Lectures on the history and art of music.
Pref. by Irving Lowens.
- New York Da Capo Press 1968.
- ix, 264 p. music. 24 cm.
- The Louis Charles Elson memorial lectures at the Library of Congress, 1946-1963 Da Capo Press music reprint series .
On the meaning of music, by G. Haydon.--The commonwealth of art, by C. Sachs.--Music as the language of emotion, by C. C. Pratt.--Music into words, by J. Barzun.--Words and music, by A. T. Davison.--Symbolism in the music of Bach, by K. Geiringer.--Some sociological aspects of music, by J. Kunst.--The origins of Schonberg's twelve-tone system, by E. Wellesz.--Musical creation, by M. Pincherle.--Discrepancies in Haydn biographies, by A. van Hoboken.--Music--its past and its present, by J. Westrup.