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14%OFFNicolas Slonimsky - Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven´s Time - 9780393320091 - V9780393320091
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Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven´s Time

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Description for Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven´s Time Paperback. "A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism."-From the new foreword by Peter Schickele. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AV; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.

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 ... Read more

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").

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393320091
SKU
V9780393320091
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About Nicolas Slonimsky
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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