The American History and Encyclopedia of Music ...William Lines Hubbard, George Whitfield Andrews, Edward Dickinson, Arthur Foote, Emil Liebling I. Squire, 1908 - Music |
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accompaniment æsthetic answer appear artistic Bach Bach's bass beats beauty Beethoven beginning called canon cantus firmus Century chant character choir choral chords chorus chromatic church close composer composition consonance contrapuntal counter-subject counterpoint dance degree diatonic diatonic scale discant dissonances effect eight measures emotions employed entire episode exposition expression faux bourdon feeling fifth followed four measures fourth fugal fugue harmony idea imitation instruments intervals Italian Johann Sebastian Bach language listener major triad manner means measure phrase melody ment mind modes modulation movement musical form musicians nature notes octave Okeghem opera orchestra organ original Palestrina passages perfect performance piano pitch plagal modes played polyphonic produce repeated repetition rhythm rhythmic rules scale second theme semitone seventh singers singing solo sonata form song sound step strings style subdominant symphony taste ternary form third tion tonality tone tonic triad truth understand usually violin vocal voice words written
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Page 190 - A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE" A PITCHER of mignonette In a tenement's highest casement, — Queer sort of flower-pot — yet That pitcher of mignonette Is a garden in heaven set, To the little sick child in the basement— The pitcher of mignonette, In the tenement's highest casement.
Page 240 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 230 - GREAT nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune ; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children : but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.
Page 234 - For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
Page 148 - I 10; and the enormous movement in B flat which originally formed the termination to the great String Quartet in the same key. Of the last-named fugue one has no opportunity of judging, as it is never played ; but of the others, especially those in the Solo Sonatas, it may be safely said that nothing in the whole of Beethoven's music is associated with a more distinct dramatic intention, whether it be, as has...
Page 134 - ... few bars then follows, sometimes in its form like part of the subject, and with a modulation into a nearly related key. The subject and answer are again brought forward, but following in a different order from the first section; while at the same time all the parts are continued, and in some of them the original counterpoint appears either simply or inverted, the subject and answer forming the predominating idea throughout the whole composition.
Page 137 - ... a manner, that it was universally admired, particularly by the king, who was not only charmed with the music, but felt the force of the words so effectually, that he soon after granted his petition, by conferring on him the promised preferment. For which act of justice and munificence, Josquin, with equal felicity, composed, as a hymn of gratitude, another part of the same psalm: Bonitatem fecisti cum servo tuo Domine, " Oh Lord, thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant.
Page 324 - Washington is significant of the attention paid to inventors' claims; and the nation profits immensely from having in this direction (though not in all others) recognized property in mental products. Beyond question, in respect of mechanical appliances the Americans are ahead of all nations. If along with your material progress there went equal progress of a higher kind, there would remain nothing to be wished. That is an ambiguous qualification. What do you mean by it? You will understand me when...
Page 353 - WHAT IS GOOD MUSIC ? Suggestions to Persons desiring to Cultivate a taste in Musical Art. By WJ HENDERSON.
Page 242 - ... themselves, but only as they serve to suggest interesting conceptions to the mind, then every thing which does in point of fact suggest such a conception to any individual, is beautiful to that individual; and it is not only quite true that there is no room for disputing about tastes, but that all tastes are equally just and correct, in so far as each individual speaks only of his own emotions.