The Evolution of the Art of MusicD. Appleton, 1906 - 342 pagini |
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Pagina 7
... range of sounds . But complete musical art has to be made definite in other respects besides mere melodic up and down motion . The successive moments had to be regulated as well as mere changes of pitch , and this was first made ...
... range of sounds . But complete musical art has to be made definite in other respects besides mere melodic up and down motion . The successive moments had to be regulated as well as mere changes of pitch , and this was first made ...
Pagina 13
... range of art when they take any definite form , just as speech begins when vague signals of sound give place to words ; and scales begin to be formed when musical figures become definite enough to be remem- bered . In the necessary ...
... range of art when they take any definite form , just as speech begins when vague signals of sound give place to words ; and scales begin to be formed when musical figures become definite enough to be remem- bered . In the necessary ...
Pagina 24
... range of sounds which the Greeks considered suitable for use by the human voice was mapped out . The whole extent of this scale being only from A in the lower part of the bass stave to A in the treble , indi- cates that the Greeks ...
... range of sounds which the Greeks considered suitable for use by the human voice was mapped out . The whole extent of this scale being only from A in the lower part of the bass stave to A in the treble , indi- cates that the Greeks ...
Pagina 26
... range of music , that composers speculated in arrangements of the notes which ignored the purposes which brought them into existence ; and that , as the scale grew larger and larger , people ceased to recognise that any particular note ...
... range of music , that composers speculated in arrangements of the notes which ignored the purposes which brought them into existence ; and that , as the scale grew larger and larger , people ceased to recognise that any particular note ...
Pagina 27
... range of sounds extending only for two octaves was mapped out into a series of seven modes , which can be fairly imitated on a modern pianoforte by playing the several scales which begin respectively on E , F , G , A , B , C , D ...
... range of sounds extending only for two octaves was mapped out into a series of seven modes , which can be fairly imitated on a modern pianoforte by playing the several scales which begin respectively on E , F , G , A , B , C , D ...
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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...