Lexicon Of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults On Composers Since Beethoven&Apos S Time Nicolas Slonimsky Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Music

A Snakeful Of Critical Venom Aimed At The Composers And Classics Nineteenth- Twentieth-Century Music Who Wrote Advanced Cat Music? What Commonplace Theme Is Very Much Like Yankee Doodle? Which Composer Scoundrel Giftless Bastard? Opera Would His Satanic Majesty Turn Out? Whose Name Suggests Fierce Whiskers Stained With Vodka? Finally Third Movement Begins Dog Howling Midnight Then Imitates Regurgitations Less-Refined Or Lower-Middle-Class Type Water-Closet Cistern Ends Cello Reproducing Screech An Ungreased Wheelbarrow? For Answers To These Other Questions Readers Need Only Consult \ Invecticon\ Back This Inspired Book Full Passage In All Its Vituperation Among Eminent Reviewers Are George Bernard Shaw Virgil Thomson Hans Von Bülow Friedrich Nietzsche Eduard Hanslick Olin Downes Deems Taylor Paul Rosenfeld Oscar Wilde Itself Classic Collection Nasty Barbs About Their Works Culled Mostly From Contemporaneous Newspapers Magazines Makes Hilarious Reading Belongs On Shelf Everyone Loves—Or Hates—Classical New Foreword By Peter Schickele (\ P D Q Bach\ ) Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0108 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm