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- Author: Virgil Thomson
- Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
- ISBN-10: 1258216000
- ISBN-13: 9781258216009
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Polemics by a leading American composer. There is a 1961 preface with Thomson's thoughts about what he said in the original 1939 edition. Chapters: Our Island Home (what it feels like to be a musician); The Neighbors (chiefly about painters and painting); Survivals of an Earlier Civilization (poets dead and gone); Life among the Natives (musical habits and customs); Life in the Big City (the civil status of musicians); How Composers Eat (who does what to whom and who gets paid); What Composers Write How (the economic determinism of musical style); Composers' Politics (professional bodies versus the secular state); Intellectual Freedom (what can and cannot be censored); How to write a piece (functional design in music); Back to the Womb, James (how modern music gets that way); Back to Politics (how to run an island civilization).
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- Author: Virgil Thomson
- Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
- ISBN-10: 1258216000
- ISBN-13: 9781258216009
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Polemics by a leading American composer. There is a 1961 preface with Thomson's thoughts about what he said in the original 1939 edition. Chapters: Our Island Home (what it feels like to be a musician); The Neighbors (chiefly about painters and painting); Survivals of an Earlier Civilization (poets dead and gone); Life among the Natives (musical habits and customs); Life in the Big City (the civil status of musicians); How Composers Eat (who does what to whom and who gets paid); What Composers Write How (the economic determinism of musical style); Composers' Politics (professional bodies versus the secular state); Intellectual Freedom (what can and cannot be censored); How to write a piece (functional design in music); Back to the Womb, James (how modern music gets that way); Back to Politics (how to run an island civilization).
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