Music: An Art and a Language
very seductive swing.[126] This is developed to a brilliant climax and then closesppin a delicate, wistful manner. The transitio ...
the quintessence of Mozart in terms of sound and rhythm, and we need but to listen to his message and receive it with grate- ful ...
in measures 13-19 (counting back from the end). The mood of dreamy contemplation with which the Slow Movement begins cannot be t ...
ginning in measure 120 and sustained with unflagging energy for seventy measures, makes this one of the most stimulating develop ...
did and his operatic overtures are of such distinct import and self-sufficiency that they are often detached from the opera it- ...
of human life can begin to fathom its deep mystery.[131] When we see such modern passages as the following,e.g. [Music] [Footnot ...
Chapter 17 CHAPTER XI BEETHOVEN, THE TONE-POET As Beethoven was such an intensely subjective composer, a knowledge of his person ...
ative artist that he was, as first and foremost a unique per- sonality. Had he not written a note of music we should have suffic ...
sion which everyone must gain individually. Since Beethoven’s works compel a man to think for himself, the constructive power of ...
Beethoven stands, we can only exclaim, “God works in a myste- rious way, his wonders to perform.” It was early seen that the you ...
those of Beethoven have the elemental power of Nature herself, especially shown in the vigor and variety of the rhythm. Second, ...
the Mass in D and the last Quartets and Pianoforte Sonatas. Beethoven died on March 26, 1827; nature most appropriately giving a ...
are no mere juggling with tones; they are vast tonal edifices, examples of what the imagination of man controlled by intellect c ...
Beethoven’s constructive genius. In place of the former naïve Minuet, so characteristic of the formal manners of its time, he su ...
producers of sound and rhythm, but often as living beings. How eloquent is the message of the Horns in the Trio to the Scherzo o ...
of the last pages of the Finale, which can only be compared to a sunset with its slowly fading colors and its last burst of glor ...
heights, is a vast work, the first three movements purely instru- mental, and the Finale, for the first time in symphonic litera ...
hearer’s interest, for the music may be trusted to make its own direct appeal. After two short, sonorous chords, which summon us ...
the even tenor of their way by these impassioned onslaughts. When Beethoven’s Symphonies were first played in Paris, it is repor ...
[Music] —preserves the customary emphasis on the main tonality of E-flat major, ending in measures 549-550 with the same disso- ...
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