Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time by Slonimsky, Nicolas

Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time

A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music....
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Author: Nicolas Slonimsky
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Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time by Slonimsky, Nicolas

Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time

CHF 35.01

Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time

CHF 35.01
Author: Nicolas Slonimsky
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard? What opera would His Satanic Majesty turn out? Whose name suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka? And finally, what third movement begins with a dog howling at midnight, then imitates the regurgitations of the less-refined or lower-middle-class type of water-closet cistern, and ends with the cello reproducing the screech of an ungreased wheelbarrow? For the answers to these and other questions, readers need only consult the Invecticon at the back of this inspired book and then turn to the full passage, in all its vituperation. Among the eminent reviewers are George Bernard Shaw, Virgil Thomson, Hans von Bülow, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Hanslick, Olin Downes, Deems Taylor, Paul Rosenfeld, and Oscar Wilde. Itself a classic, this collection of nasty barbs about composers and their works, culled mostly from contemporaneous newspapers and magazines, makes for hilarious reading and belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves--or hates --classical music. With a new foreword by Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach).

Author: Nicolas Slonimsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2000
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.54w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780393320091


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 196

About the Author
Slonimsky, Nicolas: - Nicolas Slonimsky, pianist, composer, conductor, author, lexicographer, jingle writer, and parent who spoke Latin to his daughter, died in 1996 at the age of 100.

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