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Overtones, a Book of Temperaments

Overtones, a Book of Temperaments

by James Huneker

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Author
Huneker, James, 1857-1921
Title
Overtones, a book of temperaments : Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac, Flaubert, Nietzsche, and Turgénieff
Original Publication
United States: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.
Credits
Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
ML: Music: Literature of music
Subject
Music
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 70670
Release Date
April 29, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.OVERTONES A BOOK OF TEMPERAMENTS
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.CONTENTS
  6. 6.I RICHARD STRAUSS — I — II — III — IV — V
  7. 7.II PARSIFAL: A MYSTIC MELODRAMA — I THE BOOK — II THE MUSIC
  8. 8.III NIETZSCHE THE RHAPSODIST — I — II
  9. 9.IV LITERARY MEN WHO LOVED MUSIC — THE MUSICAL TASTE OF TURGÉNIEFF — I — II — BALZAC AS MUSIC CRITIC — ALPHONSE DAUDET — GEORGE MOORE — I Evelyn Innes — II Sister Teresa
  10. 10.V ANARCHS OF ART — A SONNET BY CAMPANELLA
  11. 11.VI THE BEETHOVEN OF FRENCH PROSE — I FLAUBERT AND HIS ART — II THE TWO SALAMMBÔS
  12. 12.VII VERDI AND BOÏTO — BOÏTO’S MEFISTOFELE
  13. 13.VIII THE ETERNAL FEMININE — I — II — III
  14. 14.IX AFTER WAGNER—WHAT? — I THE CAPRICE OF THE MUSICAL CAT — II WAGNER AND THE FRENCH — III ISOLDE AND TRISTAN
  15. 15.Transcriber’s Notes

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