Temporaries and Eternals : the Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley, 1922-23.

By:

Allis, Michael

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443846905
1443846902

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Temporaries and Eternals : The Music Criticism of Aldous Huxley, 1922-23.DDC classification:

780.1 823/.912

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PR6015 .U9

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Contents:

Table of contents; acknowledgements; a note on the text; introduction; the criticism; brahms; busoni, dr. burney, and others; the interpreter and the creator; good-popular music; instruction with pleasure; emotional contributions; the week's new music; light opera and the new stravinsky; the mysteries of music; some easter music; music and machinery; beethoven's quartets; singing and things sung; patriotism and criticism; the criticism of music; the question of form; literary music; a problem of musical history; a few complaints; mr. lawrence's marchioness; supplementing the concerts.

Orientalism in musicmusic in a museum; popular tunes-past and present; let us now praise famous men; thayer's beethoven; the salzburg festival-i; the salzburg festival-ii; the salzburg festival-iii; mozart at salzburg; popular music in italy; some very young music; reflections in the promenade; busoni again; reflections in the concert room; new friends and old; variations; music and politics; an orlando gibbons concert; the arnold bax concert; temporaries and eternals; verdi and palestrina; round about don juan; delius and the nature-emotion; bad music; music in the encyclopædia.

Going to the operahandel, polly, and ourselves; music clubs; cherubini-emotion and form; madrigals and programme music; the hymn and the dream; barbarism in music; notes on a pianist and on pianos; a mozart programme; contemporaneousness; bach and handel; the lied; books about music; what are the wild waves saying?; brahms's birthday; opera, marionettes, and battistini; eclecticism; music and the interpretative medium; select discography; index.

Summary: Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Temporaries and Eternals focuses on the music column that Huxley wrote for The Weekly Westminster Gazette in 1922-23. Readers of Huxley's novels, essays and travel writing will be aware of the wealth of musical detail in these works, and this book suggests that such references can only be fully understood in the context of the opinions voiced in Huxley's music criticism. Not only does Huxley's column offer a fascinati ...

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Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Temporaries and Eternals focuses on the music column that Huxley wrote for The Weekly Westminster Gazette in 1922-23. Readers of Huxley's novels, essays and travel writing will be aware of the wealth of musical detail in these works, and this book suggests that such references can only be fully understood in the context of the opinions voiced in Huxley's music criticism. Not only does Huxley's column offer a fascinati ...