Music: An Art and a Language

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BOSTON 120 BOYLSTON STREET NEW YORK 8 WEST 40th STREET Copyright, 1920, by THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO. International Copyright Sec ...

a knowledge of musical grammar and structure does enable us, as the saying is, to get more out of music. This conviction is furt ...

as much time as to a foreign language. In the creed of the music-lover the first and last article is familiarity. When we thorou ...

hope will be realized. The author’s gratitude is herewith expressed to Mr. Percy Lee Atherton for his critical revision of the t ...

XVI. BRAHMS 228 XVII. CÉSAR FRANCK 255 XVIII. THE MODERN FRENCH SCHOOL—D’INDY AND DEBUSSY 280 XIX. NATIONAL SCHOOLS—RUSSIAN, BOH ...

Contents 1 XX. THE VARIED TENDENCIES OF MOD- ERN MUSIC 326 1 2 CHAPTER I 3 3 CHAPTER II 19 4 CHAPTER III 29 5 FUGUE IN E-FLAT MA ...

28 MAZURKA IN F-SHARP MINOR, OP. 6, NO. ...

FORM 16 CHAPTER X 17 CHAPTER XI 18 SYMPHONY NO. 5[150] 19 THE CORIOLANUS OVERTURE 20 CHAPTER XII 21 CHAPTER XIII 22 DES ABENDS. ...

59 O 343 60 P 344 61 Q 347 62 R 348 63 S 350 64 T 355 65 V 357 66 W 358 67 LIST OF COMPOSITIONS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK 360 68 ...

Chapter 1 XX. THE VARIED TENDENCIES OF MODERN MUSIC 326 Music is the universal language of mankind. —LONGFELLOW. Music can noble ...

—Browning. All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. —WHITMAN. Music: an Art and a Language ...

Chapter 2 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS In approaching the study of any subject we may fairly expect that this subject sh ...

saysHarmonie et Melodieby Saint-Saëns, Chapters I and II.] Some insight, however, may be gained into the nature of music by a cl ...

[Footnote 3: It is understood that this statement is made in a subjective rather than a purely physical sense. See theCentury Di ...

which for obvious reasons is not to be commended. On the other hand, music is the most complicated of all the arts from the natu ...

we are understanding what they say. The question, therefore, faces us: how shall we learn this mysterious language so as read- i ...

music of the highest artistic worth. In this connection we must always remember that music does not “stay put,” like a picture o ...

listen, we make sense of the fabric of sounds and rhythms. [Footnote 7: From earliest times, mothers have doubtless crooned to t ...