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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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Robert Schumann, Tone-Poet, Prophet and CriticRobert Schumann, Tone-Poet, Prophet and CriticIt is obviously impossible in the brief space of the present booklet to offer more than the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumanns short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely...
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Joseph Haydn: Servant and MasterJoseph Haydn: Servant and MasterIn this sketchy and unpretentious booklet the reader must not expect to find any thoroughgoing or penetrating discussion of Haydns works or, for that matter, more than a hasty and superficial account of his career. Haydn wrote an appalling quantity...
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Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartMozarts earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself confronted with an impossible task. He has, consequently, preferred to outline as best he could in the space at his disposal...
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Hector Berlioz: A Romantic TragedyHector Berlioz: A Romantic TragedyA thumbnail sketch like the present is, of course, the last place in the world to recount even an infinitesimal part of a life so vivid and crowded with bitter conflict and tragic experience as that of Hector Berlioz; and...
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George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelHandels long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force even a small part of...
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Wagner and His Music-DramasWagner and His Music-DramasThis volume, concerned with Wagnerian excerpts most frequently performed in the concert hall, has been prepared primarily for the audience of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York. Its object is to supply information in as concise and complete a manner as...
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Brahms and some of his worksBrahms and some of his worksThis pamphlet about the most important compositions in which Brahms employs the orchestra, like its predecessor about Beethovens symphonies, makes no claim to originality and no secret of indebtedness to treatises that are open to us all. It is...
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Schubert and His WorkSchubert and His WorkA sense of helplessness and futility overcomes the writer who, in the limits of a volume as unpretending as the present one, endeavors to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schuberts inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like...
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Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachCompared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bachs day-to-day existence seems almost pedestrian. It had none of the drama and spectacular conflicts that marked the careers of men like...
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