The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations (Wordsworth Collection)

Rating:
Summary: If music be the soul of love play on
Review: An excellent collection of quotations organized into a too long list of categories. The main headings are 'Definitions and Descriptions' ' Forms and Styles' 'Creation' ' Lives and Works'
Some samples
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without" Confucius
"Mozart is sunshine." Antonin Dvorak
" I shall hear in heaven." Beethoven
"When it sounds good, it is good" Duke Ellington