Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism in Three Volumes, Volume 3Dodd, Mead, 1981 - Music |
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Page 187
... overture to Tannhäuser by heart by this time . Well , have we not often shrunk from the coarse and unsatisfactory effect of the three trom- bones at the climax of the pilgrims ' march in the first section of the overture ? With Richter ...
... overture to Tannhäuser by heart by this time . Well , have we not often shrunk from the coarse and unsatisfactory effect of the three trom- bones at the climax of the pilgrims ' march in the first section of the overture ? With Richter ...
Page 353
... overture , the Tannhäuser overture with the Venusberg bacchanal , the first act of Die Walküre from the exit of Hunding to the end , and , by way of a liqueur at the end , the Ride of the Valkyries . Will future ages be able to credit ...
... overture , the Tannhäuser overture with the Venusberg bacchanal , the first act of Die Walküre from the exit of Hunding to the end , and , by way of a liqueur at the end , the Ride of the Valkyries . Will future ages be able to credit ...
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... overture combines every classic quality of a concert overture with every lyric and dramatic quality of the overture to Die Meistersinger , you are either uttering a platitude as safe as a compliment to Handel on the majesty of the ...
... overture combines every classic quality of a concert overture with every lyric and dramatic quality of the overture to Die Meistersinger , you are either uttering a platitude as safe as a compliment to Handel on the majesty of the ...
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