Shaw on music / edited by Eric Bentley.
| Author/creator | Shaw, Bernard |
| Other author | Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020 editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Applause, ©1995. |
| Description | ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Prose works. Selections |
| Contents | Foreword / Eric Bentley -- Criticism and Suicide -- Destructive Force -- Personal Animosity -- Technical Analysis -- Simply Listen -- Electioneering -- My Impostorship -- Funeral March -- Ruskin on Music -- My Stuff and Dr Stanford -- Gluck's Orfeo -- Don Giovanni -- The Mozart Centenary, 1891 -- Tuneful Little Trifles? -- His Gentleness -- Mozart and Beethoven -- Beethoven's Centenary -- Rossini Centenary, 1892 -- Weber's Der Freischutz -- The Damnation of Faust -- The Trombone -- The Art of Composition -- Das Rheingold -- The Tone Poet -- Bayreuth -- Falstaff -- A Word More about Verdi -- Spoof Opera -- Schonberg and Atonality -- Acting in Opera -- Rigoletto -- Directing Opera -- Cavalleria Rusticana -- Dramatic Singing -- A Bad Opera -- Opera Burlesqued -- Opera Impresario -- The New Italian School -- Sturgis and Sullivan -- Gilbert and Offenbach -- Gilbert and Solomon -- Gilbert and Cellier -- Gilbert, Sullivan & Others -- Gilbert and Sullivan -- Jane Annie -- Music Hall -- Christmas Pantomime -- Bands -- Comic Opera -- Yvette Guilbert -- What Is Religious? -- Handel's Messiah -- The Messiah Again -- Music in Church -- Mendelssohn's Elijah -- A Bad Oratorio -- Richard III as Music -- The Marseillaise -- In the West Country -- As Far as Greenwich -- Diction -- La Vie Parisienne -- The Popular Dramatist -- Incidental Music -- Paderewski -- A Recital Lecture -- The Public. |
| Abstract | This volume contains the best of Shaw's musical writing, including sections on Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Berlioz, pieces on opera, musical analysis, oratorios, Gilbert and Sullivan, plus a long autobiographical preface, one of Shaw's most self-revealing works. |
| LCCN | 95005376 |
| ISBN | 1557831491 (paper) |
| ISBN | 9781557831491 (paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML286.8.L5 S32 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |