Author: Rupert HughesPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Music Lovers' Encyclopedia
Author: Rupert HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries
Author: Frederick NiecksPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1907. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. IN GERMANY. The writing of the present chapter cannot be called an inspiring task. Without Wagner's sovereign contempt for the music of his time, and Tchaikovsky's belief in Germany's complete exhaustion, one may yet be unable to grow enthusiastic over the theme. The productivity during the period with which we are concerned has been enormous. But how about the really valuable outcome of it? In the latter part of the 19th century the question was often asked: What remains if you remove from the living German composers Wagner and Brahms? And then there were ever so many people who, while heartily admitting the greatness of one of the two, were not so sure of the other--not to mention those who were all for the one and would have none whatever of the other. Now, ' this exclusive way of looking at men and things is not only unfair, it is absolutely foolish. The men of genius leave room for the men of talent; and the masters en grand for the masters en miniature. To be sure for some time past Germany has not been abounding in musical genius of the first or even second order. But if there has been a dearth of powerful original creativeness and of strikingly outstanding individuality, there has been also a goodly provision of artistic ability well deserving our respect and gratitude, ability displaying itself not merely in technical skill, but often also in imaginativeness, sensibility, and poetic charm. The great bulk of crudities, futilities, and vacuities need not trouble us: they are not peculiar to any one period. One could classify composers into (1) such as write only absolute music, and are uninfluenced by and even averse to the programmatic tendency; (2) such as write programme music, but only in the classical manner and forms; (3) such as go only ...
Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Le Retour du Zephyr, a Favorite Air. Arranged as a Rondo for the Piano Forte
Author: Daniel SteibeltLe Retour du Zéphyr. A favorite air arranged as a rondo for the pianoforte
Author: Daniel SteibeltNational Airs
Author: Thomas MooreSontag Polka
Author: Peno Y. DensariPublisher:
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Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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La Coralie Polka
Author: John M. AbbotPublisher:
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Category : Instrumental music
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Author: Philip Hayes