Best of
Music

1930

Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composers


Ernest Newman - 1930
    Illustrated Partwork about Berlioz, Gluck, Brahms, Haydn and Wolf.

New Musical Resources


Henry Cowell - 1930
    In 1971, Virgil Thomson hailed it as a classic. For this new edition, David Nicholls has provided an explanatory essay and annotations to Cowell's text. The essay traces the sources for the book and attempts to place Cowell's theories in the broader context of musical modernism.