Music: An Art and a Language
one of the most remarkable musicians of the nineteenth century. His works are numerous, always “well-made” and, though lack- ing ...
for January 17, 1919.] César Franck (1822-1890) was a composer of such innate spir- ituality that to analyze and classify him in ...
among his notable pupils being d’Indy, Chausson, Duparc, Ropartz, and the gifted but short-lived Lekeu. In Franck’s music, fully ...
entire technique is rare at the epoch in which his life was cast, an epoch of realism, generally inspired by a taste for the pic ...
The phraseology of the theme is noticeable for its flexibility; since the first phrase is expanded to five measures and the seco ...
[Music] [Footnote 276: See for example the opening measures of the Waldsteinand of theAppassionataSonata.] It is developed with ...
Gathering headway it leads to an imposing assertionfff, in canon form, of the main motto which concludes, with a widely spaced c ...
cadence in G minor. The following portion, beginning in E-flat major, but often modulating—its graceful theme sung by the clarin ...
the “theme of triumph."[278] After a quieter portion of sombre tone in B minor we reach, in measure 124, an interpolation of the ...
work in which the cornets seemed to give just that ringing note evidently desired by Franck.] [Footnote 279: The harmony of this ...
Chapter 40 SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE IN A MAJOR This Sonata ranks with those of Brahms as being among the great works in ...
[Music] the rising and falling inflexion of which he typifies by what is called a “torculus” ([torculus symbol])! Whether such m ...
pianoforte, the second for the violin,e.g. [Music: 1st theme] [Music: 2d theme] The development begins at the quasi lento, measu ...
The Finale is perhaps the most spontaneous canon in existence, an imitative dialogue between the two instruments; this form (whi ...
Chapter 41 SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS FOR PIANOFORTE AND ORCHESTRA This is one of Franck’s most significant works, containing all his ...
[Music: 1st theme] [Music: 2d theme] The work opens with a series of restless dotted notes for the stringsff which diminish and ...
los, dolce e sostenuto, sing the second theme in the rich key of F-sharp major, the closing phrases answered by the wood-wind; w ...
V to a repetition of the former pianoforte presentation of the first theme, followed as before, at W by the counter-melody again ...
Chapter 42 CHAPTER XVIII THE MODERN FRENCH SCHOOL—D’INDY AND DEBUSSY Not only as the most distinguished of César Franck’s pupils ...
stand off and take an impartial view, to appreciate the good points inallschools. A detailed account of d’Indy’s life and works ...
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