H. L. Mencken On Music (nonfiction)

H. L. Mencken On Music is a book anthology of writings by H. L. Mencken on musician and musicians.

Editor: Louis Cheslock.

Publisher: Schirmer Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc.

First paperback printing: 1975.

Contents

• Prelude
• The Three B's
  • Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1923)
  • Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1928)
  • Bach at Bethlehem (May, 1929)
  • Two Days of Bach
  • (Interlude)
  • Beethoven
  • Old Ludwig and his Ways
  • (Interlude)
  • Brahms
• More of the Masters
  • Schubert
  • Schubert
  • Wagner (Symbiosis and the Artist)
  • Wagner (The Eternal Farce)
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Johann Strauss
  • Schumann (Oh Fruehling, Wie Bist Du So Schoen)
  • Mendelssohn
  • Dvorak (An American Symphony)
• Operas and Operettas
  • Opera
  • Grand Opera in English
  • The Tower Duet in Il Trovatore
  • The Mikado
  • The Passing of Gilbert
  • Pinafore at 33
• Band Music
  • Italian Banda
  • Wind Music
• Tempo Di Valse
• Wedding Music
  • New Wedding Music March Needed
  • Enter the Church Organist
• Catholic Church Music
• National Music
  • English Songs
  • Russian Music
• Popular Songs of the Plains
  • A Plea for the Old Songs
  • The Folk-Song
  • American Folk-Song
  • The Music of the American Negro
• Music and Other Vices
  • Virtuous Vandalism
  • Music After the War
• More Reviews
  • Ernest Newman and Others
  • The Poet and the Scientist
• Occupational Hazard
  • Music as a Trade
  • The Reward of the Artist
• Little Concert-Halls
• "Light" Motifs
  • On Tenors
  • Mysteries of the Tone-Art
  • Masters of Tone
• Morals and Music
  • Music and Sin
  • The Music-Lover
• Potpourri
• Musical Allusions to Authors
• From a Letter to Isaac Goldberg
• Postlude (The Saturday Night Club)
• Vale - The End of a Happy Life

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• H. L. Mencken @ Wikipedia