The joy of music / Leonard Bernstein
1959, 1st edition. London : White Lion Publishers. Fine cloth copy in a very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #427675
Physical description; 303p : ill, facsims, music ; 23 cm. Contents; Introduction : the happy medium -- Imaginary conversations. Bull session in the Rockies ; Whatever happened to that great American symphony? ; Why don't you run upstairs and write a nice Gershwin tune? -- Interlude : Upper Dubbing, Calif. -- Photograph section -- Seven Omnibus television scripts. Beethoven's Fifth symphony ; The world of jazz ; The art of conducting ; American musical comedy ; Introduction to modern music ; The music of Johann Sebastian Bach ; What makes opera grand? Subjects; Music Analysis, appreciation. Music appreciation. Musical analysis. Music. Music - Criticism and appreciation. Music - History and criticism. Music - Performance theory and criticism.
Price: €25.00