Perspectives USA., Volumes 7-8Intercultural Publications, 1954 - United States |
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Page 57
... European of the present age can no more escape from America than an American of the eighteenth century could have escaped from Europe . " Americanism " has a pervasive effect ; and , whereas on one plane it may be expressed in symbols ...
... European of the present age can no more escape from America than an American of the eighteenth century could have escaped from Europe . " Americanism " has a pervasive effect ; and , whereas on one plane it may be expressed in symbols ...
Page 58
... European , which is so thoroughly human . ( An example : the beginning of the Scherzo of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony . A European musician would not know that there was such a sound as ethereal horns ! For him the sound of the horn is a ...
... European , which is so thoroughly human . ( An example : the beginning of the Scherzo of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony . A European musician would not know that there was such a sound as ethereal horns ! For him the sound of the horn is a ...
Page 66
... European heritage , part of the past whose language is spoken by tone . The European who looks at Beethoven sees him as though he were across a dark valley , as a distinct figure on the other side ; and this feeling of upwards and ...
... European heritage , part of the past whose language is spoken by tone . The European who looks at Beethoven sees him as though he were across a dark valley , as a distinct figure on the other side ; and this feeling of upwards and ...
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