Essays Before a Sonata
Subtitle: The Majority and Other Writings
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780393318302
First sentence: HOW far is anyone justified, be he an authority or a layman, in expressing or trying to express in terms of music (in sounds, if you like) the value of anything, material, moral, intellectual, or spiritual, which is usually expressed in terms other than music?