Explores the history and influence of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, which has become a seminal funeral hymn, and contains a sadness mirrored in the composer's own melancholic life of alcoholism and depression. AUTHOR : LARSON, THOMAS BOOK TYPE : NF DEWEY CLASSIFICATION : 780.92 LANGUAGE : ENGLISH LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER : BL2010022957 NUMBER OF PAGES : 262 PUBLISH DATE : 2010/09/15 PUBLISHER IMPRINT CODE : PGSSB PUBLISHER NAME : W W NORTON & CO INC PUBLISHER STATUS CODE : OS RETURNS ACCEPTED? : YES
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