An unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music.
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"The Musical Madhouse is the first complete translation into English of Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique. It is the funniest of all his works, and consists of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and comments on the absurdities of concert life. Ala…
"The Musical Madhouse is the first complete translation into English of Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique. It is the funniest of all his works, and consists of a number of short anecdotes, witticisms, open letters, and comments on the absurdities of concert life. Ala…
A humorous overview of classical music and composers presents a mixture of fact and trivia from the early music era to today.
The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1842)
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What little-known son of a famous genius has been called: "A musical blight" "A one-man plague" "History's most justifiably neglected composer" "The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music" In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant…
In what is possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele (University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople) has carefully crafted this long-ovedue biography of history's most justifiably neglected composer, ripping the veil…
Uncle John's bathroom reader plunges into music
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Type: Book