Listening to Music by Douglas Moore review
Hinda Barnett finds Moore's Listening to Music a clear engaging guide for the average music lover. It bridges general musical language with literature from Bach to Gershwin, emphasizing why pieces move us and how to describe themes with precision.
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Hinda Barnett
Ravel
Moore
Mr. Moore
Schumann
Dvorak
Rubenstein
Irving Berlin
Alfred Casela
Mr.Moore
Grove
Trifles Hitch to History in Allen’s Informal History
A critique lauds Allen’s informal history for organizing postwar events from Armistice to 1929. It praises his clear, coherent links across politics society economy and religion, noting vivid anecdotes from the era including Harding era complications the bull market and the Armistice Day Barnard College scene.
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Ar. Allen
America
Allen
Red Grange
Alle
Barnard College
Morningside Heights
New York
Review of Vision of World Peace and Racketeering Satire
A critic reviews Butler’s Looking Forward on League of Nations and World Court ideas and calls it energizing. Evelyn Raskin harshly treats American letters and campus racketeering satire Capones and Diamonds mock university life. The volume is described as roars of humor and future onslaughts.
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League of Nations
World Court
Butler
Evelyn Raskin Nother
Capones
The
Diamonds
Carnarsie University
Carnarsse
Columbia
Princeton
Circular Mysticist Reviewed by Gertude Epstein
A critical review of Wasserman’s Kerkhoven novel notes its central theme as a clash between past and present. It argues the two part structure weakens cohesion and that the book reflects rot in the age. The critic predicts a forthcoming climax and questions the work’s timely impact.
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Gertude Epstein
Octor Kerkhoven
Wasserman
Wasserian
Kerkhoven
Irlen
Joseph Kerkhoven
Andergast
John D's
Russia
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Anatomy of Music
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W. W. Norton & Co
Frederick Lewis Allen
Harper and Brothers
Ruth Anderson
Creative Visions
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Loel Sayre
Plas Murray Butler
Vanguard Press
Olga Maurer
Doctor Kerkhoven
Jacob Wassermann
Horace Liveright
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