Music: An Art and a Language
the music itself; with the result that the composition is often well on its way before such people have found their bearings.] E ...
[Music: DVO[VR]ÁK: SymphonyFrom the New World] It is now necessary for the student to know something about the constructive prin ...
unison chants of the Greeks and the Gregorian tones of the early church, in which there isone melodythough many voices may unite ...
ity between the interweavings of polyphonic or, as it is often called,contrapuntal[14] music and the stone traceries in me- diev ...
[Footnote 12: An historical account of this development as far as it is ascertainable may be found in the fifth chapter of Pratt ...
Music, just because its substance is so elusive and requires such alert attention on the part of the listener, cannot continuall ...
they did not think much of it! [Footnote 17: For a simple, charming example of persistent use of a motive see Schumann’s pianofo ...
Pieces of music which embody the principle ofRestatement after Contrastare so numerous that the question is merely one of se- le ...
Furthermore, this principle of Restatement has in modern music some very subtle uses, and presupposes the acquisition of a real ...
Chapter 3 CHAPTER II THE FOLK-SONG In the preceding chapter we made some general inquiries into the nature of music and of those ...
and symmetry was always the result of free experimentation— hence vitally connected with the emotions and mental processes of al ...
songs, many of them being in the old Gregorian modes, while others show a decided inclination to our modern major and mi- nor sc ...
the unity gained by restatement. No better definition of Folk- songs can be given than that of Parry in hisEvolution of the Art ...
ninth measure to C major, the Subdominant. This acceptance of other tonal centres—distant a fifth from the main key-note— doubtl ...
[Music: LYDIAN] [Music: MIXOLYDIAN] [Music: AEOLIAN] [Music: IONIAN] The Dorian mode, at the outset, is identical with our moder ...
8). The Mixolydian mode is also identical with our modern major scale except for thewholetone between the 7th and 8th degrees. T ...
The pattern of this song, in the Aeolian mode, is A, A, A, B. Unity is secured by the three-fold appearance of the first phrase; ...
in which the successive crises are reached. Note in particular the intensity of the final climax, in measure 13, attained by a r ...
is more endowed with individuality and depth of emotion. Five characteristic examples are herewith cited: [Music: I] [Music: II] ...
Chapter 4 CHAPTER III POLYPHONIC MUSIC; SEBASTIAN BACH We have traced, in the preceding chapter, some of the funda- mental princ ...
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