This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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21653 | What would be said to teachers who tried to teach children to read and write without letting them spell and read aloud? |
14185 | He called on his young American pupil one day and asked him what he had in hand? |
14185 | Shall its future be threatened by lack of permanent income? |
30412 | Are they executed as they should be? |
30412 | Does it not inform us, among other things, that the copyists of former times were veritable collaborators? |
30412 | How are such works executed? |
19138 | BREATH MASTERY What then does perfect control of the breath mean? |
19138 | CHAPTER IX THROAT STIFFNESS What is the most frequent obstacle to good singing, the difficulty with which pupil and teacher most contend? |
19138 | If the singer''s breathing is nothing but an amplification of normal, healthy breathing, why dwell upon it, why not let it develop of itself? |
19138 | Lilli Lehmann, in her interesting work,_ How to Sing_, says:"Do registers exist by nature? |
19138 | WHEN IS THE VOCAL ACTION CORRECT? |
19138 | What more than anything else mars the singing of those we hear in drawing- rooms, churches, and the concert room? |
20069 | But of what avail would such a project be if, after all, one could not understand the words of his own language as they were sung? |
20069 | How can I go on so?" |
20069 | If one prima donna is good, she argued, why would not two be better? |
20069 | The Voice and Tone Production The question,"How is it done?" |
19499 | What is the meter- signature? |
19499 | Example: How large are the following intervals? |
19499 | Example: What is the measure- sign? |
19499 | The answer to the question:"What is that note?" |
19499 | What is its meaning? |
19499 | _ Measure and Meter_"What is the measure- sign?" |
33900 | Can any of these methods be employed without damaging the musical meaning? |
33900 | Could the essence of Wagner''s music be divorced from its orchestration? |
33900 | Does it follow that these composers do not_ know how_ to orchestrate? |
33900 | Here the question arises, what should those intentions be? |
33900 | Is the fanfare flourish suitable to the range of a trumpet? |
33900 | Obviously, I could not hope to cover so large a field; besides, of what value would such a treatise be to the student? |
33900 | Should it be written for two or three trumpets in unison, or doubled by other instruments? |
33900 | Was Brahms ignorant of orchestration? |
16225 | After all, machines get out of order, so why not the most complicated machine of all-- the human mind? |
16225 | And to what conclusion does this lead us? |
16225 | Can the child be_ really_ trained in this way? |
16225 | Has not every new presentment of every subject in the school curriculum been greeted with the same chorus of depreciation at first? |
16225 | How is the application to be directed? |
16225 | What are the chief problems which she will have to face? |
16225 | Who would think of learning poetry by heart by the process of repeating it aloud a hundred or more times? |
16225 | Why should music, the latest arrived of the subjects on the regular curriculum, fare differently? |
42918 | ("Ma Signori, perchè tantes questione?"). |
42918 | A broadly humorous but very melodious trio of the doctors follows,"Sirs, what means this Quarrel?" |
42918 | As Lakmé appears at the shrine, she sings a restless love song,"Why love I thus to stray?" |
42918 | is she not a Beauty?" |
42918 | sancta Justitia, I shall go raving"; the long duet for Van Bett and Ivanoff,"Shall I make a Full Confession?" |
42918 | the dramatic quintette,"Must so soon the Sunshine vanish?" |
42918 | who goes there?" |
12856 | Why do not elocutionists sing as they talk or read? |
12856 | Why do not singers read or talk as they sing? |
12856 | Are we to feel and believe that with us progress is impossible, that we may not and can not keep up with the spirit of the age? |
12856 | Have you not been moved by the tones of the speaking voice? |
12856 | Is it possible this is true of all professions but ours? |
12856 | Is not this simply proof of the fact that ignorance cheapens and belittles that which wisdom views with awe and admiration? |
12856 | Possibly the trouble is with yourself-- who knows?_"PREFACE. |
12856 | Why not? |
32023 | An admirable plan is to keep boys on the alert listening for faults, asking those not singing,"Whose fault is that?" |
32023 | Considering the growing scarcity of this latter voice, why not use boy altos? |
32023 | How could it be possible to attempt it after labouring through such a programme as Canticles, Hymns, Psalms, Kyrie, and Amens? |
32023 | How is the alto part, in a church choir consisting of males, to be sung? |
32023 | How much more hard is it, then, for a boy who is by nature a fidget, and if healthy, brimming over with activity? |
32023 | How would you correct this fault in boys?" |
32023 | The butterfly and the humble bee... Metzler& Co. Davis, Miss... What is that, mother? |
32023 | What are the first signs of this change? |
32023 | What are their causes? |
32023 | What can an adult alto be expected to do in a case where the reciting note is close to his break? |
32023 | What method is employed in---- Cathedral for developing and strengthening the higher( head) register in boys''voices?" |
30889 | A student at one of our colleges came to me recently whose first question was"Can you teach me how not to sing with a''squeezed''throat?" |
30889 | And again, what provision is there in the pockets for the gradations of pitch? |
30889 | And how did this result come about? |
30889 | Can it be said that, as regards each individual voice, these notes are higher in a scale of excellence than the rest? |
30889 | Have I proved my assertion? |
30889 | How, I should like to know, could two such cavities be so tuned as under any circumstances to produce exactly the same tones? |
30889 | May I be permitted to acknowledge it to you? |
30889 | Now which folly is the greater-- that of doubling up the toes, or of crippling the body in its most vital parts? |
30889 | Then comes the question, Can any such registers be demonstrated in the vocal apparatus; and if so, what are the mechanisms by which they are produced? |
30889 | What is the result? |
30889 | What merit does their acquisition promise as a set- off to the deterioration of the voice and its inevitable ultimate failure? |
30889 | Why should these ever vanishing"top notes"be so much craved and striven for? |
30889 | Would not rather frightful discords be the inevitable result? |
30889 | _ APPENDIX TO THE TENTH EDITION_ DOES DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING APPLY EQUALLY TO WOMEN AS TO MEN? |
30854 | Is it weakness of intellect, Birdie,I cried,"Or a rather tough worm In your little inside?" |
30854 | At what age should singing- lessons begin? |
30854 | Briefly and plainly: How can I keep well? |
30854 | But why not, it may be asked, have the child taught and, when the period of mutation arrives, have the lessons suspended? |
30854 | For of what value to the singer is a correct method of taking in breath if all or part of the air passes out before the tone is produced? |
30854 | How long should the breath be retained before emission? |
30854 | How will you know the pitch of that great bell, Too large for you to stir? |
30854 | Not a new path, either, for in its last analysis what is hygiene but the science of prevention? |
30854 | What is the mucous membrane? |
30854 | Why? |
30854 | Why? |
30854 | Yet, what do we find here? |
12903 | What else is our life than a series of preludes to that unknown song of which the first solemn note is struck by death? 12903 And what soul, sorely wounded, does not, emerging from the tempest, seek to indulge its memories in the calm of country life? 12903 But in the quick flight of themes, how are we to catch the subtle meaning? 12903 But-- is this a jest of our poet? 12903 For, if music is the most subjective expression of the arts, why should its highest form be used to dramatize a drama? 12903 How far is the music literally graphic? 12903 If we care to know the pranks exactly, why not turn to the text? 12903 In all this division of musical dialect, in the shattering of the classic tower among the diverse tongues of many peoples, what is to be the harvest? 12903 Indeed, what else could be the mood of relief from the horrors of hell? 12903 Is he dreaming at life''s border Of his childhood golden days? 12903 Is it that in the memory lies the reality, or at least the realization? 12903 Loud sings a solemn phrase; do we catch an edge of wistful regret? 12903 Or is there a hint of ancient Highland in the drone of alternating horns and bassoons? 12903 Or must we prayerfully believe that a Providence will make the best prevail? 12903 Shall the house through thee be drown''d? 12903 Why should we omit so melodious a work as Moskowski''s_ Jeanne d''Arc_,--full of perhaps too facile charm? 12903 Will enough Never please thee? 22392 But how am I to know which comes first?" |
22392 | For unless I give my hearers what is in the text, what can I give them? |
22392 | Henderson,_ What Is Good Music?_( chapters XIII and XVII). |
22392 | If the latter, shall it be of the operatic type, involving action, scenery, and costumes, or shall it be of the cantata or oratorio type? |
22392 | In other words, is it well to give a down- beat on 1, two small beats toward the left for 2, while 3 and 4 are treated in the ordinary way? |
22392 | In reply to the question"Where do you locate the source of expression in singing?" |
22392 | Or is there no remedy, and must we go on, either enduring tortures artistically, or suffering spiritually? |
22392 | Shall the program consist of miscellaneous selections or of a connected work? |
22392 | Shall we give him a set of specific directions for making his chorus or orchestra sing or play more loudly or more rapidly or more dramatically? |
22392 | The question therefore comes to this: Does the sustained, the cantilena, predominate, or the rhythmical movement? |
22392 | Would not that be nonsense? |
22392 | [ Sidenote: LENGTH] Our third question in making a program of musical works is, how long shall it be? |
22392 | [ Sidenote: SHALL WE BEAT THE RHYTHM OR THE PULSE?] |
22392 | [ Sidenote: THE REMEDY] What is to be the remedy for this state of affairs? |
21400 | (_ plus intransigeant, plus intraitable que_ Meyerbeer_ ou_ Wagner?). |
21400 | Again I ask, why did this world- famous singer perform this passage_ always_ in the same way? |
21400 | But what constitutes an artist? |
21400 | But what constitutes"expression"in singing? |
21400 | But why should either of these two factors be less essential to a singer than to an instrumentalist? |
21400 | CHAPTER III ANALYSIS OF STYLE What is Style? |
21400 | Che farò? |
21400 | Dove andrò senza il mio ben? |
21400 | Dove andrò? |
21400 | Here is an illustration of its effective use in the air"Connais- tu le pays?" |
21400 | In the first quoted of these two works, in the response for Double Chorus to the question,"Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you?" |
21400 | What is the reason of this? |
21400 | Whom is it by?" |
21400 | Why do great artists always make the same effect and produce the same impression on their public? |
21400 | Why then this outcry against the same procedure in_ Der Freischütz_? |
21400 | [ Music:"Che farò senz''Euridice?" |
30560 | Is the music conveying a logical message to me, or is it merely a sea of sound? |
30560 | Answer the question I''ve put you so oft: What do you mean by your mountainous fugues? |
30560 | But how about the tune when it is in the_ bass_ as is the case so frequently in Beethoven''s Symphonies or in Wagner''s Operas? |
30560 | But why all this pother? |
30560 | Every man was asking himself and his comrades the question posed by the most popular novel of the day:''What shall we do?'' |
30560 | For what is music without dissonance? |
30560 | For who can limit the combinations of sound and rhythm, or forecast the range of the human imagination? |
30560 | How could it be otherwise? |
30560 | In regard to any work of large dimensions the final test is this: can we sing all the themes and follow them in their polyphonic development? |
30560 | It was characteristic of the Romantic unrest of the German mind to question everything-- especially"Why am I not more happy in love?" |
30560 | Schumann''s well- known comment is apropos--"How is gravity to clothe itself if jest goes about in dark veils?" |
30560 | The first question, in the presence of an elaborate work of music, should never be,"Do I like it or not?" |
30560 | The mood of dreamy contemplation with which the Slow Movement begins can not be translated into words; why attempt it? |
30560 | The question, therefore, faces us: how shall we learn this mysterious language so as readily to understand it? |
30560 | WARUM? |
30560 | What, now, in this connection can be said of America? |
30560 | Why expect the work of any one composer to manifest all possible merits? |
30560 | [ Footnote 188: Perhaps the whirligig of time may restore them; who can say?] |
30560 | but"Do I understand it?" |
19116 | They whisper, they whisper--one must bend one''s thoughts to hear it; who can understand so soft a song? |
19116 | But what is the attitude of artists toward these tasks? |
19116 | But with what resources? |
19116 | Can not German tenors, too, learn to sing_ well_, even if they do interpret Wagner? |
19116 | Do registers exist by nature? |
19116 | Do they hear themselves, when they do this? |
19116 | Do they sit in the evening when they sing in a concert? |
19116 | How can this be done? |
19116 | How do I breathe now? |
19116 | How do I breathe? |
19116 | How is this to be attained? |
19116 | How shall I control them? |
19116 | How should he describe to others sensations in singing which he himself never felt? |
19116 | Is it not as if he undertook to teach a language that he did not speak himself? |
19116 | Is it not disrespectful toward our greatest masters that they always have to play hide and seek with the_ bel canto_, the trill, and coloratura? |
19116 | SECTION XIV ON VOCAL REGISTERS What is a vocal register? |
19116 | SECTION XXIV THE POSITION OF THE MOUTH( CONTRACTION OF THE MUSCLES OF SPEECH) What must my sensations be with the muscles of speech? |
19116 | SECTION XXV CONNECTION OF VOWELS How do I connect them with each other? |
19116 | The manager? |
19116 | We learn so much that is useless in this life, why not learn that which is of the utmost service to us? |
19116 | Wer wagt vermesse_n_, gleich der Propheti_n_ der Zukunft Nacht zu lichte_n_, wollt Ihr der Götter Pla_n_ vorschnell vernichte_n_? |
19116 | What, in brief, does it mean? |
19116 | What, then, can be expected of an untrained organ? |
19116 | When he himself does not hear, how shall he teach others to hear? |
19116 | Who is there to teach them to use their resources on the stage? |
19116 | Who to husband them for the future? |
19116 | Will they not learn, for the sake of this very master, that it is their duty not to use their voices recklessly? |
19116 | With the fresh voice alone? |
19116 | _ Niem._ Even if you are hoarse? |
19116 | _ Niem._ Indeed; and what do you practise? |
19116 | _ Niem._ Well, what are they? |
19116 | _ Niemann._ What do you do, then, when you are hoarse? |
19116 | or an instrument that he did not play himself? |
19116 | the director? |
14968 | After an exceedingly humorous trio("Cosa sento? |
14968 | After she leaves with Leporello, Don Giovanni sings a serenade("Deh? |
14968 | As a whole, the opera is melodious, forceful, full of snap and go, and intensely dramatic, and is without a dull moment from the prologue("Si può? |
14968 | Assad beneath a solitary palm- tree laments the destiny which pursues him("Whither shall I wend my weary Steps?"). |
14968 | But what would the"Harmonicon"have said, had it had Wagner''s instrumentation before it? |
14968 | Eagerly he asks,"Shall I find in Walhalla my own father Wälse?" |
14968 | Entsetzen?") |
14968 | Eurydice chides him("Am I changed or grown old that thou wilt not behold me?"). |
14968 | Hab''ich dich wieder?"). |
14968 | Has it come to this,--that faithless the faithful must fail thee?" |
14968 | He has saved the King''s honor: will the King destroy his? |
14968 | His scene opens with a prayer("Gerechter Gott") for the aversion of carnage, which changes to an agitated allegro("Wo war ich?") |
14968 | In reply to his question,"Who art thou?" |
14968 | In the next scene we have a trio("Wie? |
14968 | Knowest thou, friend, How far I shall need thee? |
14968 | Or, is it reality?"). |
14968 | Senta then appears accompanied by Eric, who seeks to restrain her from following the stranger in a very dramatic duet("Was muss ich hören?"). |
14968 | She lays her flowers at the base of the shrine and sings a restless love- song("Why love I thus to stray?"). |
14968 | Soon follows Lakme''s bell- song("Where strays the Hindoo Maiden? |
14968 | The act closes with the joyful song of Orpheus:"Will pitying Heaven with wondrous Favor restore mine own?" |
14968 | The first scene contains a vigorous aria for the hero("Wohl an so mög es sein"), which leads up to a fiery terzetto("Adriano du? |
14968 | The fourth act contains a grand duet between Eleazar and the Cardinal("Hört ich recht? |
14968 | The fourth act is short, its principal numbers being the introduction, terzetto and chorus("Wer war''s der euch hierher beschied? |
14968 | The next number is a trio for soprano, alto, and tenor("And must I then dissemble? |
14968 | The second scene is a most elaborate love- duet between the guilty pair, the two voices at first joining("Bist du mein? |
14968 | The third scene is a quintet for Papageno, Tamino, and the Queen''s three attendants("Wie ihr an diesem Shreckensort? |
14968 | With passionate earnestness he asks,"Shall Siegmund there embrace Sieglinde?" |
14968 | was? |
14968 | what do I hear?"). |
14968 | why art thou sleeping? |
19354 | ****** CONTENTS OF THE PHRASE.--The question may arise, what is it that makes a phrase,--the rhythm, harmony, or melody? |
19354 | ****** The question naturally arises: What tones are chosen to provide material for this continuation of the rhythm? |
19354 | Are the tone- lines in a composition of equal importance? |
19354 | By what is the presence of form in music shown? |
19354 | By what means are the measures indicated,( 1) to the reader;( 2) to the listener? |
19354 | By what time- value is it most commonly indicated? |
19354 | How does this prove the necessity of form? |
19354 | How is it applied in music? |
19354 | In what respect does music resemble architecture or drawing? |
19354 | Is this not a Five- Part Song- form?) |
19354 | Setting aside all critical discussion with reference to the question,"What is good music?" |
19354 | To what does the further multiplication of the beats give rise? |
19354 | Upon what does the importance of a tone- line depend? |
19354 | What are cadences? |
19354 | What are the conditions of a good melody? |
19354 | What are the two vital requisites upon which the enjoyment of an art creation depends? |
19354 | What do discriminating listeners recognize in music? |
19354 | What does Form in music mean? |
19354 | What does the term rhythm signify? |
19354 | What is Time, as applied to music? |
19354 | What is a compound measure? |
19354 | What is a simple measure? |
19354 | What is the beat? |
19354 | What is the best general name for a melody? |
19354 | What is the difference between the sounds of music and those of language? |
19354 | What is the great problem of the art- creator? |
19354 | What is the measure? |
19354 | What is_ tempo_? |
19354 | What object does it fulfil in music form? |
19354 | What purpose do they serve in music? |
19354 | What purpose does Unity serve? |
19354 | What purpose does Variety serve? |
19354 | What significance is to be attached to the principal tone- line? |
19354 | When is a composition faulty in form? |
19354 | When is the rhythm irregular? |
19354 | When is the rhythm regular? |
19354 | Where is the chief melody usually placed? |
19354 | Why do measures differ in size? |
19354 | _ Scherzo_; same sonata,_ Funeral march_( also the_ Trio_; what is its form?). |
19880 | Did you not run and shout as a child? |
19880 | : When should the individual who is sufficiently endowed musically begin to sing, or study public utterance practically in some of its forms? |
19880 | But the student, deeply impressed with the importance of the subject of registers, may ask:"How am I to distinguish between one register and another? |
19880 | By what means has Nature solved the problem of supplying more oxygen to parts in action than to those at rest? |
19880 | Do our modern usages not show a neglect of facts of vital moment still more marked? |
19880 | Granted that the ear can at once determine what register the pupil herself or another singer may be using, what other guide has she? |
19880 | How am I to know when I am singing with chest, middle, or head voice?" |
19880 | How can such a singer hope to retain either voice or a sound throat? |
19880 | How is it that one set of muscles acts with instead of antagonizing another set, as in any complicated series of movements, such as walking? |
19880 | How is the student to distinguish, in his choice, between Mr. A and Mr. B, in the case of two successful teachers, both of whom recognize registers? |
19880 | How is this instrument played upon and how are these cavities made actually into resounding chambers? |
19880 | How long should a singer practise at one time, and for how long during a single day? |
19880 | How many modern actors are capable of it? |
19880 | How many singers living can sing an ascending and a descending scale, in succession, with a perfect staccato, to mention no other effect? |
19880 | How many singers? |
19880 | How shall we train? |
19880 | If he shows natural ability for the use of the voice, should he be trained very early? |
19880 | Is it even enlightened? |
19880 | Is it necessary to point out that such wonderful development and control can only be attained after years of steady work by the best methods? |
19880 | Is not the result when attained worth the best efforts of the most talented individual? |
19880 | Should the child get his musical development through the use of his own musical instrument or another? |
19880 | Teachers will do well to encourage their pupils to hear the best singers; for do not students need inspiration as well as discipline? |
19880 | The author has been asked frequently such questions as the following:"When is the best time to practise? |
19880 | The question is how is this breathing best accomplished so that the instrument shall be most efficiently played upon? |
19880 | The student may ask:"Why not begin, as is often done, by the singing of scales?" |
19880 | What is the student to believe, and whom to follow? |
19880 | What so eloquent as the silence after a perfect stop-- a complete and satisfactory arrest of the tone? |
19880 | Why do we look in vain to- day for elocutionists such as Vandenhoff, Bell, and others? |
19880 | Why is it that actors and singers do not prepare themselves by as prolonged and thorough a vocal training as in a past time? |
19880 | Why is it that the stomach has enough and not too much blood? |
19880 | Why should students and teachers of voice- production be content to remain, in the advanced present, where they were hundreds of years ago? |
19880 | Why should the same not occur in the vocal teacher''s profession? |
22793 | Do you believe that it is Lawful and Laudable for us to change the customary way of singing the psalms? 22793 Is it possible for Fathers of forty years old and upward to learn to sing by rule; and ought they to attempt at this age to learn? |
22793 | Whether you do believe that singing in the worship of God ought to be done skilfully? 22793 A dramatic scene ensues, composed of inquiries as to the Prophet''s mission by the People, a short chorus by the latter(What shall we do then?") |
22793 | A tender and at times fervid solo("Lord, who hath believed our Report?") |
22793 | Abraham rebukes him("How, Mortal, canst thou reach His Presence?"). |
22793 | And their reason is: Because it is not permitted to a women to speake in the Church, how then shall they sing? |
22793 | As he looked over the pages of the''Requiem''for the last time, he said, with tears in his eyes:''Did I not tell you I was writing this for myself?''" |
22793 | As the disciples ask,"Lord, is it I?" |
22793 | Could it be possible that this man had dared to join my enemy, the director, and Cherubini''s friends, in plotting and attempting such rascality? |
22793 | For the third time Jesus declares himself, followed by the stirring, furious chorus,"Why hear ye him?" |
22793 | I did not add another word.... Had he done it on purpose?... |
22793 | In answer to his question,"Which shall we first bewail, thy Bondage, or lost Sight?" |
22793 | The Jews answer in a very dramatic chorus("Whence hath this Man his Wisdom?"). |
22793 | The celestial chorus above, accompanied by harps and trumpets, inquire,"But who is he, the King of Glory?" |
22793 | The dialogue between Jesus and the Woman is then resumed, leading to a solo by the latter("Art Thou greater than our Father Jacob?"). |
22793 | The dialogue form is again renewed, this time by Elkanah and Hannah, leading to a beautiful duet between them("Wherefore is thy Soul cast down?"). |
22793 | The dramatic scene of the raising of her son ensues, comprising a passionate song by the mother("What have I to do with thee?") |
22793 | The idea occurred to him after a sleepless night, during which, as he informed a friend, the words,"Will the night soon pass?" |
22793 | The scene opens with the plaint of Mary Magdalene,"Where have they laid him?" |
22793 | The tenor, who may be regarded as the Narrator, calls upon the Watchman,"What of the night?" |
22793 | The voice from heaven("Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?") |
22793 | The voices move on in stately manner until the words,"Simon, son of Jona, lovest thou me?" |
22793 | The wondering chorus of the People,"Is not this he whom they seek to kill?" |
22793 | Who will take the next step forward in the twentieth, and give to this noblest form of musical art still higher expression? |
22793 | are not all these who speak Galileans?" |
22793 | thou that didst declare"), and the mocking cries of the priests("Can he now save himself? |
22793 | what shall we then be pleading?" |
22793 | will the Night soon pass?" |
32248 | Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the dragon? 32248 Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani?" |
32248 | *****"Then Jessie said,''The slogan''s dune, But can ye no hear them noo? |
32248 | 6, quartet("Who hath seen the Troubadour? |
32248 | And let the Prince of Ill Look grim as e''er he will, He harms us not a whit; For why? |
32248 | And why prefer Acis to my embraces?" |
32248 | Are you Christian monks or heathen devils, To pollute this convent with your revels?" |
32248 | As it comes to an end he continues his song("Heavenly Tones, why seek me in the Dust? |
32248 | Before she enters she sings an aria, of a tranquil, dreamy nature("Whither away, my Heart? |
32248 | Do you not think that this might develop into a new style of cantata? |
32248 | For why, rejecting the Cyclop, dost thou love Acis? |
32248 | Huntsman, who gave thee the Diamond Ring? |
32248 | In the next two numbers, an adagio("To whom can I turn me? |
32248 | Is this a tavern and drinking- house? |
32248 | It is followed by Mephistopheles''serenade("Why dost thou wait at the Door of thy Lover? |
32248 | It is followed by the tenor recitative and aria,"Why hast Thou, O my God, in my sore Need so turned Thy Face from me?" |
32248 | Know ye not it is forbidden By the edicts of our foemen?" |
32248 | Mazeppa( 1862); The Page(?). |
32248 | O dinna ye hear The slogan far awa? |
32248 | Say, who can lift the deathly blight That covers king and lord and knight, To give them back to life and light, And awake them?" |
32248 | The MacGregors? |
32248 | The Queen appeals to him,"What seest thou, O King?" |
32248 | The cantata has no overture, but opens with a choral introduction("Where is the Maiden of Mortal Strain?"). |
32248 | The catastrophe accomplished, the work closes with the sad lament of Galatea for her lover("Must I my Acis still bemoan?") |
32248 | The chorus intervenes with a reflective number("What thinks she now? |
32248 | The chorus,"Why, my Soul, art thou vexed?" |
32248 | The last scene opens with a joyous chorus of the people("Say, have ye heard the Tidings of Joy? |
32248 | The musical setting of the question,"What sought they?" |
32248 | The next melody, an_ allegro vivace_,--"What see I? |
32248 | The next number is an effective alto solo("Art thou not it which hath dried the Sea?") |
32248 | The second part opens with the curse of the prefect, a very passionate aria for bass("What mean these Zealots vile? |
32248 | The second("Thou Delphic Rock, who can he be?") |
32248 | The sentiment of the latter is expressed by the following verse:--"What mean this revel and carouse? |
32248 | Then follows a full chorus beginning with male voices in unison("Why, my Soul, art thou cast down? |
32248 | Then who shall call the branches bare, When gems like those are sparkling there?" |
32248 | Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me?''" |
17474 | Did n''t they? 17474 How? |
17474 | Look where? 17474 What? |
17474 | Whom? 17474 Are such garlands worth the sacrifice of artistic honor? 17474 Are they not his? 17474 Can he recognize them with sufficient distinctness to seize upon their manifestations while music is sounding? 17474 Che do-_ been killed, you or the old one? 17474 Did man sing before he spoke? 17474 Did n''t they? |
17474 | Do they then antedate articulate speech? |
17474 | Does he recognize that musical tones are related to each other in respect of time and pitch? |
17474 | How far is it essential that the intellectual process shall go? |
17474 | If it were possible for the critic to withhold them and offer instead a modest sprig of enduring bay, would not the musician be his debtor? |
17474 | Is he therefore to be pitied? |
17474 | Is not their appearance in a public print proof of the shrewdness and soundness of his judgment? |
17474 | Is the picture or the statue a good copy of the object sought to be represented? |
17474 | Or to Coleridge''s"_ loud_ bassoon,"which made the wedding- guest to beat his breast? |
17474 | Or to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe''s pianist who played"with an airy and bird- like touch?" |
17474 | Son qui per_ Le- po- rel- lo, where are you? |
17474 | The more delightfully it is put by the writer the more the reader is pleased, for has he not had the same idea? |
17474 | This book being for the untrained, the question might be put thus: With how little knowledge of the science can an intelligent listener get along? |
17474 | To win their influence in favor of good art, think you? |
17474 | Who shall bid the restless waves be still? |
17474 | Who would look at a painting and rest satisfied with the impression made upon the sense of sight by the colors merely? |
17474 | [ Sidenote:_ A place for rhapsody._][ Sidenote:_ Intelligent rhapsody._] Is there, then, no place for rhapsodic writing in musical criticism? |
17474 | _ Le- po- rel- lo, o- ve sei? |
17474 | _ mor- to, voi, o il vec- chio? |
17474 | and you, Sir? |
17474 | cried Gluck;"when did the Greeks ever dance a chaconne?" |
17474 | e vo- i? |
17474 | that these colossal compositions were never heard by Handel from any chorus larger than the most modest of our church choirs? |
26477 | ( breaking in upon me abruptly) with what musty Questions are you going to disturb my Brains? |
26477 | A modern Singer of the good Stile, being asked, whether such and such Compositions would not please at present in_ Italy_? |
26477 | Am I the only Professor who knows that the best Compositions are the Cause of singing well, and the worst very prejudicial? |
26477 | And is it not worst of all, to torment the Hearers with a thousand_ Cadences_ all in the same Manner? |
26477 | And must we be deprived of these Charms, without knowing the Reason why? |
26477 | And who can forbear laughing? |
26477 | But since we are now speaking in Confidence and with Sincerity, who can sing or compose well, without our Approbation? |
26477 | But to what Purpose do I show this Concern about it? |
26477 | But to what Purpose does he appear? |
26477 | But what can one say? |
26477 | But whence does it proceed, that from this very_ Fa_,( that is from_ F_ or_ C_) I can not rise to the next Sharp, which is also a_ Semitone_? |
26477 | But who can blame them? |
26477 | But who would ever have imagined, that in the short Course of a few Years, she should be reduced to the fatal Circumstance of seeing her own Tragedy? |
26477 | But whose fault is this? |
26477 | But why must the World be thus continually deafened with so many_ Divisions_? |
26477 | Can I expect that these Reasons, with all their Evidences, will be found good, when, even in regard to Musick, Reason itself is no more in the_ Mode_? |
26477 | Can any thing be more absurd? |
26477 | Can its gentle Nature ever be guilty of a Crime? |
26477 | Can you have the Face to find Fault with us? |
26477 | Do n''t you perceive that those old- fashioned Crabbednesses are disgustful? |
26477 | From whence proceeds this Sterility, since every Professor knows, that the surest way of gaining Esteem in Singing is a Variety in the Repetition? |
26477 | Is there any that ever durst usurp the Glory of it? |
26477 | Is this Justice? |
26477 | No doubt, said he, they would, but where are the Singers that can sing them? |
26477 | Perhaps, you think that these overflowings of your Throat are what procure you Riches and Praises? |
26477 | Therefore consider, if some Professors of no small Skill have not this Pleasure for want of sufficient Application, what must the Scholar do? |
26477 | To my Misfortune, I asked one of this sort, from whom he had learned the_ Counterpoint_? |
26477 | What could they answer? |
26477 | What say you now to this,_ Master Critick_? |
26477 | What say you to that? |
26477 | What shall we say of the obscure and tedious Compositions of those whom you celebrate as the Top of the Universe, tho''your Opinion goes for nothing? |
26477 | What will he not say of him who has found out the prodigious Art of Singing like a_ Cricket_? |
26477 | Will there not be some other little Animal worth their Imitation, in order to make the Profession more and more ridiculous? |
26477 | Wou''d you know how? |
26477 | pray tell me; do not the Singers now- a- days know where the_ Appoggiatura''s_ are to be made, unless they are pointed at with a Finger? |
26477 | § 17. Who would ever think( if Experience did not shew it) that a Virtue of the highest Estimation should prejudice a Singer? |
26477 | § 21. Who could sing better than the Arogant, if they were not ashamed to study? |
1487 | Then where are you hiding the ring that you had from me? |
1487 | All they want to know is; Am I orthodox? |
1487 | Am I correct in my revolutionary views? |
1487 | Am I reverent to the revolutionary authorities? |
1487 | And now, what forces are there in the world to resist Alberic, our dwarf, in his new character of sworn plutocrat? |
1487 | But how is such respect to be implanted in them if they are unable to comprehend the thought of the lawgiver? |
1487 | But how, enquires Loki, is he to guard against the hatred of his million slaves? |
1487 | He asks, shall he find his father there? |
1487 | His three questions are, Who dwell under the earth? |
1487 | How dare he indulge in those scandalous and illicit transitions into a key that has not one note in common with the key he has just left? |
1487 | How is the rebel to be disarmed? |
1487 | How is the world to be protected against it in the meantime? |
1487 | How now can Brynhild, being what she is, choose her side freely in a conflict between this hero and the vassal of Fricka? |
1487 | How, after the Kaisermarsch, could Wagner go back to his idealization of Siegfried in 1853? |
1487 | I am as conspicuous in English Socialism as Bebel is in German Socialism; but do you suppose that the German Social- Democrats tolerate me? |
1487 | I gave him no ring-- er-- do you know him?" |
1487 | Is it aria, or recitative? |
1487 | Is there no cabaletta to it-- not even a full close? |
1487 | Let Loki surround this mountain top with the appearance of a consuming fire; and who will dare penetrate to Brynhild? |
1487 | Mozart, asked for an explanation of his works, said frankly"How do I know?" |
1487 | Shall he find a wife there? |
1487 | Shall he meet his sister there? |
1487 | The professors, when Wagner''s music is played to them, exclaim at once"What is this? |
1487 | WAGNER''S OWN EXPLANATION And now, having given my explanation of The Ring, can I give Wagner''s explanation of it? |
1487 | Was it knocked out by somebody whose way you obstructed?" |
1487 | What does he want with six drums and eight horns when Mozart worked miracles with two of each? |
1487 | What is Wotan to do? |
1487 | What is left to him then but to curse the love he can never win, and turn remorselessly to the gold? |
1487 | What is that race, dearest to Wotan, against which Wotan has nevertheless done his worst? |
1487 | What will she, the Law, say to the lawless pair who have heaped incest on adultery? |
1487 | Who dwell on the earth? |
1487 | Why do you wear such a big hat; and what has happened to one of your eyes? |
1487 | Why not, says Erda then, go to the daughter I bore you, and take counsel with her? |
1487 | Why should it not rise from the god to the Hero? |
1487 | Why should it stop there? |
1487 | Why was that discord not prepared; and why does he not resolve it correctly? |
1487 | Why, then, you may ask, do I say that I am bound to Germany by the ties that hold my nature most strongly? |
1487 | Will they not steal from him, whilst he sleeps, the magic ring, the symbol of his power, which he has forged from the gold of the Rhine? |
1487 | Wotan compliments him on his knowledge, and asks further with what sword Siegfried will slay Fafnir? |
1487 | Wotan hails him as the knowingest of the knowing, and then hurls at him the question he should himself have asked: Who will mend the sword? |
1487 | and Who dwell in the cloudy heights above? |
16488 | Are you cold? 16488 Do they never tell you to go and play somewhere else?" |
16488 | Do you not know how late it is? 16488 Do you not understand? |
16488 | Do you say that? |
16488 | Golaud is here? |
16488 | I am not going to kill you.--You hope to see something in my eyes without my seeing anything in yours? 16488 I will not have you touch me, do you understand?" |
16488 | Is it the light that trembles so? |
16488 | Is it you, grandfather? |
16488 | It is the struggle of motherhood against...."At this moment?--At once? |
16488 | Must I tell you what you know already? |
16488 | No, no; we were not guilty,she replies;"why do you ask me that?" |
16488 | Since when have you loved me? |
16488 | They do not say anything? |
16488 | They kissed each other?--But how, how did they kiss? |
16488 | What are they doing? 16488 What are you doing here?" |
16488 | What child? |
16488 | What is that noise? |
16488 | What is the matter?--Is he drunk? |
16488 | Where are they going to sleep to- night? |
16488 | Where are you going? |
16488 | Who? |
16488 | Why do they not speak any more? |
16488 | Why do you tremble so? |
16488 | Why does she sail to- night?... 16488 Why, yes, I loved him-- where is he?" |
16488 | Will you let me take your hand? |
16488 | You know not what I am going to tell you? |
16488 | You know not why I must go? 16488 You love me? |
16488 | Are they near each other?" |
16488 | Are you afraid of my old lips? |
16488 | Are you sure?" |
16488 | Arkël turns suddenly:"What is the matter?" |
16488 | By what have I been suddenly awakened? |
16488 | Did she love Pelléas? |
16488 | Do you see down into the abyss, Pelléas?" |
16488 | Do you suppose I may know something?" |
16488 | If I had, why should I not speak it? |
16488 | Is it not rather a shadow of some struggle, similar to that of Jacob with the Angel?" |
16488 | It seems to me-- it seems to me-- well, then, it is this: I ask you if you loved him with a guilty love? |
16488 | Mélisande displays agitation:"What shall we say if Golaud asks where it is?" |
16488 | Shall I close the windows?" |
16488 | She may be saying her prayers at this moment.... Tell me, Yniold, she is often with your uncle Pelléas, is she not?" |
16488 | Shepherd!--where are they going?--Where are they going to sleep to- night? |
16488 | Were you-- were you both guilty?" |
16488 | Who has aroused me all at once? |
16488 | Why does she stretch her arms out so?--what does she wish?" |
16488 | Will you not understand? |
16488 | You know not that it is because[ he kisses her abruptly] I love you?" |
16488 | cries the anguished Golaud...."They kiss each other sometimes?" |
16488 | she says;"why does he not come to me?" |
16488 | why do they not speak any more? |
16488 | why do you go away?" |
16488 | you love me too?" |
21957 | But the important point is, how are we able to do the things we want to do? |
21957 | But what conveys this impression? |
21957 | Can all the expiratory force expended in tone- production show such a small result? |
21957 | Can any empirical knowledge of the voice be obtained by the mere listening to voices? |
21957 | Can it learn to produce this quality of tone by imitation? |
21957 | Could any point be located at which the student would be unable to imitate the teacher''s voice? |
21957 | Do you wish a little example? |
21957 | Does consciousness or volition come into play here? |
21957 | Does the hand raise itself? |
21957 | Does this mean that the singer is unconscious of the muscular contractions? |
21957 | First, what is muscular stiffness? |
21957 | How are the deficiencies of the scientific doctrines supplied in instruction? |
21957 | How are these efforts guided? |
21957 | How can a tone, merely a sound to which we listen, tell us anything about the condition of the singer''s throat during the production of the tone? |
21957 | How can any facts be observed about the voice other than by the study of the vocal mechanism? |
21957 | How can the"column of vocalized breath"be voluntarily directed in its passage through the pharynx and mouth? |
21957 | How did this critic know that the singer had pinched her glottis? |
21957 | How do we guide and control our muscular movements? |
21957 | How does the listener know this? |
21957 | How does your hand know that you wish to raise it? |
21957 | How is it caused? |
21957 | How is the correct vocal action to be imparted to the pupil if not by direct instruction to this end? |
21957 | How then are the muscles informed of the service required of them? |
21957 | How then did Tosi and Mancini know the manner in which a throaty tone is produced? |
21957 | If the correct vocal action is to be acquired by imitation, of what use are the mechanical doctrines of vocal management? |
21957 | In other words, what is a method of Voice Culture? |
21957 | Is a knowledge of anatomy of any assistance in the acquirement of skill in performing complex muscular actions? |
21957 | Is it necessary for the performance of a complex muscular action that the individual know what muscles are involved and how and when to contract them? |
21957 | Is it to be believed that an intelligent master would use these directions in any occult or cabalistic sense? |
21957 | It will be asked, how does the conscientious teacher get over this difficulty? |
21957 | That obstacle is what? |
21957 | The theoretical problem therefore is: What is the correct vocal action, and how can it be acquired? |
21957 | What are these laws? |
21957 | What change takes place in the voice as a result of correct training? |
21957 | What do we mean when we say that a singer''s voice is throaty? |
21957 | What effect has the voluntary contraction of all the muscles of any member, each opposed set exerting the same degree of strength? |
21957 | What is its effect on the tones of the voice? |
21957 | What is left of all the materials of modern vocal instruction? |
21957 | What is meant by saying that the muscular contractions are performed without conscious guidance? |
21957 | What is nasal resonance? |
21957 | What is this peculiar way in which the voice must be handled during the practice of singing? |
21957 | What leads these muscles in the shoulder and back to contract, when you will to raise your hand? |
21957 | What necessity is there of mechanical management of the vocal organs if the voice is to be guided by the ear? |
21957 | What then is the"forward tone"? |
21957 | What valid reason can be given for denying the corresponding ability regarding tone quality? |
21957 | Who does not recall his earliest attempts at"speaking a piece"in school? |
21957 | Why then does not the incorrectly used voice impress the hearer as issuing directly from the mouth, the same as the correctly produced tone? |
21957 | Yet who would undertake to describe in words the tone of the muted horn? |
21957 | _ The Discharge to the Muscles of the Nerve Impulse_ How then are the muscles informed that their contraction is called for? |
34610 | Are you musical? |
34610 | Did he not strike the final note? 34610 Did not Wagner put a full stop after the word''music''?" |
34610 | Do you know why you like it? |
34610 | Want a job? |
34610 | What are you doing? |
34610 | A vocalist can sing an air, but can you imagine a vocalist singing through an entire programme without accompaniment? |
34610 | After each concert, at supper, this conversation invariably takes place: Paderewski:"Well,''Doctor,''it sounded all right to- night, did n''t it?" |
34610 | And I wonder-- did or did not Elena learn to play the monochord? |
34610 | And what song has more of that valuable quality we call"atmosphere"than Liszt''s version of"Kennst du das Land?" |
34610 | And why not? |
34610 | Are the''Ring,''''Tristan''and''Parsifal''not to be succeeded by an eternal pause? |
34610 | But, you may ask, is there not in all sonatas this psychological inter- relationship of the several movements? |
34610 | Considering how closely related are the laws of acoustics and optics, is a"Piper of Dreams"so visionary? |
34610 | Did not even so broad- minded a composer as Schumann say,"The trouble with Wagner is that he is not a musician"? |
34610 | For are not his tone poems literally tone dramas? |
34610 | Have we not been told again and again that there is? |
34610 | He:"Are you going to the concert to- night?" |
34610 | Heresy? |
34610 | How is this scene treated in the score? |
34610 | How many people, when singing this, have realized that they were being initiated into that mysterious thing known as counterpoint? |
34610 | If Clara and a thought of Clara play the chief rôle, what becomes of_ Kreisler_ and_ Kater Murr_? |
34610 | In order to be great must music be"classic,"heavy and dull, and badly written for the instrument on which it is to be played? |
34610 | Indeed, the title of the familiar song"What Is Home Without a Mother?" |
34610 | Instrument? |
34610 | Is there something still to be achieved in music as in other arts and sciences?" |
34610 | Liszt expressed it exactly when he said:"You see that tree? |
34610 | Opera is the glorification of the voice and the deification of the singer.--Do we not call the prima donna a_ diva_? |
34610 | She:(_ Looking out and seeing that it still is raining hard_)"Do they play anything by Richard Strauss?" |
34610 | The only question to be considered is, how has he become so? |
34610 | The question naturally suggests itself, did Bach''s influence cease with his death? |
34610 | These words of the poet Bembo to his daughter Elena-- are they so wholly lacking in application to our own day? |
34610 | What is the difference between classical and modern music? |
34610 | When shall we have music that can be seen? |
34610 | When, in response to calls for the composer, Richard came out, some one in the audience asked:"What has that boy to do with the symphony?" |
34610 | Who hearing the noble subject of''I will sing unto the Lord,''led off by the tenors and altos, does not long to reinforce their voices with his own? |
34610 | Who knows but that the music of the future may be visible sound-- the work of a piper of dreams? |
34610 | Who would have thought there was so much to a pianoforte recital? |
34610 | Why deny so obvious a fact, especially when it is easy enough to explain? |
34610 | Why ignore facts? |
34610 | Would we so consider it now? |
34610 | [ Music illustration: Frisch weht der Wind der Hei- mat zu: mein i- risch Kind, wo wei- lest du?] |
34610 | might, without any undue stretch of imagination, be changed to"What Is Home Without a Pianoforte?" |
3770 | And you, Gerald? |
3770 | Anybody about? |
3770 | Ca n''t you make a peephole through the bamboo? |
3770 | Mamma,Turiddu said to her,"do you remember that when I went away to be a soldier you thought I would never come back? |
3770 | What do you see, Frederick? |
3770 | What for? |
3770 | What god is mightier than Love? |
3770 | Why do n''t you go and say these nice things to Lola? |
3770 | Why? |
3770 | A man? |
3770 | And where did she get her chameleonlike nature? |
3770 | But everything appeals to the ear? |
3770 | But who shall hymn the blindness of Manoah''s son after Milton and Handel? |
3770 | But why are only the slums of Naples deemed appropriate for dramatic treatment? |
3770 | But why yield to such fancies and fears? |
3770 | Can such scenes be mimicked successfully enough to preserve a serious frame of mind in the observer? |
3770 | Does he doubt Nedda''s fidelity? |
3770 | Does he know when the robins nest in America? |
3770 | Does he suspect? |
3770 | Had she taken dancing lessons from one of the women of Cadiz to learn to dance as she must have danced to excite such lust in Herod? |
3770 | If Berlin, then why not New York? |
3770 | Is Samson a Hebrew form of the conception personified by the Greek Herakles? |
3770 | Is Turiddu not going to mass? |
3770 | Is it that? |
3770 | Is she amusing herself with quoits, or the jeu du crapaud, or pitch and toss? |
3770 | Is the story only a parable enforcing a moral lesson which is as old as humanity? |
3770 | It may be heretical to say so, but is it not possible that Lord Chamberlain and Critic have both taken too serious a view of the matter? |
3770 | Jasmin, say about eighteen, and already more of a woman; and when Loti says,"Why not her?" |
3770 | May not one criticise Goethe? |
3770 | Old friends are no longer noticed, eh?" |
3770 | Pourquoi nous annoncer Nabuchodonos-- or Quand c''est Nabuchodonos-- cuivre? |
3770 | Pretty birds, where are you going? |
3770 | St. Chrysostom set the fashion and Milton followed it:-- But who is this? |
3770 | The blow has scarcely been struck before a multitude of spirit- voices call his name and God thunders the question:"Where is Abel, thy brother?" |
3770 | The maidens who had come upon the scene with Dalila( are they priestesses of Dagon?) |
3770 | To the wise woman the ambassadors put the questions: Who shall be this ruler and by what sign shall they recognize him? |
3770 | Was she a monster, a worse than vampire as she is represented by Wilde and Strauss? |
3770 | Was she an innocent child, as Flaubert represents her, who could but lisp the name of the prophet when her mother told her to ask for his head? |
3770 | What is a Pagliaccio? |
3770 | What is he? |
3770 | What is it you say? |
3770 | What poetic field was open to him then? |
3770 | What though Harlequin steals his Columbine? |
3770 | What would M. Mendes say if he were accused of having taken the plot of"La Femme de Tabarin"from the"Drama Nuevo,"which dates back to 1830 or 1840? |
3770 | Where does Salome come from, anyway? |
3770 | Why not"Blanche"or"Arabella"? |
3770 | Why not? |
3770 | Yet might not even a geisha feel a genuine passion? |
3770 | You really do intend to kill me?" |
3770 | grumbled Lola when her husband prepared to go out;"where are you going in such a hurry?" |
19493 | But how deep? |
19493 | But if a reform be ordered where shall it begin? |
19493 | But judging from the estimate each one puts upon himself how shall we reform a thing which is already perfect? |
19493 | But who shall say which overtones, and why the particular combination? |
19493 | But, someone inquires,"If the student is singing with rigid throat and tongue would you say nothing about it?" |
19493 | Can a tone be disagreeable and still be scientifically produced? |
19493 | Could it be possible that a beautiful tone could be produced contrary to the laws of science? |
19493 | Did the invention of the laryngoscope add anything of value to the voice teacher''s equipment? |
19493 | Does history support this argument? |
19493 | Does it affect tone quality? |
19493 | Does it please the ear? |
19493 | Does this constitute scientific voice production? |
19493 | Further, who shall decide which particular combination of fundamental and upper partials constitutes the perfect singing tone? |
19493 | Has any one the hardihood to assert that such knowledge prepares one for the responsible work of training voices? |
19493 | Has he put the emphasis on his work in the place where it is most important? |
19493 | Has he so completely expressed himself that the onlooker can not fail to find his meaning? |
19493 | How can he tell, save from the tone itself whether the pupil is producing it scientifically? |
19493 | How does it do it? |
19493 | How much of such knowledge can one use in teaching? |
19493 | How shall this be accomplished? |
19493 | INDIRECT CONTROL What is meant by indirect control? |
19493 | If his ear is reliable, why resort to a physical sensation as a means of deciding? |
19493 | If one holds a vibrating tuning- fork before a resonating tube, does he direct the vibrations into that resonating cavity? |
19493 | If so, is the ear reliable? |
19493 | Is it a scientific act to tell a pupil to hold his tongue down, as one writer argued recently? |
19493 | Is singing a lost art? |
19493 | Is there no way out of this maze of mechanical uncertainties? |
19493 | Is voice culture a sort of catch- as- catch- can with the probabilities a hundred to one against success? |
19493 | Is voice teaching any more accurate now than it was a hundred years ago? |
19493 | It will be readily admitted that the application of force is required to produce tone, but how much force? |
19493 | Of what importance is it? |
19493 | Perhaps if all of these discoveries could be combined they might produce something of value; but who will undertake it? |
19493 | THE FALSETTO Does the falsetto have any part in the development of the head voice? |
19493 | The scientist says:"Have I not studied the voice in action? |
19493 | To most of them voice culture is a physical process and as they are physically fit, why wait? |
19493 | What are the arguments? |
19493 | What are the principles of song construction? |
19493 | What does the teacher mean when he tells the pupil to place the tone in the head? |
19493 | What is its use? |
19493 | What is responsible for the change from the methods of the the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? |
19493 | What is responsible for this? |
19493 | What is scientific voice production? |
19493 | What is the cause of these failures? |
19493 | What is this thing called art which takes such a hold upon the human race? |
19493 | What language would the child speak if it were never allowed to hear spoken language? |
19493 | What must he know? |
19493 | What will be the music of the future? |
19493 | When students look for a teacher the first thing they want to know is:"Can he build a voice?" |
19493 | When the student takes his first singing lesson what does the teacher hear? |
19493 | When there is little else but imitation going on in the world why deny it to vocal students? |
19493 | When you listen to a song and at its close say,"That is beautiful,"do you ever stop and try to discover why it is beautiful? |
19493 | Whence originated this so called scientific voice teaching? |
19493 | Who is responsible? |
19493 | Why is it so difficult and why do so few have it? |
19493 | Why is it that after two, three or more years of study so many upper voices are still thick, harsh and unsteady? |
19493 | Why should the upper part of the voice require such prodigious effort? |
19493 | Why? |
19493 | Why? |
19493 | Why? |
19493 | Will a knowledge of vocal physiology cure laryngitis? |
19493 | Will it prevent any one from singing"throaty?" |
19493 | Will this knowledge make him a scientific voice teacher? |
40849 | What, then, does this eternal conflict, and victorious heroism storming through, mean? |
40849 | --or something deeper? |
40849 | 2, might be designated the finale of finales(?) |
40849 | 7th so treated-- so inspiredly? |
40849 | 8, itself? |
40849 | A certain violence seems done to us; we feel"Is not this rather an incongruous intercalation?" |
40849 | And why should a Beethoven disparage his early works? |
40849 | And why? |
40849 | Beethoven''s episodes, as here, are of course, interesting; but, because episodes(?) |
40849 | But, and perhaps even more importantly, the question arises-- Might not the music itself have been better? |
40849 | But, if perfect_ in_ itself, it would be more perfect_ by_ itself--(?) |
40849 | Contrast it certainly is, and excellent in itself; but, had it not been better to have left it out altogether? |
40849 | Could he kill himself almost, to be sure of immortality? |
40849 | Did he ever clutch at the vanishing skirts of the Almighty? |
40849 | Do composers often write their finale when they are jaded? |
40849 | Do we find them in Mozart? |
40849 | Does he speak from inspired depths, almost painful? |
40849 | Had he a glimmering of atheism? |
40849 | Had he aim, consciously, or unconsciously? |
40849 | Have we not essentially the same clamour and glamour? |
40849 | Have we not here, indeed, an epitome of the olden time, with its knights, monks, revels, and all?] |
40849 | How shall I characterize this exquisite prelude? |
40849 | I recollect reading, some one exclaimed, in natural rapture on hearing this andante of andantes( the only rival of the sonata theme in A flat--?) |
40849 | If the ineffable adagio-- prelude of preludes(? |
40849 | If your"as a whole"theory is good for a movement, why not for a symphony? |
40849 | In the first place, what shall we say about the peculiarly original Beethoven''s reflection at the outset of Hadyn and Mozart? |
40849 | Mozart, says the German essayist, means operas rather than symphonies: well, and what did he make of them? |
40849 | Nay, in the second part-- those wonderful strokes of genius where the chord of the sub dominant(?) |
40849 | No doubt he was impressed( and rightly) with the feeling that an Ode to Joy demanded a grandiose introduction; but he made an elementary mistake(?) |
40849 | Not_ his_ serenity, but Beethoven''s rather, presupposes, like the sun of summer, and calm heart of nature, all the storms fought out(?) |
40849 | O death, where is thy sting?" |
40849 | Or was it( probably it was, for reality is painfully prosaic,) in some back attic-- such as where Shakespeare perhaps wrote_ his_ symphonies? |
40849 | Primevally was the architectural( least original, and slowest of all the arts--? |
40849 | Prospero, whose sublime spirit shines and rules in this inaugural adagio-- adumbration of Chopin(?) |
40849 | Race is mixed in every man-- who can resolve it? |
40849 | See, also, especially the passage further on, in G flat( should it not be_ andante_?) |
40849 | Shakespeare over- tops him; but who else? |
40849 | That one, also, who struggled in the womb-- what was he but a type of man in the all- comprising womb of nature? |
40849 | That, inevitably, as the world in its giant history proceeded from Nothingism( for how many ages?) |
40849 | The divine resolution to sacrifice self for all that( the A major motive?) |
40849 | The scherzo and finale("a sort of Bacchus triumph"--?) |
40849 | The scherzo( to take that next), forces upon us once more the question-- how far did Beethoven, in composing, draw upon his early treasures? |
40849 | The third(?) |
40849 | The_ p_ on the chord C E G rather surprises us-- we expect a forte(?) |
40849 | Was there, as in Beethoven, a soul of earnestness in him? |
40849 | What do we not deplore? |
40849 | What does it mean? |
40849 | What had it done for Beethoven? |
40849 | What man would wish for the_ dolce far niente_ of the Fool''s Paradise? |
40849 | What_ e.g._, would the sea, would light be, without that? |
40849 | When will her servants be worthy of her? |
40849 | When will she suffer the veil to be completely drawn away, and reveal herself in her full beauty? |
40849 | Who fore- ordered this collocation and sequence? |
40849 | Who or what moved him to his wonderful"progressions?" |
40849 | Who suggested these harmonious mysteries? |
40849 | Why this halting between the pastoral and warlike? |
40849 | _ Apropos_ of Wagner, does not this"Poco Sostenuto"call to mind that Wizard of the South''s famous morçeaux in"Lohengrin,"in the same key? |
40849 | _ Apropos_, it struck us that, if we like the warlike figure, this grand battlepiece( by Rubens? |
40849 | have we not Teutonic brilliance rather than Oriental?) |
40849 | was not_ that_ a royal piece of Iconoclasm? |
40849 | when will the singers begin?" |
15604 | ''What do you think makes a great player?'' 15604 A beautiful tone? |
15604 | And where did you capture the themes? |
15604 | But, madame, we have an appointment with M. Pugno; will you not be good enough to see if he is not here after all? |
15604 | Do you know these Technical Exercises of Brahms? 15604 Have you not seen many changes in the aims of students, and in the conditions of piano teaching in New York, during the years you have taught here?" |
15604 | Is it to be inferred that you do not approve of scale practise? |
15604 | One of the German music papers announced that you are about to leave Berlin, and have accepted an offer elsewhere-- was it in Spain? |
15604 | You ask if I think students can obtain just as good instruction here as in Europe? 15604 ''How do I know you comprehend my meaning,''he asks,''that you understand what I am talking about, if you say nothing?'' 15604 ''Why do n''t you play the work for the composer when he comes?'' 15604 ''Why not?'' 15604 ( 1) What means do you favor for gaining power? 15604 ( 10) What gymnastic exercises do you suggest? 15604 ( 2) What do you do for weak finger joints? 15604 ( 3) Do you approve of finger action? 15604 ( 4) Do you approve of technic practise outside of pieces? 15604 ( 5) What do you consider the most vital technical points? 15604 ( 6) What means do you advise to secure velocity? 15604 ( 7) How do you keep repertoire in repair? 15604 ( 8) How do you keep technic up to the standard? 15604 ( 9) The best way to study chords? 15604 2? 15604 ABOUT MEMORIZINGOn the subject of memorizing who can lay down rules for this inexplicable mental process, which will hold good for every one? |
15604 | And having mastered it, what do they consider the vital essentials of piano technic and piano playing? |
15604 | And why not? |
15604 | As I neared the last page, the question suddenly occurred to me, what had I done with that doubtful passage? |
15604 | As a rule the editing of piano music is extremely inadequate, though how can it really be otherwise? |
15604 | Can I so project this piece that the picture is alive? |
15604 | Can it ever be laid away on the shelf and considered complete? |
15604 | Do n''t you see how impossible it is to give two performances of the piece which shall be identical in every particular? |
15604 | Do you advocate this?" |
15604 | Do you know Breithaupt? |
15604 | Has it ever occurred to you what infinite pains people will take to avoid thinking? |
15604 | He should understand every point and be able to_ do_ the thing, else how can he really show the manner of the doing? |
15604 | How are they to learn what is best in music unless we are willing to give it to them? |
15604 | How can I play the piece twice exactly alike? |
15604 | How can he always play the same way when he does not feel the same? |
15604 | How can we feel thus? |
15604 | How few students, uninstructed in their principles, ever play good chords? |
15604 | How is it possible, with a series of dots, lines, dashes and accents, to give a true idea of the interpretation of a work of musical art? |
15604 | How much time does the artist really require for study? |
15604 | I can say,''play loud here-- soft there''; but how far do such directions go toward an artistic conception of the piece? |
15604 | If I recommend them to managers or institutions, should not my word count for something? |
15604 | If he simply seeks for uniformity where does the inspiration come in? |
15604 | Instead, then, of playing_ with_ a piece, why do you not at once begin to make it your own? |
15604 | Is the technic of an art ever quite finished? |
15604 | Is this the position taught by the_ Vorbereiters_, or favored by Leschetizky?" |
15604 | Is this understood in America? |
15604 | It occurred to me to ask how you yourself secure a beautiful tone on the piano, and how you teach others to make it?" |
15604 | MEMORIZING"How do I memorize a composition? |
15604 | Must it not always be kept in working order? |
15604 | No two people have the same hands, physique or mentality; so why should they all be poured into the same mold? |
15604 | Now, what do you think I can do for you?" |
15604 | Once, when I was playing a Nocturne, he called to me from the other end of the room:''Why do you always play that note with the fourth finger? |
15604 | One can not foresee how the future will judge the music of to- day; what will it think of Schönberg? |
15604 | Ought I not to know what my students can do, and what is required of a concert artist? |
15604 | POWER WITHOUT EFFORT"How do I teach them to acquire power with little effort? |
15604 | POWER"How do I gain power? |
15604 | So with études; instead of playing_ at_ so many, is it not better to perfect a few and bring them up to the highest degree of completeness? |
15604 | That is a wide subject; how can it be defined? |
15604 | The main thing is: Do I understand the meaning and spirit of the composition, and can I make these clear to others? |
15604 | The point which most concerns us is: How shall one practise so as to make the most of the time and accomplish the best results? |
15604 | The question should be: What has the player in himself, what can he accomplish? |
15604 | The questions had been borne in upon me: By what art or influence has this teacher attracted so large a following? |
15604 | Was it the manner of moving the keys, the size of hand, the length of finger, or the great strength possessed by the player? |
15604 | What did they not have to go through to master their instrument? |
15604 | What do I do to accomplish this? |
15604 | What does it matter if his work is not''liked''by some? |
15604 | What had my home piano in common with this wonder? |
15604 | What if we heard the Chromatic Fantaisie a score of times? |
15604 | What is it which brings to her side not only the society girl but the serious art- student and young teacher? |
15604 | What is the difference? |
15604 | What is the result? |
15604 | What modern piano sonata have we to- day, to compare with his? |
15604 | What was the reason of it all? |
15604 | What was the reason? |
15604 | What was the secret? |
15604 | What études, if any, shall we use, and what technical material is the most useful and effectual? |
15604 | Whence came his fearless velocity, his tremendous power? |
15604 | Why did all the efforts at piano playing I had hitherto listened to sink into oblivion when I heard this master? |
15604 | Why does one child learn to swim almost immediately, while another can not master it for a long time? |
15604 | Why should he always depend on the exercises made by others? |
15604 | Why should he not learn to know many less hackneyed pieces, which do not so frequently appear on concert programs? |
15604 | Why should not the child form a concept of_ forte_ and_ piano_, and so get away from the deadly monotony of_ mezzo_? |
15604 | Why then should the pianist exhaust himself and give out his whole strength merely in the daily routine of practise? |
15604 | Why was there not one way? |
15604 | XXII WILHELM BACHAUS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS DISCUSSED"How do I produce the effects which I obtain from the piano?" |
15604 | not, Whose pupil is he? |
33358 | But,persisted the young American,"_ Why did he go to the back before he sang?_""Oh!" |
33358 | Is there one among them, for instance, who can enunciate her own language faultlessly; that is, as the stage demands? 33358 Who on earth have you been listening to?" |
33358 | Why must I go to the back first? |
33358 | A voice? |
33358 | Before our national elections I am asked,"Which one of the candidates do you believe will make the best President?" |
33358 | Blind imitation is, of course, bad, but how is the student to progress unless he has had an opportunity to hear the best singers of the day? |
33358 | But how good must that voice be? |
33358 | By practicing breathing exercises? |
33358 | COMMON SENSE IN TRAINING AND PRESERVING THE VOICE DAME NELLIE MELBA HOW CAN A GOOD VOICE BE DETECTED? |
33358 | Can I digress long enough to say that I think that everybody should sing? |
33358 | Can any one who knows anything about the art of singing fail to realize how absurd this is? |
33358 | Could not a shoemaker or a blacksmith take a few lessons and become a great singer? |
33358 | Did you ever hear of any one forming a party for the express purpose of listening to the crowing of a rooster? |
33358 | Do you wonder that I guard them carefully? |
33358 | Do you wonder that I lay stress upon good health? |
33358 | Does this not make the point clear? |
33358 | ERNESTINE SCHUMANN- HEINK THE ARTIST''S RESPONSIBILITY Would you have me give the secret of my success at the very outstart? |
33358 | Even in many of his piano pieces, such as_ Warum?_,_ Träumerei_ or the famous_ Slumber Song_, the lyric character is evident. |
33358 | FLORENCE EASTON What is the open door to opera in America? |
33358 | GERALDINE FARRAR What must I do to become a prima donna? |
33358 | He asked,"Is there anything else she can do?" |
33358 | He used to say, after accompanying himself in the aria of Cherubino the Page, from the 1st act,"Is n''t that Spring? |
33358 | How can a girl breathe when she has squeezed her lungs to one- half their normal size? |
33358 | How could I help profiting by such excellent experiences? |
33358 | How do American women begin their studies? |
33358 | How does a bird learn to sing? |
33358 | How does the animal learn to cry? |
33358 | How does the lion learn to roar? |
33358 | How is she to determine this? |
33358 | How is the student to know when he is straining the voice? |
33358 | I began to ponder, why were some of my records poor and others good? |
33358 | IS THE ART OF SINGING DYING OUT? |
33358 | If I could do it one time-- why could n''t I do it all the time? |
33358 | If they do not understand, why sing words at all? |
33358 | In a blare and confusion of noises, like bedlam broken loose, what chance has a child to develop good taste? |
33358 | Is n''t that the joy of life? |
33358 | Is n''t that very simple? |
33358 | Is n''t that youth? |
33358 | Is there an open door, and if not, how can one be made? |
33358 | It is perfectly easy for me, a contralto, to sing C in alt but do you suppose I sing it in my daily exercises? |
33358 | JULIA CLAUSSEN WHY SWEDEN PRODUCES SO MANY SINGERS The question,"Why does Sweden produce so many singers?" |
33358 | Need I say more than that I practice deep breathing every day of my life? |
33358 | Once while we were performing_ Rosenkavalier_ he came behind the scenes and said:"Will this awfully_ long_ opera never end? |
33358 | Or do they believe that the singing teacher must also provide a musical and general education? |
33358 | Or the donkey learn to bray? |
33358 | The director was amazed and blustered:"Why? |
33358 | The girl who wants to sing in opera must have one thought and one thought only--"what will contribute to my musical, histrionic and artistic success?" |
33358 | Then he came in the room and said to me,"How much do you get here for teaching and playing?" |
33358 | They approach their work with the question,"Will this go?" |
33358 | WHAT MUST I GO THROUGH TO BECOME A PRIMA DONNA? |
33358 | WHAT MUST THE SINGER HAVE? |
33358 | WHAT WORK SHOULD THE GIRL UNDER EIGHTEEN DO? |
33358 | WHEN TO BEGIN The eternal question,"At what age shall I commence to study singing?" |
33358 | What about the nineteen- twentieths? |
33358 | What chance has the student? |
33358 | What could be simpler than this? |
33358 | What difference does it make whether I buy Castile soap in a huge Broadway store or a little country store, if the soap is the same? |
33358 | What difference does it make whether you ruin your stomach, liver or kidneys by too much alcohol or too much roast beef? |
33358 | What has become of them? |
33358 | What is the first consideration of the singer? |
33358 | What is the result? |
33358 | What is the stroke of the glottis? |
33358 | What might these men have been had they not been under the benign influence of music? |
33358 | What must the singer have? |
33358 | What should the girl starting singing avoid? |
33358 | What then is"good singing"as the Italians understand it? |
33358 | When you hold your hand out freely before you what is it that keeps it from falling at your side? |
33358 | Where is musicianship needed more than in the case of the singer? |
33358 | Who may go through that door and what are the terms of admission? |
33358 | Who needs a sounder mind than the artist? |
33358 | Whoever hears of Marietta von Leclair in these days? |
33358 | Why does not some enthusiastic American leader take up a campaign for more opera in America? |
33358 | Why does this dearth exist? |
33358 | Why not be patient? |
33358 | Why not vocalize the melodies upon some vowel? |
33358 | Why not wait a little while? |
33358 | Why should she wait a whole year with silly tones when she knows that she can sing a great aria with only a little more difficulty? |
33358 | Why? |
33358 | Why? |
33358 | Why? |
33358 | With a good teacher to keep watch over the breathing and the quality,"what more can one have?" |
33358 | Would it not be better to do away with the speculator at the door and pay say$ 10.00 for a seat that now costs$ 7.00? |
33358 | exclaimed the excited Italian;"Why he go back? |
5724 | A chaconne? |
5724 | A spatula on the right elbow? |
5724 | But why go on? 5724 Did n''t they?" |
5724 | Everybody says what? |
5724 | Hast thou,quoth Mephistopheles,"sworn thyself an enemy to God and to all creatures? |
5724 | How in the name of all the gods are you going to make of it an opera for Italian singers, as B. tells me you are? 5724 How likest thou thy wedding?" |
5724 | Knowest thou Faust? |
5724 | What if he should have talent for music? |
5724 | What shall I do with the song? |
5724 | What,she asks,"must I do to learn so sweet and gentle an idiom?" |
5724 | When did the Greeks ever dance a chaconne? |
5724 | White or black? |
5724 | A cavalier?" |
5724 | And had he not composed a canzonetta for her? |
5724 | And how long has he been imprisoned? |
5724 | And how long has he been imprisoned? |
5724 | And if so, will he speak a cruel farewell and doom her to death within the waters of the river? |
5724 | And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? |
5724 | And the reason? |
5724 | Are you, too, a traitor, Kurwenal? |
5724 | But in"Oper und Drama"he says:"Is it possible to find anything more perfect than every piece in''Don Juan''? |
5724 | But the letter giving word of the assignation? |
5724 | But there is a fly in the ointment, Why has Figaro been so busily measuring the room? |
5724 | But whence the money? |
5724 | Can any one say, after hearing this"Canzonetta sull''aria,"that it is unnatural to melodize conversation? |
5724 | Did Figaro imagine it was because of his own pretty face that the Count had promised her so handsome a dowry? |
5724 | Does Pamina live? |
5724 | Ein fahrender Scolast? |
5724 | Friend or foe? |
5724 | Gretel sings an old German folk- song, beginning thus:--[ Musical excerpt--"Suse liebe suse was raschelt i m stroh?"] |
5724 | Had he not often told her to ask him what she pleased, when kissing her in secret? |
5724 | Has he not been making love violently to her for a space, sending Don Basilio to give her singing lessons and to urge her to accept his suit? |
5724 | He hears Isolde''s voice, and his wandering fancy transforms it into the torch whose extinction once summoned him to her side:"Do I hear the light?" |
5724 | He rails against the whole sex in the air, beginning:"Aprite un po''quegl''occhi?" |
5724 | He thanked her gallantly and queried: Was the pretty sight a May Day celebration? |
5724 | How about that letter? |
5724 | How do such notions get into the minds of the people? |
5724 | If there was no such future, was the fact not proof of the failure of the Wagnerian movement as a creative force? |
5724 | Is that your game, my lord? |
5724 | Is there a purposed resemblance here to the words of consecration in the mass? |
5724 | It rings out fortissimo when the mystic chorus, which stands for the Divine Voice, puts the question,"Knowest thou Faust?" |
5724 | Kurwenal, have you no eyes? |
5724 | Melot''s accomplice? |
5724 | Now, why was the questioning of Lohengrin forbidden? |
5724 | Shall she never see them more? |
5724 | Shall we call this Death? |
5724 | She has been stricken, but what is that to his danger of everlasting damnation? |
5724 | Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? |
5724 | Then he had heard all that the Count had said to Susanna? |
5724 | Was the fault mine or the singers''? |
5724 | Was there ever such exquisite dictation and transcription? |
5724 | What does it mean? |
5724 | What flag flies at the peak? |
5724 | What if he should be the leader singled out to crush the rebellion, and be received in triumph on his return? |
5724 | What saith the Scripture? |
5724 | What would prayer avail him? |
5724 | What, asks the Black Huntsman, is the proffered victim''s desire? |
5724 | When shall night vanish and the light appear? |
5724 | When will European writers on music begin to realize that musical culture in America is not just now in its beginnings? |
5724 | Where? |
5724 | Who is at the helm? |
5724 | Who is the little man?" |
5724 | Why else does he devour her with his eyes when serving her at table? |
5724 | Why should Boito have made his Rhinelanders dance a step which is characteristically that of the Poles? |
5724 | Why? |
5724 | Will he come? |
5724 | Will she aid in the deliverance? |
5724 | Will she come? |
5724 | Will she never come? |
5724 | Will the shepherd never change his doleful strain? |
5724 | Would it bring back youth and love and faith? |
5724 | Would she sing? |
5724 | Would they rob his soul of its eternal welfare? |
5724 | Would you connoisseurs in music like counterpoint? |
5724 | Yet could she wish for the defeat and the death of the man she loves? |
5724 | [ Musical excerpt-- Susanna:"sotto i pini?" |
5724 | but"What ails thee, uncle?" |
5724 | morir so giovane"? |
5724 | wo eilst du hin?") |
15446 | Again: I can think out the character and make a mental picture of it for myself, but how shall I project it for others to see? 15446 And have you a final message to the young singers who are struggling and longing to sing some day as wonderfully as you do?" |
15446 | And now, do you think I have answered your questions about tone production, breath control and the rest? 15446 And what are these requirements?" |
15446 | And what must the girl possess, who wishes to make a success with her singing? |
15446 | And who is your teacher? |
15446 | And you will surely rest when the arduous season is over? |
15446 | But when all these are mastered, what then? 15446 But who can tell? |
15446 | Do I always feel the emotions I express when singing a rôle? 15446 Do I prefer to sing in opera or concert, you ask? |
15446 | Have you a message which may be carried to the young singers? |
15446 | How could I stay away from America for such a length of time? 15446 How do I work? |
15446 | How do you preserve your voice and your repertoire? |
15446 | I hardly meant to say that in any sense the art of bel canto was lost; how could it be? 15446 In what way may I be of service to you?" |
15446 | Indeed not, will you forget me? |
15446 | My favorite operas? 15446 Shall you make a singer of the little lady?" |
15446 | Should you ever care to become a dramatic singer? |
15446 | Then the breathing, Madame, what would you say of that? |
15446 | Voice culture, voice mastery, what is it? 15446 What message have you, Madame, for the young singer, who desires to make a career?" |
15446 | Will you give some idea of the means by which you accomplish such results? |
15446 | Will you tell me how you learn a song? |
15446 | Would I rather appear in opera, recital or oratorio? 15446 You of course speak several languages?" |
15446 | ''Do you really like the music of_ Marouf_?'' |
15446 | ''What, the Broken Tenor?'' |
15446 | ARE AMERICAN VOCAL STUDENTS SUPERFICIAL? |
15446 | All this may be of interest as a matter of research, but must one go into such minutiae in order to teach singing? |
15446 | And even if one is accepted''for small parts,''what hope is there of rising, when some of the greatest artists of the world hold the leading rôles? |
15446 | And was this Farrar who stood before me, in the flush of vigorous womanhood, and who welcomed me so graciously? |
15446 | And when the girl has prepared several rôles where shall she find the opportunity to try them out? |
15446 | And why should not the executive artist reassure himself by having his music with him? |
15446 | Before parting a final question was asked:"What, in your opinion, are the vital requisites necessary to become a singer?" |
15446 | But what are they in your big country? |
15446 | But when these are mastered, what then? |
15446 | COLORATURA AND DRAMATIC"Would you be pleased,"I asked,"if later on your voice should develop into a dramatic soprano?" |
15446 | COLORATURA OR DRAMATIC"Do I think the coloratura voice will ever become dramatic? |
15446 | Can you comprehend the dense ignorance of many music students on these subjects? |
15446 | Can you fancy a place where there had never even been a concert? |
15446 | Can you give a little more light on this point?" |
15446 | Can you imagine a vocal teacher who can not sing himself, who is so to say voiceless, unable to demonstrate what he teaches? |
15446 | Can you think of a musician, especially a singer, without imagination? |
15446 | DOES THE SINGER HEAR HIMSELF? |
15446 | Does any one ever say to you--''How are you treating the world to- day?'' |
15446 | Does not then all come from thinking-- from thought? |
15446 | Duval:"What is Vocal Mastery? |
15446 | HALF OR FULL VOICE? |
15446 | How can a singer expect the audience will take an interest in what she is doing, if they have no idea what it is all about? |
15446 | How can any other person tell you how that is to be done?" |
15446 | How can any other person tell you how that should be done?" |
15446 | How do we make tones, sing an aria, impersonate a rôle? |
15446 | How often people greet you with the words:''Well, how is the world treating you to- day?'' |
15446 | In answer to my first question,"What must one do to become a singer?" |
15446 | In the face of the coming concert what did those people do? |
15446 | In times gone by had we not discussed by the hour every phase of Maurel''s mastery of voice and action? |
15446 | Indeed how can two people ever give out a phrase in the same way, when they each feel it differently? |
15446 | Indeed what can be done without intelligence? |
15446 | Indeed, can we ever rest satisfied, when there is so much to learn, and we can always improve? |
15446 | Is it not the birthright of every Italian to have a voice? |
15446 | Is not all done with the mind, with thought? |
15446 | Is there an actor on any stage to- day who can portray both the grossness of Falstaff and the subtlety of Iago? |
15446 | LEARNING A NEW RÔLE"How do I begin a new part? |
15446 | MEMORIZING"How do I memorize? |
15446 | Now, what is it I can tell you? |
15446 | People talk of finishing their vocal technic; how can that ever be done? |
15446 | Really of what use is backing anyway? |
15446 | SELF- STUDY"How did I learn to know these things? |
15446 | Shall the singer imagine she can pronounce a foreign tongue in any old way, and it will go-- in these days? |
15446 | THE COLORATURA VOICE"You love the coloratura music, do you not, Madame?" |
15446 | THE QUESTION OF HEALTH"And you would first know how I keep strong and well and always ready? |
15446 | THE START IN OPERA"How did you start upon an operatic career?" |
15446 | TONE PLACEMENT"Can you describe tone placement?" |
15446 | That is all very well; but what about the chest, the larynx, the throat, the head and all the rest of the anatomy? |
15446 | That is human nature, is n''t it?" |
15446 | The audiences are blamed for their apathy or indifference, but how can they be warmed when the singer does not kindle them into life? |
15446 | The test will be; do you feel rested and ready for work each morning? |
15446 | Then why are there so few American singers who are properly prepared for a career? |
15446 | VOCAL MASTERY As we stood at the close of the conference, I asked the supreme question-- What do you understand by Vocal Mastery? |
15446 | VOCAL MASTERY"What do I understand by Vocal Mastery? |
15446 | VOCAL MASTERY"What do I understand by vocal mastery? |
15446 | VOCAL MASTERY"What is Vocal Mastery? |
15446 | WHAT ARE THE ASSETS FOR A CAREER? |
15446 | WHAT BRANCHES OF STUDY MUST BE TAKEN UP? |
15446 | WHEN TO PRACTICE"No doubt you do much practice-- or is that now necessary?" |
15446 | Was there ever a more elegant courtly Don, a greater Falstaff, a more intriguing Iago? |
15446 | What are mere notes and signs compared to the thoughts expressed through them? |
15446 | What can be done without a musical nature? |
15446 | What can be done without it? |
15446 | What can even a whole hour''s talk reveal of the deep undercurrents of an artist''s thought? |
15446 | What do you consider the most important and necessary subject for the young singer, or any one who wishes to enter the profession, to consider?" |
15446 | What is the impression-- can it be defined? |
15446 | What then happens? |
15446 | What, in your opinion, goes into the acquiring of Vocal Mastery?" |
15446 | Where shall we find his like to- day?" |
15446 | Whether I have a little more voice, or less voice, what does it matter? |
15446 | Who is equal to the task?" |
15446 | Why do we hear of so few who make good and amount to something? |
15446 | Why should it take the singer such a long time to master the material of his equipment? |
15446 | Why should we not expect it? |
15446 | Will you believe we had to make over two thousand in order to secure the one hundred needed for the present series? |
15446 | Without these, plus musical reputation, how is one to succeed in one of the two opera houses of the land? |
15446 | You remember Lilli Lehmann''s talks about the''long scale''? |
15446 | You think my voice sounds something like Patti''s? |
37662 | Can you jump immediately from a lesson to the desk and write one of your magazine articles? |
37662 | What is your ambition regarding your music? |
37662 | What is your ambition? |
37662 | A necessary faculty to success gone, is it? |
37662 | A question more to the point is"How can the racing from studio to studio be stopped?" |
37662 | Are not we becoming new- fashioned? |
37662 | Are not we much like them? |
37662 | Are singers less able to portray in art than is the cartoonist? |
37662 | Are these things trivial? |
37662 | Are we to come down into soberness and somberness to preserve these bodies of ours? |
37662 | Are you placing your hat on your head? |
37662 | Are you sharpening a pencil just now? |
37662 | Are you sure? |
37662 | As soon as they have that should they leave that teacher? |
37662 | Besides, is it not much more comfortable to have the real than the counterfeit? |
37662 | But can mind stand such things-- can mind keep itself in touch with the source of what is Good, in such conditions? |
37662 | But does it pay, financially? |
37662 | But may we not be at fault in our idea? |
37662 | Can not, however, even these necessary demands be somewhat reduced for the sake of attending to the ego within, more fully? |
37662 | Can your heart glow with the beautiful sunset? |
37662 | Concentration of thought, say you? |
37662 | Could n''t it have been said in two-- one, or less? |
37662 | Did it do us any good? |
37662 | Did we learn any lesson? |
37662 | Do we not have it? |
37662 | Do we not use up our strength in useless effort? |
37662 | Do you joy over the song of the bird? |
37662 | Do you know what is to be done? |
37662 | Do you recall"All things work together for good?" |
37662 | Do you want advice, a helping hand? |
37662 | Does it mean nothing? |
37662 | Does it mean what it says? |
37662 | Does that mean anything? |
37662 | Each morn, a man( one man, or how many think you?) |
37662 | Has it ever occurred to you to wonder what becomes of all the music students-- how many are there? |
37662 | Has the spring blossom a message of delicacy to you? |
37662 | Have they ability enough to fill such position, and could they hold the position if they obtained it? |
37662 | Have you any? |
37662 | Have you cleared the mind of the cobwebs-- the two different things per second which can come into it? |
37662 | Have you followed? |
37662 | Have you? |
37662 | How about circumstances and their influences? |
37662 | How about that mistake over which you have been mourning? |
37662 | How does he do it? |
37662 | How is the action when we act naturally? |
37662 | How long, ask you, will it take to become an artist? |
37662 | How many of our readers have done that? |
37662 | How many of us care to attend a concert, an opera of the light vein, or that of a brass band, as perhaps we once did? |
37662 | How many successful singers in grand opera have appeared during the last ten years? |
37662 | How many, though, of those who go to the teacher with the ambition to study for the choir would feel contented to take such a place as that? |
37662 | How often does every one of us make the"mistake of a lifetime?" |
37662 | How, then, about desire for refinement? |
37662 | How, when, or for what purpose? |
37662 | If the others expand, will not that? |
37662 | Is a musician less keen of perception and adjustment to circumstances than the dentist and photographer? |
37662 | Is any mind lacking these? |
37662 | Is he really so? |
37662 | Is it for good or ill? |
37662 | Is it not possible that if you had what you think would have been yours had you taken a different course, you would be worse off than you are now? |
37662 | Is n''t that wasteful? |
37662 | Is n''t this true? |
37662 | Is your ambition equal to it? |
37662 | Managers of concerts in various sections of the country ask the very first thing,"Where does he sing?" |
37662 | May such not apply to study? |
37662 | Me? |
37662 | Mind or body? |
37662 | Shall I tell you of some of the ambitions which students have, and say a word about them? |
37662 | That it will not come at your bidding? |
37662 | The very first question to ask of an applicant for vocal lessons is"what is your ambition?" |
37662 | Then why ca n''t we all hold the breath? |
37662 | Thousands attempt to be"Patties,"but who has reached her height? |
37662 | To return to the first question, what is your ambition? |
37662 | To whom? |
37662 | Was it a mistake? |
37662 | Was it the body, fighting against disease and death which thus responded? |
37662 | Was that necessary? |
37662 | We can ask"what becomes of the pins?" |
37662 | Well, reader,"What is_ your_ ambition?" |
37662 | What are muscles, where are they, how can they be managed? |
37662 | What are"all things?" |
37662 | What becomes of all the ambitious youths and maidens who study singing? |
37662 | What does it mean? |
37662 | What governs the air and gives the vibration? |
37662 | What has become of the"ninety and nine?" |
37662 | What has happened? |
37662 | What has the body done in the hour before reaching Niagara? |
37662 | What is the"we?" |
37662 | What is to become of them, and how many ever amount to anything? |
37662 | What prevents success, and is there false success? |
37662 | What produces voice? |
37662 | What say you? |
37662 | What shall be done about such persons? |
37662 | What would you become? |
37662 | Which from this definition, is more tangible? |
37662 | Which leads me to ask the question, can there not be such a thing as an overdose of music, just as there is an overdose of drug? |
37662 | Which would any father prefer, poverty or a wrecked family? |
37662 | While at first glance the teachers appear right, may they not be wrong? |
37662 | Who can not take one minute out of each hour in the day for preparing the mind and body for greater strength and activity? |
37662 | Who can tell? |
37662 | Who is there capable of discussing the nature of this great goddess?_"= Beethoven=. |
37662 | Who said"One thing at a time"was obnoxious to him? |
37662 | Who shall say but that another step may be taken or has been taken, in dropping the use of drugs and medicines entirely? |
37662 | Who thought, outside of a very small circle, only forty years ago, that the music of Wagner would become the most popular of any age? |
37662 | Who will take thought for himself and break loose, if but for a few weeks, and postpone the time of breaking down? |
37662 | Whose fault was it that so many were there, and that so many are there all the time? |
37662 | Why is it that the busy teacher draws the most pupils? |
37662 | Why not carry them all out? |
37662 | Why will students take lessons year after year and not sing any better than they did soon after they began? |
37662 | Why? |
37662 | Will we not make another"mistake of a lifetime"to- morrow, if we have the chance? |
37662 | Will you explain it again?'' |
37662 | Will you try that? |
37662 | You and I help to waste, do we? |
37662 | You ca n''t? |
37662 | You waste five minutes( only five?) |
40540 | And for whom are you looking? |
40540 | And that path? |
40540 | And you? 40540 Are not even the beasts here sacred?" |
40540 | Are you jealous? |
40540 | At what price? |
40540 | But, Gutrune, to whom I gave him, how would we stand with her if we so avenged ourselves? |
40540 | Ca n''t you hear her say she wo n''t go with you? |
40540 | Can you not see that I can scarcely speak? |
40540 | Come away? |
40540 | Do you know what you have witnessed? |
40540 | E deggio!--e posso crederlo? |
40540 | Elsa,gently asks the_ King_,"whom name you as your champion?" |
40540 | For whom? |
40540 | Hagen, wise one, have you no counsel? |
40540 | He who has sat at a heavenly banquet, does not break the bread of mortals.... Don Giovanni, will you come to sup with me? |
40540 | How came it on your finger? 40540 I wonder,"_ Nancy_ whispered so that none but her mistress could hear,"if he is going to run in the races himself?" |
40540 | I?--I love you? |
40540 | If you doubt me,argues_ Nedda_,"why not let me leave you?" |
40540 | Is the shadow of this tree so fatal? |
40540 | Is this a painter''s brush or a mahlstick? |
40540 | Kurwenal, can you not see it? |
40540 | Love you? |
40540 | N''est- ce plus ma main que cette main presse?... 40540 No, no, Turiddu, rimani, rimani, ancora-- Abbandonarmi dunque tu vuoi?" |
40540 | Surely you do n''t suspect her? |
40540 | The old refrain; why wakes it me? 40540 The sword? |
40540 | The whole of it? |
40540 | Was Wälse your father? |
40540 | What can he mean? |
40540 | What do you want? |
40540 | What have you to tell me? |
40540 | What is it? |
40540 | What is worse than one flute? |
40540 | What matters it? |
40540 | What of my son? |
40540 | What? |
40540 | Which? |
40540 | Who can prove it? |
40540 | Who hears us? |
40540 | Who will be the slayer? |
40540 | Who''s there? |
40540 | Who,asks the_ Wanderer_,"can weld its fragments?" |
40540 | Who? 40540 Why not? |
40540 | Your name and story? |
40540 | Your price? |
40540 | _ Come away?_ Did n''t these girls let you know plainly enough a short time ago that they would n''t hire out to you? |
40540 | _ Come away?_ Did n''t these girls let you know plainly enough a short time ago that they would n''t hire out to you? |
40540 | _ Elsa_,the_ King_ asks once more,"whom have you chosen as your champion?" |
40540 | _ Go?_ No, indeed,he added with emphasis. |
40540 | ( Am I then by heaven forsaken?). |
40540 | ( Duet,_ Rosina_ and_ Figaro_:"Dunque io son, tu non m''inganni?" |
40540 | ( Hast thou known sorrow? |
40540 | ( What restrains me at this moment? |
40540 | ("Is it no longer my hand, your own now presses?... |
40540 | ):[ Music: Chi mi frena in tal momento?] |
40540 | --Am I his love, or dost thou mock me?) |
40540 | Am I no longer Manon?") |
40540 | And his glance; has it never before rested on her? |
40540 | And his voice? |
40540 | And the music? |
40540 | And then as if answering to a would- be master''s question of"What can you do?" |
40540 | And what is it?" |
40540 | And what is that? |
40540 | And why not? |
40540 | And_ Don Giovanni_? |
40540 | And_ Rhadames_? |
40540 | As- tu pleureé?" |
40540 | Bris''s_ summons,"Who goes there?" |
40540 | But how can_ Mime_ teach him? |
40540 | But is not that the barber approaching with his love- song? |
40540 | But where? |
40540 | But who comes there? |
40540 | But who will take him in the face of the storm that is coming up? |
40540 | But with what eyes has_ Kezal_ looked upon_ Wenzel_ that he praises his excellences so loudly? |
40540 | But_ Rigoletto_? |
40540 | Can he not hear? |
40540 | Can one, for instance, imagine the music of"Tristan"wedded to the story of"The Mastersingers,"or_ vice versa_? |
40540 | Can the little singer explain his longing? |
40540 | Can_ Kruschina''s Marie_ love this stutterer and coxcomb? |
40540 | Chi troncò dell''ire il corso?" |
40540 | Dare he trust his eyes? |
40540 | Do I head the race of the Gibichungs with honour?" |
40540 | Est- ce toi, Marguerite? |
40540 | Finally, his task with the brushes over, he points to the basket and asks,"Are you fasting?" |
40540 | Has he taken nothing from the hoard? |
40540 | Has the race of the Gibichungs fallen so low in prowess?" |
40540 | Has_ Æneas_ forgotten his task? |
40540 | Hast thou wept?). |
40540 | Have n''t you seen_ Faust_ after_ Faust_ keep his hat on while making love to_ Marguerite_? |
40540 | Have you a wife?" |
40540 | His daughter still up? |
40540 | How can you forsake me?). |
40540 | How did_ Figaro_ come by it? |
40540 | How long has he loved her? |
40540 | How long will a woman like_ Elsa_--as sweet as she is beautiful, but also as weak-- be able to restrain herself from asking the forbidden question? |
40540 | How shall she warn him of the certain death in store for him? |
40540 | How shall the Rhinegold be restored to the_ Rhinedaughters_? |
40540 | If Siegfried does this in your stead, and brings her to you as bride, will she not be yours?" |
40540 | In answer to the question from the mystic choir,"Knowest thou Faust?" |
40540 | In reply he frames but one question:"When I enter Walhalla, will_ Sieglinde_ be there to greet me?" |
40540 | Is he coming with them? |
40540 | Is her lover safe? |
40540 | Is it for a last farewell? |
40540 | Is it his excited fancy that makes him hear the door of the inner chamber softly open and light footsteps coming in his direction? |
40540 | Is it not the_ Baron Douphol_ for whom he,_ Alfred_, has been cast off by her? |
40540 | Is it really you?" |
40540 | Is not the unbeaten Twenty- first Regiment of Grenadiers among them? |
40540 | Is she, a princess, to find a successful rival in her own slave? |
40540 | Is the weird light in their eyes the last upflare of passion before the final darkness? |
40540 | Is this the reason_ Rhadames_, young, handsome, brave, has failed to respond to her own guarded advances? |
40540 | Is_ Mélisande_ a Melusine- like creature? |
40540 | Jealous? |
40540 | May I say that he even gave to the voice a human clang it hitherto had lacked, and in this respect also advanced the art of opera? |
40540 | May he not as unexpectedly depart? |
40540 | N''est- ce plus Manon?" |
40540 | New in this scene is the= Gutrune Motive=:[ Music]"Gunther, your sister''s name? |
40540 | Not metal enough? |
40540 | Notwithstanding the popularity of two airs in"Mignon"--"Connais- tu le pays?" |
40540 | O Fiora, say, with whom hast thou been speaking?" |
40540 | Of what use is the warning of an old Hebrew? |
40540 | Or rather have not chains been wound about the twain of which they yet have no anticipation? |
40540 | Or, if it is not the ring"--again she addresses_ Gunther_--"where is the one you tore from my hand?" |
40540 | Or, is it one of those works more famous than effective; and is that why, at this point I am reminded of a passage in Whistler''s"Ten O''clock"? |
40540 | Qui va là? |
40540 | Scarcely speak? |
40540 | Scene of_ Don Diego_ and_ Don Rodrigo_:"Rodrigue, as- tu du coeur?" |
40540 | Shall she become the slave of a Greek? |
40540 | She herself is here caring for_ Johannes_ who is ill. How has_ Matthias_ become an evangelist? |
40540 | She left_ Des Grieux_ for wealth and the luxuries it can bring--"Tell me, does not this gown suit me to perfection?" |
40540 | Should n''t it be Iphigenia in Champagne?) |
40540 | Softly_ Scarpia_ asks her,"What say you?" |
40540 | That mole? |
40540 | The Isolde Motive;--then what? |
40540 | The ditty is"Que fais- tu, blanche tourterelle"( Gentle dove, why art thou clinging?). |
40540 | The melodic leading of the upper voice in the accompaniment, when_ Eva_ asks:"Could not a widower hope to win me?" |
40540 | The question therefore arises:"Why are these works not performed with greater frequency?" |
40540 | The scene, beginning with the chorus,"Who is this mortal?" |
40540 | The sword?" |
40540 | Then the_ Wanderer_ asks:"What sword must_ Siegfried_ then strike with, dealing to_ Fafner_ death?" |
40540 | Then, turning to where she lies, he asks:"Where were you wandering when our leader lost the Sacred Spear? |
40540 | Then_ Tonio_ pokes his head through the curtains,--"Si può? |
40540 | There is an exchange of affection, almost paternal on his part, almost filial on hers, in their duet,"As- tu souffert? |
40540 | They lead_ Brangäne_ to exclaim:"Where lives the man who would not love you?" |
40540 | This is the= Motive of Vengeance=:[ Music]"What troubles Brünnhilde?" |
40540 | Was her father slain? |
40540 | Was it even treated in such a way as to mitigate the defects it might present in this connection? |
40540 | Was there ever a love scene more thrilling than that between_ Siegmund_ and_ Sieglinde_? |
40540 | What can be said of the ordinary opera libretto beyond Voltaire''s remark that"what is too stupid to be spoken is sung"? |
40540 | What can mortals accomplish that the gods, who are far mightier than mortals, can not accomplish? |
40540 | What could be more in the spirit of Weber than the ringing_ Parsifal_ motive, one of the last things from the pen of Richard Wagner? |
40540 | What does the music answer as it enfolds them in its wondrous harmonies? |
40540 | What does the young man want of her? |
40540 | What have you done with it?" |
40540 | What he sees so clearly can not_ Kurwenal_ also see? |
40540 | What is in the chest? |
40540 | What is more moving than the phrase''Laissez- vous toucher par mes pleurs''? |
40540 | What is the matter with her then? |
40540 | What of the sorely stricken man feebly extended there? |
40540 | What strange affinity has brought them together under the eye of the pitiless savage with whom she has been forced into marriage? |
40540 | What would be the critical verdict if"Hamlet"were now to have its first performance in the exact form in which Shakespeare left it? |
40540 | When? |
40540 | Whence came he? |
40540 | Where am I?" |
40540 | Which is the right couple? |
40540 | Who goes there? |
40540 | Who is he? |
40540 | Who is he? |
40540 | Who is_ Mime''s_ wife? |
40540 | Who were these women over whose lives ennui never seemed to have hung like a pall? |
40540 | Who will march against him? |
40540 | Who will undertake the further education of the American public in this respect? |
40540 | Who''ll try her?" |
40540 | Whom shall he call Mother? |
40540 | Whose is it?" |
40540 | Why my sword do I not straightway draw? |
40540 | Why should_ Dido_ not do likewise? |
40540 | Why were you not here to help us then?" |
40540 | Why"happily"? |
40540 | Why? |
40540 | Will it accept? |
40540 | Will not_ Mimi_ join them? |
40540 | Will she follow him to the bleak land of his birth? |
40540 | Will she now wantonly destroy the wondrous spell of moonlight and love? |
40540 | Will the gods be saved through them, or does the curse of_ Alberich_ still rest on the ring worn by_ Brünnhilde_ as a pledge of love? |
40540 | Will you now come with us?" |
40540 | With a coquettish toss of the head and a significant glance she asks,"Where is the flower I threw at you? |
40540 | Would she triumph over her rival? |
40540 | Would you close the window, cousin? |
40540 | Yet, who is this? |
40540 | [ Music] What of the boat, so bare, so frail, That drifted to our shore? |
40540 | _ Edgardo_:"Chi mi frena in tal momento? |
40540 | _ Isolde_ chides her-- is it not some lovely, prattling rill she hears? |
40540 | _ Linda''s_ parents are to remain in undisturbed possession of the farm;--but where is she? |
40540 | _ Lysiart''s_ recitations and aria("Where seek to hide? |
40540 | _ Mime''s_ second question is:"What race dwells on the earth''s back?" |
40540 | _ Mime_ finally asks:"What race dwells on cloudy heights?" |
40540 | _ Mime_ then asks:"What is the race born in the earth''s deep bowels?" |
40540 | chi mi dice mai quel barbaro dov''è?" |
40540 | hast thou any fresh tidings?" |
16658 | Is not singing taught in the public schools? 16658 ***** But what did Dominie say after the performance was over? 16658 And not all night too? 16658 And what kind of instructors teach singing here? 16658 Are they waltzes for children? 16658 Are you not aware that the public wish not only to listen, but to see something strange? 16658 Are you very strict, Herr Dominie? 16658 Are you willing to remain ignorant of the magnificent modern style of voice? 16658 Bessie, can you say your letters after me? 16658 But I hear you say,What is the use of worrying to pick up all those stray minutes, like lost pins? |
16658 | But did she not begin to climb the ladder at the bottom? |
16658 | But do n''t you study your pieces? |
16658 | But do people like it? |
16658 | But do you not play any scales and études? |
16658 | But do you play that whole heap? |
16658 | But does it not make your fingers ache to play such difficult music? |
16658 | But does not your teacher attend to having your piano always kept in tune? |
16658 | But how do you find parents who sympathize with your ideas and with your lofty views? |
16658 | But how then is it to be learned? |
16658 | But is your teacher satisfied with the tuning of your piano? |
16658 | But what did you do meanwhile? |
16658 | But what pieces are you studying with the Etudes? |
16658 | But what pieces, for instance? |
16658 | But what shall I play, mamma? |
16658 | But when are they then to have their piano lessons? |
16658 | But when are we to look for it? |
16658 | But when is the child to find time for the necessary practice of the piano lessons? |
16658 | But where are the notes all this time? |
16658 | But where are we to find suitable singing- professors, and who is to pay them a sufficient salary? |
16658 | But who is the frantic musician who is venting his rage or this piano? |
16658 | But why has the acquirement of this technique been usually unsuccessful? |
16658 | But will not your son play to us? |
16658 | But you have something else on your mind? |
16658 | Can you count 3,--1, 2, 3? |
16658 | Can you not go forward with the advancing age? |
16658 | Critics have often asked, Why does Jenny Lind sing so coolly? |
16658 | Did it sound unnatural to you,--mannered? |
16658 | Do n''t you like her natural expression? |
16658 | Do n''t you make her exert herself too much? |
16658 | Do n''t you make your daughters play it then? |
16658 | Do n''t you see, Lizzie, there are three flats in the signature? |
16658 | Do n''t you think she looks in good health, madam,--tall and strong for her years? |
16658 | Do our vocal composers make too great a sacrifice to their creative genius in making a study of those things which are essential? |
16658 | Do they improve or destroy the voice? |
16658 | Do you always give such a preliminary description before you begin a piece with a pupil? |
16658 | Do you do this when neither your teacher, nor your father or mother is present to keep watch over you? |
16658 | Do you feel inclined now, Madam, to execute with me the duet from"The Creation,"between Adam and Eve? |
16658 | Do you hear the difference? |
16658 | Do you imagine that our intelligent age can not discern your hidden satire? |
16658 | Do you imagine that the fingers of pupils sixteen years old can learn mechanical movements as easily as those of children nine years old? |
16658 | Do you like this gentle violet blue, this sickly paleness, these rouged falsehoods, at the expense of all integrity of character? |
16658 | Do you never say,"Nobody is listening"? |
16658 | Do you not also play such brilliant music? |
16658 | Do you not feel the special charm and the fine effect which is produced by the left hand playing alone, and no less by the right hand extended? |
16658 | Do you not frequently use the time for practising, when you have already been at work studying for five or six hours? |
16658 | Do you not perceive also that my appearance of ill- health produces a great musical effect? |
16658 | Do you not perceive that in this way you induce your pupils to strain and force their voices, and that you mislead them into a false method? |
16658 | Do you not see that I am standing with one foot in the future? |
16658 | Do you not think that the taste for a beautiful interpretation may be early awakened, without using severity with the pupil? |
16658 | Do you not think, with firmness and decision, you could have set Mrs. N. on the right track? |
16658 | Do you pursue the same course with longer and more difficult pieces? |
16658 | Do you suppose I do this from affection? |
16658 | Do you take enough healthy exercise in the open air? |
16658 | Do you think we should continue in the same course, Herr Dominie? |
16658 | Do you understand me, gentlemen? |
16658 | Do you wish your daughter to learn to jingle on the piano, in order to become musical? |
16658 | Does she always sew and knit without being reminded of it? |
16658 | Does she like playing? |
16658 | Does she like to go to school every day? |
16658 | Does she like to play? |
16658 | Does your daughter of thirteen years old always practise her exercises without being required to do so? |
16658 | For what do you have lungs if you are not to use them? |
16658 | From whom have you learned all this? |
16658 | Has my lecture been too long to- day? |
16658 | Has not the girl a great deal of talent? |
16658 | Has she talent? |
16658 | Have given themselves a great deal of trouble? |
16658 | Have you heard the famous Camilla Pleyel play Kalkbrenner''s charming D minor concerto? |
16658 | Have you no understanding of the construction of the piano? |
16658 | Have you the requisite knowledge for it? |
16658 | How can you educate artists and_ virtuosos_, when you yourself are so little a_ virtuoso_? |
16658 | How else can you begin, except by laying a proper foundation for a better style? |
16658 | How else will they be able to produce an effect?" |
16658 | How is it possible for a child to climb a ladder when not only the lower rounds, but a great many more, are wanting? |
16658 | How is it, Mr. Feeble, that she does not combine serious studies with her playing? |
16658 | How many hours a day do you make her practise? |
16658 | How many promising voices do these institutions annually follow to the grave? |
16658 | How much do your daughters practise? |
16658 | How? |
16658 | Hummel, Mendelssohn, Chopin, or Schumann? |
16658 | I am constantly asked,"How many hours a day do your daughters practise?" |
16658 | If she had not played at all? |
16658 | If the throat is really worn out, may it not perhaps be owing to the teacher, and to his mistaken management? |
16658 | In reply to these and similar questions, I will ask, Why does she wish always to remain Jenny Lind? |
16658 | Is it necessary for me to explain how such a rude accompaniment must interfere with the effort to sing firmly and delicately? |
16658 | Is it so? |
16658 | Is n''t she sickly? |
16658 | Is not Lizzie a good pupil? |
16658 | Is not it so? |
16658 | Is not that touching? |
16658 | Is not your teacher here this evening? |
16658 | Is that in your power? |
16658 | Is this to be acquired by playing the notes? |
16658 | Is your beautiful voice and your talent to disappear like a meteor, as others have done? |
16658 | JOHN S. After tea will not Miss Emma play to us? |
16658 | Just how old is she now? |
16658 | Let this be the answer to the strange question, Do your daughters like to play? |
16658 | Lizzie strikes_ e_ in unison and the same in the bass, and exclaims:"There, mamma, did n''t I tell you so? |
16658 | MRS. S. Does she speak French? |
16658 | MRS. S. Have you not yet sent your younger daughter to school? |
16658 | MRS. S. You acknowledge, then, that formerly you had to force her to it? |
16658 | Mrs. Gold, were those delicious_ fermate_ of your own invention? |
16658 | My dear friend, how have you managed to make piano- playing so utterly distasteful to little Susie? |
16658 | My friend, do you not think that views like these will assist in the training of young and inexperienced teachers, who are striving for improvement? |
16658 | My mamma, who is also musical, and used to sing when papa played the flute, said,"What ridiculous little things are those? |
16658 | Now just how old is your daughter Emma? |
16658 | Now what is the next key above_ f_? |
16658 | Now, Herr Dominie, how do you like my method? |
16658 | Now, I demand of all the defenders of this new style, wherein is this superior beauty supposed to consist? |
16658 | Now, Mr. Dominie, will not your daughter Emma play us some little trifle? |
16658 | Of what use are the notes to a singer, if he has no attack, and does not understand the management of the voice? |
16658 | Of what use is mere unskilful, stupid industry? |
16658 | Perhaps you have a different one? |
16658 | Pray what else have you on your mind? |
16658 | Pray where is there the most singing?" |
16658 | Probably that is what you call"devilish modern"? |
16658 | Richard Wagner agrees with me, when he says,"Why, then, write operas to be sung, when we no longer have either male or female singers?" |
16658 | Sing in your own plain way: what is the use of this murmuring without taking breath? |
16658 | So this is your daughter who is to give a concert to- morrow? |
16658 | So you were obliged to play only solos? |
16658 | The girl is only eighteen years old: is she beyond salvation? |
16658 | The horse his father gave him has made him quite strong._)***** I may be asked,"But how did Stock play?" |
16658 | Then what do these societies amount to? |
16658 | Truly, she plays differently; but is it more finely? |
16658 | Was that accidental? |
16658 | Weber, Beethoven,& c.,--who has not heard all about them? |
16658 | Well, my young ladies, how many hours do you think all those minutes would make in a year? |
16658 | Well, you are satisfied now with Emma''s state of health? |
16658 | What are you studying now, Mr. Stock? |
16658 | What do you mean by that? |
16658 | What does that mean? |
16658 | What follows from this? |
16658 | What gain is it to art? |
16658 | What healthy ear can endure such enormities in tone formation, such tortures in singing? |
16658 | What is all this growling and buzzing? |
16658 | What is it that we hear in almost every house? |
16658 | What school- master has not been surprised at this facility, and what good old aunt has not laughed at it? |
16658 | What shall I do in the next lesson? |
16658 | What would Father Strauss say to this affected, unmusical performance, that bids defiance to all good taste? |
16658 | When did your daughter begin to play? |
16658 | When may I have another lesson? |
16658 | When the stiff fingers are fifty or sixty years old, and the expression is imprisoned in them, so that nothing is ever to be heard of it? |
16658 | Where are they to learn it? |
16658 | Where did he learn piano- playing? |
16658 | While this is your mode of accompanying the études, how then do you accompany the aria, the song? |
16658 | Who are at the head of these institutions and societies? |
16658 | Who expects superlative excellence from the age in which he lives, and who dares to attack it, in its most vulnerable parts? |
16658 | Who finds fault now with their musical culture, with their sound taste, or their want of love for classical music? |
16658 | Who has not listened to performers and singers who were otherwise musical, but whose sentiment was either ridiculous or lamentable? |
16658 | Who is it who sing in the schools? |
16658 | Who was the lady who sang the solo in yonder singing academy? |
16658 | Will you allow her now to play Chopin''s two nocturnes, Opus 48? |
16658 | Will you allow me first to replace this broken string? |
16658 | Will you be good enough to play me something, Miss Lizzie? |
16658 | Will you do me the favor, Miss, to play something on the piano? |
16658 | Will you not go on, Mrs. Gold? |
16658 | Would it not have been easier and more to the purpose, if you had used both hands? |
16658 | You have been playing now for six or eight years: are you repaid for the trouble, if it only enables you to prepare embarrassments for others? |
16658 | You like it better the oftener I play it? |
16658 | You pay some attention to adaptability to the piano or the violin: why are you usually regardless of fitness for the voice? |
16658 | You quite understand now the difference between the high sharp tones and the low deep ones? |
16658 | You say, Is not time worth gold, and yet we are offered lead? |
16658 | _ Answer._ But how would they have obtained their celebrity, if this were not the true, correct, and pure mode of singing? |
16658 | _ Answer._ What, then, is the effect of your culture? |
16658 | and did you think it wooden, dry, dull? |
16658 | and how is it that the instruction which you have given her for the last three years actually amounts to nothing? |
16658 | and that to excite the feeling for music, to a certain degree, even in early years, is in fact essential? |
16658 | do you not practise any exercises? |
16658 | or do you hope that the soft air of Italy will in time restore a voice once ruined? |
16658 | or shall she grow more musical by learning to play finely? |
16658 | this sweet, embellished, languishing style, this_ rubato_ and dismembering of the musical phrases, this want of time, and this sentimental trash? |
16658 | what do you think of it?" |
16658 | what must I hear? |
16658 | who can describe the effect of this melancholy march? |
16658 | who told you that? |
16658 | why does she always sing Amina, Lucia, Norma, Susanna,& c.? |
16658 | why does she choose operas in which she can give the most perfect possible image of her own personality? |
16658 | why does she endeavor to preserve her voice as long as possible? |
16658 | why does she first regard the singing, and only afterwards the music, or both united? |
16658 | why does she not select for her performances some of the later German or even Italian operas? |
16658 | why does she not sing grand, passionate parts? |
28026 | But what is the use of saying all this? 28026 But why seek difficulty when there is so much that is quite as beautiful and yet not difficult? |
28026 | Franz Liszt-- ah, you see I bow when I mention the name-- you never heard Franz Liszt? 28026 Have you ever been in a foreign art gallery and watched the copyists trying to reproduce the works of the masters? |
28026 | What is your favorite type of aëroplane? |
28026 | ( Why should the immorality of the artist''s life be laid at the doors of fair Bohemia?) |
28026 | ARE PIANISTS BORN OR MADE? |
28026 | After all, the greatest thing in the artist''s life is W- O- R- K. II ARE PIANISTS BORN OR MADE? |
28026 | Are other great schools of pianoforte playing likely to arise? |
28026 | Are stimulants good or bad? |
28026 | Are there not as fine teachers here in America as in Europe? |
28026 | But how many musicians can do this? |
28026 | But who ever heard of a music student making a regular business of learning the profession as would a doctor or a lawyer? |
28026 | By what device may pianism descend to a lower level? |
28026 | Can Liszt be regarded as a pianistic composer in the same sense as that in which Chopin is considered pianistic? |
28026 | Can a pianist''s playing be distinguished by touch? |
28026 | Can missed practice periods ever be made up? |
28026 | Can one be overexact in playing? |
28026 | Can one who for years has waged a battle for the American teacher and American musical education answer this question without bias? |
28026 | Can the teachers in America be blamed if the parents and the pupils fail to make as serious and continued an effort here? |
28026 | Can we who trace the roots of our lineage back to barren Plymouth or stolid New Netherland judge the question fairly and honestly? |
28026 | Did Liszt follow a method in teaching or was his work eclectic? |
28026 | Did you ever stop to think how continually this is employed? |
28026 | Do celebrated virtuosos use scales regularly? |
28026 | Do great pianists devote much time to writing upon piano technic? |
28026 | Do n''t you think I am a lucky boy? |
28026 | Do not the same exercises occur in thousands of pieces but in such connection that the mind is interested? |
28026 | Do you fear the grind, the grueling disappoints, the unceasing sacrifices? |
28026 | Do you think that came in a day? |
28026 | Do you wish to make music? |
28026 | Do you wonder that I drink to forget it?" |
28026 | Does a trained ear help in the acquisition of touch? |
28026 | Does he find fame and fortune waiting for him next morning? |
28026 | Does music resemble poetry? |
28026 | Does piano study cultivate concentration? |
28026 | Does the technical material of to- day differ greatly from that of forty or fifty years ago? |
28026 | Does the virtuoso hamper himself with details of technic during a performance? |
28026 | Does the work, the time, the expense frighten you, little miss at the keyboard? |
28026 | Godowsky, der ist wirklich ein grosser Talent_--how has he attained his wonderful rank? |
28026 | Graft? |
28026 | Has Russian music influenced the progress of other musical nations? |
28026 | Has piano playing progressed since the time of Hummel? |
28026 | Have not students contented themselves with two lessons a week since time immemorial? |
28026 | Have the compositions of the most original composers been the most enduring? |
28026 | Have the possibilities of the art of musical composition been exhausted? |
28026 | How are examinations conducted in Russia? |
28026 | How can I express more emphatically the necessity for the pianist being a man of culture, artistic sensibilities and of creative tendencies? |
28026 | How can we expect the pupil to make rapid progress if the start is not right? |
28026 | How did Rubinstein regard the theory of touch? |
28026 | How do the muscles of the shoulder come into action in piano playing? |
28026 | How does Russian musical progress in composition differ from that of other musical nations? |
28026 | How does weight playing differ from the high angular playing of the Czerny epoch? |
28026 | How else can he become familiar with the personal individualities of the great composers? |
28026 | How have the changes in the structure of the instrument affected pianistic progress? |
28026 | How is one''s playing affected by health? |
28026 | How is phrasing related to breathing? |
28026 | How is the matter of digital technic regarded in Russia? |
28026 | How long does the virtuoso practice each day? |
28026 | How long must one study before one may make a_ début_? |
28026 | How long will it take the world to comprehend his message if he really has one? |
28026 | How may complex musical problems be solved mentally? |
28026 | How may errors arise in the use of the terms of expression? |
28026 | How may finger strength be cultivated? |
28026 | How may individuality be developed through poetry? |
28026 | How may machine- like playing be avoided? |
28026 | How may master works be born again? |
28026 | How may one be helped in learning the musical language? |
28026 | How may one find the bearing of one movement upon another? |
28026 | How may piano study be compared with the polishing of beautiful jewels? |
28026 | How may the compositions of Rubinstein and Glinka be regarded? |
28026 | How may the mechanics of playing be distinguished from the larger subject of technic? |
28026 | How may the piano become a barrier between the student and musical expression? |
28026 | How may the pupil''s elementary work be made more secure? |
28026 | How may the right tempo be established? |
28026 | How may the student break the veil of conventions? |
28026 | How may variety in piano playing be achieved? |
28026 | How must real musical understanding be achieved? |
28026 | How must superficial pupils be treated? |
28026 | How should a very talented child''s practice time be divided? |
28026 | How should one seize opportunities to improve? |
28026 | How should practice time be divided? |
28026 | How should the arm feel during the act of touch? |
28026 | How should the child''s general education be conducted? |
28026 | How should the fingering of a new piece be studied? |
28026 | How should the fingers rest in legato playing? |
28026 | How should the mechanical difficulties of the piece be studied? |
28026 | How should the public appearances of talented children be controlled? |
28026 | How should the sense of hearing be employed in piano playing? |
28026 | I the master? |
28026 | In what does the Russian teacher of children take great care? |
28026 | In what period of time should a very talented child master the elementary outlines of technic? |
28026 | In what spirit should all studies be played? |
28026 | In what way was Edward MacDowell''s individuality marked? |
28026 | Is a great virtuoso obliged to practice years in order to secure results? |
28026 | Is analysis natural to children? |
28026 | Is any time spent in music study really wasted? |
28026 | Is it advisable to isolate difficulties and practice them separately? |
28026 | Is it any wonder that beginners lose interest in their work, and refuse to practise except when compelled to do so? |
28026 | Is it artistic? |
28026 | Is it musical? |
28026 | Is it really necessary to go to Europe to"finish"one''s musical education? |
28026 | Is it really necessary to instruct our little folks to think that everything must be done in a"cut and dried"manner? |
28026 | Is listening important in pianoforte playing? |
28026 | Is music a part of the daily life of the child in the Russian home? |
28026 | Is one ever warranted in altering a masterpiece? |
28026 | Is scale study indispensable? |
28026 | Is the ability to identify a chord by hearing more important than the ability to identify it by sight? |
28026 | Is the piano an expressive instrument? |
28026 | Is the utmost concentration necessary in all piano playing? |
28026 | Is your ambition to play scales, octaves, double notes and trills? |
28026 | Lucky Nathan,--have you not a thousand brothers who may never see a contract? |
28026 | May one memorize"backwards"? |
28026 | May time be wasted with unprofitable studies? |
28026 | More sacrifice for Nathan''s mother and father,--but what are poverty and deprivation with such a goal in sight? |
28026 | Must the pupil continually help himself? |
28026 | Must the student know the characteristics of the instrument for which the composer wrote? |
28026 | Need the practice of scales be mechanical and uninteresting? |
28026 | Of what value is the teacher if he is not to apply his knowledge with the discretion that comes with experience? |
28026 | Plunder? |
28026 | Schumann more original than Chopin? |
28026 | Should immediate musical results be sought in technical study? |
28026 | Should individual physical peculiarities be taken into consideration? |
28026 | Should individuality in playing be developed at an early age? |
28026 | Should music be studied by phrases or measures? |
28026 | Should one be careful about the body before concerts? |
28026 | Should one pin one''s faith to any one method? |
28026 | Should phrase analysis be taught at an early age? |
28026 | Should pianists acquire a knowledge of the main feature in the construction of their instrument? |
28026 | Should the education be confined to the classroom? |
28026 | Should the musical child be encouraged to read fiction? |
28026 | Should the student continually estimate his own ability? |
28026 | Should the student gain an idea of the work as a whole before attempting detailed study? |
28026 | Should the talented child be urged or pushed ahead? |
28026 | Spoils? |
28026 | Strange to say, no one ever seems to think it necessary to inquire,''What is the most beautiful piece?'' |
28026 | Surely, so much earnest effort can not be wasted even though all can not win the race? |
28026 | THE AMERICAN VIRTUOSO OF TO- DAY How does the American aspirant compete with Nathan? |
28026 | THE MOST DIFFICULT COMPOSITIONS"I have continually been asked,''What is the most difficult composition?'' |
28026 | THE NEW TECHNIC AND THE OLD You ask me what are the essential differences between the modern technic and the technic of the older periods? |
28026 | The legato thirds seem simple? |
28026 | Then why spend hours in practicing at the keyboard with the view of doing something we can already do? |
28026 | Upon what detail of interpretation does musical performance most depend? |
28026 | Upon what does fine phrasing depend? |
28026 | Upon what does velocity depend? |
28026 | Upon what principle is expression in art based? |
28026 | WHY NOT SEEK THE BEAUTIFUL? |
28026 | Was I, after years of public playing, actually making mistakes that I would be the first to condemn in any one of my own pupils? |
28026 | What additional musical studies should be included in the work of the pupil? |
28026 | What are some remedies for slovenly playing? |
28026 | What are the two means of administering touch? |
28026 | What becomes of the thousands of students all working frantically with the hope of becoming famous pianists? |
28026 | What better guide could you possibly have than the words of the great pianists themselves? |
28026 | What channel in the study of pianoforte must the pupil develop most thoroughly? |
28026 | What combines to make a program attractive? |
28026 | What composer preserved the most perfect balance between artistic conception and expression? |
28026 | What did Chopin call the left hand? |
28026 | What do I mean by a practical knowledge of harmony? |
28026 | What does a great virtuoso receive for his performances? |
28026 | What does originality in pianoforte playing really mean? |
28026 | What exercises does he use? |
28026 | What fundamental laws should underlie interpretation? |
28026 | What great difficulties do the virtuosos visiting America encounter? |
28026 | What indicates a finely balanced musician? |
28026 | What is a good arrangement of practice hours? |
28026 | What is considered the most difficult scale to learn? |
28026 | What is it in playing that sways the audience? |
28026 | What is it then, which promotes a few"fortunate"ones from the armies of students all over America and Europe and makes of them great virtuosos? |
28026 | What is it which distinguishes the performance of the great pianist from that of the novice? |
28026 | What is one of the greatest faults in musical educational work in America? |
28026 | What is the best material for the development of a mental technic? |
28026 | What is the best remedy for careless playing? |
28026 | What is the difference between brain technic and finger technic? |
28026 | What is the effect of too many mechanical rules? |
28026 | What is the law of artistic progress? |
28026 | What is the nature of the technical study done by Harold Bauer? |
28026 | What is the vital spark in piano playing? |
28026 | What is this vital spark that brings life to mere notes? |
28026 | What lies at the foundation of pianistic greatness? |
28026 | What may be called the sculptor of individuality in music? |
28026 | What may be considered the most difficult branch of pianoforte study? |
28026 | What may be said of the poetic idea of the piece? |
28026 | What may be said of the sensitiveness of the finger tips? |
28026 | What may be said of the status of American musical education? |
28026 | What may the pupil learn from concerts? |
28026 | What must be the sole aim in employing a technical exercise? |
28026 | What must one do to become a virtuoso? |
28026 | What part did fashion play in the introduction of embellishments? |
28026 | What part does personality play in the performer''s success? |
28026 | What part does right thinking play in execution? |
28026 | What part does talent play in the artist''s success? |
28026 | What part should the study of phrasing play in modern music education? |
28026 | What qualities must the student preserve above all things? |
28026 | What should be artist''s main object in giving a concert? |
28026 | What should be the first step in the musical education of the child? |
28026 | What should be the pianist''s first thought during the moment of performance? |
28026 | What should be the preliminary study of a new composition? |
28026 | What should be the teacher''s first consideration? |
28026 | What studies are particularly useful in the cultivation of brilliant playing? |
28026 | What voyages of exploration must the student make? |
28026 | What was Reisenauer''s opinion of the works of MacDowell? |
28026 | What was the principle which made the Tausig exercises valuable? |
28026 | What with three and four concerts a night why should not the critics have a_ pourboire_ for extra critical attention? |
28026 | What would be thought of the Russian pupil who attempted pieces without the proper preliminary scale work? |
28026 | When is the hand touch generally employed? |
28026 | When is the teacher''s responsibility greatest? |
28026 | When should the first steps in analysis be made? |
28026 | Where must the student find his problems? |
28026 | Wherein does the appeal of Debussy lie? |
28026 | Which difficulty should you practice most? |
28026 | Who could resist the temptation to learn them all when they are once commenced? |
28026 | Who could withstand the alluring charm of the Chopin etudes? |
28026 | Who is the great European master who is working such great wonders for her? |
28026 | Why are Russian pianists famed for their technical ability? |
28026 | Why are stencil- like methods bad? |
28026 | Why are too complicated exercises undesirable? |
28026 | Why do some pupils find technical studies tiresome? |
28026 | Why does Busoni produce inimitable results at the keyboard? |
28026 | Why does Rachmaninoff excel as a composer for pianoforte? |
28026 | Why is Bach so valuable for the student? |
28026 | Why is a knowledge of the different dance forms desirable? |
28026 | Why is a more difficult fingering sometimes preferable? |
28026 | Why is it that the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach are so useful in piano study? |
28026 | Why is such a premium put upon mere difficulty? |
28026 | Why is the study of musical history so important? |
28026 | Why must monotony be avoided in technical study? |
28026 | Why must one seek to avoid conventions? |
28026 | Why not a little mind formation? |
28026 | Why not develop the habit of noting the phrases in the same way? |
28026 | Why should imitation be avoided? |
28026 | Why should one listen while playing? |
28026 | Why should students avoid becoming"piano- playing machines"? |
28026 | Why should the student determine problems for himself? |
28026 | Why try to make a bouquet of oak trees when the ground is covered with exquisite flowers? |
28026 | Why was Köhler so successful as a teacher? |
28026 | Why was the great Liszt greater than any pianist of his time? |
28026 | Why waste time in practicing passages which you can play perfectly well? |
28026 | Why? |
28026 | Will genius or talent take the place of study and work? |
28026 | Will the public now receive him as a great pianist? |
28026 | Will the technic of Liszt ever be excelled? |
28026 | With what has technic to do? |
28026 | Without this knowledge how could he possibly expect to study with understanding? |
28026 | Would it not be better to train him to play a piece which he could comprehend and which he could express in his own way? |
28026 | XIV SEEKING ORIGINALITY VLADIMIR DE PACHMANN THE MEANING OF ORIGINALITY"Originality in pianoforte playing, what does it really mean? |
28026 | You ask me,"How can the student form the proper conception of the work as a whole?" |
28026 | You wonder at this? |
28026 | _ Non ê vero?_ When the composer has sought originality and contrived to get it by purposely taking out- of- the- way methods, what has he produced? |
28026 | _ Non ê vero?_ When the composer has sought originality and contrived to get it by purposely taking out- of- the- way methods, what has he produced? |
28026 | _ Pourquoi?_ No one can learn by copying the secret the master has learned in creating. |
31828 | ''Trippingly''trips up your tongue? |
31828 | And what is so rare as a day in June? 31828 Are you-- are you fond-- of-- of dogs?" |
31828 | Blessed are the meek: is it easy to be meek? |
31828 | Blessed are the pure in heart: is that so very easy? |
31828 | But it does n''t any more? |
31828 | Do you admire the view? 31828 Do you believe in examinations?" |
31828 | Do you know the ode_ To a Skylark_? |
31828 | Do you know what the girl is doing? |
31828 | Empty of what? |
31828 | Genius is patience,said who? |
31828 | Have you ever read_ Titan_? |
31828 | How can a lion come roaring at you, you silly thing? 31828 How do you know?" |
31828 | How_ can_ I have done that? |
31828 | Hurt me? 31828 I wonder how many miles I''ve fallen by this time?" |
31828 | I wonder if I shall fall right_ through_ the earth? 31828 If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,"the Walrus said,"That they could get it clear?" |
31828 | Just think what you would do, Tom? |
31828 | May I lay aside the text- book and read with these students in English for a little? |
31828 | More rabbits? 31828 Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? |
31828 | Speak the speechyou say,"is a difficult combination of words to utter"? |
31828 | The Prime Minister''s secret is patience,said who? |
31828 | The difference? |
31828 | The river flows between green banks? |
31828 | Tom,she said, timidly, when they were out- of- doors,"how much money did you give for your rabbits?" |
31828 | Was I not right? |
31828 | What do you mean by my illumined moments? |
31828 | What do you mix your paints with? |
31828 | What for? |
31828 | What is it? |
31828 | What is the secret of such a development of business as this? |
31828 | Would it be of any use, now,thought Alice,"to speak to this mouse? |
31828 | Would_ you_ like cats if you were me? |
31828 | You do n''t understand the reference to a''town- crier''? |
31828 | You forgot to feed''em, then, and Harry forgot? |
31828 | ''Is n''t that robe dear?'' |
31828 | ''Please, ma''am, is this New Zealand or Australia?''" |
31828 | ( But where should it not be observed?) |
31828 | ***** Now, who shall arbitrate? |
31828 | A lieutenant? |
31828 | A mate-- first, second, third? |
31828 | Almost a white tone, is it not? |
31828 | And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way,"Do cats eat bats? |
31828 | And loved so well a high behavior, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay? |
31828 | And the question I would ask of myself and you is, How do we get them? |
31828 | And what meets her? |
31828 | And who commanded( and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest? |
31828 | And you do, too? |
31828 | And you shall catch your own fish, Maggie, and put the worms on, and everything-- won''t it be fun?" |
31828 | Are all these Made to please? |
31828 | Are n''t I a good brother to you?" |
31828 | Are there other possible intonations of the words? |
31828 | Are we not floundering in the water, fallen on the ice, or alienating the ears of our friends? |
31828 | Are you bought by English gold? |
31828 | Are you cowards, fools, or rogues? |
31828 | Are you in pain? |
31828 | Are you, too, caught up in that impetuous embrace? |
31828 | Ask the question until it is answered past question, What am I? |
31828 | At first a quick, contemptuous interrogation--''we fail?'' |
31828 | At rich men''s tables eaten bread and pulse? |
31828 | At what point does her tone lose its reflective quality and become more personal? |
31828 | Autumn''s prime, Apple- time, Smooth cheek round, Heart all sound?-- Is it this You would kiss? |
31828 | Burn the fleet and ruin France? |
31828 | But do cats eat bats, I wonder?" |
31828 | But how? |
31828 | But if I''m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? |
31828 | But no such word Was ever spoke or heard; For up stood, for out stepped, for in struck amid all these-- A captain? |
31828 | But to bend this talk back to the word with which we started: will this striving for perfection in the little thing give"culture"? |
31828 | But what of the inflection of those monosyllabic words? |
31828 | Can I get these self- foundations laid, save by the weight, year in, year out, of the steady pressures? |
31828 | Can a sense of humor be cultivated, and if it can be cultivated, is it safe to do so? |
31828 | Can you imagine looking on such a page as this for the first time--_perceiving_ it for the first time? |
31828 | Can you so inflect"sprawling in want"and"sitting high"as to suggest a swamp and a mountain- top, or a frog and an angel? |
31828 | Can you wipe out of your mind your knowledge of paper, print, and words? |
31828 | Dare we think to make it ours? |
31828 | Did its pitch change? |
31828 | Did n''t it hurt you?" |
31828 | Did you get all these qualities at once? |
31828 | Did your tone change color at any point? |
31828 | Disciplined? |
31828 | Do cats eat bats?" |
31828 | Do we? |
31828 | Do you know Jules Breton''s picture_ The Lark_? |
31828 | Do you love it? |
31828 | Do you not see that the secret of its beauty lies, for vocal interpretation, in the color of tone and in the inflection of the words? |
31828 | Do you realize the vital effect upon the voice of such vocal analysis and experimentation? |
31828 | Do you sigh for books and leisure and wealth? |
31828 | Do you think that the great and famous escape drudgery? |
31828 | Do you think you could manage it?) |
31828 | FORBEARANCE Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? |
31828 | Gray in color, is it not? |
31828 | Gray, is it not? |
31828 | HYMN BEFORE SUNRISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI Hast thou a charm to stay the morning- star In his steep course? |
31828 | Had n''t she wanted to give him the money, and said how very sorry she was? |
31828 | Have I spoken truly for any one here? |
31828 | Have you ever heard such comment, or made such comment, or been the subject of like comment? |
31828 | Have you ever read George Eliot''s poem called"Stradivarius"? |
31828 | Have you ever watched such striving in operation? |
31828 | Have you never met humble men and women who read little, who knew little, yet who had a certain fascination as of fineness lurking about them? |
31828 | Here, you Lady, if you''ll sell I''ll buy: Come, heart for heart-- a trade? |
31828 | How did you begin to master any one of the activities in which you are more or less proficient? |
31828 | How did you inflect the words"wine and dreams"? |
31828 | How did you learn to swim, or skate, or play the violin? |
31828 | How did your silent paraphrase resemble this? |
31828 | How do they become ours? |
31828 | How do we know that he leaves his chair and comes over to sit on the arm of her chair? |
31828 | How does she flow? |
31828 | How does the pitch change, and why, and what does the change indicate? |
31828 | How much of it did your mental commentary include? |
31828 | How shall we approach the subject? |
31828 | How shall we avoid the monotony of the lines beginning"Then he took another pebble and dropped it into the pitcher"? |
31828 | How shall we free these cavities? |
31828 | How shall we proceed? |
31828 | How, then, do we get them? |
31828 | How? |
31828 | I furnish as the material for your experiment these sentences: DISCUSSION OF DIRECT APPEAL Do you ask me, then, what is this Puritan principle? |
31828 | I say,_ wo n''t_ we go and fish to- morrow down by Round Pool? |
31828 | I shall never forget it; who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?" |
31828 | I shall only look up and say,''Who am I, then? |
31828 | I told a friend the story, and he asked his cobbler the same question: How long does it take to become a good shoemaker? |
31828 | I wonder if I''ve been changed in the night? |
31828 | I wonder what I should be like then?" |
31828 | III Then the pilots of the place put out brisk and leapt on board;''Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?'' |
31828 | III This is a hard gospel, is it not? |
31828 | Idle noons, Lingering moons, Sudden cloud, Lightning''s shroud, Sudden rain, Quick again Smiles where late was thunder? |
31828 | If then we conclude that it is not only safe, but possible and desirable, to cultivate a sense of humor, how shall we set about it? |
31828 | If there came a lion roaring at me, I think you''d fight him-- wouldn''t you, Tom?" |
31828 | If we use the name of God, is this not God''s presence becoming actor in us? |
31828 | In what way? |
31828 | Is it Spring''s Lovely things, Blossoms white, Rosy dight? |
31828 | Is it a relation likely to obtain throughout their lives? |
31828 | Is it love the lying''s for? |
31828 | Is it marls( marbles) or cobnuts?" |
31828 | Is there a single one in the list which I can not get in some degree by undergoing the steady drills and pressures? |
31828 | Is there a student reader of these pages who has not already faced a situation requiring for its mastery such command? |
31828 | Is there not the joy of creation in such interpretation? |
31828 | Is this a familiar experience? |
31828 | Is this harmony,--this harsh, hard, breathy, strident note? |
31828 | Is this scene typical of their relation? |
31828 | Let me propound a profound question,--"Do you like growing old?" |
31828 | Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? |
31828 | Loved the wood- rose, and left it on its stalk? |
31828 | Moderate? |
31828 | My Real is not my Ideal,--is that my complaint? |
31828 | Need I recall the terms of the--? |
31828 | No wonder that the great question, therefore, with a young man is, What am I to be? |
31828 | No? |
31828 | Not how much do I know, but how much do I do with what I know? |
31828 | Not that, amassing flowers, Youth sighed,"Which rose make ours, Which lily leave and then as best recall?" |
31828 | Now, what do you see? |
31828 | O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? |
31828 | Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene''er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? |
31828 | Out spake the king to Henrik, his young and faithful squire:"Dar''st trust thy little Elsie, the maid of thy desire?" |
31828 | Powerful? |
31828 | Query to the class: How did the lady inflect the word_ Yes_ to call forth the injunction,_ Read it again_? |
31828 | Reach the mooring? |
31828 | Shall we be trotting home again?" |
31828 | Shall we ever feel ready to voice that first line? |
31828 | She ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself,"Which way? |
31828 | Slur your consonants and squeeze your vowels in the three words of this line,"Violets were born,"and what becomes of this miracle of spring? |
31828 | So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e''er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar? |
31828 | So she began again:"Ou est ma chatte?" |
31828 | So she began:"O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? |
31828 | Speech half- asleep or song half- awake? |
31828 | Still hard and unmusical you find? |
31828 | Still words? |
31828 | Still, when the question rises through the grumble, Can it be that drudgery, not to be escaped, gives"culture"? |
31828 | Success may make_ it_ well- beloved, too,--who knows? |
31828 | Summer''s crest Red- gold tressed, Corn- flowers peeping under? |
31828 | Take these first two sentences: Do you ask me, then, what is this Puritan principle? |
31828 | That is the secret of successful acquisition in any direction, is it not-- the_ faculty of taking infinite pains_? |
31828 | The American people are young? |
31828 | The day of chivalry is dead? |
31828 | The situation, is it not? |
31828 | The teacher could not cover the surprise in her question,"Are you coming into the class again?" |
31828 | Then, do you hesitate to enter upon a study which shall make for clarified relations and a new"dignity and integrity of existence?" |
31828 | These, for instance-- and what names are more familiar? |
31828 | They make good company, these men and women,--why? |
31828 | This aspiration to do perfectly,--is it not religion practicalized? |
31828 | This text furnishes an easier exercise in interpretation, does it not? |
31828 | Thy brother Death came, and cried Wouldst thou me? |
31828 | Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy- eyed, Murmur''d like a noon- tide bee Shall I nestle near thy side? |
31828 | To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead''st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? |
31828 | Too little, is it, to be perfect in it? |
31828 | Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust? |
31828 | Upon what does it depend? |
31828 | VI And,''What mockery or malice have we here?'' |
31828 | Vital? |
31828 | Waking or asleep Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? |
31828 | Was it love or praise? |
31828 | Was it prose or was it rhyme, Greek or Latin? |
31828 | Were they seven Strings the lyre possessed? |
31828 | What are the relative positions of the girl and her lover in the_ Tale_? |
31828 | What are they? |
31828 | What calls him to her? |
31828 | What corresponds to this step in the evolution of verbal expression? |
31828 | What did her inflection reveal? |
31828 | What do I stand for? |
31828 | What do we mean by apperceptive background? |
31828 | What do you see now on the page? |
31828 | What does it mean to vocally interpret a piece of literature-- a poem, a play, a bit of prose; a paragraph, a sentence, or even a single word? |
31828 | What does your eye carry to your mind when you look at this page? |
31828 | What field, or waves, or mountains? |
31828 | What form shall the effort take: fable, fairy tale, a whimsical play of fancy in essay, or merely a nonsense rhyme? |
31828 | What has happened to the mathematical fact? |
31828 | What is emphasis? |
31828 | What is the color of the skylark? |
31828 | What is the first point to be determined? |
31828 | What is the nature of this element of our vocabulary-- this_ Klangfarbe_, this_ Timbre_? |
31828 | What is the trouble? |
31828 | What is the trouble? |
31828 | What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain- built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? |
31828 | What logic of greeting lies Betwixt dear over- beautiful trees and the rain of the eyes?" |
31828 | What love of thine own kind? |
31828 | What mad pursuit? |
31828 | What maidens loth? |
31828 | What matter to me if their star is a world? |
31828 | What men or gods are these? |
31828 | What name do I bear in the register of forces? |
31828 | What noble knight was this? |
31828 | What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? |
31828 | What pipes and timbrels? |
31828 | What shall we do to relax the tense muscles, to release the throat and free the channel? |
31828 | What shapes of sky or plain? |
31828 | What should you do, Tom?" |
31828 | What struggle to escape? |
31828 | What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? |
31828 | What use was anything, if Tom did n''t love her? |
31828 | What wild ecstasy? |
31828 | What words for modest maiden''s ear? |
31828 | What''s the use of talking?" |
31828 | Whence is it that the lines of river and meadow and hill and lake and shore conspire to- day to make the landscape beautiful? |
31828 | Where and why? |
31828 | Where does she turn to him? |
31828 | Where? |
31828 | Where? |
31828 | Wherefore Keep on casting pearls To a-- poet? |
31828 | Which is the greater art: to read a play, or to act in it? |
31828 | Which way?" |
31828 | Who are these coming to the sacrifice? |
31828 | Who bade the Sun Clothe you with rainbows? |
31828 | Who filled thy countenance with rosy light? |
31828 | Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? |
31828 | Who made thee parent of perpetual streams? |
31828 | Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? |
31828 | Who said"The secret of a Wall Street million is common honesty"? |
31828 | Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in Earth? |
31828 | Who''d stoop to blame This sort of trifling? |
31828 | Why does the poet say cloud of fire? |
31828 | Why not take Maggie Tulliver for our character study? |
31828 | Why not? |
31828 | Why? |
31828 | Why? |
31828 | Will Maggie or Tom make the sacrifices inevitable to such a relation? |
31828 | Will not an orange tone give us the feel of heartsome confidence behind and through the mellow scorn of the knight''s message? |
31828 | Will you let me have it[ her wound] dressed? |
31828 | Will''t please you rise? |
31828 | Will''t please you sit and look at her? |
31828 | With a little of the blue of the June sky? |
31828 | Would the fall_ never_ come to an end? |
31828 | Would you, then, if you were Master, risk a greater treasure in the hands of such a man? |
31828 | X Till, at ending, all the judges Cry with one assent''Take the prize-- a prize who grudges Such a voice and instrument? |
31828 | XI Did the conqueror spurn the creature, Once its service done? |
31828 | XII JAUN''S SONG FROM THE SPANISH GYPSY Memory, Tell to me What is fair Past compare In the land of Tubal? |
31828 | XIV That''s the tale: its application? |
31828 | Yes, but do you hear it, smell it, taste it, feel it? |
31828 | You are decided? |
31828 | You can not run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? |
31828 | You have never experienced a tide river? |
31828 | _ Orange_, is it not? |
31828 | a cricket( What''cicada''? |
31828 | and sometimes,"Do bats eat cats?" |
31828 | are you there?" |
31828 | cries Hervé Riel:''Are you mad, you Malouins? |
31828 | did we say we were"makers of music"? |
31828 | shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? |
31828 | weeping? |
31828 | what ignorance of pain? |
31828 | why?_ Shame on such wooer''s dapper mercery! |
39211 | How do you mean? |
39211 | 103 Why Rag- time Is Injurious 134 Why So Many Different Keys? |
39211 | 105 Why the Pianist Should Study Harmony 104 Why the Piano Is So Popular 128 Why Two Names for the"Same"Key? |
39211 | 110"What Is the Matter with My Scales?" |
39211 | 15 is the movement in C- sharp minor to be played in the same tempo as the opening movements, or much faster? |
39211 | 16 Which Should Come First-- Conception or Technique? |
39211 | 1? |
39211 | 3 What Is the Best of Chopin? |
39211 | 8, and the B flat minor prelude? |
39211 | 86 What Is the Difference Between the Major and Minor Scales? |
39211 | ACCOMPANYING[ Sidenote:_ Learning To Accompany at Sight_] How can one learn to accompany at sight? |
39211 | After a kindly salute he would always ask me the same question:"Well, what is new in the world?" |
39211 | Alas, why are those pesky scales so difficult, in fact, the most difficult thing to do on the piano? |
39211 | And by- the- bye, what is the character of this piece? |
39211 | And does it affect the whole chord? |
39211 | And if one can play them why should one keep everlastingly on playing them? |
39211 | And now? |
39211 | And rhapsodical, irregular-- hey? |
39211 | And which is the best edition of Bach''s piano works? |
39211 | And why should there not be excellent teachers in America by this time? |
39211 | Are compositions in sharps considered more brilliant than those in flats? |
39211 | Are not the indispensables in all success very much the same? |
39211 | Are there no intermediate works? |
39211 | Are they just indications of speed? |
39211 | Are they merely theoretical? |
39211 | Are they to be executed according to Philipp Emmanuel Bach''s rule, so that the grace notes take their time from the note that follows them? |
39211 | BACH[ Sidenote:_ The Beginner in Bach Music_] Can you give me a few helpful suggestions in a preliminary study of Bach? |
39211 | BAD MUSIC[ Sidenote:_ The Company That One Keeps in Music_] Must I persist in playing classical pieces when I prefer to play dance music? |
39211 | But why not select an easy Etude by Chopin and make a start? |
39211 | But-- how is this language to be learned? |
39211 | CHOPIN[ Sidenote:_ What Is the Best of Chopin?_] Which are the best compositions of Chopin to study by one who really desires to know him? |
39211 | CHOPIN[ Sidenote:_ What Is the Best of Chopin?_] Which are the best compositions of Chopin to study by one who really desires to know him? |
39211 | Can a dull person, by reading them to us, convey bright thoughts intelligibly? |
39211 | Can anybody explain, without reflecting upon one''s sanity, why one should persist in playing them? |
39211 | Can one of them be omitted, and which one? |
39211 | Can you give me a hint how to overcome my difficulty? |
39211 | Can you give me a little outline of points for which to look that may help me in my piano study? |
39211 | Can you not replace the real clubs by imaginary ones? |
39211 | Can you suggest any method that would make it easier? |
39211 | Do composers consider modulation in selecting their key? |
39211 | Do you advise practising with notes when I already know it by heart? |
39211 | Do you advise practising with or without the pedal? |
39211 | Do you think"Pischna"would help me much to regain my former ability to play? |
39211 | Does a liberal use of the soft pedal tend to make the student lazy in using a light touch? |
39211 | Does it lie in the arrangement of semitones or in the character, or in both? |
39211 | Does this difference indicate different executions and, if so, how would the two turns have to be played? |
39211 | Does this justify me in hoping that something out of the ordinary will become of him? |
39211 | FORCE OF EXAMPLE[ Sidenote:_ Hearing a Piece Before Studying It_] Should a pupil hear a piece played before studying it? |
39211 | GENERAL[ Sidenote:_ What Does"Technique"Mean?_] What are the different techniques, and which one is most generally used? |
39211 | GENERAL[ Sidenote:_ What Does"Technique"Mean?_] What are the different techniques, and which one is most generally used? |
39211 | How can I avoid it, so that they will feel free and easy? |
39211 | How can I change it? |
39211 | How can I overcome it? |
39211 | How can I overcome the unevenness? |
39211 | How can I remedy this? |
39211 | How can this be done? |
39211 | How is the true legato accomplished? |
39211 | How should the 6- 8 and 9- 8 movements of Liszt''s Dance of the Gnomes be metronomized? |
39211 | Humourous, is it? |
39211 | I am practising three hours a day; how long should I practise at a time? |
39211 | I have heard the mordent sound like a triplet? |
39211 | I maintain that the flat sign is superfluous, and I should like to know if this is right? |
39211 | I recall that Rubinstein once said to me:"Do you know why piano- playing is so difficult? |
39211 | If a book should be read to us by a person who does not understand it, would it impress us as true, convincing, or even credible? |
39211 | If dance music it must be, why, have you never heard of the waltzes and mazurkas by Chopin? |
39211 | If my daughter( six years old) is to study the violin should she first spend a few years with the piano, or_ vice versa_? |
39211 | If not, what would you advise me to do? |
39211 | If so, why? |
39211 | If the half- tone, what would be the name of the auxiliary note? |
39211 | If you have very much money to spare, why not? |
39211 | In my despair I asked him:"Why not?" |
39211 | In the face of your teacher''s advice to the contrary? |
39211 | Indispensables in Pianistic Success I"The Indispensables in Pianistic Success? |
39211 | Is an exact division possible? |
39211 | Is any one''s music more profound? |
39211 | Is he right? |
39211 | Is it a fault of training, or has it any other cause? |
39211 | Is it because I do not understand it, or is the name a mere amateurish invention? |
39211 | Is it because of my touch? |
39211 | Is it because of this lesser sensuous charm that the art of the piano is considered the chastest of all instruments? |
39211 | Is it dramatic, tragic, lyric, romantic, humourous, heroic, sublime, mystic-- what? |
39211 | Is it not wise to begin all over again as slowly as possible? |
39211 | Is it practicable? |
39211 | Is not staccato always done with the fingers? |
39211 | Is she right? |
39211 | Is the alternation of the thumb and the second finger desirable in the playing of a trill? |
39211 | Is there a place on the concert stage-- even if only as an accompanist-- for a woman thus equipped? |
39211 | Is there any advantage in varying the height of the wrist? |
39211 | Is there any rule which you can give me? |
39211 | Is this correct? |
39211 | Is this the correct accent? |
39211 | It has helped me, but shall I be doing wrong to continue? |
39211 | It is probably a very bad habit, but I do not hear it when I do it How can I cure it? |
39211 | Kindly advise me whether a method is not the best thing for a novice, and, if so, which one? |
39211 | LEGATO[ Sidenote:_ The Advantage of Legato Over Staccato_] Is it better for me to practise more staccato or more legato? |
39211 | MARKS AND NOMENCLATURE[ Sidenote:_ The Metronome Markings_] What is the meaning of M. M.= 72 printed over a piece of music? |
39211 | MENDELSSOHN[ Sidenote:_ The Study of Mendelssohn_] In a complete course for a piano student should the study of Mendelssohn be included? |
39211 | Must we always endure listening to Wagner''s music in a variety show and to Strauss''waltzes in Carnegie Hall? |
39211 | Now, in what order should the Sonatas be studied? |
39211 | OCTAVES[ Sidenote:_ How Best to Play the Octaves_] Should I play octaves using the"hinge"stroke from the wrist or by using the arm? |
39211 | Of what benefit is harmony? |
39211 | Of what benefit is the general school- work a child has to go through? |
39211 | On the other hand, how would the stereotype, academic manner of playing Beethoven suit his Concerto in G-- that poetic presage of Chopin? |
39211 | Or is there any special method of exercise? |
39211 | Or, to lessen fatigue, is an occasional rise and fall of the wrist permissible in a long passage of scale or arpeggio? |
39211 | PITCH AND KINDRED MATTERS[ Sidenote:_ The International Pitch_] What is meant by"pitch"as regards piano tuning? |
39211 | POLYRHYTHMS[ Sidenote:_ Playing Duple Time Against Triple_] How must I execute triplets played against two- eighths? |
39211 | POSITION OF THE BODY[ Sidenote:_ Do Not Raise the Piano- Stool Too High_] Are the best results at the piano attained by sitting high or low? |
39211 | PRACTICE[ Sidenote:_ The Morning Practice On the Piano_] In resuming my studies in the morning what should I play first? |
39211 | RUBATO[ Sidenote:_ As to Playing Rubato_] Will you please tell me what is the best method of playing rubato? |
39211 | STACCATO[ Sidenote:_ Wrist Staccato at a High Tempo_] What can I do to enable me to play wrist staccato very fast without fatiguing the arm? |
39211 | Should it be curved well under the hand while playing? |
39211 | Should its use be restricted to a particular stage in the course of study? |
39211 | Should the thumbs of both hands strike the same keys at the same time all the way through or should the left hand omit them? |
39211 | Since that time I have studied only by myself; for to whom could I have gone after Rubinstein? |
39211 | THE GLISSANDO[ Sidenote:_ To Play a Glissando Passage_] Will you describe the best method of holding the hand when playing glissando? |
39211 | THE INSTRUMENT[ Sidenote:_ The Kind of Piano Upon Which to Practise_] Is it irrelevant whether I practise upon a good or a bad piano? |
39211 | THE MEMORY[ Sidenote:_ Playing from Memory Is Indispensable_] Is memorization absolutely essential to a good player? |
39211 | THE OTHER FINGERS[ Sidenote:_ The Fourth and Fifth Fingers_] What exercise would you recommend for the training of the fourth and the fifth fingers? |
39211 | THE PEDALS[ Sidenote:_ A General Rule About the Pedal_] Should I use the pedal with each melody note? |
39211 | THE STUDENT''S AGE[ Sidenote:_ Starting a Child''s Musical Training_] At what age should a child begin the study of instrumental music? |
39211 | THE THUMB[ Sidenote:"_ What is the Matter With My Scales?_"] What is the matter with my scales? |
39211 | THE THUMB[ Sidenote:"_ What is the Matter With My Scales?_"] What is the matter with my scales? |
39211 | THEORY[ Sidenote:_ Why the Pianist Should Study Harmony_] Do you recommend the study of harmony and counterpoint to the piano student? |
39211 | TRANSPOSING[ Sidenote:_ The Problem of Transposing at Sight_] What, please, is the quickest and safest way of transposing from one key to another? |
39211 | Then I would begin all over again, but hardly had I played a few measures when he would interrupt and say:"Did you start? |
39211 | Then why did you apply for a teacher? |
39211 | Therefore, why not play the piano as a piano? |
39211 | To the hundreds of students who at various times have asked me: What is the quickest way to become a great piano- player? |
39211 | Von Bülow laughed and said,''Why do you thank me? |
39211 | Was my old or my new teacher right? |
39211 | Well, why do n''t you speak?" |
39211 | What contemporary composers write good piano music? |
39211 | What does a dash mean over a note? |
39211 | What does an accidental in parentheses mean? |
39211 | What is the best book of instruction for a beginner, a child of ten? |
39211 | What is the correct method, and may the difficulty be overcome by slow practice? |
39211 | What is the difference between them? |
39211 | What is the meaning of the dot placed after the D in the bass? |
39211 | What modern parlour pieces would you recommend after Bendel''s"Zephyr"? |
39211 | What salary might I expect and what would be the best"course"to pursue? |
39211 | What would you advise, to make my memory more retentive? |
39211 | What would you advise? |
39211 | What would you think of a parent who deliberately sent his child into bad company in order that such child should learn how_ not_ to behave? |
39211 | When I wish to play them rapidly it seems that the key does not always produce a sound? |
39211 | Wherein lies the difference? |
39211 | Which is preferable to use, the thumb or the forefinger? |
39211 | Which is the best work of that kind from which I could learn? |
39211 | Which of his compositions are the most useful? |
39211 | Which would you advise? |
39211 | Why have the Rothschilds more secretaries than I have? |
39211 | Why not make a piano sound like a piano? |
39211 | Why share the musical food of those who are, by breeding or circumstance, debarred from anything better? |
39211 | Why should we look for a correct conception of a piece anywhere but in the piece itself? |
39211 | Why this self- deception? |
39211 | Why try to do the impossible thing in endeavoring to make the piano sound like another instrument of a different mechanism? |
39211 | Why would not twelve suffice, and thus avoid duplicate keys? |
39211 | Why, then, not listen to his specific language instead of losing our way in the terms of another art? |
39211 | Why? |
39211 | Will you please give me your opinion? |
39211 | Will you please tell me something about it? |
39211 | Would E on one piano actually sound like F on another? |
39211 | Would you still advise me to begin the study of the piano? |
39211 | Yes-- but when I bumped it till it fairly bled where would I get the metaphorical handkerchief? |
39211 | You understand the meaning?" |
39211 | You"want"to use the pedal? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Always Keep in Touch with Bach_] Do you think that the playing of Bach''s works will keep one''s hands in good technical condition? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Better Not Give the Child"Modified Classics"_] What little classics are best for a child after six months''lessons? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Biting the Finger- Nails Spoils the Touch_] Is biting the finger- nails injurious to the piano touch? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Can Music Be Studied in America?_] Is it necessary for me to go to Europe to continue my music studies? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Can Music Be Studied in America?_] Is it necessary for me to go to Europe to continue my music studies? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Cantabile Passages_] Should a cantabile passage be played with a high finger- stroke or by using the weight of the arm? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Chopin''s Works for a Popular Concert_] What works of Chopin would you suggest for a popular concert programme? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Do Not Injure the Hand by Stretching It_] Is there any way to increase the stretch of my very small hand? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Do Not Over- Use the Soft Pedal_] Should the Gavotte in A, of Gluck- Brahms, be played without the soft pedal? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Do Not Raise Wrist in Marking a Rest_] In observing a rest should the hand be raised from the wrist? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Fingering the Chromatic Scale_] Which fingering of the chromatic scale the is most conducive to speed and accuracy? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Four Ways to Study a Piano Piece_] Should a composition be studied away from the piano? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Frequent Lessons and Shorter_] Is it better for a young student to take one hour lesson or two half- hour lessons a week? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Good Finger Exercises_] What would you say are the best studies for plain finger work? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ How Are Syncopated Notes to be Played?_] How are syncopated notes to be played? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ How Are Syncopated Notes to be Played?_] How are syncopated notes to be played? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ How Tight to Keep the Piano''s Action_] Should I keep the action of my piano tight? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ How a Tie and a Slur Differ_] What difference is there between a slur and a tie? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ How to Hold the Thumb_] What is the correct position for the thumb? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ How to Improve the Technique_] Should I endeavour to improve my technique by trying difficult pieces? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Kullak''s"Method of Octaves"Still Good_] Is Kullak''s"Method of Octaves"still one of the best in its line? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Let Your Ear Guide Your Pedalling_] In Weber''s"Storm"should the pedal be held down throughout the entire piece, as directed? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Modern Piano Music_] Are such pieces as"Beautiful Star of Heaven"or"Falling Waters"in good taste? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Morning Is the Best Time to Practise_] How much time should I spend on clearly technical study? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Music Schools and Private Teachers_] Shall I take my lessons in a music school or from a private teacher? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ No Necessity to Watch the Fingers_] Is it always necessary to watch the fingers with the eye? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ One Lesson a Week_] Is one lesson a week inadequate for a piano student? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Perfect Rubato the Result of Momentary Impulse_] In playing_ rubato_ do you follow a preconceived notion or the impulse of the moment? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Playing On a Dumb Piano_] Are mechanical appliances, such as a dumb keyboard, of advantage to the student of the piano? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Playing the"Melody in F"_] In Rubinstein''s"Melody in F"should the melody be played in the left hand or be divided between the two hands? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Playing the"Spring Song"too Fast_] Should Mendelssohn''s"Spring Song"be played in slow or fast time? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Practising Eight Hours Instead of Four_] Will I advance quicker by practising eight hours instead of four, as I do now? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Practising the Two Parts Separately_] When I am learning a new piece should the hands practise their parts separately? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Premature Fatigue in the Arms_] Why does it tire my arms when I play octaves and a continuation of little runs? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Rests Used Under or Over Notes_] What is the meaning of a rest above or below the notes of the treble clef? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Rubinstein or Liszt-- Which the Greater?_] As between Liszt and Rubinstein, whom do you consider the greater? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Rubinstein or Liszt-- Which the Greater?_] As between Liszt and Rubinstein, whom do you consider the greater? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Slurs and Accents Not Related_] How should the beginning of slurs be accented? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Small Notes Under Large Ones_] What is the meaning of small notes printed under large ones? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Speed and Smoothness in Trilling_] Will you kindly suggest a good method of gaining speed and smoothness in trilling? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Take a Month''s Rest Every Year_] Must I keep up my practice during my Christmas holidays of a month? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Text- Books on Harmony_] Would you care to recommend two or three of the best books on the study of harmony? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Action of a Beginner''s Piano_] Do you think it wise for a beginner to practise on a piano that has a heavy action? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Art of Accompanying a Soloist_] How should one manage the accompaniment for a soloist inclined to play rubato? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Art of Playing With Feeling_] In the musical manifestations of feeling how does the artist chiefly differ from the amateur? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Best Physical Exercise for the Pianist_] What physical exercises are most advantageous to be taken in connection with piano practice? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The C- Scale Fingering for All Scales?_] Do you advise the use of the C- scale fingering for all the scales? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The C- Scale Fingering for All Scales?_] Do you advise the use of the C- scale fingering for all the scales? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Charm of Chopin''s Touch_] What kind of touch did Chopin have? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Conditions Which Dictate Speed in Playing_] How fast or slow should Schubert- Liszt''s"_ Auf dem Wasser zu singen_"be played? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Difference Between Major and Minor Scales_] What is the difference between the major and minor scale? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Difference Between"Finger Staccato"and Other Kinds_] What does"finger staccato"mean? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Easiest Way to Memorize_] Will you please tell me which is the easiest way to memorize a piano piece? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Effect of Double Flats_] How is an octave, written thus, to be played? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Fingers Needed to Play a Mordent_] When executing the mordent, is not the use of three fingers preferable to two? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Genuine Piano Hand_] What shape of hand do you consider the best for piano playing? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Greatest Composers as Pianists_] Is it true that nearly all the great composers have been pianists? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Height of the Piano Seat_] Is my seat at the piano to be at the same height when I practise as when I play for people? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Meaning and Use of"Motif"_] What is the meaning of a"motif"? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Meaning of Solfeggio_] What is meant by"spelling"in music? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Meaning of"Toccata"_] What is the meaning of the word"Toccata"? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The More Technique the More Practice_] Why do pianists who have more technique than many others practise more than these others? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Old Problem of Duple Time Against Triple_][ Illustration] How should the above- quoted notes be brought in with the lower triplets? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Position of the Wrist_] Do you favour a low or high position of the wrist for average type of work? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Real Meaning of Speed Terms_] What is the meaning of the words Adagio, Andante, and Allegro? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Relation of Harmony to Piano- Playing_] Is it absolutely necessary for me to study harmony in connection with my piano? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Staffs Are Independent of Each Other_] Does an accidental in the right hand influence the left? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Study of Operatic Transcriptions_] Is the study of Thalberg''s operatic transcriptions of any value to the piano student? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Study of Scales Is very Important_] Must all study of the piano absolutely begin with the study of scales? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Use of the Pedal for Colouring_] What is the use of the damper pedal? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Value of Going to Concerts_] Shall I attend orchestra concerts or shall I give preference to soloists? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Value of Heller''s Studies_] Are Heller''s studies practical for a young student lacking in rhythm and expression? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Weak Fingers of the Left Hand_] What exercise would you recommend for the training of the fourth and fifth fingers of the left hand? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The Well- Tempered Piano Scale_] Is there really a difference of three- eighths of a tone between A- sharp and B- flat on the piano? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The"Colour"of Various Keys_] Is it not a mistaken idea that any one particular key is more or less rich or melodious than another? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The"International"Piano Pitch_] Which piano pitch is preferable,"concert"or"international"? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ The"Tenuto"Dash and Its Effect_] What do short lines below or above a note or chord mean in contradistinction to a staccato or an accent? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ There are Dangers in Using a Metronome_] How should one use the metronome for practising? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ There is Only One Minor Scale_] Which is the true minor scale, the melodic or the harmonic? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ To Gain Facility in Sight- Reading_] What is a good plan to pursue to improve the facility in sight- reading? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ To Prevent Sore Finger- Tips After Playing_] How can I prevent my finger- tips, after prolonged playing, from feeling sore the next day? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ To Produce Good Legato_] Should you advise me to make use of a high finger- stroke? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ To Produce a Softer Tone_] Should the expression"_ p_"be executed by the aid of the soft pedal or through the fingers? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ To Strengthen the Weak Finger Use It_] How can I strengthen the little finger of my right hand? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ To Work Up a Fast Tempo_] Which is the best way to work up a fast tempo? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Use Pedal With Caution in Playing Bach_] Is Bach''s music ever played with the pedal? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Using the Two Pedals at Once_] May the damper pedal and the soft pedal be used simultaneously, or would this be detrimental to the piano? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Watch Your Breathing_] What is the purpose of associating breathing with piano playing, and to what extent should it be practised? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ What is the Difference Between the Major and Minor Scales?_] What is the difference between the major and minor scales? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ What is the Difference Between the Major and Minor Scales?_] What is the difference between the major and minor scales? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ What the Leschetizky Method Is_] How does the Leschetizky method rank with other methods, and in what respect does it differ from them? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ When Playing Octaves_] When should I use the arm to play octaves as I have seen some concert players do? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ When Reading Over a New Piece_] When studying a new composition, which is preferable: to practise first with separate hands or together? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Which Fingers Demand Most Attention?_] Should one pay special attention to the training of the thumb? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Which Fingers Demand Most Attention?_] Should one pay special attention to the training of the thumb? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Why Rag- Time Is Injurious_] Do you believe the playing of the modern rag- time piece to be actually hurtful to the student? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Why so Many Different Keys?_] Why is it supposed to be necessary to have fifteen keys to complete the circle of fifths? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Why so Many Different Keys?_] Why is it supposed to be necessary to have fifteen keys to complete the circle of fifths? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_ Why the Piano Is So Popular_] Why do more people play the piano than any other instrument? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_"E- Sharp and B- Sharp"and the Double Flat_] What is the meaning of the sharps on the E and B line, and of a double- flat? |
39211 | [ Sidenote:_"Playing in Time"and"Playing in Rhythm"_] What is the difference between playing"in time"and playing"in rhythm"? |
39211 | _ Now How Can We Know_ whether we are or are not approaching the spiritual phase of a piece? |
39211 | e._, mechanical, practice may I have a book or a magazine on the music- stand and read? |
39211 | or can you recommend something better? |