Volume 26, Number 4 · March 22, 1979
From the Vedas to Wagner: Short Reviews
By Robert Craft
Samavedic Chant
by Wayne Howard
Yale University Press, 732 pp., $30.00
Wagner's "Rienzi": A Reappraisal Based on a Study of Sketches and Drafts
by John Deathridge
Oxford University Press, 192 pp., $29.00
Bruckner Box 327, Totowa, New Jersey 07511)
by Derek Watson
Dent (London), 240 pp., $7.95 (available from Biblio Distribution Centre, 81 Adams Drive, PO
The Harmonic Organization of "The Rite of Spring"
by Allen Forte
Yale University Press, 151 pp., $15.00
Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Founder of French Opera
by R.H.F. Scott
Taplinger, 135 pp., $6.95
Vivaldi
by Michael Talbot
Dent (London), 275 pp., $11.50 (available from Biblio Distribution centre)
Tchaikovsky
by John Warrack
Hamish Hamilton, 287 pp., £8.95
Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874
by David Brown
Norton, 348 pp., $20.00
Anyone interested in Brahmanic religious philosophy and Vedic verse meters, as well as in ancient music, should read this book. Another, incidental, subject is that of international drug culture, for Samavedic chanting, in its ritualistic form, takes place uniquely during sacrificial ceremonies in which libations of the juice of the soma plant are offered to the deities.
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