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First paperback printing: 1975.
First paperback printing: 1975.
== Contents ==
* Prelude
* The Three B's
** Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1923)
** Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1928)
** Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1929)
** Two Days of Bach
** (Interlude)
** Beethoven
** Old Ludwig and his Ways
** (Interlude)
** Brahms
* More of the Masters
** Schubert
** Schubert
** Wagner (Symbiosis and the Artist)
** Wagner (The Eternal Farce)
** Franz Joseph Haydn
** Johann Strauss
** Schumann (Oh Fruehling, Wie Bist Du So Schoen)
** Mendelssohn
** Dvorak (An American Symphony)
* Operas and Operettas
** Opera
** Grand Opera in English
** The Tower Duet in Il Trovatore
** The Mikado
** The Passing of Gilbert
** Pinafore at 33
* Band Music
** Italian Banda
** Wind Music
* Tempo Di Valse
* Wedding Music
** New Wedding Music March Needed
** Enter the Church Organist
* Catholic Church Music
* National Music
** English Songs
** Russian Music
* Popular Songs of the Plains
** A Plea for the Old Songs
** The Folk-Song
** American Folk-Song
** The Music of the American Negro
* Music and Other Vices
** Virtuous Vandalism
** Music After the War
* More Reviews
** Ernest Newman and Others
** The Poet and the Scientist
* Occupational Hazard
** Music as a Trade
** The Reward of the Artist
* Little Concert-Halls
* "Light" Motifs
** On Tenors
** Mysteries of the Tone-Art
** Masters of Tone
* Morals and Music
** Music and Sin
** The Music-Lover
* Potpourri
* Musical Allusions to Authors
* From a Letter to Isaac Goldberg
* Postlude (The Saturday Night Club)
* Vale - The End of a Happy Life


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
* [[Book (nonfiction)]]


External links:
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Latest revision as of 08:42, 26 May 2019

H. L. Mencken On Music is a book anthology of writings by H. L. Mencken on musician and musicians.

Editor: Louis Cheslock.

Publisher: Schirmer Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc.

First paperback printing: 1975.

Contents

  • Prelude
  • The Three B's
    • Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1923)
    • Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1928)
    • Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1929)
    • Two Days of Bach
    • (Interlude)
    • Beethoven
    • Old Ludwig and his Ways
    • (Interlude)
    • Brahms
  • More of the Masters
    • Schubert
    • Schubert
    • Wagner (Symbiosis and the Artist)
    • Wagner (The Eternal Farce)
    • Franz Joseph Haydn
    • Johann Strauss
    • Schumann (Oh Fruehling, Wie Bist Du So Schoen)
    • Mendelssohn
    • Dvorak (An American Symphony)
  • Operas and Operettas
    • Opera
    • Grand Opera in English
    • The Tower Duet in Il Trovatore
    • The Mikado
    • The Passing of Gilbert
    • Pinafore at 33
  • Band Music
    • Italian Banda
    • Wind Music
  • Tempo Di Valse
  • Wedding Music
    • New Wedding Music March Needed
    • Enter the Church Organist
  • Catholic Church Music
  • National Music
    • English Songs
    • Russian Music
  • Popular Songs of the Plains
    • A Plea for the Old Songs
    • The Folk-Song
    • American Folk-Song
    • The Music of the American Negro
  • Music and Other Vices
    • Virtuous Vandalism
    • Music After the War
  • More Reviews
    • Ernest Newman and Others
    • The Poet and the Scientist
  • Occupational Hazard
    • Music as a Trade
    • The Reward of the Artist
  • Little Concert-Halls
  • "Light" Motifs
    • On Tenors
    • Mysteries of the Tone-Art
    • Masters of Tone
  • Morals and Music
    • Music and Sin
    • The Music-Lover
  • Potpourri
  • Musical Allusions to Authors
  • From a Letter to Isaac Goldberg
  • Postlude (The Saturday Night Club)
  • Vale - The End of a Happy Life

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

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