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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ISBN10: 039332009X, ISBN13: 9780393320091, [publisher: WW Norton & Co] Softcover "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. . 2000. First Trade. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 039332009X, ISBN13: 9780393320091, [publisher: WW Norton & Co, United States, New York] Softcover 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 Bulow, 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 lovesor hatesclassical music. With a new foreword by Peter Schickele ("P.D.Q. Bach"). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred ...

ISBN10: 039332009X, ISBN13: 9780393320091, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London] Softcover 325 pp. Tiny crease to upper front corner. All else as new. "An anthology of critical assaults on well-known composers and their works. Here the reader will find biased, unfair, ill-tempered, and singularly unprophetic judgments by musicians and reviewers. Also included is the author's 'Invecticon', an index to the nasty words and phrases found in the book." Size: Small Octavo
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