An Encyclopedia Of Quotations About Music

Contents

• One Music is Music Does Music Means.- Two Creators and Components.-
• 1. Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm.-
• 2. Composers and Composition.-
• 3. The Avant-Garde.- Three Exponents.-
• 1. Conductors and Conducting.-
• 2. Instruments and Instrumentalists.-
• 3. Pianos and Pianists, Violins and/or Fiddles, Woodwinds, and Guitars.- Violins and/or Fiddles.- Woodwinds.- Guitars.-
• 4. Concerts.-
• 5. The Music Trade.- Four Proponents and Opponents.-
• 1. Critics and Criticism.-
• 2. Musical Misanthropy.- Five Lift Every Voice.-
• 1. Words and/with/for/to Music.-
• 2. The Wings of Song.-
• 3. Singing and Singers.-
• 4. Opera and Opera Singers.- Six The Universal Art.-
• 1. The Medicine of a Troubled Mind.-
• 2. Emotions, Vapors, and Dispositions.-
• 3. The Food of Love.-
• 4. The Lingering Melody.-
• 5. Let Me Have Music Dying.-
• 6. Solitude.-
• 7. Warriors Fired with Animated Sounds.-
• 8. Consort Not with a Female Musician.-
• 9. Sing Me a Song with Social Significance.-
• 10. The Only Sensual Pleasure Without Vice.-
• 11. The Truth of Song.-
• 12. Tones in Time.-
• 13. Education.-
• 14. The Gift of God.-
• 15. The Soul of a Nation.-
• 16. The Sweetest Physic in the World.-
• 17. The Open-Air Art.-
• 18. A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread.-
• 19. Like the Birdies Sing.-
• 20. Sight and Sound.- Seven Music for the Millions.-
• 1. Jazz.-
• 2. Blues and Blacks.-
• 3. Rock.-
• 4. Popular and Light.-
• 5. Folk.-
• 6. Dance.-
• 7. Film and Theater.- Eight Metaphysics, Metaphor, and Miscellany.-
• 1. The Music of the Spheres.-
• 2. Music as Metaphor.-
• 3. Proverbs, Aphorisms, Wordplay, and Assorted Musical Saws.- Index of Names and Sources.- Index of Key Words and Phrases.