NY: W.W. Norton, Date: 2000. 325pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Fine. 2000. W.W. Norton ISBN 039332009x 9780393320091 [US]

ISBN10: 039332009X, ISBN13: 9780393320091, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company 2000-08-21, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
[Oxford, OX, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

Paperback / softback. New. "A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism."-From the new foreword by Peter Schickele. ISBN 039332009x 9780393320091 [GB]

ISBN10: 039332009X, ISBN13: 9780393320091, [publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York] Softcover First Edition Paperback. 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 B?ow, 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?r hates ?lassical music. With a new foreword by Peter Schickele ("P.D.Q. Bach"). "A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism." from the ...
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New York W. W. Norton & Company 2000 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.