Literature of Music
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Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2)Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2)The biographical notices of Handel's youth transmitted to us are but scanty and unsatisfactory. The same might, however, be said of most of our celebrated musicians, and the cause of the meagreness is, as we have seen...
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Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2)Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) An idealized portrait of Beethoven, representing him as, in the opinion of many of his admirers, he must have looked in his moments of inspiration, would undoubtedly have made a handsomer frontispiece to this little work,...
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Ole Bull: A MemoirOle Bull: A MemoirIn preparing this memoir my aim has been to use incidents, criticisms, and tributes which brought out characteristic traits, as recognized by others as well as myself, and to supply only what was needed to make the sequence clear. Many poems...
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The ViolinThe Violin - Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to...
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The Modes of Ancient Greek MusicThe Modes of Ancient Greek MusicThe present essay is the sequel of an article on Greek music which the author contributed to the new edition of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London, 1890-91, art. Musica). In that article the long-standing controversy regarding...
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History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present TimeHistory of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time - With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of EuropeIT was not until the close of the 17th century that England was visited by any Italian singers of note,...
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Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry PurcellTwelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell In the Preface of his admirable contribution to the Oxford History of Music (Vol. III.) the late Sir Hubert Parry writes: "The seventeenth century is musically almost a blank, even to those who take more...
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A Short History of English MusicA Short History of English MusicThis book is not, in any sense, technical. It is an attempt to give a simple and rational, though in a volume of this size, necessarily incomplete, account of events that have led to the complex state of music...
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Life of Henriette Sontag, Countess de RossiLife of Henriette Sontag, Countess de Rossi. - with Interesting Sketches by Scudo, Hector Berlioz, Louis Boerne, Adolphe Adam, Marie Aycard, Julie de Margueritte, Prince Puckler-Muskau & Theophile Gautier."NEW-YORK LIFE, by a New-Yorker, clever, sparkling, and life-like. A set of daguerreotypes, in which figure...
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Studies in Modern Music, Second SeriesStudies in Modern Music, Second Series - Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms Dr Parry'The Art of Music.' Sir George Grove'Dictionary of Music and Musicians,' particularly Mr Fuller-Maitland's article on Dvok. 'Life of Chopin,' by Liszt. 'Life and Letters of Chopin,' by Moritz Karasowski....
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Franz LisztFranz LisztThis book, projected in 1902, was at that time announced as a biography of Liszt. However, a few tentative attacks upon the vast amount of raw material soon convinced me that to write the ideal life of the Hungarian a man must be...
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Harpsichords and ClavichordsHarpsichords and ClavichordsThe harpsichord and the clavichord represent the two most important types of stringed keyboard instruments used from the 15th through the 18th centuries. By the 19th century, the piano had become the most important domestic keyboard instrument. In this booklet are described...
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Musiciens d'autrefoisMusiciens d'autrefoisLa musique commence seulement prendre dans lhistoire gnrale la place qui lui est due. Chose trange quon ait pu prtendre donner un aperu de lvolution de lesprit humain, en ngligeant une de ses plus profondes expressions. Mais ne savons-nous pas combien les autres...
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HandelHandelHERE in England we are supposed to know our Handel by heart, but it is doubtful whether we do. Who can say from memory the titles of even six of his thirty-nine operas, from whence may be culled many of his choicest flowers of...
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Nicolo Paganini: His Life and WorkNicolo Paganini: His Life and WorkThe author of this work did not live to see the final sheets in print. Although it has not received his revision, yet the book has had careful editing. Mr. Stratton did not undertake the Life of Paganini without...
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The Secrets of a SavoyardThe Secrets of a SavoyardLytton represents a distinct type on our musical comedy stage. No other artiste, I think, has quite that gift of wit which makes one not merely a happier, but a better, man for coming under its spell. Its touch is...
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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and SwitzerlandLetters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and SwitzerlandLast year a paragraph was inserted in the newspapers, requesting any one who possessed letters from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to send them to Professor Droysen, or to myself, with the view of completing a selection from...
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Life of BeethovenLife of Beethoven - Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical worksDURING the painful illness of full four months which terminated in the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, he was one day conversing with Hofrath von Breuning...
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Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern NegroesReligious Folk-Songs of the Southern NegroesTo know the soul of a people and to find the source from which flows the expression of folk-thought is to comprehend in a large measure the capabilities of that people. To obtain the truest expression of the folk-mind...
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Arnoldiana, ou Sophie Arnould et ses contemporaines;Arnoldiana, ou Sophie Arnould et ses contemporaines; - recueil choisi d'Anecdotes piquantes, de Réparties et de bons Mots de Mlle Arnould précédé d'une notice sur sa vie précédé d'une Notice sur sa Vie et sur l'Académie impériale de Musique.Il en est des ana comme...
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