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The Voice in SingingThe Voice in SingingIn giving to the public these fruits of years of earnest labor, and in attempting to bring into harmony things which have always been treated separately, the Science and the Art of Singing, it seems necessary that I should state the...
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Advice to SingersAdvice to SingersSINGING cannot be learnt from a book, and so far from attempting any such impossible feat as writing a book which might be called "Singing without a Master," the author's objectfrequently insisted upon hereinis to point out the impossibility of overcoming the...
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Beethoven's Symphonies Critically DiscussedBeethoven's Symphonies Critically DiscussedThese essays originally appeared in The Musical Standard, for which paper they were written. While admitting that the author has at times been carried away by his exuberant fancy, it is impossible to deny that he possesses in a very high...
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Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 4Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 4 - Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne In medio omnibus Palmam esse positam qui artem tractant musicam. Ter. Prol. in Phor. SA - SC - SE - SH -...
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Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 3Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 3 - Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne In medio omnibus Palmam esse positam qui artem tractant musicam. Ter. Prol. in Phor. LA - LE - LI - LO -...
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Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 2Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 2 - Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne In medio omnibus Palmam esse positam qui artem tractant musicam. Ter. Prol. in Phor. Esame delle riflessioni critiche CA - CE -...
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Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 1Dizionario storico-critico degli scrittori di musica e de' più celebri artisti, vol. 1 - Di tutte le nazioni sì antiche che moderne In medio omnibus Palmam esse positam qui artem tractant musicam. Ter. Prol. in Phor. Catalogo de' Signori associatiDiscorso preliminareAA - AB -...
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The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)ViennaMusical societiesLeading musiciansThe PraterBrahms' appearance at a Hellmesberger Quartet concertBrahms' first concert in ViennaConductorship of the Hamburg PhilharmonicFirst Serenade at Gesellschaft concertBrahms' second concertRichard WagnerSecond Serenade at Vienna Philharmonic concertReturn to HamburgBrahms elected conductor of the...
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The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 1 of 2)The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 1 of 2)The biographical materials from which I have written the following Life of Brahms have, excepting in the few instances indicated in footnotes, been gathered by me, at first hand, chiefly in the course of several Continental...
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Miniature essays: Igor StravinskyMiniature essays: Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum,3 near St. Petersburg, on June 5th (18th), 1882. His father, an operatic singer, who won great favour with the public of the Russian capital at the Maryinsky Theatre, soon discovered remarkable musical gifts in the...
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The Complete Opera BookThe Complete Opera Book - The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical NotationThe Complete Opera Book has been an important opera reference work since its first publication in 1919. It has been revised and updated...
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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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