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... master , will do more than a whole year's application to abstract book - study . Impressed with these notions , the Author's inten- tion is not at all to give another instruction - book to the world , but to give , as it were PREFACE .
... master , will do more than a whole year's application to abstract book - study . Impressed with these notions , the Author's inten- tion is not at all to give another instruction - book to the world , but to give , as it were PREFACE .
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... tion . No doubt No doubt you will say , I have heard a plodding ploughman troll out such a ditty ; but hear it as Beethoven has rendered it , refined and dignified by all the contrivances of art , and you will say , the idea of the ...
... tion . No doubt No doubt you will say , I have heard a plodding ploughman troll out such a ditty ; but hear it as Beethoven has rendered it , refined and dignified by all the contrivances of art , and you will say , the idea of the ...
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... tion , that Haydn , who died in 1809 , is acknowledged to be the father of the sym- phony , which is the highest known form of musical composition . - Author of it he was not , but still he was the perfecter and great master of this ...
... tion , that Haydn , who died in 1809 , is acknowledged to be the father of the sym- phony , which is the highest known form of musical composition . - Author of it he was not , but still he was the perfecter and great master of this ...
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... certain fixed intervals descend- ing , but consider it rather as an agent of most flexible and powerful account in musical expression , you will have gained D an insight into art , which study and reflec- tion MUSICAL ART . 33.
... certain fixed intervals descend- ing , but consider it rather as an agent of most flexible and powerful account in musical expression , you will have gained D an insight into art , which study and reflec- tion MUSICAL ART . 33.
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... tion will doubtless turn to a practical and useful end . 3. The Keys of Music . The keys in music will next occupy our attention . We have twelve notes in music ; and inasmuch as every note may be the root of a key , we gain twelve keys ...
... tion will doubtless turn to a practical and useful end . 3. The Keys of Music . The keys in music will next occupy our attention . We have twelve notes in music ; and inasmuch as every note may be the root of a key , we gain twelve keys ...
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acquire amongst appear art of delivering artist Beethoven century chant character charming chorale chord church church modes clear composed course cultivated descend diatonic scale discord dominant harmony effect expres feel flat keys fresh key gain genius give habit hand Handel HANDY-BOOK OF MUSICAL harmonic combination harmonic series Haydn hear instru JAMES BLACKWOOD key-note law of nature leading note matter mechanical melody ment minor 7th minor key minor scale minuets modern Mozart musical art musical composition musical science musical sound musicians octave opera orchestra Orlando Gibbons Palestrina passages peculiar perfect phrasing pianoforte players playing points of repose practical produced psalm psalter quality of tone region of sound rule Sacred Music semitonic intervals sharp keys signature singing sion skill song stream of sound string student style succession sweet taste things third finger tion tonic true twelve notes variety voice wind instrument writers
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Seite 88 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Seite 85 - Beethoven, were not only highly gifted, but deeply versed in their art, and where they were deficient in knowledge or practical skill not even their genius could raise itself to perfection...
Seite 95 - We have, certainly, more bravura players than formerly, but a really feeling performance has become proportionately more rare. The aims of the present school of...
Seite 97 - Thus, also, it happens that there are many who can dash through a concert piece, but are unable to play a...
Seite 96 - Others also know that their annual receipts will depend upon their success in drilling, if possible, after the first twelve months, their young pupils into the performance of some fashionable piece.
Seite 96 - ... yield to the touch. That in which modern performers are least successful is legato...