Music: An Art and a Language
ment that, though Brahms is a fine workman, his music lacks the power to touch the heart (faire vibrer le coeur). There is no do ...
[Footnote 287: From the Cévennes region whence d’Indy’s fam- ily originally came.] [Footnote 288: See the elaborate analysis by ...
[Music] [Footnote 289: For a detailed analysis the student is referred to the account by the composer himself in hisCours de Com ...
In the next variation, at P, the trend of the work becomes in- creasingly manifest for it is written in only two voices, scored ...
however, is surely Romantic in the broad sense of the term,i.e., highly imaginative and individual.] But can any connection with ...
the artistic imagination to select and to amplify. Already many years ago the scientist Helmholtz said, “Our system of scales an ...
dans la plaine,Bruyères. They are mood-pictures in which the composer has tried to imprison certain elusive states of mind— or t ...
rhythmic freedom, and by delicately-colored waves of sound De- bussy has expressed in a manner most felicitous just the atmo- sp ...
the worth of the content, the perfection or inadequacy of style and the manner in which the media of presentation are used. To b ...
In considering the value of Debussy’s message,i.e., the content of his music, the animus and predilection of the hearer have to ...
vocabulary of music and has expressed in poetic and convinc- ing fashion moods which never before had been attempted. In his wor ...
pianoforte style with Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. As a song composer Fauré ranks with the highest in modern times. The ex- otic ...
the exuberance of Chabrier, the suavity of Fauré, the atmo- sphere and impressionistic tendencies of Debussy and the ex- oticism ...
estimates that the modern French school is very much alive, that it has to its credit numerous distinct achievements and that it ...
Chapter 43 CHAPTER XIX NATIONAL SCHOOLS—RUSSIAN, BOHEMIAN AND SCANDINAVIAN Before beginning an account of Tchaikowsky, the most ...
national rather than individual genius—but Russia, in the num- ber and variety of these original melodies is most exceptional. T ...
began as a cultivated amateur who showed no special musical gifts, save a sensitive nature and a general fondness for the art. H ...
To turn now to his achievements, it may be asserted that Tchaikowsky was marvellously versatile, composing in every form save fo ...
for tonal beauty and for delicacy of shading. At times, to be sure, he fairly riots in gorgeous colors—this being the result of ...
work. The Fourth is most characteristically Russian and cer- tainly the most striking in its uncompromising directness of ex- pr ...
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