March 14, 2003

'Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War'

By NINA C. AYOUB

War is sound as well as fury, an aural landscape of terrible noise. But beyond the roar of bombs and guns, war has also provoked melodies. Listening in, Glenn Watkins offers Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War (University of California Press), a book and accompanying compact disk that explore the popular songs and musical high art of World War I, including works by such composers as Berg, Elgar, Ives, Ravel, Stravinsky, and Webern.

When war broke out, rivalries on the

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