Free thought and the musician
Subtitle: and other essays
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Published: 1946
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Music
Table of contents: title: Free thought and the musician.- Mr. John Farmer.- Mendelssohn.- The snare of memory.- The value of the indistinct.- The claim of environment.- The tyranny of the dance.- A generation of music.- The songs of Schumann and Brahms: some contacts and contrasts.- Thayer's 'Beethoven.'- Hubert Parry.- Mozart.- The 'how' and the 'what.'- Music in the rough.- A neglected composer: Joseph Joachim.- The broadmindedness of Schumann.- Over-faithfulness.- Some questions of tempo.- An orchestra of the past.- An English musical critic of 1824.- Goethe and some composers.- Brahms and Heine.