The State of Music by Virgil Thomson

The State of Music

Virgil Thomson

227 pages first pub 1939 (editions)

essays informative reflective medium-paced
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Polemics by a leading American composer. There is a 1961 preface with Thomson's thoughts about what he said in the original 1939 edition. Chapters: Our Island Home (what it feels like to be a musician); The Neighbors (chiefly about painters and pa...

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