In this practical, stylish, and authoritative book, one of America's most influential musical figures reveals how he learned to compose music for English poetry and prose. Illustrated with numerous examples from his own works, Virgil Thomson's discourses on the union of poetry and music will delight and instruct anyone who composes, performs, or simply listens to vocal music.
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In this practical, stylish, and authoritative book, one of America's most influential musical figures reveals how he learned to compose music for English poetry and prose. Illustrated with numerous examples from his own works, Virgil Thomson's discourses on the union of poetry and music will delight and instruct anyone who composes, performs, or simply listens to vocal music.
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Add this copy of Music With Words: a Composer's View to cart. $16.00, good condition, Sold by Tiber Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cockeysville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Yale University Press, New Haven.
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Lg 8vo, hardcover. Lib stamp on front endpaper; approx. 1" of top margin crumpled on opening 30 pgs. or so, w/ 1/2" chip out of top margin of 4 pgs., not affecting text; otherwise good condition, clean & bright, in vg dj. 178 pp. Incl. numerous musical examples from Thomson's works.
Add this copy of Music With Words: a Composer's View to cart. $16.88, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Yale University Press.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. Filled with musical examples. x + 178pp., tall 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper chipped along upper margin. New Haven: Yale University Pres, 1989. A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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