The Evolution of the Art of MusicD. Appleton, 1906 - 342 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... performance more and more , and merely to indulge in the pleasure of various forms of rhythmic motion and graceful gesture . But even in modern times occasional reversions to animalism in depraved states of society revive the grosser ...
... performance more and more , and merely to indulge in the pleasure of various forms of rhythmic motion and graceful gesture . But even in modern times occasional reversions to animalism in depraved states of society revive the grosser ...
Pagina 36
... performance the hymn would drop a whole major seventh , and be sung in notes belonging to the scale of C again . To be hedged in with such conditions as these cannot be expected to be encouraging to art , and it is not to be wondered at ...
... performance the hymn would drop a whole major seventh , and be sung in notes belonging to the scale of C again . To be hedged in with such conditions as these cannot be expected to be encouraging to art , and it is not to be wondered at ...
Pagina 59
... performance ; but their mental development has only begun in comparatively recent times , and the masses of the people are still child - like in intellectual matters . A thoroughly competent observer says that their vocal performances ...
... performance ; but their mental development has only begun in comparatively recent times , and the masses of the people are still child - like in intellectual matters . A thoroughly competent observer says that their vocal performances ...
Pagina 82
... performances , orgies , and an infinite variety of curious ceremonies which expressed every phase of what a man in modern times would consider essentially secular feelings . Similarly , many religions , of all times and types , comprise ...
... performances , orgies , and an infinite variety of curious ceremonies which expressed every phase of what a man in modern times would consider essentially secular feelings . Similarly , many religions , of all times and types , comprise ...
Pagina 92
... performance . The Javese carry such devices to extremes , producing a kind of reckless , incoherent instrumental counterpoint , very much like a number of people playing various tunes at once , with just sufficient feeling for some ...
... performance . The Javese carry such devices to extremes , producing a kind of reckless , incoherent instrumental counterpoint , very much like a number of people playing various tunes at once , with just sufficient feeling for some ...
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Pagina 218 - My idea was that the overture ought to indicate the subject and prepare the spectators for the character of the piece they are about to see; that the instruments ought to be introduced in proportion to the degree of interest and passion in the words...
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 7 - The rhythmic music is then defined only by the pulses, and has no change of pitch ; while purely melodic music has change of pitch, but no definition or regularity of impulse. The latter is frequently met with among savage races, and even as near the homes of highest art as the outof-the-way corners of the British Isles. Pure, unalloyed rhythmic music is found in most parts of the uncivilised globe; and the degree of excitement to which it can give rise, when the mere beating of a drum or tom-tom...
Pagina 244 - Parisian one into the shade in every respect. The general quality of the musical thoughts is finer, richer, and more interesting; while the purely orchestral effects, especially in the slow movement, are among the most successful things of the kind he ever achieved. And finally the three great symphonies which he wrote in Vienna in 1788 represent the highest level in idea and style and in every distinguished quality of art he ever attained to. They are the crown of his life's work; for in them he...