Between Old Worlds and New: Occasional Writings on MusicFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1997 - 326 pages Wilfrid Mellers ranks among the most eminent of contemporary British writers and lecturers on music. The range of his interest is exceptionally wide, encompassing music from the renaissance to the present day, from Monteverdi to Minimalism, not excluding jazz and many different forms of popular music, as well as music from non-western cultures. That breadth of vision is nowhere more apparent than in his occasional writings. In these necessarily concentrated and closely focused pieces we find the essence of his thinking about music, its nature and its meaning. Written in the first instance for the general reader, they also offer insights that should be of importance to music students in schools, colleges, and universities. |
Table des matières
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Introduction | 13 |
What is Music for? | 15 |
Singing and Dancing in the Unknown | 26 |
Higher Satisfaction in Sydenham | 31 |
In the Mood | 35 |
Composers Thoughts | 40 |
Making Spiritual Contact | 45 |
Yonge Fresshe Folkes He and She | 163 |
Music for Everyman | 167 |
Monotonously Minimal | 171 |
Introduction | 177 |
A Singleminded Pursuit | 179 |
The Composer as Wounded Bird | 184 |
Chopins Melancholy Spell | 190 |
The Great and the Small | 194 |
Making the Spirits Speak | 51 |
Masters Originals and Alsorans | 57 |
The Blues in History | 62 |
Introduction | 69 |
Dioclesian Restord | 71 |
Little Time to spare | 78 |
Invading Nerves Blood and Bones | 85 |
Rebel Without Applause | 92 |
Blue Remembered Hills | 99 |
Virgil Thomson a Hundred Years On | 104 |
Lou Harrison at Eighty | 110 |
Introduction | 123 |
Out of Arcadia | 125 |
A Pretend Paradise | 129 |
Fidelio and Leonora | 131 |
Perplexed Ensembles | 140 |
An Arbitarry Maliganancy | 143 |
That Mixed Up Kid | 145 |
One Damned Thing After Another | 148 |
New Life in a New World? | 152 |
Innocence Drowned | 154 |
Wrong but Wromantick | 157 |
Restored by Innocence | 161 |
Fortitude Without Faith | 199 |
Reclusive Revolutionary | 203 |
The Wagner Phenomenon | 207 |
Whats to Come | 218 |
Ho Ho Ho | 223 |
Introduction | 229 |
Lyrics to Deprivation | 230 |
The riches of the Early Rags | 234 |
Chopin of the Creoles | 238 |
Rome to Copland sound | 245 |
All the Things They Were | 253 |
A Voice in the Wilderness | 259 |
Up the Marshy creek | 266 |
On the Old Exoticism Trip | 269 |
An Authentic American Composer | 273 |
Old Values New Deals | 278 |
Cosmic Gershwin | 283 |
Ruth CrawfordSeeger | 289 |
A Select List of Works by Wilfrid Meers | 297 |
Notes | 305 |
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