The Evolution of the Art of MusicD. Appleton, 1906 - 342 pagini |
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Pagina 27
... successful , as the chromatic genus was regarded as mawkish and insipid , and the enharmonic genus as too artificial . The Greek system may therefore be considered to have arrived at its complete maturity in the state in which a range ...
... successful , as the chromatic genus was regarded as mawkish and insipid , and the enharmonic genus as too artificial . The Greek system may therefore be considered to have arrived at its complete maturity in the state in which a range ...
Pagina 62
... pattern out of two figures has been illus- trated from the Macusis and Feejees . A primitive but more successful pattern is the following Russian peasant's tune : - 4 1 1 2 18a Here are only two figures , as in the 62 THE ART OF MUSIC.
... pattern out of two figures has been illus- trated from the Macusis and Feejees . A primitive but more successful pattern is the following Russian peasant's tune : - 4 1 1 2 18a Here are only two figures , as in the 62 THE ART OF MUSIC.
Pagina 72
... successful in abandonment to impulse , but the type of human being which takes even its folk - songs seriously is likely to succeed best in higher ranges of pure art work ; and it may be confessed that the relative standards of later ...
... successful in abandonment to impulse , but the type of human being which takes even its folk - songs seriously is likely to succeed best in higher ranges of pure art work ; and it may be confessed that the relative standards of later ...
Pagina 106
... successfully elaborated methods for regulating the lengths of the notes , but the establishment of principles of relative duration tended rather to obscure the rhythmic or metrical order of the music than to define it at first , owing ...
... successfully elaborated methods for regulating the lengths of the notes , but the establishment of principles of relative duration tended rather to obscure the rhythmic or metrical order of the music than to define it at first , owing ...
Pagina 140
... successful for his time in shaking himself free from the ecclesiastical associa- tions of the modes , and adopting a thoroughly secular manner . Where modern methods were wanting or undeveloped , as in his overtures , he had to fall ...
... successful for his time in shaking himself free from the ecclesiastical associa- tions of the modes , and adopting a thoroughly secular manner . Where modern methods were wanting or undeveloped , as in his overtures , he had to fall ...
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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...