Virgil Thomson: A Reader
Subtitle: Selected Writings, 1924-1984
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 9, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415937955
First sentence: Though written more than sixty years ago, Thomson's book, The State of Music (1939; rev. 1961), remains a masterpiece of musical sociology, with persuasive distinctions and insights, for instance shrewdly regarding stylistic characteristics as reflections of social factors.