The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism

Haskell, Harry

ISBN 10: 0571161456 / ISBN 13: 9780571161454

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1995

About this Item

Large 8vo. xvii (i), 398. First Edition, 1995. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.5". Blue cloth with white lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "Modern criticism started in the eighteenth century when the rationalism of the Enlightenment fostered the growth of a genuinely critical spirit that transformed writing about music from a narrowly scholastic discipline into a broadly humanistic one." from the jacket flap. Size: Large Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571161456
• ISBN 13: 9780571161454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • MUSIC

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Synopsis

A collection of music journalism from the past three centuries. The apercus of writers such as Heine, Shaw and Hanslick are set beside those of composers such as Debussy, Tchaikovsky and Janacek, and figures of high seriousness and austerity consort with the advocates of pleasure in music.