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The Romantic ComposersThe Romantic Composers[Pg 2] [Pg 3] I INTRODUCTION ROMANTICISM IN MUSIC Historians of music are accustomed to speak of the first half or three-quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven, including Schubert,...
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The Appreciation of Music - Vol. 1 (of 3)The Appreciation of Music - Vol. 1 (of 3)This book has been prepared in order to provide readers who wish to listen to music intelligently, yet without going into technicalities, with a simple and practical guide to musical appreciation written from the listener's rather...
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Derniers souvenirs d'un musicienDerniers souvenirs d'un musicienDans un joli petit village situ sur la frontire de l'Autriche, quinze lieues de Vienne, vivait, il y a plus de cent ans, un pauvre charron nomm Mathias Haydn. Ce brave homme n'tait pas riche; mais ses dsirs taient si borns,...
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Biographical notice of Nicolo PaganiniBiographical notice of Nicolo Paganini - With an analysis of his compositions, and a sketch of the history of the violin.Despite all contrary assertions, based upon pretended monuments, Oriental, Greek, and Roman antiquity was unacquainted with instruments played with a bow. Neither India nor...
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Wagner as Man and ArtistWagner as Man & ArtistWhile there is at present no adequate Life of Wagner, there is probably more biographical material available in connection with him than with any other artist who has ever lived; and on the basis of this material it seems justifiable...
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Tales from the OperasTales from the OperasThe want of a book, which, while preserving all the force and spirit of the original Operas, attempts the relation of the several narratives in a graphic and pleasing style, has often, probably, been felt by the patrons of the lyric...
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Famous Composers and Their Works, Vol. 2Famous Composers and Their Works, Vol. 2 N the river Leitha, in Lower Austria, and some fifteen miles south-east from Vienna, is a village so insignificant that it is not set down on the ordinary maps. It is called Rohrau, and there, during the...
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Theory and Practice of Piano ConstructionTheory and Practice of Piano Construction - With a Detailed, Practical Method for TuningThe original contains inconsistent hyphenation; this has been preserved. Obvious printers errors have been corrected; a full list is available at the end of this book. This Dover edition, first published...
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Beethoven and His ForerunnersBeethoven and His ForerunnersThe modern view of history is vivified by a principle scarcely dreamed of before the middle of the last century; the conception which permeates all our interpretations of the story of the world, which illuminates our study of all its phases,...
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Chats on VioloncellosChats on VioloncellosFogThe South Kensington MuseumThe RavanastronArabiaThe Kemangeh GouzeEgypt, and the Rabab Is there any city in the world that canmetaphorically speakinghold up its head beside this place of mysteryLondon in a fog? Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, New Yorkwhat can they do in...
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Stories of Symphonic MusicStories of Symphonic Music - A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present DayMost concert-goers have observed, at performances of modern orchestral works of a descriptive character, the efforts of many persons in the audience to...
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The Harmonicon. Part the FirstThe Harmonicon. Part the FirstIn its most ancient form of a four-stringed Instrument. To the EDITOR of the HARMONICON. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 57033 Author: Various Release Date: Apr 23, 2018 Format: eBook Language: English
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Suffrage Songs and VersesSuffrage Songs and VersesNOTEThe poems marked * are from In This Our World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Copyright, 1898, by Small, Maynard and Co., and are reprinted by the kind permission of the publishers. Those marked are from the Womans Journal, and those marked...
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Songs of the WestSongs of the West - Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall Collected from the Mouths of the PeopleDOROTHY OSBORNE, in a letter to Sir William Temple, in 1653, thus describes her daily home life. "The heat of the day is spent in reading or...
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Musical StudiesMusical StudiesA preface to the third edition can in the nature of things be little more than a repetition of that to the second. While in one way it is regrettable that the article on Strauss does not carry us further than the Symphonia...
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Contemporary ComposersContemporary ComposersLovers and critics of modern music who are at the same time interested students of the social changes which have preceded and accompanied its growth must often ask themselves whether there is any deep connection of cause and effect between the two sets...
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Stories from the OperasStories from the OperasOwing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and popular operas recently...
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Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme NotesPhilip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme NotesWagner, with his theatrical sense, was right: this music is not so impressive when it is performed, no matter how well, outside of the Bayreuth theater consecrated to the music dramas. We heard Parsifal the year it was produced...
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BeethovenBeethovenBy Edward Carpenter It is not very generally recognised that Beethoven was not only a great musician, but a great leader and teacher. He freed the human spirit from innumerable petty bonds and conventions, he recorded the profoundest experiences of life, and gave form...
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Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cock): An Opera in Three ActsLe Coq d'Or (The Golden Cock): An Opera in Three ActsThis book contains the text of the opera both in French and in English. The original presented the two languages on alternating pages. This is impractical to reproduce in an e-text. Instead, the acts...
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