The art of judging music.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Concerts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Opera -- New York (State) -- New York.; Music appreciation.
Notes: "The essay from which this book takes its title was delivered as an address on May 2, 1947, at the Harvard Symposium on Music Criticism. It was later published in the Atlantic Monthly. The other pieces appeared originally in the New York Herald Tribune."