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id: 17474
title: How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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  music--Development of the instrument--The Pedal and its use--Liszt and [Sidenote: _Popular ignorance of music._] [Sidenote: _The nature of music._] [Sidenote: _Tones and musical material._] [Sidenote: _Origin of musical elements._] [Sidenote: _How composers hear music._] [Sidenote: _Beethoven''s Chamber music._] [Sidenote: _The characteristics of Chamber music._] [Sidenote: _Kinds of Programme music._] [Sidenote: _Music and movement._] instrumental because it is a mixed art; in it the purpose of music is [Sidenote: _Beethoven''s notes on descriptive music._] [Sidenote: _A definition of "Classical" in music._] conditioned the character of the music composed for the instrument, wind instruments, are obliged to form the musical tone--which, in the [Sidenote: _Periods in pianoforte music._] music composed for these instruments to a great extent. [Sidenote: _Music and emotion._] [Sidenote: _Words and music united._] [Sidenote: _Music and action._] [Sidenote: _Music and dramatic expression._] [Sidenote: _Five-part music._] [Sidenote: _Characteristics of his music._] [Sidenote: _Palestrina''s music not dramatic._]


id: 30412
title: On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music
author: Saint-Saëns, Camille
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  his treatise on music, speaking of how Plain Song should be interpreted, the grievous practice of adapting popular songs to church music. century admirable music was written, though deprived of melody, properly attempts to execute the music of Palestrina were made in the time of me, differs completely from our musical conceptions; and it is a great Such a way of playing this music is simply out of the question. It was decided that in piano playing unless indicated to the Finally, in ancient times notes were not defined as they are to-day and written note indicating a long or short duration. A great obstacle to executing ancient works from the eighteenth century revolutionized the performance of music on the piano, but also the way A question of the greatest importance in playing the music of Chopin is Another plague in the modern execution of music is the abuse of the


id: 30560
title: Music: An Art and a Language
author: Spalding, Walter Raymond
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  foundation of any large work of music, be it symphony, symphonic poem part in the music of Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Grieg, movement of Brahms''s _C minor Symphony_, the second phrase of which is theme of the Slow movement of Schumann''s Second Symphony (measures instrumental music gradually worked out a structure of its own,[64] Invention, the Two and Three-part forms, the Rondo and the Varied Air. Through the perfecting of these means of expression music became a two living musical personalities, the first and second themes. For actual musical examples it seems best to begin with the works of invent pure instrumental melody, _i.e._, musical expression suited to Bach''s work, we feel that his musical sense operated abstractly like a than the mere development of musical themes. working principles of musical composition, they are as much subject to use made of themes in modern music, in the works of Strauss,


id: 25213
author: Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
title:
  The Masters and Their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations


id: 34610
title: How to Appreciate Music
author: Kobbé, Gustav
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  epoch--A Bach fugue more elaborate than a music-drama or tone modern music--Wagner unites the harmony of Beethoven with the music--Wagner, greatest of orchestral composers--Employs large the Mozart opera and the Beethoven symphony in the evolution of music, his baton as a pianoforte is to the fingers of a musical poet like go through the pianoforte score of a Wagner music-drama and, as you of the composer and the woman who inspired his great music-drama, to A Wagner music-drama, a Richard Strauss tone poem, seem form as developed by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven), Bach composed pianoforte scores of the Wagner music-dramas, which actually sound this day in orchestra, opera and music-drama as well as in pianoforte this greater genius, and he said of Chopin that he composed music for of instrumental music in the tone poem of Richard Strauss. Strauss''s works form the latest great utterance in music.


