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Great Musical Composers: German, French, and ItalianGreat Musical Composers: German, French, and ItalianTHE following biographical sketches were originally published in America by Mr. George T. Ferris, in two volumes, separately entitled The Great German Composers and The Great Italian and French Composers. They have achieved the success they deserved: for...
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The Operatic ProblemThe Operatic ProblemLast autumn, having to speak at an organ recital given by my friend Mr Clegg, I took the opportunity of giving what encouragement lay in my power, to the Corporation of my native town, in an endeavour they had made during the...
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Основы оркестровкиPrinciples of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own WorksMy aim in undertaking this work is to reveal the principles of modern orchestration in a somewhat different light than that usually brought to bear upon the subject. I have followed these principles in...
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Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, IVoyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, IOui, mon cher Morel, me voil revenu de ce long voyage en Allemagne, pendant lequel j'ai donn quinze concerts et fait prs de cinquante rptitions. Vous pensez qu'aprs de telles fatigues, je dois avoir besoin d'inaction et...
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6The origins of Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, the most famous song book of its day, may be traced back to a single volume of 'witty ballads, jovial songs, and...
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Great Singers on the Art of SingingGreat Singers on the Art of Singing - Educational Conferences with Foremost ArtistsAmong the tens of thousands of young men and women who, having heard a few famous singers, suddenly determine to follow the trail of the footlights, there must be a very great...
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Famous Singers of To-day and YesterdayFamous Singers of To-day and YesterdayIt has been the desire of the author to give, in a book of modest dimensions, as complete a record as possible of the "Famous Singers" from the establishment of Italian Opera down to the present day. The majority...
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Christian Hymns of the First Three CenturiesChristian Hymns of the First Three CenturiesThere is no part of the general field of Christian hymnology so baffling to the student or so full of difficulties as the one under consideration in this paper. Many accounts of the subject are in existence but...
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InterpretersInterpreters"C'est que le Beau est la seule chose qui soit immortelle, et qu'aussi longtemps qu'il reste un vestige de sa manifestation matrielle, son immortalit subsiste. Le Beau est rpandu partout, il s'tend mme jusque sur la mort. Mais il ne rayonne nulle part avec...
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Confessions of an Opera SingerConfessions of an Opera SingerSo many fantastic tales have come to us of students' life abroad, of their temptations, trials, finances, successes and failures, that I have attempted to give here the true story of the preparation for an operatic career, and its fruition....
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Portraits et souvenirsPortraits et souvenirsOn dirait qu'il s'est coul un sicle depuis le temps o j'crivais Harmonie et Mlodie, Harmonie, alors, signifiait science; Mlodie, inspiration. La situation s'est retourne; les amateurs qui refusaient de tenter le moindre effort pour comprendre la musique se sont pris de...
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Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American SingerGeraldine Farrar: The Story of an American SingerIn offering these little sketches of some of the interesting events that have helped shape a career now fairly familiar to the general public, it has not been my intention to weary the indulgent reader with a...
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What Every Singer Should KnowWhat Every Singer Should KnowTHIS book is not for the purpose of instruction in singing, as singing is an art which cannot be taught from book or correspondence. Neither is it a technical treatise on the voice, but instead I aim through the medium...
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The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their ComposersThe Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers - A HandbookThe Standard Cantatas is the third of the series in which the Standard Operas and Standard Oratorios have been its predecessors. Of necessity, therefore, the same method has been followed in the...
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Les soirées de l'orchestreLes soirées de l'orchestreIl y a dans le nord de l'Europe un thtre lyrique o il est d'usage que les musiciens, dont plusieurs sont gens d'esprit, se livrent la lecture et mme des causeries plus ou moins littraires et musicales pendant l'excution de tous...
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The Boy's VoiceThe Boy's Voice - A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c.The value of this little book, as the reader will soon discover, depends less upon my own work than upon the large number of choirmasters whose...
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The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer): Romantic Opera in Three ActsThe Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollaender): Romantic Opera in Three ActsThis text uses UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that your browsers...
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Physiology of the OperaPhysiology of the OperaS an introduction to the dissertation upon which we are about to enter, such an antiquarian view of the subject might be taken as would tend to establish a parallel between the ancient Greek tragedy and the modern sanguinary Italian opera,...
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Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and InterpretationVocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and InterpretationThe strongest impulse of the human heart is for self-expression. The simplest form of expression is speech. Speech is the instinctive use of a natural instrument, the voice. The failure to deal justly with this simple...
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Sketch of a New Esthetic of MusicSketch of a New Esthetic of MusicEvery effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation; changes (corrections of spelling and punctuation) made to the original text are marked like this. The original text appears...
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