Music: An Art and a Language
[Music] In the closing measures there is a charming shadowy dialogue between kettle-drums (struck with sponge-headed sticks) and ...
ligious chant. The closing measures of this movement are of haunting beauty—a mysterious effect being produced by an in- tention ...
[Footnote 239: See theMémoires for a rhapsodic account of his state of mind at this time—“basking in the warm rays of Shakespear ...
of the 19th century; for he worked and won fame as a pianoforte virtuoso—probably the greatest the world has known—as a pro- lif ...
notwithstanding a certain charm and the clever manner in which the music (without becoming minutely descriptive) supplements the ...
incontestably the greatest interpreter of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin; and his power as a Beethoven scholar is attested by the po ...
he avoided many needless and conventional repetitions, he could not entirely throw overboard the cyclical law of restatement; fo ...
Chapter 34 SYMPHONIC POEM, ORPHEUS In this work, as must always be the case in poetically suggestive music, the composer trusts ...
theValkyriefor the march motive with which Wotan is ush- ered in. Some beautiful modulatory developments of the march theme, wit ...
Chapter 35 THE FAUST SYMPHONY This work, although embodying Liszt’s favorite ideas of dra- matic characterization and transforma ...
ment has two main themes,e.g. [Music: (a)] [Music: (b)] which portray eloquently the sweetness and dreamy ecstacy of Gretchen’s ...
Weibliche”—a sentiment so dear to the German[249] mind and one that plays such an important part in the music dramas of Wagner. ...
[Footnote 251: For further comments on the work see Huneker’s Franz Liszt, pp. 141-146 and the third part (on Program Music) of ...
against some beautifully placed arabesque figures in the upper register of the instrument—the whole to be played una corda, dolc ...
Chapter 36 CHAPTER XVI BRAHMS After the novel and brilliant work of the Romanticists had reached its height in the compositions ...
poses Beethoven’s thematic development; and the tone-poems of Strauss are symphonies in essence though on a free poetic basis. E ...
life of nature in animals, birds, trees and flowers. Let us ever remember that the imagination also has its products and the the ...
Tchaikowsky and d’Indy as probably the greatest, and touch only incidentally upon the others, as of somewhat lesser im- port; th ...
early works, of which the Scherzo op. 4 is the most significant. Brahms was extraordinarily precocious and during these for- mat ...
lished no compositions; his object being to free himself from a narrow subjectivity and to give scope to his wide human sym- pat ...
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