Book Review
Autumn 1940
Toward a Methord for Musicology
Philosophies of Music History by Warren Dwight Allen. American Book Company. $3.50 Mr. Allen has undertaken a heroic task. His book is a history of music histories and a critical […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1941
Musical Analysis at Its Best
Essays in Musical Analysis, in Six Volumes by Donald Francis Tovey. Oxford University Press. $21.00 Nearly all the 254 essays included in these volumes were originally program notes written for […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1942
The Musical Tradition
Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang. Norton. $3.90 Our New Music by Aaron Copland. Whittlesey House. $2.50 In spite of many differences, Lang’s Music in Western Civilization […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1940
The Changing Ethos of Contemporary Music
The composer of today is much closer to the wide audience of generally cultured musical people than he was ten or fifteen years ago. The fact is curious and significant: […]