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An Encyclopedia Of Quotations About Mus
Nat Shapiro
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Description for An Encyclopedia Of Quotations About Mus
Paperback. Num Pages: 418 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 479.
Writing about music-about what it is and what it means-is akin to describing the act of love. Somehow, the reduction of the experience to an unblushingly detailed exposition of how, where, when, and why who does what to whom, from prelude to resolu tion, loses everything in the translation. The other extreme, the one wherein the writer, in desperation, resorts to metaphor (with or without benefit of meter and rhyme), most often results in im agery that is banal, vulgar, inane, obscure, pretentious, and almost always insufferably romantic. To achieve good and accurate writing about music is as rare an ... Read more
Writing about music-about what it is and what it means-is akin to describing the act of love. Somehow, the reduction of the experience to an unblushingly detailed exposition of how, where, when, and why who does what to whom, from prelude to resolu tion, loses everything in the translation. The other extreme, the one wherein the writer, in desperation, resorts to metaphor (with or without benefit of meter and rhyme), most often results in im agery that is banal, vulgar, inane, obscure, pretentious, and almost always insufferably romantic. To achieve good and accurate writing about music is as rare an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461596295
SKU
V9781461596295
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