Music: An Art and a Language
owe to the genius of Beethoven. The same effect with a slightly different dramatic purpose is found at the end of theCoriolanus ...
of art; it leaves us confused.” Poor Beethoven! But why all this pother? If the inner evidence of the music itself be any justif ...
portraying the daring spirit who first stole fire from Heaven and as the crowning message of a work meant to glorify all heroic ...
a group of descending octave leaps. A second attempt is now made, this time in A minor, only to be thwarted by a still more capr ...
in the second theme of the Exposition which begins in measure 17, and the passionate outcries in measures 35 and 37 of the middl ...
use of the words “discord” and “dissonance.” A discord is an unrelated noise, as when one bangs with both fists on the key- boar ...
nale of the Twelfth Sonata has been included in the Supplement in order to make this important form familiar to the student. To ...
Chapter 18 SYMPHONY NO. 5[150] [Footnote 150: This is not given in the Supplement. See pre- ceding remarks apropos of the Third ...
with Fate, it shall never pull me down”—to be compared only with Browning’s “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,” a ...
second theme, based on the same motive as the first, but in the relative major (E-flat),e.g. [Music] It is answered by a second ...
the melody like a guiding star.[156] A passage of special signifi- cance is that in measures 123-146, where Beethoven indulges i ...
with the gambols of a delighted elephant—and their spasmodic attempts at assertion, produce an effect irresistibly droll. The hu ...
[Footnote 157: Taken separately, the movements are perfectly normal; the Scherzo in the usual Three-part form and the Finale in ...
Chapter 19 THE CORIOLANUS OVERTURE This dramatic work is of great importance, not only for its emo- tional power and eloquence, ...
nau (1660-1722) we have a musical description of the combat between David and Goliath. Anyone at all familiar with the mu- sic o ...
fly in the face of facts, for a large proportion of the music since Beethoven is on a poetic basis and has descriptive titles. O ...
a series of assertiveffchords for full orchestra (note the pierc- ing dissonance in the 7th measure), which at once establishes ...
[Footnote 169: It is unfortunate that the diminished seventh chord does not sound so fierce to our modern ears as it un- doubted ...
We now add a few last words on the quality of Beethoven’s themes in his moments of supreme inspiration. The unshaken hold which ...
from his works: the Trio of the second movement of the Seventh Symphony; the Slow Movement theme of the B-flat major Trio and th ...
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