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Lexicon of Musical Invective Critical Assaults on Composers since Beethoven's Time

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ISBN-10: 039332009X

ISBN-13: 9780393320091

Edition: 2000

Authors: Nicolas Slonimsky, Peter Schickele

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A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard? What opera would His Satanic Majesty turn out? Whose name suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka? And finally, what third movement begins with a dog howling at midnight, then imitates the regurgitations of the less-refined or lower-middle-class type of water-closet cistern, and ends with the cello reproducing the screech of an ungreased wheelbarrow? For the answers to these and other questions, readers need only consult the "Invecticon"…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.05" wide x 8.15" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Nicolas Slonimsky, pianist, composer, conductor, author, lexicographer, jingle writer, and parent who spoke Latin to his daughter, died in 1996 at the age of 100.

Foreword
Prelude: Non-Acceptance of the Unfamiliar
Bartok
Beethoven
Berg
Berlioz
Bizet
Bloch
Brahms
Bruckner
Chopin
Copland
Cowell
Debussy
Franck
Gershwin
Gounod
Harris
D'Indy
Krenek
Liszt
Mahler
Milhaud