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Red : papers on musical subjects

by: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

Publication date: 1925

Topics: Music -- History and criticism

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

xvii, 205 p. ; 20 cm

T.p. in red and black

A valedictory -- Why music is unpopular -- The great American composer -- The authoritative work on American music -- Music for the movies -- The importance of electrical picture concerts -- Movies for program notes -- The new art of the singer -- Variations on a theme by Havelock Ellis -- On the relative difficulties of depicting heaven and hell in music -- On the rewriting of masterpieces -- On hearing what you want when you want it -- Cordite for concerts