Proof through the Night
Subtitle: Music and the Great War (Includes CD)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780520231580
Subjects: 20th century music; Brass band, patriotic, military & ceremonial music; World history: First World War; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music; World War, 1914-1918; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; History and criticism; 20th century; Music and the war
First sentence: In 1912 the future Nobel laureate Romain Rolland finished his grand novel, Jean Christophe, with a vivid premonition of war, yet the first en of his wartime journal, dated 31 July 1914, suggests that he was almost incredulous that it had arrived.