FOR HOME-BUILDERS
GUIDE TO iDEAL PLANNING AND BUILDING OF YOUR NEW HOME. By D. E. Barry Martin, B.Arch., A.R.I.B.A. A. H. and A. W. Reed (Wellington). OST of us know what the world calls a litigant who conducts his own case, Not.so many have a name for the home-builder who designs his own house. Yet the first man injures nobody but himself, while the second man may be a pest.to the whole community. It is far more likely than not that a homemade plan will be a bad plan economically. It is almost certain that it will be bad socially — an eyesore that the community will somehow or other have to endure. The purpose of this little book-it is far too small and too crowded for the good things in it-is to steer peopie away from home-designed houses. If cynics say that it has another purpose as well, they may be right and they may be wrong, but they are more foolish than cynics usually are if they worry about it. What matters is that anyone who is thinking of building a new home or fmodernising an old one has a guide here for two shillings that will protect him against expensive mistakes in convenience and taste if he has the wit to study it with an open mind. MUSICAL UNDERSTANDING? MUSIC AND THE LISTENER. A Guide to Musical Understanding. By Keith Barry. Robertson and Mullens (Melbourne). HE sixth edition of a short book by ‘" an Australian, in which some wellknown heresies are repeated, and some novel ones are introduced: e.g., there is practically no difference between symphonies and sonatas except in instrumentation; Mozart’s operas are "cheerful works"; "Poor Handel seems doomed to live only by The Messiah and two or three songs"; the quartets of Beethoven and Haydn cannot be compared because "one is an advance on the other and is not to be compared in any way"; out of 100 marks, Mozart would get 70 for "formal beauty" and 30 for "emotional content"; John Bull, the Elizabethan composer, is the original "typical Englishman"; Hugo Wolf is a composer "of whom we shall probably hear more’ in the years to come"; and so on. Some hair-raising pronunciations are given in the back.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 9
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373FOR HOME-BUILDERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 9
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