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Page 124 - Besides their genius, both husband and wife had simple domestic tastes, and were strong enough to bear the admiration of the world without becoming egotistical. They lived for one another, and for their children. He created and wrote for his wife, and in accordance with her temperament ; while she looked upon it as her highest privilege to give to the world the most perfect interpretation of hie works, or at least to stand as mediatrix between him and his audience, and to ward off all disturbing...
Page 60 - A few words on the formation of the major and minor scales ; in a letter to her pupils, by MG 12mo.
Page 131 - The music of the waters : a collection of sailors' chanties, or, working songs of the sea, of all maritime nations. London, 1888.
Page 120 - Sainton-Dolby also appeared before the world as a composer. Her cantatas ' The Legend of St. Dorothea ' and ' The Story of the Faithful Soul ', produced respectively at St.
Page 126 - ... 9, which is a set of variations in bravura style on Haydn's Austrian Hymn. Among her more serious compositions of later date are a Trio in G minor for pianoforte, violin and violoncello, op. 17, which is thoroughly musicianlike and interesting, three charming Cadences to Beethoven's Concertos, ops. 37 and 58, and a set of three Preludes and Fugues, op. 16, which deserve mention not only on account of their excellent construction, but as forming a most valuable study in legato part-playing. There...
Page iv - The scarcity of women's work in music in the past is therefor not owing to their inability to grasp and apply the science, but it may rather be attributed to prejudice and the rules of fashion and custom, which so long debarred her from entering this field of useful and profitable work and study.
Page 34 - here is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman.
Page 26 - D mi:1or is a work critics speak of as "being full of bright and original fancy and melodious inspiration of a high order, coupled with excellent workmanship." The delightful second subject of the first movement Allegro Moderato, and the succeeding Intermezzo (veritable gems), any composer might be proud of.
Page iv - As late as the eighties, to be told that a composition was the work of a woman was the equivalent of its condemnation beforehand.
Page 103 - ... Pf. Trio the next year at a concert given in conjunction with Miss Dolby. The Society of British Musicians brought forward her Pf. Quartet, in 1844; in E flat, 1847; and a Sonata in G, for 'cello and pf., 1846. In 1846, she married Alexander R. Reinagle (qv), and under that name afterwards published a pamphlet, " A few words on Pianoforte playing, with rules for fingering passages of frequent occurrence [1855], Novelle.