Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time
Description
"A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism."―From the new foreword by Peter Schickele. A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard? What opera would His Satanic Majesty turn out? Whose name suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka? And finally, what third movement begins with a dog howling at midnight, then imitates the regurgitations of the less-refined or lower-m...
ISBN(s)
039332009X, 9780393320091
