Lectures on the history and art of music.
By: Pref. by Irving Lowens.
Series: The Louis Charles Elson memorial lectures at the Library of Congress, 1946-1963; Da Capo Press music reprint series; Louis Charles Elson memorial lecture.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: On the meaning of music, by G. Haydon.; title: The commonwealth of art, by C. Sachs.; title: Music as the language of emotion,  by C. C. Pratt.; title: Music into words, by J. Barzun.; title: Words and music, by A. T. Davison.; title: Symbolism in the music of Bach, by K. Geiringer.; title: Some sociological aspects of music, by J. Kunst.; title: The origins of Schonberg's twelve-tone system, by E. Wellesz.; title: Musical creation, by M. Pincherle.; title: Discrepancies in Haydn biographies, by A. van Hoboken.; title: Music; title: its past and its present, by J. Westrup.