A musical tour through the land of the past
By: by Romain Rolland; translated by Bernard Miall.
Contributors: Miall, Bernard, tr.
Series: On cover: The international library of music
Publisher: H. Holt and company
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Music -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Musicians
Notes: "The majority of these papers appeared in the Revue de Paris (1st July, 1900, 13th August, 1903. 13th February, 1906, 15th April, 1910)"
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: A humorous novel by an eighteenth-century musician.; title: [Der musicalische quack-salber (The musical charleton) by J. Kuhnau]; title: An English amateur (Pepys's diary); title: A portrait of Händel.; title: The origins of the "classic" style in eighteenth-century music.; title: The autobiography of a forgotten master: Telemann, the successful rival of J. S. Bach.; title: Metastasio: the forerunner of Gluck.; title: A musical tour across Europe in the eighteenth century.