Search results for ""Author Virgil Thomson""
Yale University Press Music with Words
Book SynopsisIn this practical, stylish, and authoritative book, one of America's most influential musical figures reveals how he learned to compose music for English poetry and prose. Illustrated with numerous examples from his own works, Virgil Thomson's discourses on the union of poetry and music will delight and instruct anyone who composes, performs, or simply listens to vocal music.Trade Review"This delightful and informative book is a triply harmonious meeting of Virgil Thomson’s celebrated words with the meeting of text and music. It is of great value to listeners and performers both, and if it represents a composer’s view, it also manifests the writer’s art."—John Hollander "Rare indeed are musicians who are equally capable of expressing their ideas in a cogent literary manner and to compose music in a distinctive personal style. Virgil Thomson is such a musician. In his Music with Words, he gives the reader an instructive view of the interdependence of music and words with ample illustrations from his own compositions."—Nicolas Slonimsky "Nothing quite like this have ever existed before. Succinct, authoritative, no-nonsense, yet endearing, Virgil Thomson could be talking straight to you in those novel and ordered phrases from his novel and ordered parlor at the Chelsea. How I envy such unflagging, intelligent energy. I mean it complimentarily when I say that some of Virgil Thomson’s opinions jar me. For there is no one with whom I take more pleasure in disagreeing."—Ned Rorem
£34.89
G. Schirmer, Inc. Virgil Thomson Collected Songs Low Voice 25
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£21.24
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Art of Judging Music
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£52.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Praises and Prayers
£9.47
G. Schirmer, Inc. Virgil Thomson Collected Songs High Voice 24
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£21.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Four Saints in Three Acts Vocal Score
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£40.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Feast of Love from Pervigilium Veneris Baritone
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£7.46
Scarecrow Press Everbest Ever Correspondence with Bay Area
Book SynopsisTrade Review...brings out a playfully snooty side of the....composer right from the start... Anecdotes emerge in this correspondence with intruiging regularity as we see how comfotable Thomson regarded the everyday cosmopolitanism, cultural or culinary, of Northern California. * San Francisco Chronicle *
£46.55
