Music as Message
Asa Briggs, 23 May 1991
The World of the Oratorio
by Kurt Pahlen.
Scolar, 357 pp., £27.50, February 1991,0 85967 866 0 Show More
by Kurt Pahlen.
Scolar, 357 pp., £27.50, February 1991,
The Making of the Victorian Organ
by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.
Cambridge, 584 pp., £50, December 1990,0 521 34345 3 Show More
by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.
Cambridge, 584 pp., £50, December 1990,
“... the hypocrisy of culture, like other cast-off fashions, finds its last asylum among the poor.’ Pahlen, in his large-scale work of reference, claiming to present a whole world to his readers, has extraordinarily little to say about such matters, or about changes in 19th-century tastes, although he offers a short section called ‘historical and other ... ”
