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The Birth of Tragedy or, Hellenism and PessimismThe Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and PessimismFrederick Nietzsche was born at Rcken near Ltzen, in the Prussian province of Saxony, on the 15th of October 1844, at 10 a.m. The day happened to be the anniversary of the birth of Frederick-William IV., then...
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Le chevalier SartiLe chevalier SartiVous mavez permis dattacher votre nom illustre ce livre modeste o il est souvent question de lart admirable qui na pas de secrets pour vous. Les hasards de la vie mont rapproch dun homme intressant qui ma honor de sa confiance, et...
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The Pipes of WarThe Pipes of War - A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18The history of the bagpipes as a military institution is a long and honourable one, inseparable from that of Scottish troops, Highland and Lowland, wherever...
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The Great Musicians: PurcellThe Great Musicians: PurcellThe attempt to write a Life of Henry Purcell has been beset with many difficulties. So much information which might have been preserved for the instruction of after times has been lost, either through the indifference or culpable neglect of those...
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Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 5Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 5 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental SongsThis text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding...
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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847In the first section of this Catalogue a few compositions are omitted, because the autograph notes, by which Mendelssohn was in the habit of recording the date and place of composition of his pieces, are wanting; the...
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Mendelssohn and Certain MasterworksMendelssohn and Certain MasterworksIn the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohns happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as Bach, Mozart or Schubert, even...
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Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenThe late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies and stated in a short preface that it made no claim to originality and no secret of its indebtedness to the masterly treatises on the same subject....
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Tschaikowsky and His Orchestral MusicTschaikowsky and His Orchestral MusicIncluded in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowskys standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowskys life precedes the section devoted to the orchestral music. Yet, the personal outlook and moods of Russias great composer...
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Richard StraussRichard StraussThe writer of a thumb-nail biography of Richard Strauss finds himself confronted with a troublesome assignment. Strauss lived well beyond the scriptural age allotted the average man. He would have been 86 had he reached his next birthday. There was nothing romantic or...
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Serge Prokofieff and His Orchestral MusicSerge Prokofieff and His Orchestral MusicThe first is classical, whose origin lies in my early infancy when I heard my mother play Beethoven sonatas. It assumes a neo-classical aspect in the sonatas and the concertos, or imitates the classical style of the eighteenth century,...
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Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 4Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 4 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding...
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The Mentor: Makers of Modern Opera, Vol. 1, Num. 47, Serial No. 47The Mentor: Makers of Modern Opera, Vol. 1, Num. 47, Serial No. 47The form of entertainment called opera had its origin a little more than three centuries ago in an effort made by a company of scholars and musical amateurs in Florence to rescue...
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Ran: En dramatisk diktRan: En dramatisk diktUpp ur de dunkla dvalornas rike stiger strlande dag. Jordens sner och dttrar brja ter sin rastlsa, blinda, gckande lyckojagt, medan vi, den silfverne fraggans bubblor p tidens flyende blja, gonblicksalferna, hvila i ljuflig ro och skda leende all deras maktlsa...
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The Mentor: Famous Composers, Vol. 1, Num. 41, Serial No. 41The Mentor: Famous Composers, Vol. 1, Num. 41, Serial No. 41While it is generally understood that the three great musical countries are Italy, Germany, and France, it must not be forgotten that Poland revolutionized the music of the pianoforte, the most popular and universal...
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The Evolution of Modern OrchestrationThe Evolution of Modern OrchestrationIt is not the purpose of this work to write a treatise on instrumentation or to prepare a pedagogical analysis of orchestration only, but rather to trace the evolution of the orchestra and of orchestration in connection with the history...
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Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding...
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Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No. 2Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No. 2 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.Why these works (Beadles Dime Books) are popular, is a problem, quite as much for the moralist and the student of National character as for the critic....
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Siegfried & The Twilight of the GodsSiegfried & The Twilight of the Gods - The Ring of the Niblung, part 2 Slavery! worry! Labour all lost! The strongest sword That ever I forged, That the hands of giants Fitly might wield, This insolent urchin For whom it is fashioned Can...
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The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and RecreationsThe Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations - A Popular Encyclopædia for BoysIn presenting to American youth this carefully-edited volume of home amusements, the publishers are happy in their belief that in the selection and treatment of the subjects chosen the Editor...
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