On reading again Paul Henry Lang and Leonard Woolf
Posted in Music on March 16th, 2010 by admin – 2 Comments
Music and civilization
I’ve just reread, from cover-to-cover, for the first time in years, Lang’s Music in Western Civilization–first published in 1941. My edition dates from 1969. I’m more impressed than ever.
His authority runs through all 1,030 pages. Here are the first lines of the Introduction: read more »
