Descript |
197 pages. |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Contents |
Setting the scene : grandiose symphonics and the trouble with art -- Pessimism, ecstasy and distant voices : listening to late-romanticism -- Sunsets, sunrises and decadent oceanics -- Making the world weep (more problems with opera) -- Late romanticism meets classical music at the movies -- The bitter truth of modernism : a late-romantic story. |
ISBN |
9780520280397 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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