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Page 37 - It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.
Page 154 - ... at times idealistic. In these last, as in several other characteristics, can be distinctly traced the influence of his intimate study of Beethoven, for whose music he feels an especial understanding and affinity, and whose tradition he in a sense carries on. Indeed, as Beethoven's strong individuality and often harshly intense feeling repelled some of his listeners, so to-day does the challenging quality of Bloch's music have an alienating effect at first, on certain natures, which are, however,...
Page 77 - Joel Lester, The Rhythms of Tonal Music (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), p.
Page 153 - Its dark and often somewhat nasal timbre - often akin to that of the wood- wind family - can be made to contrast most tellingly with the more open tone of the other stringed instruments thus making a virtue of its very defects; and where in former days the occasional solos entrusted to it in concerted music were chiefly for the sake of contrapuntal contrast, it is now eagerly seized upon by the modern composer for its own particular qualities.
Page 153 - ... for it, owing to the very limited powers of viola-players - a vicious circle which has lasted almost up to the present generation. Of late years, however, its position has changed considerably. A growing preoccupation with musical color has been quick to discover the peculiar and often most effective possibilities of the viola.
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Page 153 - It can be easily understood that as no great demands were made upon the technique of the viola, it had few adequate exponents; and conversely little of interest could be written...
Page 152 - The History of the Viola in Quartet Writing -- (Music and Letters 4, 1923...
Page 12 - Nancy B. Reich, Clara Schumann, the Artist and the Woman, 2nd ed. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001 [1985]). 2. Cyrilla Barr, "Rebecca Clarke's 'One Brief Whiff of Fame'"; and Maria Baylock, "Rebecca Clarke and the English Ensemble.
Page 77 - Introduction to Post-tonal Theory, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000).