Books by John E. Woods
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods
“It’s extraordinary. It’s set in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Adrian Leverkühn is this fictional German composer who has a likeness to Arnold Schoenberg in that he develops a 12-tone system. He also makes a deal with the demon Mephistopheles—to create wonderful music for a certain time before being taken off, like Faust in the legend, to a horrible fate.” Read more...
Caspar Henderson, Journalist
Interviews where books by John E. Woods were recommended
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The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World
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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
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The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
by Karen Bakker
The best books on Sound, recommended by Caspar Henderson
The best books on Sound, recommended by Caspar Henderson
Sound encodes incredible amounts of information—not only words, music, and other audible forms of communication, but complex spatial data too. Caspar Henderson, author of the ‘auraculous’ new essay collection The Book of Noises, selects five of the best books on sound, from the buzzing of bees to the ghostly whisper of the aurora.
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The Infinite Variety of Music
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The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
by Friedrich Nietzsche -
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
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Silence
by John Cage -
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Music in a New Found Land
by Wilfrid Mellers
Alex Ross recommends the best Writing about Music
Alex Ross recommends the best Writing about Music
New Yorker music critic, Alex Ross, explains why writing about music is, really, nothing like “dancing about architecture.”
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Salons
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Phenomenology of Perception
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Disowning Knowledge
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Nicolas Poussin
by Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey -
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods
The best books on The Philosophical Stakes of Art, recommended by Michael Fried
The best books on The Philosophical Stakes of Art, recommended by Michael Fried
The distinguished art critic and art historian Michael Fried talks about the importance of philosophy to his work. He recommends the best books on the ‘philosophical stakes of art.’
