Title: The state of music.
Authors: Thomson, Virgil,; Knopf, Alfred A.,
Date: 1939
Publisher: W. Morrow and company,
Physical description: vi, 250 p. 22 cm.
Language: English
LC class: M
Contents: Our island home, or, What it feels like to be a musician -- The neighbors, or, Chiefly about painters and painting -- Survivals of an earlier civilization, or, Shades of poets dead and gone -- Life among the natives, or, Musical habits and customs -- Life in the big city, or, The civil status of musicians -- How composers eat, or, Who does what to who and who gets paid -- Why compoers write how, or, The economic determinism of musical style -- Composers' politics, or, Professional bodies versus the secular state -- Intellectual freedom, or, What can and cannot be censored -- How to write a piece, or, Functional design in music -- Back to the womb, James, or, How modern music gets that way -- Back to politics, or, How to run an island civilization.
Notes: "I am here occupied in describing the state of the musical tradition in Western society and in telling how it actually works."--p. 95.