AN INTERPRETER
FRENCH MUSIC, by Martin Cooper; Oxtord University Press. English pftice; 21/MARTIN COOPER, music critic of the Spectator, has an affectionate understanding of French civilisation which few achiéve. This book i8 a necessary attempt to interpret Frefich music to English audiences who do not find it congenial. It is equally appropriate to New Zealand. Mt. Coopet knows the attitudes atid asstimptions of English audiences, and what has conditioned them. He knows, therefore, just what to explain about French music to tiake clear its quite diffetent assumptions. He covefs the fruitful périod from 1869 to 1925, and gives a table correlatitig the music year by year with other French art. The writing is cleat, though closely-packed with inter‘locking détail and alert interpretations. It is a bobk to own, to bé kept handy for study of these composers as they come into the programmes. Thié kind of reférehce would be easier if the index had included compositions as well as
the composers.
D. F.
T.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 17
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164AN INTERPRETER New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 17
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