colerick.
Description
The 1830s to the 1950s was a superlative period of melody making. . . and in Romanticism And Melody author Geprge Colerick has written about music which he finds specially inspiring or entertaining. The topics range from the youthful Brahms of the Piano Quartets to farces in Leicester Square and at the Berlin Wall, including musical London in the time of Bernard Shaw, the Wagner controversy, music theatre in Paris, aspects of Transylvanian folk culture, and of Soviet music making. "Books on music specially for the enlightened lay music lover are not easy to find. Too often musical hist...
ISBN(s)
0952496429, 9780952496427
