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

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

Slonimsky, Nicolas

Paperback

Classical MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 039332009X
ISBN13: 9780393320091
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Aug 1 2000
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.40
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.

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