An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music

Front Cover
Nat Shapiro
Doubleday, 1978 - Music - 418 pages

Contents

Part Two CREATORS AND COMPONENTS
31
Part Three EXPONENTS
73
Part Four PROPONENTS AND OPPONENTS
121
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129
Part Five LIFT EVERY VOICE
143
Part Six THE UNIVERSAL
179
The Medicine of a Troubled Mind
181
Emotions Vapors and Dispositions
191
The Soul of a Nation
261
The Sweetest Physic in the World
265
The OpenAir Art
268
A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread
270
Like the Birdies Sing
273
Sight and Sound
276
Part Seven MUSIC FOR THE MILLIONS
279
Jazz
281

The Food of Love
201
The Lingering Melody
208
Let Me Have Music Dying
214
Solitude
220
Warriors Fired with Animated Sounds
221
Consort Not with a Female Musician
226
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance
231
The Only Sensual Pleasure Without Vice
241
The Truth of Song
244
Tones in Time
247
Education
250
The Gift of God
254
Blues and Blacks
293
Rock
301
Popular and Light
307
Folk
312
Dance
315
Film and Theater
318
Part Eight METAPHYSICS METAPHOR AND MISCELLANY
323
The Music of the Spheres
325
Music as Metaphor
331
Proverbs Aphorisms Wordplay and Assorted Musical Saws
341
INDEX OF NAMES AND SOURCES
351
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