Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century

by Wilfrid Mellers

Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, Wilfrid Mellers offers a set of diverse reflections on how western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world.

Beginning with two turn-of-the-century operas--Frederick Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet and Claude Debussy's Pell?as et M?lisande -- that present humankind as lost in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252025296
• ISBN13: 9780252025297
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"