Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750, Volume 3Novello, limited, 1899 Shows the growth of an English village from a medieval clearing to the urban congestion of the present day as seen from the same viewpoint approximately every hundred years. |
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Page 58 - It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty everlasting God...
Page 80 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Page 59 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Page 316 - Figured bass", he says in the rules and principles of accompaniment that he gave his pupils*, "is the most perfect foundation of music. It is executed with both hands in such a manner that the left hand plays the notes that are written, while the right adds consonances and dissonances thereto, making an agreeable harmony for the glory of God and the justifiable gratification of the soul. Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of...
Page 139 - ... character, and is disproved even by the large number of these rearrangements. No doubt he felt that the style of his violin concertos was so much moulded by his clavier style that their true nature could only be fully brought out in the shape of clavier concertos. It cannot be denied that many details, and notably cantabile passages, lose in effect in the clavier arrangement; but as a whole we must regard them as new and higher developments, rather than arrangements.
Page 36 - ... befits your Majesty's world-famed clemency and condescend to take me under your Majesty's most mighty protection. For some years, and up to the present time, I have had the direction of the music in the two principal churches in Leipzig; but I have had to suffer, though in all innocence, from one or another vexatious cause, at different times a diminution of the fees connected with this function, which might be withheld altogether unless your kingly Majesty will show me grace and confer upon...
Page 36 - ... protection. For some years, and up to the present time, I have had the direction of the music in the two principal churches in Leipzig; but I have had to suffer, though in all innocence, from one or another vexatious cause, at different times a diminution of the fees connected with this function, which might be withheld altogether unless your kingly Majesty will show me grace and confer upon me a predicate of your Majesty's Court Capelle, and will issue your high command to the proper persons...
Page 80 - I never forgot the passage in the sermon on the Mount, " Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy," and that " the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers.
Page 208 - Here ]5ach strikes a chord of deep elegiac feeling, such as we find nowhere else in his organ works. The Prelude with its firm and close texture leads us into a labyrinth of romantic harmony, such as has never been constructed by any more modern composer.
Page 50 - The solo songs stand among the choruses like isolated valleys between gigantic heights, serving to relieve the eye that tries to take in the whole composition.