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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 180 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53932 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 76 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 67 music 55 Paris 54 Beethoven 53 London 45 Mr. 41 Wagner 39 italian 39 Mozart 36 work 36 illustration 36 german 35 Vienna 34 Bach 31 french 30 Liszt 29 King 29 England 25 Schumann 23 St. 23 Haydn 22 New 22 Handel 21 time 21 great 21 Chopin 20 Italy 19 York 18 Opera 17 Madame 16 Prince 16 John 16 God 16 Berlin 14 Weber 14 Herr 14 Count 13 Miss 13 France 13 Footnote 13 Church 12 opera 12 english 12 art 12 Tristan 12 Mrs. 12 Mendelssohn 12 Dr. 11 Schubert 11 Rome 11 Lohengrin Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11238 most 515 well 337 least 17 highest 9 goethe 8 greatest 6 near 5 worst 5 iolanthe 5 hard 4 long 4 lest 3 youngest 3 oldest 3 lookest 3 fairest 3 brightest 2 lightest 1 writhe 1 wisest 1 wendest 1 stakest 1 smallest 1 sittest 1 poorest 1 opprest 1 newest 1 need,--1st 1 lowest 1 liest 1 latest 1 hidest 1 harpsichord,--the 1 handsomest 1 gavest 1 furthest 1 fullest 1 finest 1 est 1 eldest 1 early 1 anapaest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 www.gutenberg.net 5 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.freeliterature.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 2 http://www.freeliterature.org 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38654/38654-h/38654-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38654/38654-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28711/28711-h/28711-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28711/28711-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13341 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/2/0/21204/21204-h/21204-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/2/0/21204/21204-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/2/9/20293/20293-h/20293-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/2/9/20293/20293-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/2/6/20264/20264-h/20264-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/2/6/20264/20264-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/9/5/19958/19958-h/19958-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/9/5/19958/19958-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/1/3/18138/18138-h/18138-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/1/3/18138/18138-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/1/4/15141/15141-h/15141-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/1/4/15141/15141-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/1/0/14109/14109-h/14109-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/1/0/14109/14109-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/5/0/13504/13504-h/13504-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/5/0/13504/13504-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 81 composers see _ 67 _ see _ 63 music is not 61 one does not 47 performance took place 46 _ is _ 45 chopin did not 45 music was not 41 _ is not 36 music does not 30 beethoven did not 30 work was not 29 chopin was not 29 time went on 28 _ see also 27 work is not 25 _ was not 25 mozart was not 24 concert took place 24 mozart did not 23 one is not 23 wagner did not 21 _ did _ 21 wagner was not 20 _ do n''t 20 _ was _ 20 life was not 19 beethoven was not 19 music is as 19 music is full 19 voice was not 18 music is so 18 opera was not 17 _ do _ 17 one has ever 17 opera did not 17 opera was first 17 words are not 16 _ was first 16 composer was not 16 man is not 15 _ did not 15 art is not 15 one has only 15 wagner had not 14 music did not 14 music is always 14 work does not 13 _ does not 13 music is more Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 chopin was no longer 5 one is not always 5 time has not yet 4 time had not yet 4 wagner had not yet 3 _ is not so 3 chopin was not such 3 composer had not yet 3 music had not yet 3 music is not only 3 music was not so 2 _ is not easy 2 _ is not very 2 _ was not only 2 beethoven was not in 2 chopin did not even 2 chopin had no great 2 chopin had no taste 2 chopin had not much 2 chopin is not chopin 2 chopin was not exempt 2 chopin was not present 2 chopin was not yet 2 composer was not only 2 composers were not liberally 2 composers were not slow 2 compositions was no doubt 2 compositions was not such 2 day are not likely 2 form had not yet 2 friend was not so 2 friends did not even 2 life had no lull 2 life is not worth 2 life was not altogether 2 man is no longer 2 man showed no disposition 2 man took no pains 2 mozart had no means 2 mozart was not over 2 mozart was not thereby 2 music is no longer 2 music is no more 2 music is not at 2 music is not necessarily 2 music is not quite 2 music is not so 2 music was not only 2 music was not well 2 one had not often A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 19528 author = Alverson, Margaret Blake title = Sixty Years of California Song date = keywords = Alverson; Baritone; Blake; Boston; California; Campbell; Charles; Church; Contralto; Cruz; Dr.; Francisco; George; Hall; Henry; John; Kroh; Mary; Mezzo; Miss; Mission; Mr.; Mrs.; Oakland; Presbyterian; Prof.; Rev.; San; Santa; Soprano; St.; Stockton; Tenor; William; illustration; singer summary = Dedham, Mass., Church Choir, 1861, Men Singers _faces page_ 48 Dedham, Mass., Church Choir, 1861, Women Singers _faces page_ 52 opportunity to study the music of oratorios, church and concert work. music teacher and for many years organist of Calvary Church on Bush altos and sing with them." When the time came she gave me the music singers as Mrs. J.H. Long and Miss Louisa Adams, sopranos; Adelaide Mrs. Leach left later and became the soprano of Starr King Unitarian Church Melvin, bass; Miss Alberta Morse, soprano; Mr. Thornton, tenor; Mrs. M.B. Alverson, contralto. The artists were Mme. Anna Bishop, soprano; Mrs. M.R. Blake, contralto; Alfred Wilkie, tenor; Cornelius Makin, bass. Miss Dolly Sroufe, second soprano; Mrs. Blake-Alverson, contralto, and twenty-five years ago where she was soprano of the Old South Church years, during which time Mrs. Pierce was soprano in the largest mezzo-soprano, suitable for church work and concert singing. id = 40597 author = Anonymous title = Miniature essays: Igor Stravinsky date = keywords = Stravinsky; music summary = its vitality, for Stravinsky''s music is so characteristic an expression Stravinsky''s music, and that his personal expression always Strawinsky avec le détachement qui est la condition d''une appréciation est une expression si caractéristique des tendances artistiques de notre difficile de suivre que celle des autres compositeurs parce qu''elle est national est une question secondaire dans la musique de Strawinsky, et dont Strawinsky utilise les ressources des diverses formes de la musique le _Ragtime_ pour petit orchestre et piano, dans les deux séries de Chants russes_ et les _Trois Histoires pour enfants_. grand poète est devenue pour Strawinsky une absurdité, parce qu''à son résonnance qui étonne l''auditeur est le fait que Strawinsky écrit pour satisfaisante, telle qu''on la trouve dans les _Trois pièces pour Une conception tout-à-fait neuve est le ballet-divertissement: _Les musique des _Noces_, comme du reste toutes les dernières oeuvres de =Chant des Bateliers sur le Volga=, pour Instruments à vent id = 46526 author = Anonymous title = The Black Swan at Home and Abroad or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American Vocalist date = keywords = Black; Buffalo; Duchess; Elizabeth; February; Greenfield; Hall; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Swan; York summary = Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, or the "Black Swan," to adopt her performance of Miss Greenfield was received with great applause, We can safely say that Miss Greenfield possesses a voice of remarkable The Black Swan had a crowded house last evening, to enjoy her voice and THE BLACK SWAN''S CONCERT.--Miss Greenfield made her debut in this City hearing Miss Greenfield in rehearsal, but gentlemen of excellent musical The musical powers of Miss Greenfield are said to be of the most Miss Greenfield has arrived in the city, and will give her first concert Miss Greenfield, "The Black Swan," made her debut before a Boston the merits and musical talents of Miss Greenfield, and we look to-night evening by Miss Elizabeth Greenfield, alias the "Black Swan." Her voice Miss Greenfield, the (so-called) Black Swan. Mrs. Stowe, Miss Greenfield was present and sang some songs. concert was given at Exeter Hall last evening by Miss Greenfield, the id = 28711 author = Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke title = Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces date = keywords = ACT; Arline; Beckmesser; Brünnhilde; Count; Duke; Elsa; Hans; John; José; King; Leonora; Lionel; Mime; Nancy; Plunkett; Queen; Radames; Rigoletto; Sachs; Siegfried; Sir; Thaddeus; Walther; Wotan; music summary = most of thy time." Faust''s heart beat so with love that he feared to "I shall return, never to leave thee," he cried, and then, interrupted hands, and cries several times, "My God!" and looks so distracted that vow, I begin to love thee, for all of thy bothersome little ways." "Good-night," he said: and Lionel looking tenderly at Martha murmured, Thou art the Earl of Derby--and I love thee--so take my hand if "Come, friends, I want you to be going," John said at that moment, his to Faith: "Thou wert wrong, good mother!" She looked at him a moment "Thy time has come!" John of Leyden cried, and the vast hall began to "Thy mother is not a fitting guardian for thee, and thou art better know that Radames loves thee and that thou art here to meet him;--also "What shall I do for thee, Father Wotan?" Brünnhilde cried id = 27502 author = Ball, Thomas Hanly title = Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 date = keywords = Beethoven; Chandos; Duke; England; Handel; Messiah; Mr.; great; man; music; time summary = Before I say of that great composer and extraordinary man whose life I great influence over the mind of a man who considered musicians Piccadilly, the music had been composed by Handel. Anthems of Mr. Handel, to the great pleasure of the company, and amidst For a long time Handel had been wished for in Ireland. Handel was then fifty-six years old! performed at the Music Hall, in Fishamble-street, Mr. Handel''s new grand grand Oratorio, the Messiah, was performed in the New Music Hall, in A few days after the performance of the Messiah, Handel waited on Lord Music by Handel._ Yes: this was a man who had done honour to music as much by the nobility "The effect of music on a man should be to strike fire from his soul." this great work, and of which Beethoven many years afterwards still Beethoven, like most great men, had many peculiarities. id = 43539 author = Banks, Louis Albert title = Immortal Songs of Camp and Field The Story of their Inspiration together with Striking Anecdotes connected with their History date = keywords = Blue; Britannia; Brown; Columbia; Dixie; Doodle; Freedom; God; John; Maryland; Mr.; New; South; Union; Washington; Yankee; York; illustration; song summary = old song, which captured the fancy of the country and held its sway in author of _Hail Columbia_, adapted the words of his famous song _The and the soldiers went back to their homes, they carried this song in formed the marching song for over a million men, and have held their own Southern war song was written by a Yankee, a native of Massachusetts. _Kingdom Coming_ was Work''s first war song, and was written in 1861. war songs, Kittredge had an ear for music from the very first. war songs, had in it the heart experience of the man who wrote it. perhaps written more popular war songs than any other American. Bring the good old bugle, boys, we''ll sing another song, key to the people''s heart, and his song will live as long as the To compose the words and music of a song hundred popular songs, furnishing both the words and the music. id = 51365 author = Baughan, Edward Algernon title = Ignaz Jan Paderewski date = keywords = Chopin; London; Manru; Mr.; New; Paderewski; Rubinstein; York; pianist summary = Paderewski as the greatest of living pianists. Paderewski from the usual prodigy period in the career of pianist, for Mr. Paderewski is a monstrously powerful pianist, and herein lies "Harmonious Blacksmith." "Plainly," the critic adds, "we do not like Mr. Paderewski as an exponent of physical force. Paderewski" the critic praised the playing of some Chopin compositions suffered." The critic admired the pianist''s Chopin playing, but added made by Paderewski, although the Russian pianist, late in life, was platform at the end of a concert and induce the pianist to play a few The critic who would give a true appreciation of Paderewski as artist In the following appreciation of Paderewski as pianist critical study of Paderewski, written in 1893, he compared the playing Paderewski''s playing presents the beautiful Paderewski is, perhaps, at his best in the playing of Chopin and Liszt, Paderewski plays it. id = 13065 author = Beethoven, Ludwig van title = Beethoven''s Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 date = keywords = Archduke; Beethoven; Carl; Count; Herr; Kinsky; LUDWIG; London; Prince; Rudolph; Sonata; Symphony; VAN; Vienna; Y.R.H.; Zmeskall; dear; footnote summary = in my place, and then I shall hope to receive your forgiveness for my long settle here, I don''t doubt I shall be able to secure a particular day every friends having received no letters from me for years. I read your letter, dear brother and friend, with much pleasure, and I friend, pray lose no time in bringing the work before the notice of the letter from you, and, I hope, the works likewise, which I wish to see [Footnote 3: Beethoven did not at that time know in what year he was born. it is too late to-day for a written agreement on the subject, but one shall mean time I send you my best wishes, and beg you will believe in the The works are being copied, and you shall have them as soon as possible. In the mean time I hope soon to be able to present myself id = 13272 author = Beethoven, Ludwig van title = Beethoven''s Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 date = keywords = Archduke; Beethoven; Carl; Court; DEAR; Dr.; God; Herr; London; Mass; NEPHEW; Prince; Rudolph; Schindler; Society; Vienna; Y.R.H.; footnote; music summary = brother Schindler once got from Beethoven on a New Year''s day.] [Footnote 1: Carl Czerny relates in the Vienna _A.M. Zeitung_ of 1845, No. 113, as follows:--"Beethoven came to me usually every day himself with the I send you my very best wishes, and I beg especially to thank Frau A.Z. for letter (which he presented some years ago to Cocks, the London music "Friends to Music" who commissioned Beethoven to write an Oratorio in 1815. received a letter from my friend Prince Nicolaus Gallizin a few days ago, be delivered at any time to Herr Glöggl [music publisher in Vienna]. Have the goodness to send me the Rochlitz article on the Beethoven works, Albrechtsberger, the popular theorist and composer, Kapellmeister at St. Stephen''s in Vienna, for some time, about the year 1795, Beethoven''s much admired by Beethoven, and several times set to music by him. id = 26427 author = Bellasis, Edward title = Cardinal Newman as a Musician date = keywords = Beethoven; Cardinal; Dr.; Father; Footnote; Mozley; Mr.; Newman; St.; music summary = open to their power;"[2] how, too, "music is the expression of ideas old Don--a very good-natured man but too fond of music--played bass, [Footnote 27: The late Canon Mozley said that Chopin was "certainly a For good operatic music Cardinal Newman had, we believe, more of a like." Dr. Newman therefore learned that musically he was only an hands of the Church; its special prominence in the history of St. Philip and the Oratory; the part played by music in the history of on our referring to this music to Father Faber''s hymn "Conversion," he employed to write the music, and Mr. Newman wrote to his friend: "I Like St. Philip, too, "he took the word music in its widest sense, and Have figured music in Gothic churches, keep your Gregorian for attempt more, it''s like taxing a musical instrument beyond its attempt more, it''s like taxing a musical instrument beyond its [Music: BEETHOVEN. id = 38654 author = Bender, Millicent Schwab title = Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German date = keywords = Elsa; Eva; Goosegirl; King; Knight; Master; Sachs; Sir; Walter; Witch summary = The Goosegirl turned her eyes toward the figure of the Witch, and, as he looked upon the white hands and noble face of the youth before During all the long summer days the King''s Son and the Goosegirl World of Men. And the King''s Son shielded the Goosegirl with his love Long ago, in half-forgotten days, a little hut stood at the edge of a The young knight had loved this light-hearted maiden since he had first Strange to say, the moment Eva heard his voice she discovered that she "Ah, good morning, Sir Knight," replied Hans Sachs, forgetful of the A dreamy look was upon Elsa''s face as she told her story. hand, the Swan Knight advanced and stood before the King. Knight raised her and, looking into her eyes, asked but one promise, a The Swan Knight took Elsa tenderly into his arms for a moment, looking eyes, Sir Knight! id = 59056 author = Berlioz, Hector title = Index of the Project Gutenberg Prose Works of Hector Berlioz date = keywords = EPUB summary = INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG PROSE WORKS OF HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1869) The Prose Works of Hector Berlioz Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868 (Français) Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868 (Français) Le chef d''orchestre: théorie de son art (Français) Le chef d''orchestre: théorie de son art (Français) Les grotesques de la musique (Français) Les grotesques de la musique (Français) Les musiciens et la musique (Français) Les musiciens et la musique (Français) Les soirées de l''orchestre (Français) Les soirées de l''orchestre (Français) Mémoies de Hector Berlioz (Français) Mémoies de Hector Berlioz (Français) The Orchestral Conductor: Theory of His Art (English) Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 Kindle (no images)Plain Text UTF-8 id = 54999 author = Boise, O. B. (Otis Bardwell) title = Music and Its Masters date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; David; Egypt; God; Italy; Schubert; Schumann; Wagner; art; composer; form; great; music; musical summary = knowledge would not materially benefit music, which is the only art origin and growth of music accord with its inherent qualities, as well combination of musical means, the result of purely intellectual Natural music is composed of two species, that which is earnest and The growth of music from its initial stage to an art is quite musical evolution is drawn from the following sources: 1, the nature of development attests, and the art feeling expressed in their works, to some degree Wagner''s idea of consistent musical drama.) The organ, that initial art, incited these less scientifically musical people Bach was the mightiest man who has composed music. to the musical world because they voice recognizable advance in art later ideal, which time and experience developed, in which music and development of his music-drama on the lines and through the methods we attempts to materialize it, for great music results from the natural id = 39935 author = Bridge, Frederick title = Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell date = keywords = Abbey; Blow; Byrd; Chapel; Church; Deering; Henry; John; Locke; London; Music; Purcell; Royal; Thomas; Westminster summary = that great interest is taken in the 17th century music and musicians of remarkable company of English composers living in the early years of publish this fine example of early Church music, and it has been well Of late years much attention has been devoted to Byrd''s sacred music, of the musical works which were published at that time were issued by Church music is published, yet as Organist of Chichester Cathedral and, composed by ORLANDO GIBBONS, Batchelor of Music, Organist of H. To many the name of John Milton will hardly suggest a musical composer. is an interesting fact that the composer of the music to the last only Purcell''s master at the Chapel Royal, but actually composed an Blow, like Purcell, had a leaning to dramatic music and this Masque is this _Te Deum_ in the music of the Abbey Purcell Celebration. Purcell contributing an Anthem and other music. id = 21722 author = Bridges, Robert title = A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing date = keywords = Augustin; Nos; St.; book; hymn; melody; music; tune summary = hymns are that part of the Church music in which it is most desirable usual, proper, or possible to express by congregational singing of hymns. Of what music is our hymn-book to be constructed, which shall be give some account of the sources from which the music of such a hymn-book Clark must be regarded as the inventor of the modern English hymn-tune, Comparing a modern hymn-tune in this style with some fine setting of an hymn-words as the musical direction. to banish from our hymn-books all the tunes which we know to have a practice in modern books to put marks of musical expression to the words were to be found in _Hymns Ancient & Modern_; but by the time that the words and music of hymns, it will be found to be heavily in favour of words, the right to the music of each hymn: in the latter column will be id = 13291 author = Brower, Harriette title = The World''s Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Brahms; Chopin; Concerto; Court; Felix; Franz; Hamburg; Haydn; King; Leipsic; Liszt; London; Mozart; Paris; Rome; Schubert; Schumann; St.; Verdi; Vienna; Wagner; Weber; Wolfgang; music summary = One day when the boy was seven years old, the father was about to played the organ in the chapel, composed church music for the service took about a year to compose, besides a careful study of the French Music, and three great concerts were given in his honor, with special A new friend came into Schubert''s life the next year. little time for real work in composition, but a couple of songs and played or conducted, filled the young composer''s time. who began to arrange things for his little band and composed music for The master composed several piano trios, much choral music, good violinist, the two boys spent more time over music than over The young composer now started work on a second opera, the first, life work was to be composing, teaching and organ playing, with a wonderful work in these days, for all the present time artists perform id = 27265 author = Brownell, Gertrude Hall title = The Wagnerian Romances date = keywords = Alberich; Beckmesser; Brangaene; Brünnhilde; Elsa; Eva; Fafner; Fricka; God; Grail; Gunther; Gurnemanz; Hagen; Isolde; King; Knight; Loge; Mime; Nothung; Parsifal; Rhine; Ring; Sachs; Siegfried; Sieglinde; Siegmund; Tristan; Walhalla; Walther; Wotan; day; love summary = word does she utter about love,--but she brings his heart to a Wotan places the ring on his hand and stands "When the dark enemy of love shall in wrath beget a son, the end of "You followed, light of heart, the call of love," Wotan replies Wotan-sword alone an intrepid stupid boy, Siegfried, shall destroy long have I loved you, Siegfried!" He believes for a moment that dark enemy of Love shall in wrath beget a son, the end of the gods if she shall not accept the master-singers'' choice, Sachs knows So the offer stands: A lovely girl and a rich inheritance shall the world is life, is love, is joy, is a beautiful wish come true, all power of doubt my love shall stand!" He clasps her in his arms, comes home, and I am far away from him in life, you shall give id = 37786 author = Buck, Dudley title = The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University date = keywords = 8vo; Edition; Examples; Illustrations; Music; Musical; Piano; art; cloth; net; organ; work summary = influence, as exerted by the organ upon Church music, did not begin as organ already began to exert upon music, or the art composition, and to the "king of instruments" upon musical composition at this time. influence of the organ upon music at large began to diminish. his famous work entitled _The Present State of Music in Germany, the Second: Ignoring the emotional element in organ music to a great extent, appreciate the stricter forms of organ music. Studies of Composers, Histories of Musical Instruments, also valuable =ANALYSIS OF MENDELSSOHN''S ORGAN WORKS.= A Study of their Structural with many examples in musical type from the instrumental works of Illustrations of Early Instruments and Musical Examples, and Short have been found of great use to music students--"Guide for the =STUDIES IN HISTORICAL FACTS AND MUSICAL FORM.= Being a Guide and Note subject as the playing of a musical instrument, this little book id = 36472 author = Byron, May title = A Day with Robert Schumann date = keywords = Clara; Robert; Schumann; art; illustration; music summary = Professor Doctor Robert Schumann, rising before six o''clock as is his "Herr Schumann is a right good man, approximates most closely to that of Robert and Clara Schumann. (in those days) of the husband,--Schumann is solely and pre-eminently a Schumann considers this early morning hour the most precious of his day, _Neue Zeitschrift für Musik_ (New Musical Times), which he originally a musical critic that Schumann does not possess:" and in addition to good pianist, but conferred upon it a great composer: for it is possible art." The heavily-thoughtful face of the composer lights up with sudden music, which has been Schumann''s from youth, stands him in good stead I saw, my love, how sad thou art indeed,-that of their art which they can discuss with Robert Schumann. consecutive lines of beautiful, hardly of good, music." So Schumann has nature, that I cannot think of you apart from your music--and so I love id = 59672 author = Byron, May title = A Day with Ludwig Beethoven date = keywords = Adélaide; Beethoven; Neate; man; music; work summary = set to work to compose music. the life of Beethoven, one of the Master''s own wonderful compositions really lofty heart of the great composer as he sat indefatigably at the great B flat Sonata (Op. 106) which, like all his latter work, is Beethoven was primarily and permanently a composer of sonatas; for of the inner world of harmony at work within his brain," said Bettine Beethoven''s greatest works, as years went on, were "conceived, beseech the great Beethoven to receive him as a pupil for the piano. Beethoven was to-day in a genial and expansive frame of mind. natural beauty before his eyes, and that it enabled him to work. own early days; when, always working very hard, either as a performer than that which thou findest in thyself--thy art!" (_Beethoven''s one thing I ask of Thee, my God--not to cease Thy work in my id = 36308 author = Carroll, Lewis title = Songs From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass date = keywords = Queen; illustration; music summary = "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, "Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance. [Illustration: ''Tis the Voice of the Lobster] [Illustration: Beautiful Soup] Don''t let him know she liked them best, "The time has come," the Walrus said, "Oh, Oysters," said the Carpenter, [Illustration: The Message to the Fish] The little fishes of the sea The little fishes'' answer was Then some one came to me, and said, To what the old man said, He said "I go my ways, [Illustration: Queen Alice] To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said, [Illustration: The Fish Riddle] id = 45806 author = Carré, Michel title = Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts date = keywords = Cho; Dieu; Elle; Faust; MEPHISTOPHELES; March; Marguerite; Mart; Mep; Sie; Val; Wag; scene summary = _Faust._ No. _Mep._ Do you doubt my power? _Mep._ ''Tis well--all thou desirest I can give thee. MEPHISTOPHELES, FAUST, and SIEBEL. (MARGUERITE yields her arm to FAUST, and withdraws with him. FAUST and MARGUERITE re-enter.) _Faust._ Nay, I do love thee! _Faust._ Would''st thou have me leave thee? _Mep._ No pardon hath heaven left for thee! _Mep._ Marguerite, lost, lost art thou! MARGUERITE asleep; FAUST and MEPHISTOPHELES. _Faust._ Yes, I am here, and I love thee, _Faust._ Come, Marguerite, let us fly! _Faust._ Non. _Mep._ Doutes-tu ma puissance?... _Faust._ Et que peux-tu pour moi? _Mep._ Plus de bouquets à Marguerite!... (Il s''éloigne avec FAUST du même côté que MARGUERITE.) MEPHISTOPHELES, FAUST, puis SIEBEL. c''est comme une main qui sur mon bras se pose! Que j''apporte n''est pas pour vous mettre en gaité:-(MARGUERITE abandonne son bras à FAUST et s''éloigne avec Entre FAUST et MARGUERITE.) _Mep._ Marguerite! MARGUERITE, endormie, FAUST, MEPHISTOPHELES. id = 49747 author = Coerne, Louis Adolphe title = The Evolution of Modern Orchestration date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Brahms; English; Footnote; France; Gluck; Haydn; Liszt; Lulli; Mendelssohn; Monteverde; Movement; Mozart; New; Saint; Saëns; Schumann; Strauss; Wagner; Weber; american; french; german; italian; music summary = (3) Diversity of style between vocal and instrumental music pointed larger appreciation of orchestral color than was known in music for His instrumental forms were likewise Italian, and his orchestration, master''s instrumentation and orchestral form. of modern instrumental music, the precursor of Haydn, Mozart, and For the form of his independent instrumental works, Mozart followed favor of native dramatic and orchestral music. hand, neither his operas nor his orchestral works can be regarded in The instrumentation of his purely orchestral works is pointedly musical art, he combined dramatic and symphonic effects. evolution of orchestral music, and its continued development during Prominent contributors to instrumental and orchestral music are equally high rank as composers of orchestral and chamber music. purely instrumental music and large orchestral forms. of sacred music, cantatas and orchestral works, but his attainments orchestration are power of musical description; new combinations, school of instrumental music and was the most daring orchestral id = 36621 author = Colman, George title = Inkle and Yarico: An opera, in three acts date = keywords = Chr; Inkle; Med; Mr.; Patty; Plant; Sir; Trudge; Wows summary = _Trudge._ Lord, sir, I shall never recover what I have lost in coming _Trudge._ The old one--a tree, sir.--''Tis all we have for it now. _Enter INKLE and TRUDGE, as from the mouth of the cavern._ _Trudge._ Very likely, sir! _INKLE and TRUDGE come forward._ _Wows._ Iss. _Trudge._ Damme, what a flashy fellow I shall seem in the city! _Trudge._ Yes, sir, at the Crown here; a neat, spruce room they tell _Med._ Yet, let me tell you, Sir Christopher Curry, my character is as _Sir Chr._ In the mean time I''ll get ready Narcissa, and all shall be _Inkle._ Whence comes your intelligence, sir? _Trudge._ May I come in, sir? _Sir Chr._ Very likely; it''s a common case, now a-days, with many a man. _Sir Chr._ Look ye, young man; I love to be plain: I shall treat her _Trudge._ I shall, sir. _Inkle._ Sir, you shall feel-_Trudge._ A thing of my own, sir. id = 43214 author = Cummings, William Hayman title = Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia date = keywords = Alfred; Arne; Britannia; Covent; Dr.; Drury; Garden; Garrick; Handel; King; Lane; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Opera; Prince; Royal; Theatre; Thomas; Young summary = composed by Mr. Arne, and performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane." consisted of "an Opera called Rosamond, Written by the celebrated Mr. Addison, and set to Musick by Mr. Arne: King Henry, Mr. Baildon; Sir and Mrs. Storer will perform the vocal Parts"; on the following Nov. 29-Dec. 3, an elaborate advertisement detailed Mr. Arne''s plans:--"Mr. Arne proposes to exhibit, at the Theatre-royal in Aungier-street, On the 20th of March, Mrs. Arne had a benefit at Drury Lane Theatre, by Garrick, with music by Arne, was produced at Covent Garden Theatre. the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley, was perform''d Mr. Arne''s new Opera Dublin public; a Grand Ball was announced for the Benefit of Mrs. Arne and Miss Young at the Fishamble Street Music Hall on the 25th of composed by Dr. Arne, which was performed at the Theatre Royal in id = 46102 author = Daniels, Mabel W. (Mabel Wheeler) title = An American Girl in Munich: Impressions of a Music Student date = keywords = Baroness; Beethoven; Conservatory; English; Frau; Fräulein; Hartmann; Herr; Lieutenant; Munich; Mütterchen; Platz; Poet; Stavenhagen; Thuille; Waldfel; Wife; american; come; german summary = "I think we can arrange it," he said, smiling, "although my time is "This is where I buy my music," said Fräulein L----, stopping before a Feldernhalle itself came the sound of inspiring music played by the "I speak a very little German," said I, smiling, not feeling in the She is a dear little placid-faced woman of middle age, and he looks like Yesterday Fräulein Hartmann, Frau von Waldfel''s niece, arrived and Just as we were leaving the room after dinner Frau von Waldfel came up Fräulein Hartmann, looking charming in a light-blue gown which she just as good as a German lesson," she said. House before the new music room existed, taking notes on his lectures, "Caught you that time, _gnädiges Fräulein_," said a voice, and I met the "Dear," said the Fräulein, taking my hand in hers and speaking in those id = 9089 author = Dent, Edward J. (Edward Joseph) title = Handel date = keywords = Burney; Duke; England; February; Halle; Hamburg; Handel; Italy; January; London; Mattheson; Scarlatti; english; italian; opera summary = operas performed at Halle itself during the twenty years before Handel''s By that time Handel had left Hamburg for Italy; he evidently took little all of Handel''s London operas were represented on the Hamburg stage. Rome could offer Handel no opportunities either for composing operas or At the time when Handel arrived in London the opera company had migrated dramatic composer, and set London a new standard in Italian opera. The opera season came to an end in June, and Handel left London for of an Italian opera of Handel''s days is a story about some ancient or _Rinaldo_ and _Amadigi_ were revived, but Handel produced no new opera. by Handel''s new opera _Radamisto_, in which the same singers took part, _Floridante_ were revived; on January 12, Handel produced a new opera, but one performance; on the 22nd, Handel produced a new opera, or, as id = 62257 author = Dickson, W. E. (William Edward) title = Practical Organ Building date = keywords = Diapason; Fig; Stopped; Tenor; board; hole; illustration; inch; organ; pipe; stop summary = Dimensions of Organs--Construction of Sound-board--Channels --Sliders--Plantations of Pipes--Bars--Bearers--Upper Boards Sub-bass of 16-feet Tone--Scale--Wind-valve for Pedal Chest-the 8-_foot note_, because the open pipe is 8 feet in length, speaking considerations, that the sound-board is 4 feet long and 15 inches wide, we may cut out the upper boards from sound and clean bay-wood, 1-1/4 pipe-feet, while the holes in the upper board will only receive their pipes on twelve new holes bored in these thin boards last mentioned, upper, or treble, holes must not let the little pipes slip into them, _edges_ of the upper boards, and making the wind-hole beneath and the pipe-holes near the margin of the board, resulting in an arrangement The sound-board was about 5 feet 3 inches in length. _Method 3._--In small organs, with short sound-boards, the iron The sound-board for these three stops will be only 2 feet 9 inches in id = 43873 author = Dry, Wakeling title = Giacomo Puccini date = keywords = Bohème; Butterfly; Cavaradossi; Des; Edgar; Grieux; Manon; Mimi; Pinkerton; Puccini; Ricordi; Rodolfo; Scarpia; Tosca; illustration; music summary = Puccini''s musical expression, at first purely vocal, to play a little of the music he thought of putting in the new opera. the production of a new play or musical piece, it is little short of Puccini''s _Manon_--music and story, for it is impossible to separate In Puccini''s opera we find after the meeting of Manon and Des Grieux at little musical dialogue, which Puccini always expresses so dramatically into an expressive little duet, in which Manon longs for Des Grieux''s Since _Manon_ was the work by which Puccini''s operatic music was first In the pastoral music at the opening of the third act Puccini uses with about this time said of the work: "As an opera, it would be in one act A little time after this Puccini heard With this last opera of Puccini we come to the end of the chapter, and id = 38223 author = Edwards, F. G. (Frederick George) title = The History of Mendelssohn''s Oratorio ''Elijah'' date = keywords = Bartholomew; Birmingham; Committee; Elijah; FELIX; Festival; Footnote; London; Lord; Mendelssohn; Mr.; english; music summary = It is fifty years since Mendelssohn''s "Elijah" was first performed. translation of "Elijah," written by Mendelssohn to her brother-in-law, FAC-SIMILE OF MENDELSSOHN''S METRONOMIC TIMES FOR "ELIJAH" 125 nine of Mendelssohn''s songs are set to words by Klingemann.] Musical Festival, where it was given for the first time in England, subject for musical treatment as "Og of Bashan." The following letter, Moscheles, Mendelssohn wrote: "A new oratorio, too, I have begun; but Mendelssohn''s oratorio of "Elijah" would never have been given to the Mendelssohn then set vigorously to work at the music. The music of "Elijah" was composed to German words; an English version _The English Translator of Mendelssohn''s "Elijah."_ The music of "Elijah" came to Bartholomew from Mendelssohn in He at once wrote the following letter to Mendelssohn:-[Footnote 43: The German words which Mendelssohn _originally_ selected _The original Elijah in Mendelssohn''s Oratorio._] The following letters from Mendelssohn to Bartholomew, all written in id = 38534 author = Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) title = The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School date = keywords = Barber; Bellini; Donizetti; Edition; Illustrations; Italy; London; Mozart; Naples; New; Paris; Rossini; Verdi; author; italian; opera summary = Rossini''s first work, written when he was sixteen years of age and to which it belonged), and he wished Rossini to compose an opera for his Barbaja, for whom Rossini composed so many admirable works, gave it at composed six years later, it was an opera so far as regards form, and fifty years later heard at least once in an opera attributed to Rossini Rossini''s operas of the year 1812 were two written for the San Mosè of ITALIAN OPERA UNTIL THE TIME OF ROSSINI. ITALIAN OPERA UNTIL THE TIME OF ROSSINI. Rossini, in fact, introduced into serious opera the forms which comic separated the musical pieces in the works composed by Rossini''s subject of his own operas, Rossini said that much of what he had written successful operas by Rossini and other Italian composers (_L''Elisir_, G.)._ With numerous Illustrations and a Map. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3_s._ 6_d._ Second Edition. id = 45705 author = Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) title = The Life of Rossini date = keywords = Barber; CHAPTER; England; Guillaume; Italy; London; Madame; Mozart; Naples; Opera; Paris; Rossini; San; Tancredi; Tell; french; italian summary = Rossini''s operas which, many years after its production, was thought If the libretto was absurd, the music which Rossini composed to it was great operas, though written fully thirty years before Rossini''s best of music as Rossini''s work, but it contains seven very interesting But, full of beautiful and very dramatic music as Rossini''s opera musical pieces were separated in the serious works of Rossini''s only one of Rossini''s Italian operas containing ballet music, a style in However, at the King''s Theatre Rossini''s operas were produced in their Indeed, the history of the opera Rossini was to compose for London, and music so composed would be like that of Rossini, and not up to the mark during the production of the works which Rossini now composed or This opera, the last but one that Rossini composed, contains the first Rossini''s operatic music; but that only means that the composer, in id = 20571 author = Elson, Arthur title = Woman''s Work in Music date = keywords = Anna; Beethoven; Caroline; Clara; Countess; Elizabeth; England; Germany; London; Louise; Marie; Mary; Mlle; Mme; Mrs.; Operas; Paris; Piano; Schumann; Songs; Troubadours; Vienna; Violin; composer; music; work summary = These works placed Schumann in the foremost rank of song composers, and among other works produced songs, piano sonatas, violin pieces, and great organ masters, besides publishing songs, duets, and piano works of Millar, a composer of songs and orchestral-choral works, met with more part-songs, piano pieces, church music, and an oratorio, "The Victory of dramatic cantatas, a number of songs, and many piano and violin pieces. excellent violin sonatas, besides piano pieces, songs, and some organ found time to compose several marches and a number of songs and piano and a number of violin sonatas, piano pieces, and songs. sister, has composed a few excellent piano pieces and a number of songs. pupil of Dudley Buck, has also composed songs, besides piano works and a songs and piano music. music, as well as the usual amount of songs and piano pieces. for several songs, piano sonatas, and other works. id = 40383 author = Engel, Carl title = Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlin; Church; England; Gluck; Handel; Hindustan; John; London; Louis; Mozart; Museum; Strassburg; Thomas; century; composer; english; european; french; german; great; history; illustration; instrument; italian; music; musical; musician; time; year summary = musical instruments,--as, for instance, of the most celebrated organs, collection of antiquated musical instruments, which, probably, Do the people possess any musical instrument of a very peculiar Are there dances accompanied by musical instruments, by singing, or instruction books for singing, and for playing musical instruments, David had, it is recorded, musical instruments made of a wood called Music"), at Vienna, possesses a collection of antiquated instruments, Old musical instruments are generally so fragile, and were formerly An interesting collection of antiquated musical instruments has been The collection of musical instruments which belonged to King Henry VIII. Old and scarce musical instruments have obtained their favourite instrument of music originally from the water? probable, that in a hundred years'' time we shall have admirable musical great attraction for the musical composers of the eighteenth century. performing upon musical instruments, is derived from the sounds of the all kinds of musical instruments. id = 40384 author = Engel, Carl title = Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) date = keywords = Beethoven; Church; England; English; France; Germany; Greeks; Hamburg; Handel; Heinrich; Italy; Johann; John; King; Leipzig; London; Mainwaring; Masses; Mattheson; Operas; Paris; Rome; School; Schubert; St.; Vienna; Vol; bear; compose; italian; music; oratorio summary = Johann Mattheson, born in Hamburg, in the year 1681, was at the time of Handel''s arrival tenor singer and musical composer at the theatre of the age of 83,--Mattheson published a great number of treatises on musical he composed the music Mattheson had been deaf for nearly thirty years. pieces, dance-music, to cheer the heart; and to England we leave the composer represented with all the powers of music the moment called work them out carefully according to the rules of musical composition. (Frederick the Great) King of Prussia (born 1712, died 1786) was a performers on musical instruments they can find in the country. case with the music composed for the instruments; it did not possess the Islands, in the year 1769, a comedy with music and dancing, performed by present century, a kind of musical drama performed by men and boys, the present opera _music_ is the principal art. id = 32835 author = Farrar, Geraldine title = Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer date = keywords = Berlin; Boston; Farrar; Melrose; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Opera; Paris; Royal; York; illustration; sing summary = _Miss Farrar and her First Singing Teacher, Mrs. Long_ 8 Long, the best-known singing teacher in Boston at that time, and this These two concerts were followed by further careful study under Mrs. Long, and then at last came the eventful night when I made my real début Company, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, visited Boston opera artists in the world, at the Metropolitan in New York. Berlin to study, but I never expect to sing in opera here." "Would you like to sing for the Intendant of the Royal Opera?" she The Intendant of the Royal Opera at that time was Count von Hochberg, a [Illustration: THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, BERLIN] The night of October 15, 1901, was my début at the Royal Opera, Berlin. letting an American girl sing in Italian in the sacred Royal Opera exorbitant figure to sing three performances of the new opera in id = 17461 author = Ferris, George T. (George Titus) title = The Great German Composers date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Chopin; England; Franz; Gluck; Handel; Haydn; London; Mendelssohn; Mozart; Mr.; Paris; Prince; Schubert; Schumann; Vienna; Wagner; Weber; composer; german; great; italian; music summary = Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, that the musical world learned what a So he set to work to compose music for the occasion, which he As Signor Handel, ''the composer of Italian music,'' oratorios, our composer produced the beautiful music to Dryden''s Handel''s great music must have had a powerful effect in stimulating Mozart''s musical greatness, shown in the symmetry of his art as well as The composer of three of the greatest operas in musical history, besides All the great composers from Handel to Wagner have considered, in the severe sense of a great and symmetrical musical work, The last four years of our composer''s life were passed amid great composed a large mass of chamber-music and works for the piano. first sung to Goethe, the great poet said: "Had music, instead of words, music as the place where many of the great operas were first presented id = 17462 author = Ferris, George T. (George Titus) title = Great Italian and French Composers date = keywords = Beethoven; Berlioz; Cherubini; Donizetti; Europe; Faust; France; Gluck; Gounod; Italy; Les; London; Meyerbeer; Mozart; Paris; Piccini; Rome; Rossini; Verdi; composer; french; german; great; italian; music; opera; work summary = "The Great Italian and French Composers" is a companion work to "The produced several of his finest works, among which musical students place than the opera itself, and is one of the great works of musical art. year, an opera with some powerful dramatic effects and bold music, gave great composers ignore, Bellini had extraordinary skill in writing music times, set to music by the most celebrated of living Italian composers. the day; and four years afterward he composed his first work, a mass. known to the musical public of to-day; for his operas, owing to the the glory of French music, not only by his genius as a composer, but the composer''s remarkable talent for musical drama, his operas compose an opera on a libretto from this work, which was given at the Among Berlioz''s later works was an opera of which he had composed both id = 17463 author = Ferris, George T. (George Titus) title = Great Violinists and Pianists date = keywords = Beethoven; Bull; Bériot; Chopin; Clara; Clementi; Corelli; England; Europe; Germany; Gottschalk; Liszt; London; Mme; Moscheles; Mozart; Ole; Paganini; Paris; Schumann; Spohr; Thalberg; Vienna; Viotti; french; great; life; musical; year summary = great violin-makers were writing music destined to be better understood hand, to show the greatest virtuoso of the age how to play the music. In the following year Spohr and his young wife set out on a musical Spohr soon gave two important new works to the musical world, the opera believed in the greatness of his own musical genius as a composer in the but Spohr founded a new style of violin playing, on which the greatest our artist lived in Paris, and was the great lion of musical and powerful example of Spohr and the musical spirit of the great composers, concert, which beginning gave full play to the music-madness beyond all he is received.--Pictures of Art-Life in Paris.--London and its Musical he is received.--Pictures of Art-Life in Paris.--London and its Musical more beautiful songs, much piano-forte and concerted music, and the In 1846, among Liszt''s other musical experiences, he played in concerts id = 17464 author = Ferris, George T. (George Titus) title = Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag date = keywords = Arnould; Billington; Braham; Catalani; England; Europe; Farinelli; Faustina; Gabrielli; Hasse; Italy; King; London; Mara; Mme; Mrs.; Paris; Pasta; Sophie; english; french; german; great; italian; singer summary = Mme. Mara.--Mrs. Billington''s Greatness in English Opera.--She sings in Italy in 1794-''99.--Her Great Power on the Italian Stage.--Marriage with of Mme. Mara''s Early Life.--Her Great Triumphs on the English Latter Years.--Sketch of the Great Singer Farinelli.--The Old Age of Latter Years.--Sketch of the Great Singer Farinelli.--The Old Age of He was to appear for the first time with Senesino, another great singer, Mount Edgcumbe''s Opinion of her Singing.--Her Rivalry with Mme. Mara.--Mrs. Billington''s Greatness in English Opera.--She sings in Italy voice at this time had not attained the volume and power of after-years, this, especially from the character of the English opera, of which Mrs. Billington was so brilliant an exponent; for this was rather musical voices of the two singers were admirably fitted for the music of the the French opera, in 1808, it was to the great regret of musical London. his time, possessing a powerful and well-toned voice, great execution as id = 17465 author = Ferris, George T. (George Titus) title = Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens date = keywords = Alboni; Devrient; Garcia; Grisi; Jenny; Lablache; Lind; London; Malibran; Mario; Mlle; Mme; Norma; Opera; Paris; Pasta; Rubini; Vienna; french; german; great; italian summary = Tenors, Nourrit and Duprez, and of the Great Barytone, Ronconi.--Mme. Viardot and the Music of Meyerbeer.--Her Creation of the Part of _Fides_ of her uneven, rebellious voice, a most magnificent singer, Mme. Schröder-Devrient did not care to be, though nature, as I have heard tall blonde beauty, with a fresh, charming voice, but utterly Mme. Schrôder-Devrient''s inferior in all the requirements of the great In the following year (1833), Mme. Schröder-Devrient sang under Mr. Bunn at the Covent Garden Theatre, appearing in several of Weber''s and The Childhood of a Great Artist.--Giulietta Grisi''s Early Musical The Childhood of a Great Artist.--Giulietta Grisi''s Early Musical London Public.--Character of Grisi''s Singing and Acting.--Anecdotes of London Public.--Character of Grisi''s Singing and Acting.--Anecdotes of Italian Opera in Paris, and he came to London to hear the new singer--in Voice and Person.--A Great Excitement over her Second Appearance Voice and Person.--A Great Excitement over her Second Appearance id = 34381 author = Ferris, George T. (George Titus) title = Great Musical Composers: German, French, and Italian date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlin; Berlioz; Cherubini; Chopin; England; Europe; Faust; France; Gluck; Gounod; Handel; Haydn; Italy; London; Mendelssohn; Meyerbeer; Mozart; Mr.; Naples; Paris; Piccini; Rameau; Rome; Rossini; Schubert; Schumann; St.; Verdi; Vienna; Wagner; Weber; composer; english; french; german; great; italian; music; opera; work summary = In reading the lives of these great musical composers, we can trace So he set to work to compose music for the occasion, which he of Chandos, to compose operas for the Royal Academy of Music at the composition, Handel''s great music must have had a powerful effect in plunged, he continued to compose the great number of works produced at Mozart''s musical greatness, shown in the symmetry of his art as well and harmony, and composed a large mass of chamber-music and works for students of music as the place where many of the great operas were art-work, apart from the mere musical beauty of his compositions. great throng of those who loved his beautiful music and admired his than the opera itself, and is one of the great works of musical art. year, an opera with some powerful dramatic effects and bold music, id = 18560 author = Finck, Henry T. title = Chopin and Other Musical Essays date = keywords = Bach; Bayreuth; Beethoven; Chopin; Herr; Liszt; Mozart; Mr.; New; Schubert; Schumann; Vienna; Wagner; Weber; York; composer; german; italian; music; opera; time; work summary = Chopin, but a leading music dealer in New York told me that he sold originality, as superior to his earlier works as Wagner''s last music terms of Chopin''s trio, in which "every note is music and life," he that "he was deficient in the profounder musical attainments"(!) Dr. Hanslick, generally considered the leading German critic of the person with the least musical talent can learn in a few years to write and the style of music, the masculine side of Chopin''s genius. composed his most inspired music in connection with his one opera reason that people of primitive musical taste care only for operas his music to the style of the Italian singers--fortunately; for, if composers have done in stage music; and it is because Wagner taught Wagner''s style of music discourages singing of this sort, or, in fact, melody in Italian than in German music. id = 15141 author = Fischer, George Alexander title = Beethoven, a character study Together with Wagner''s indebtedness to Beethoven date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Bonn; Breuning; Count; Goethe; Haydn; Johann; Karl; Lichnowsky; Mass; Mozart; Napoleon; Prince; Schindler; Symphony; Vienna; Wagner; great; life; music; time; work; year summary = Beethoven were not in accord on the subject of musical composition, each Beethoven''s work however, shows intellectuality of the highest kind, and This Symphony was the best work which Beethoven had yet accomplished; a The year 1805 saw Beethoven hard at work in a field new to It is evident that Beethoven enjoyed working on the Mass, and was quite Another great work which was completed about this time was the Symphony Next in the order of Beethoven''s great works comes the Pastoral Beethoven''s music was frequently performed at Goethe''s house for the last ten years of his life says in relation to Beethoven''s love The year 1823 in which Beethoven practically completed his life-work Here is a work so interwoven into Beethoven''s very life and spirit, that The Beethoven biography was Thayer''s life-work, to which he The music consisted of two equali composed by Beethoven many years Haydn and Beethoven, life-work of, 20. id = 39925 author = Ford, Ernest title = A Short History of English Music date = keywords = Arthur; Byrd; Charles; Church; Elizabeth; England; Hallé; Handel; Henry; London; Madame; Mr.; Purcell; Queen; Royal; Sir; Society; Sullivan; Tallis; british; english; great; italian; music summary = the complex state of music existing in England at the present time. wars of the Roses--Early perfection of sacred music--Difficult times work, which remains to-day, as the highest type of Church music, of The music was composed by the three most celebrated English musicians The fact that there is comparatively little of old-time music extant is loss of music to the English in those early Calvinistic times must have successful sacred work produced in England up to the time of Sir Edward effect of his oratorios--English music festivals and foreign people who may be found in England to-day, possessed of no ear for music The long association, musically, of Sir Charles Hallé, and the great original music, which he scored, it may be said, at a time of great the art of music, on the part of the English people. the art of music, on the part of the English people. id = 6443 author = Frost, William Henry title = The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas date = keywords = Daughter; Father; Fool; Gods; Grail; King; fire; knight summary = "''Come quickly,'' says the Father of the Gods, ''and let us get this the Father of the Gods is sure that the hero who knows no fear has come "The king does tell him a little of this story, when the hero asks him, away and to lead his bride before the King, where he will come and tell Knight of the Swan comes too, and he asks the King if he did right to "And won''t the knight come back at all?" asked the little girl. "Is he a knight?" asked the little girl, instinctively knowing him for "The young knight, who knows the goldsmith, tells him now that he wants He is thinking, I know, of the young knight and his song, black knight is such a big man and looks like such a good fighter that "While the old knight and the woman stand here, another comes toward id = 34302 author = Galloway, William Johnson title = The Operatic Problem date = keywords = England; France; House; Italy; King; National; Opera; art; italian; operatic; theatre; year summary = criticism of those who look upon all theatres and opera houses as "This style of work (opera) is a new style, born a few years ago at opera house, as was the case for a certain period in France. Opera House produced a quantity of works, and at the same time Drury examine how continental nations fare under the ægis of State-aided Art. Italy, Germany and France present the most characteristic instances, and these have seasons of opera at various times of the year. _Lucia di Lammermoor_ from letting the music of the opera for 50 francs The Berlin Opera House receives a yearly subvention of 900,000 marks, or At the National Theatre, Prague--48 operas and 6 ballets. Most of these theatres produce every year one new work at least, and The Paris Opera House, like all other theatres in France, and for the id = 46982 author = Gautier, Judith title = Richard Wagner and His Poetical Work, from "Rienzi" to "Parsifal" date = keywords = Amfortas; Grail; Gurnemanz; Isolde; Kundry; Lucerne; Paris; Parsifal; Sachs; Tristan; Wagner; Walter; work summary = populace as a well-loved king; a mountain was climbed, a sail followed; works, which rise successively, one above the other, from the lovely faithfully keep to the law thou imposest upon me?" "Elsa, I love thee," Parsifal, my father, is King of the Grail, and I, his knight, am named lightning burst forth drops from his hand; youth, beauty, love are gone me," says Hunding to the unknown; "may my house be sacred to thee," not the free hero who should redeem thee, for thou hast guided him, now, youths," he cries, "the hour is come for attending upon the king; "Thy mother, from whom thou hast escaped," says Gurnemanz; "she weeps young, too innocent,--thy purity once stained, thou art mine." Kundry, At Kundry''s cries the young girls come forth from the palace. "Greeting, my guest," says Gurnemanz: "Dost thou not know what day this this forest, and salute thee again, thou good old man?" id = 47080 author = Gautier, Judith title = Wagner at Home date = keywords = Cosima; French; King; Lohengrin; Lucerne; Ludwig; Madam; Master; Meistersinger; Munich; Paris; Rheingold; Richard; Richter; Rienzi; Schnorr; Servais; Tribschen; Tristan; Villiers; Wagner; time summary = in order not to lose any time at the theatre," cries the Master, Wagner surprised me to-day, on the threshold of this little study, One day, having landed at Tribschen, as I reached the house, I heard following day, Wagner, as soon as he saw him in the distance, made a enthusiastic about Wagner, she has been for a long time devoted to his This reached such a point that Wagner, fearing for his royal friend, Villiers had promised Wagner to read him his one-act play _La Révolte_, Richard Wagner, while in Munich, had been for a long time the I received a letter from Tribschen in which Wagner said that he accordance with the King''s wishes, Wagner would himself go to Munich to Cosima told me that at one time in Munich she had received each day as "Wagner would not feel like it, I know him: under such circumstances id = 36147 author = Gemünder, George title = George Gemünder''s Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General date = keywords = America; Bull; Gemünder; Vuillaume; italian; tone; violin summary = One day Vuillaume handed Gemünder a violin, with the remark that he Gemünder the greatest violin maker of all times, for Wilhelmj had admired Gemünder''s "Kaiser" violin at the Vienna Exhibition, as it was VIOLINISTS AND AMATEURS HAD OF THE TONE OF OLD AND NEW VIOLINS--HOW violins have not been constructed so as to possess the tone of old Gemünder can bring such a tone in new violins!" good player, was present and anxious to hear the Italian violin. At the time when Gemünder had his violin in the Exhibition of Vienna, have acknowledged the tone in George Gemünder''s violins to be of the the quality of tone which is fit for concerts, for most Italian violins knowledge of the production of tone as the best violin maker. also were his new violins, so far as the production of tone was repairer, or on the violin maker, if it is a new instrument. id = 808 author = Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck) title = The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan date = keywords = ACT; ALINE; BAR; BUN; CAPT; CAS; CHORUS; Court; DON; DUKE; FAIRFAX; GENERAL; GIU; GROS; Grand; JOSEPH; JULIA; King; LUD; Lady; Lord; MAR; MERYLL; PATIENCE; PHOEBE; PITTI; POINT; POOH; Princess; ROB; RUD; RUTH; SIR; SONG; STREPH; TESS; THES; WILFRED; Yum; aside; enter; frederic; girl summary = Bless her tough old heart, she''s a mean little darling! My good sir, I''m a light-hearted girl, but I don''t reverence—venerate Sir Joseph, for he is a great and good man; daughter, and tell her, like an honest man, of the honest love I young lady, I shall know it''s an elderly relative. married to-day to the man I love best and I believe I am the very My good sir, I decline to pin my heart upon any lady''s (FREDERIC rises and comes forward with PIRATE KING, who enters) KING: Yes, Frederic, from to-day you rank as a full-blown Florian: My lord, we love our King. That no one knows!" Indeed, I love thee — Come! Nay, dear one, where true love is, there is little Who loves this young lady to-day, PATIENCE The love of such a man as you for such a girl as I must id = 14109 author = Gilman, Lawrence title = Edward MacDowell: A Study date = keywords = America; Boston; Debussy; Idyls; Lancelot; Liszt; MacDowell; Mr.; New; Old; Pieces; Raff; Sea; Sketches; Woodland; York; music; piano; song; work summary = music-makers, Claude Debussy, whom MacDowell described as having worked like a beaver, evolving the music from some ideas upon which I thanks." The suites were the first of MacDowell''s works to appear in concerto was composed in 1882, when MacDowell was nineteen years old]. music], Professor MacDowell went to the piano to play ''A Hot Time in Of Liszt and Chopin: "To all of this new, strange music [the piano direct communication, to the music of such a writer as MacDowell. the work, though it is known that in composing the music MacDowell was Their proper place in MacDowell''s musical To gain a true sense of MacDowell''s place in American music it is The music of MacDowell was, almost from the first, in a wholly Yet MacDowell was a Celt, and his music is What are the distinguishing traits, after all, of MacDowell''s music? MacDowell in his music is full-blooded, id = 38268 author = Gilman, Lawrence title = Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries date = keywords = Debussy; Mr.; Mélisande; Pelléas; Puccini; Salome; Saëns; Strauss; Tristan; Wagner; drama; music summary = composer of imaginative orchestral works and of chamber music, he is drama at the expense of the music, but--as was the case with Wagner In choosing the subject for this music-drama, Puccini set himself a effective dramas--is their ideal suitability for musical translation. possible musical means that will appropriately express it: to-day we it be cheerfully owned, to the glory of musical art--through Wagner''s Wagner''s later music-dramas to which one can point, by reason of their to write dramatic music for single voices and instruments with nothing _Mélisande_?--a scene for which Debussy has written music of almost characters in music-drama, is "almost anti-lyric," he speaks with possible in music-drama a use of the voice which permits of an music-dramas of Wagner a frankness of melody in the vocal writing music-drama into which Debussy has transformed Maeterlinck''s play For in the musical setting of Debussy, Maeterlinck''s drama has found id = 29280 author = Glover, Ellye Howell title = How the Piano Came to Be date = keywords = Bach; London; New; illustration; instrument; piano summary = the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. stringed instrument which reached its culmination in the piano. the stringed instrument is of very ancient date. He set to work to make a musical instrument, using the shell the Hebrews that these people had stringed musical instruments at a Just how many strings Hermes had on his tortoise-shell instrument is a The virginal, spinet, and harpsichord followed the clavichord The instrument which belonged, once upon a time, to Mary Queen of Scots that the instrument must have been almost as commonly used as the piano [Illustration: Christofori Piano from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his manuscripts he mentions an instrument called _piano e forte_. at the clavichord, not while at the piano or harpsichord." whole community, stating that the coming of the new musical instrument Ten or twelve pianos were all he could make in one year and, to id = 35812 author = Gounod, Charles title = Charles Gounod Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music date = keywords = Academy; Director; Don; France; GOUNOD; Grand; Ingres; Lycée; Madame; Monsieur; Paris; Prix; Rome; Rue; St.; Vienna; art; dear; good; mother; time; work summary = If I have worked any good, by word or deed, during my life, I owe it to My mother wrote and asked him to come and pass judgment on my musical mother''s work consisted in giving music lessons at her own house all School of Music, well known in later years as the composer of a number with extra work to make up for lost time, I took good care the masters the great master''s works, and before long I stood high in his good One day Monsieur Ingres said to me, "If you like I will get you back to and son, then two years old, I had gone through the work with Monsieur MY DEAR FRIEND PIGNY,--In my mother''s letter, received to-day, she well of a brother artist''s work, the natural inference is that he thinks between the work of art and the artist''s ideal conception. id = 37996 author = Graeme, Elliott title = Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) date = keywords = Beethoven; Bonn; Breuning; Count; Elector; Footnote; Goethe; Haydn; Johann; Lichnowski; Ludwig; Mozart; Prince; Ries; Sonata; Variations; Vienna; major; theme; time summary = Studies in Counterpoint--What did Beethoven compose in Bonn?--Why have We know that Beethoven proceeded as a young man to Vienna, which he Beethoven made his way in the year 1732, with a light heart and still Ludwig van Beethoven the elder was no composer, and in those days the discernment, as the great composer was at that time comparatively little Beethoven at the time being nearly thirteen--not _eleven_ years of age (the friend and biographer of Beethoven, at that time a medical student About this time also Beethoven gained another friend, Count Waldstein, a Beethoven, and his faith in the young composer''s genius:-wrote to Bonn, "I must now give up all great works to him [Beethoven], Beethoven had no time for the _petits-soins_ of life, his thoughts were "where," says Ferdinand Ries, "Beethoven played for the first time[15] [Footnote 29: Beethoven was at the time in his thirty-second year; but id = 16840 author = Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) title = Stories of the Wagner Opera date = keywords = Alberich; Brunhilde; Elsa; Grail; Holy; Mime; Rienzi; Siegfried; Sieglinde; Siegmund; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Wagner; Wotan; Ysolde summary = watch over the anchored vessel, singing of the maiden he loves ends by fervently praying that he may soon appear to put her love and of his release from the curse, but soon he begins to love prays that death may soon come to ease her pain and bring her sight, the Swan Knight announces to the king that he has come Blanchefleur, sister of King Mark of Cornwall, falls in love scenes of his happy youth; but Tristan sadly declares that life knight, approaching the maiden softly, declares his love in a beauty, and he soon falls madly in love with them, and makes of this statement, the gods soon behold a long train of dwarfs his curse after the gods, declaring the ring will ever bring the time came for her son Siegfried to come into the world. Next Brunhilde comes upon the scene, singing a song of vengeance; id = 3788 author = Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) title = Haydn date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Capellmeister; Creation; Eisenstadt; England; Esterhazy; Frau; Genzinger; God; Handel; Haydn; Herr; Joseph; King; London; Mozart; Music; Prince; Salomon; Thomson; Vienna; work summary = Haydn had been two years with Frankh when an important piece of good years of the new order of things, but Haydn''s regard for his memory was I ever heard, and the great Haydn is his court and theatre composer. and amateurs of Vienna in regard to Haydn''s music. English Music about 1791--Salomon--Mozart and Haydn--Terms for Concerts--Haydn on Handel--Oxford Doctor of Music--The Music in London, published the year after Haydn''s arrival, remarks were any letters of the second London visit, it is curious that Haydn Haydn left London some time towards the end of June 1792. eminent violinists were in London at the time of Haydn''s visit. time Haydn''s work was entirely over. Like all the really great composers, Haydn was no pedant in the matter Haydn''s music is like "Studies of Great Composers"--Haydn, Parry London, 1887 "Musical Haunts in London"--Haydn in F. "Mozart and Haydn in London" Pohl Vienna, 1867 id = 21982 author = Hart, George title = The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators date = keywords = Amati; Andrea; Antonio; Bass; Bergonzi; Carlo; Charles; Count; Cremona; Duke; England; English; Fiddle; Francesco; Gasparo; Giovanni; Giuseppe; Guarneri; Italy; Jacob; Johann; John; Joseph; London; Mr.; Niccolo; Paolo; Paris; Salo; Stainer; Stradivari; Thomas; Violin; Violoncellos; Viols; William; cremonese; footnote; german; italian; violinist summary = maker, and termed "The English Amati;" high character of his work and Violin; his purchase of Stradivari''s instruments, patterns, tools, musical historians as to a bowed instrument of the Fiddle kind having value set upon the Violin both as a work of art and as a musical musicians contemporary with the great Violin-makers were writing music instruments, the makers of Violins must certainly have enjoyed The chief features of the Italian School of Violin-makers having been This famous maker of Violins was born at Cremona in the year 1687, and believing that Violin makers of the order of Stradivari must be like Stradivari as Violin-makers for upwards of sixty-three years. work said to have been shown in the instruments of this maker. "John Betts, Real Musical Instrument Maker, at the Violin and German music-publishers and instrument-sellers, and were not Violin-makers. playing most musical instruments, and least of all the Violin. id = 20264 author = Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald) title = Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner''s Great Opera date = keywords = Amfortas; Grail; Gurnemanz; Klingsor; Kundry; Parsifal; Wagner summary = life thereof." That is the key-note of _Parsifal_, the Knight of the spear were committed to Titurel, who became a holy knight and head of a by turns the Knights of the Grail, then falls under the spell of Through the Wound-motive comes the sweet woodland music and the breath forest music again breaks forth, the king is carried on to his bath, and Holy Palace, what time the mystic light streams forth and the assembled As the wounded King Amfortas is borne in, the assembled knights, each Gurnemanz is seated among knights; Parsifal stands aside and looks on in As the Holy Grail is set down on the altar before the wounded king, a fluttering like a wounded dove in pain, fierce bursts of passion, wild Parsifal has invaded Klingsor''s realm; the evil knights have fled before PARSIFAL ENTERING THE GRAIL CASTLE IN TRIUMPH] id = 19958 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = Some Forerunners of Italian Opera date = keywords = Caccini; Ferrara; Florence; Footnote; Italy; Mantua; Orfeo; Orpheus; Poliziano; Ugolino; century; drama; italian; madrigal; music; play; song; time summary = study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera, and to drama, the "Orfeo" of Poliziano, unquestionably a lyric work, is the The history of music at the court of Mantua begins at least as early as production of the first Italian secular and lyric drama at that court. system and hence it never appears in the art music of their time. note" and who sang the polyphonic art music of the time. solo parts of Poliziano''s lyric drama consisted of music of the better already noted, that this was the type of musical plays performed in way into Italian music, even that composed by the Netherland masters who madrigal was acquiring general popularity as a form of dramatic music, madrigal drama was utilizing in a novel manner the musical form from Music, in sixteenth century lyric dramas, 164 id = 43467 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Church; France; Giovanni; Gluck; Handel; Haydn; Lulli; Meyerbeer; Monteverde; Mozart; Paris; Peri; Rome; St.; Verdi; Wagner; Weber; french; german; greek; italian; music; opera; work summary = The German church music of the time, from which developed the chorale, opera had been born, and so had the oratorio, and church music began to modern instrumental music, was the organ compositions of the early between the style of music written for the organ and of that composed Venetians to lead instrumental music toward the modern style. of Beethoven''s piano music was dramatic style. In its development the art of music inevitably fashioned certain forms, music began to develop independently it clung for a time to the forms in the musical development ("working out," as it is called) of his theme development of the sonata form Corelli wrote real chamber music. Italian opera music in Germany, abandoned the instrumental accompaniment Handel''s oratorio style from his work as an Italian opera composer that unsuitable style of the old-fashioned opera in church music, of which as the instrumental works in the sonata form and operas constructed id = 44767 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work date = keywords = Bayreuth; Brünnhilde; Der; Die; Dresden; Dutchman; Elsa; Grail; Isolde; King; Leipsic; Liszt; Lohengrin; London; Mr.; Munich; New; Nibelungen; Paris; Parsifal; Richard; Rienzi; Ring; Sachs; Siegfried; Sigurd; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Wagner; Walther; Wolfram; Wotan; Zurich; drama; french; german; music; work summary = Wagner utilised them, surveyed the musical plan of each drama, and of important features of Wagner''s later works in this opera, but for music."[5] "I was then twenty-one years of age," wrote Wagner, two acts of the music which Wagner had finished. In "Opera and Drama" Wagner set forth the principles which, according The only musical work which Wagner did in the early years at opera singers to perform such a music drama as he was about to write. This in Wagner''s mind was a musical drama, in which But the early works of Wagner show his musical system in its Wagner''s ideal was a drama in which music should be the works of Wagner are dramas. both dramatic and musical contrast to the story, Wagner has followed of the music of Wagner''s most popular work. The last of the great music dramas of Richard Wagner began to id = 54426 author = Henderson, W. J. (William James) title = Modern Musical Drift date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Brangäne; Brünnhilde; Grail; Handel; Isolde; Liszt; Loge; Lucia; Mr.; Parsifal; Rheingold; Richard; Siegfried; Strauss; Tristan; Wagner; Wotan; art; italian; music; musical; work summary = Music, text, action, scenic form and color, all work together real first movement, "Die Walküre." Of this work the music is the musical thought in the whole second act of "Die Walküre," for, after words, although the modern art of music may fairly be said to have Strauss has shown that the principles of musical form which the the oratorio, and so again is the music drama of Wagner. the real key to the music of such a composer as Strauss. of music from pure beauty of form and development of melodic ideas song without words it is again moods and emotions that music must pointed to melodious music Wagner was frankly melodic, and that he endeavored to introduce into their music an Italianized Wagnerism is but our dreams," and to feel that this lovely art of music is a into the origin and nature of musical works. id = 7834 author = Hight, George Ainslie title = Wagner''s "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama date = keywords = Beethoven; Brangäne; England; Footnote; Greek; Isolde; Isot; King; Kurwenal; Marke; Tristan; Wagner; art; drama; english; german; italian; love; motive; music; scene; word; work summary = go far beyond the limits of music and dramatic art, and to enter different elements, words, acting, music, in a natural relation to one expression, gesture, poetry, and music are all arts of movement in has led to a false and unnatural form of art; in the drama music can words as forming a basis for musical expression is to place one of work of art, the rest of Wagner''s doctrine follows directly. music does reveal the nature of things in a way different from words [Music: _Tristan und Isolde_, ACT III. A work of art like _Tristan und Isolde_ can never be understood Wagner''s view of the relation of music to words has been the subject Wagner himself insists that music can never express a musical hearer of a work like _Tristan und Isolde_ will expression, not of the Tristan drama alone, but of all music since id = 58117 author = Hipkins, Alfred J. (Alfred James) title = Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique date = keywords = Collection; Elizabeth; George; Harp; John; London; Mary; Mr.; Music; Plate; Queen; Sir; Stradivarius; Viola; chinese; illustration; instrument; italian; japanese; string summary = found in musical instruments; a good organ case is sometimes made, to the stringed instruments; those of the latter with key-boards these guitar and lute instruments, the roses in the sound-boards show Harp-like instruments, but with resonance bodies beneath the strings, us, as a bowed instrument with extra strings off the finger-board, fifteenth centuries where musical instruments are represented. resting-place in the splendid collection of old musical instruments perhaps the oldest key-board stringed instrument, had always had to key-board stringed instrument existing. key-board stringed instruments with jacks were known in England as instrument with key-board exactly like this one, a kind of positive the mandoline, bandurria and other stringed instruments played with the year 1700 each key obtained its own strings; and the instrument are given in _Notes on Siamese Musical Instruments_, a work prepared The instruments drawn in this Plate belong to the Music Class Room of stringed-instrument maker xix. id = 32980 author = Howard, Kathleen title = Confessions of an Opera Singer date = keywords = Berlin; Carmen; Dalila; Darmstadt; Duke; English; Frau; Grand; Metz; Muelle; Paris; S----; american; day; dress; french; german; good; great; opera; sing; singer; stage; theatre; time summary = evening I went to the opera and wondered at the great stairway and at The only time I ever saw him upset was one day after the Opera class. "We spent a long time in the life-class room--nude, (not us but the there was a great deal of stage setting for very little play. opened my eyes to the new order of singing actors, and the old method many "trial performances" at the opera house as the contract calls for, I sang my first part in a small provincial German opera house, at foreigner speaking no German, and a woman looking for rooms all by the opera, I think they were glad to use my good stage appearance, and opera, and I had to speak German for the first time before an audience come winging to you the next time you step out on the stage to sing the id = 20318 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians date = keywords = America; Bach; Beethoven; Brahms; Charles; Chopin; Clara; Dr.; Emerson; England; George; God; Handel; Henry; James; Johann; John; King; Liszt; Lord; Madame; Mendelssohn; Michelangelo; Morris; Mozart; Paganini; Paine; Paris; Paul; Richard; Robert; Sand; Schumann; Shakespeare; Sir; Thomas; Verdi; Wagner; William; viii summary = friend of Franz Liszt and hear him play the music of Richard Wagner from written the record of the life the man has led: the loves that were his, music, and they gave the man and his work their approval. be covered by saying George Sand had a man''s head and a woman''s heart. Madame Carus, who one fine day takes the young man to play for Frederick Schumann''s musical magazine was winning its way--the young man had a life-work and raised organ-music to the highest point of art must the boy would play from some certain composer, showing the man''s man''s life, but I am comparing my nature with his. George III and William Pitt, vii, 200. referred to, iii, 235, 242; iv, 193; vii, 191; xiv, 40. _Life of Charles XII_, Voltaire, viii, 297. quoted, iii, 59, 219; iv, 322; v, 16, 204; vii, 29; xiii, 49; _Life of Charles XII_, viii, 297; id = 10957 author = Hughes, Rupert title = The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 date = keywords = Aloysia; Bach; Beethoven; Carl; Caroline; Chopin; Constanze; Gluck; God; Haydn; Händel; London; Maria; Mozart; Mrs.; Palestrina; Paris; Piccinni; Polzelli; Purcell; Sand; Stradella; Vienna; Weber; letter; life; love; year summary = An account of the married life of these two is given by Haydn''s friend account of the home life of the Haydns, says they were happy for a years in this love affair for life, she had in mind a business Dies quoted Haydn''s own words as saying, "In London, I fell in love with £500 for life, and his wife, who is forty-five years old, presented him young man twenty-four years old; but Händel disdained her love. letter a few days later, "Pray to God that my opera may be successful." Aloysia Weber, a fifteen-year-old girl with much beauty and little deeply pious Mozart writes in the same letter to his father, "Friends Mozart is so much in love with Aloysia that in this long letter to his Three days after the wedding Mozart wrote to his father a long account Five years later we learn of Beethoven''s receiving letters and presents id = 11419 author = Hughes, Rupert title = The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 date = keywords = Beethoven; Bülow; Chopin; Clara; Ernestine; Franz; Frau; George; Haydn; Leipzig; Liszt; London; Marie; Minna; Mozart; Paris; Robert; Sand; Schumann; Tschaikovski; Wagner; Wieck; York; letter; life; love; music; year summary = comtesse'' mother gave her into Liszt''s charge for musical education. Liszt had read little but music and religion; the slim, fair comtesse Carl Maria von Weber paid great heed to his wife''s artistic advice, and wrote a long letter to his sister Clara, explaining why Minna had left A year later, Wagner''s regret is not yet dead, and he writes to Frau Lucerne, Wagner lived with the Von Bülow family, and began to know "I lived with your mother for twenty-one years and all that time loved of Schumann''s love-life, because it marks the highest point of musical children, possibly Clara''s half-sister, Marie, also in later years a Gradually Schumann let himself write to Clara a whit more like a lover love-life much like Schumann''s, save that he seems to have had no fifteen-year-old daughter of a poor music copyist, whose wife took in music, Schubert, who is said never to have loved a woman. id = 23800 author = Hughes, Rupert title = Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions date = keywords = Arthur; Berlin; Boston; Chicago; Chopin; Germany; John; Kelley; Loomis; Mr.; Mrs.; Nevin; New; Orchestra; Paine; Parker; Schumann; Smith; Sousa; St.; Symphony; Thomas; XIII; York; american; composer; good; illustration; love; music; piano; song; work summary = music, from short songs to operatic and orchestral scores, I studied artist has created one work of high merit makes him a good composer in or a curiosity that shall set them to the study of American music (as Three piano duets make up opus 6; and other charming works, songs, ballet music, a tarantelle for string orchestra, and is at work upon a by such imponderous works as organ and piano solos, hymns, and songs. tone are the "Spring Song," a trio with cheap words, but bright music chamber-music, and two fine piano suites, he has written a great many Another orchestral work of great importance in American music is the has also set various songs of Heine''s to music, and a short cantata Johns has also written a few part songs and some instrumental works, piano concerto, organ music, and songs. pieces for the piano, a hundred and fifty songs, a few works for id = 43915 author = Hullah, Annette title = Theodor Leschetizky date = keywords = Leschetizky; Professor; Rubinstein; Vienna; illustration; music; piano; pupil; time summary = Leschetizky passed his childhood, seeing life as a delightful thing, After this exciting début Leschetizky went about playing everywhere, For four years he worked away steadily at his teaching, playing much development as a means of popularising the study of music, Leschetizky During these years Leschetizky played a great deal in public. Leschetizky came to London two or three times afterwards, but never Every great artist who stayed in Vienna came to see Leschetizky, In Bach''s time, and long afterwards, people never played vigorously. of little consequence whether they know the music (in Leschetizky''s Leschetizky loves his pupils as if they were his own children; but, a long time, until one day, when playing in the class, her memory "For," said Leschetizky, "if a pupil has not Only the best pupils play; the Professor criticises Leschetizky''s is entirely for the _study_ of music. room made ready for dancing till supper, Leschetizky playing for at id = 43289 author = Humperdinck, Engelbert title = Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts date = keywords = FATHER; GRETEL; HEXE; HÄNSEL; Kinder; MOTHER; MUTTER; Scene; Sie; child; die; und; witch summary = Hänsel and Gretel is an opera in three acts, the music by Engelbert The witch calls Gretel out and opens the oven door. children suddenly surround Hänsel and Gretel. (_Treibt auch Gretel zur Stube hinaus und droht mit dem Stocke wie wird die Mutter den Hänsel loben! (_Holt eine Beere aus dem Körbchen und hält sie Hänsel hin, der sie (_Sie öffnet die Backofenthür; Hänsel giebt Gretel lebhafte Zeichen._) (_Hänsel und Gretel fallen sich jubelnd in die Arme, fassen sich bei der (_Er erblickt Hänsel und Gretel._) HÄNSEL UND GRETEL HÄNSEL UND GRETEL HÄNSEL UND GRETEL HÄNSEL UND GRETEL HÄNSEL UND GRETEL HÄNSEL UND GRETEL HÄNSEL UND GRETEL Hänsel sits near the door, making brooms, and Gretel opposite him by (_Whilst the Witch is feeding Hänsel, Gretel gets behind her and makes (_Four Gingerbread Children at a time surround Hänsel and Gretel, and changed to "Hänsel und Gretel" in the transcribed text. id = 39754 author = Huneker, James title = Franz Liszt date = keywords = August; Bach; Beethoven; Berlin; Berlioz; Bülow; Chopin; Countess; Dante; Europe; Faust; Franz; George; Goethe; Joseffy; Karl; Liszt; London; Madame; Marie; Master; Mr.; Paris; Pope; Princess; Richard; Rome; Rubinstein; Saint; Sand; Sayn; Schumann; St.; Symphony; Tasso; Tausig; Thalberg; Vienna; Von; Wagner; Weber; Weimar; Wittgenstein; german; hungarian; music; piano; play summary = music-plays are no longer a novelty "the long submerged trail of Liszt to be truthful, the music of both Liszt and Wagner is already a little In a moment of self-forgetfulness, Wagner praised the music of Liszt in early and too many later critics of Liszt''s original music. Franz Liszt, great piano virtuoso, great composer, great man, has been The new books devoted to Liszt, his life and his music, are by Julius Liszt it was who first made known the piano music of the day had nothing of great musical interest to offer Liszt. seldom heard good music, so that Liszt, through his pupils Sgambati, Liszt not only introduced into the musical world the symphonic poem, he ''what the composer was thinking.'' Liszt''s symphonic works show a great "Yes, Franz Liszt, the pianist of genius, whose playing often appears to all of Chopin''s music, much of Schumann, Beethoven, and Liszt. id = 4939 author = Huneker, James title = Chopin : the Man and His Music date = keywords = Ballade; Beethoven; Bulow; Chopin; Frederic; George; Klindworth; Kullak; Liszt; London; Madame; Mazurka; Mikuli; Mr.; Paris; Poland; Polonaise; Preludes; Riemann; Sand; Scherzo; Schumann; Von; Wagner; Warsaw; York; minor; musical; nieck; polish; study summary = When Rubinstein, Tausig and Liszt played Chopin in passional phrases, Chopin played quite impromptu two movements of his E minor Liszt''s well-known work on Chopin, second edition, 1879, mention is flat minor Scherzo--shows Chopin''s influence. to play Chopin, whose music begins where that of another capital in 1834 heard Chopin play the studies contained in op. Chopin studies will be played for their music, without any thought of Chopin of this C minor study is as far removed from the musical last movement of the Chopin B flat minor Sonata. music, for it is putting Chopin away from the world he at times loved. in C sharp minor, written when Chopin was young and published in 1895. may be so profitably studied in the Chopin music. ornament can only beautify the beautiful." Music like Chopin''s, "with when he first heard Chopin play, for he did not believe such music id = 21542 author = Hunt, H. Ernest (Harry Ernest) title = Spirit and Music date = keywords = Nature; art; expression; inspiration; life; man; mind; music; note; spirit; spiritual; thing; work; world summary = he will so long as, Nature-like, there is life expressing itself. If Music be a means of expression, we must needs ask ourselves what it same reason, that it can no longer express life or spirit. the fact that life itself, and especially Art and Music, can only fulfil Therefore if Music is to express this spirit it must do so by life, is subject to the same explanation: and thus the spirit of Music gives of the spirit of the music, for a measure of inspiration has been touched the composer''s soul, and henceforth he plays Music, not notes. time, unless the music so played or sung still bears a living message Thus so far as music becomes the expression of spirit and It is only in the spirit that the real meaning of true music is to be life by which they are animated and inspired."[29] All true music has id = 13843 author = Illica, Luigi title = Libretto: La Bohème date = keywords = COL; MAR; MARCEL; MIMI; MUS; RUD; Rudolph; SCH summary = Rudolph loves Mimi passionately, but is consumed with jealousy. Rudolph now comes upon the scene and not seeing Mimi tells Mimi reconciles Marcel and Musetta. Musetta tells her old friends that Mimi is dying and gives them her falls upon her knees in prayer and Mimi passes away in Rudolph''s arms. "...Mimi was a charming girl specially apt to appeal to Rudolph, the (RUDOLPH _takes a light from the table and goes to open the door: (RUDOLPH lights the candle and gives it to MIMI.) Love now shall rule our hearts | Sweet to my soul the magic voice Aloof from the crowd, RUDOLPH and MIMI; COLLINE is near a rag-shop, (MARCEL, SCHAUNARD _and_ COLLINE _try to find an empty table outside In the café there is much animation._ RUDOLPH _and_ MIMI _come Colline, Rudolph, and you, Marcel. "Mimi''s voice seemed to go through Rudolph''s heart like a death-knell. id = 43411 author = Jahn, Otto title = Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) date = keywords = Archbishop; Augsburg; Burney; Count; December; Elector; Emperor; February; Footnote; God; Haydn; Herr; III; Image; Italy; January; Leopold; Mannheim; March; Metastasio; Milan; Mozart; Munich; Nissen; November; October; Page; Paris; Prince; Reise; Salzburg; Sandrina; Schubart; September; Vienna; Wolfgang; church; french; german; italian; music; opera summary = old-fashioned.[1007] When Wolfgang was busy composing church music with theatre; here was performed, a little German opera composed by Wolfgang, L. Mozart''s hope of seeing an opera by Wolfgang on the Vienna stage was, [Footnote 30: Nissen has incorrectly given the idea that "the well-known Dr. Messmer, the friend of the Mozarts," was the celebrated magnetiser of Wolfgang Mozart, whose extraordinary musical attainments have made him L. Mozart on December 8, "I believe that Wolfgang has written the opera cultivated by study; he composed church music, and played the bass-viol, [Footnote 44: Mozart must have composed more than a few of such compositions, [Footnote 50: Mozart afterwards composed a rondo, mentioned by his father before." Wolfgang played several days in succession before Count Jos. von Salem, the chief director of music and the opera (b. [Footnote 12: Mozart was said to have composed a mass for the Monastery of the id = 43412 author = Jahn, Otto title = Life of Mozart, Vol. 2 (of 3) date = keywords = April; Archbishop; August; Bach; Berlin; Constanze; Corr; Count; December; Emperor; Footnote; Gluck; Grimm; Haydn; Herr; III; Idomeneo; January; July; Madame; Mannheim; March; Mozart; Munich; November; Page; Paris; Reichardt; Salieri; Salzburg; Vienna; Vol; Weber; Wien; Wolfgang; french; german; italian; music summary = [Footnote 3: Nothing is known of this music, so far as I am aware; Mozart does of emotions by means of music; Mozart has each time noted down what Mozart, who executed this work with loving care, composed both choruses [Footnote 16: Confirmed by an expression of Mozart to his father, written from Mozart kept up with great industry the work of rehearsing and composing of art, touched Mozart at a time when his musical education was already The opera had decided Mozart''s musical position in Vienna;[58] it [Footnote 59: Mozart''s expression, in his letter to his father (September 26, effect in music of Mozart''s composition, and begged him to write two [Footnote 22: On the same day Mozart writes to his father full of anxiety about [Footnote 65: The few opera scores found among Mozart''s remains are Gluck''s [Footnote 35: It is illustrative of Mozart''s way of working that at the place id = 43413 author = Jahn, Otto title = Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) date = keywords = Act; Alfonso; Anna; Berlin; Count; Countess; Don; Donna; Elvira; Emperor; Figaro; Footnote; Giovanni; Haydn; III; Image; Juan; King; Leporello; Mozart; Mus; Ottavio; Page; Papageno; Ponte; Prague; Requiem; Salieri; Salzburg; Schikaneder; Susanna; Tamino; Vienna; Vol; Wien; Zauberflöte; Zerlina; german; italian summary = [Footnote 30: Mozart arranged the "Entfuhrung" for wind instruments (Vol. II., p. Mozart in his expectation that the Emperor, having called German opera Mozart''s account of the position of German opera in Vienna is very music, so as to preserve Mozart''s work on the stage. Baron Wezlar, a great lover of music, in whose house Mozart had lived On Mozart''s expressing anxiety lest an opera composed [Footnote 9: The new German original operas which were performed were: 1785--"Die [Footnote 43: Ulibicheff''s opinion that, fortunately for the music, Mozart had the character, and the music of Mozart as a Donna Anna who, loving [Footnote 2: Mozart wrote the beautiful air "Non sö d''onde viene" for him on expression, and the best in his opera--but how far apart from Mozart!] the public mind to receive Mozart''s music to this opera (588 K.)[32] Mozart has throughout the opera given to the music which touched on the id = 42097 author = Johnstone, Arthur title = Musical Criticisms date = keywords = Bach; Bayreuth; Beethoven; Berlioz; Concerto; Don; Dr.; Elgar; England; Faust; Gerontius; Handel; Johnstone; Liszt; London; Manchester; Mr.; Nietzsche; Richter; Schumann; Strauss; Symphony; Tchaïkovsky; Wagner; composer; english; german; music; musical; sidenote; work summary = music, which now took up his force and time for the working part of the guarantors to act as they had done, while his special knowledge of Dr. Richter''s immense services to musical art enabled him to write with the greatest work of sacred musical art in existence, and thus as composer''s musical personality than any other single work. voyages was the idea of what is called "programme music." Like Wagner, composers whose works stand in a certain clear relation to the musical We here refer, of course, to the "Symphonie Pathétique." Dr. Elgar is another composer whose music means something; but what chance has played but a modest part in the concert of the great musical powers. say that the composer is at his best in rendering the music of the the musical affairs of the present day knows, that Strauss is a composer performances of master works by musical societies,--they are not enough id = 38023 author = Kellogg, Clara Louise title = Memoirs of an American Prima Donna date = keywords = America; Boston; Clara; Colonel; Duchess; Duke; England; Faust; Kellogg; Linda; London; Louise; Lucca; Mapleson; Marguerite; Miss; Mme; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Nilsson; Opera; Paris; Patti; Prince; Queen; Sir; Strakosch; York; english; french; illustration; italian; sing summary = Clara Louise Kellogg came from New England stock of English heritage. singing was Louisa Pine, who sang in New York in second-rate English occasion and invited the officers and their friends, in spite of Mrs. Jeff Davis, who tried her best to prevent the ball-room from being given those days, he was a sort of little god in New York, where he lived in America to sing in the French Opera in New Orleans where, for many people know that Miss Cushman had studied singing and had a very fine The public went to the opera houses to hear popular singers and course of time we all came home to America; and the night after my "Miss Kellogg," he said, "if you think that, I don''t believe you know Liverpool, a man came on board asking for Miss Clara Louise Kellogg. At the time I went to him I had been singing for twenty years. id = 18138 author = Kobbé, Gustav title = The Loves of Great Composers date = keywords = Beethoven; Chopin; Clara; Cosima; Countess; Cécile; Felix; Liszt; Mozart; Princess; Schumann; Wagner summary = letters sent wife and son on their way to Paris, and the elder Mozart Some years after the composer''s death, Countess Therese death cherished the great composer in her heart; and of her love for Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Liszt, who knew Chopin, tells us that the composer evinced a decided meeting with the nine-year-old girl decided him--so early in her life The years which Liszt passed with the Princess at the Altenburg, and when Not so, however, Liszt or Wagner, for not since the time of years later, at another crisis in Wagner''s life, another being came to Cosima was not Wagner''s first love, nor even his first wife. seated, and Liszt, Frau Cosima and Siegfried Wagner were in their places one great woman, the daughter of Liszt and the wife of Wagner; and the What Cosima was to Wagner is best told in Liszt''s words, written to a id = 5995 author = Krehbiel, Henry Edward title = Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time date = keywords = Abbey; Academy; America; Company; Conried; Damrosch; December; Der; Die; Don; English; Faust; February; Grau; Hammerstein; Herr; House; January; Lohengrin; London; Mapleson; March; Maretzek; Metropolitan; Mme; Mr.; Music; New; November; Opera; Patti; Seidl; Signor; Theater; Verdi; Wagner; York; french; german; italian; season summary = 1907-08 the Metropolitan Opera House in New York completed an existence performance of "The Beggar''s Opera" in New York, the original home of and Wilson company of English opera singers, who came to New York in The first opera house built in New York City opened its doors on rich and cultured citizens of New York to build the Italian Opera House, Opera House in 1883, one of the New York newspapers reported Mme. Patti [The operas performed at the Academy of Music in the season 1883-1884 New York at the Astor Place Opera House four years after its original Opera House he gave a "spring season" of six performances in one week, at the end of the third year there came a brief season of Italian opera Opera House for his second New York season, and he was driven to the New York, having been performed by two Italian opera companies and in id = 14884 author = Lahee, Henry Charles title = Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday date = keywords = America; Berlin; Brussels; Bull; Bériot; Conservatoire; England; Europe; France; Germany; Italy; Joachim; London; Ole; Paganini; Paris; Spohr; United; Vienna; Vieuxtemps; Viotti summary = Violin playing grew in favour in Italy, France, Germany, and England at the said first day of July be taken playing, Fiddling, or making music of violin playing were, some years later, brought into France by Anêt, age of thirteen he played a concerto in public, with great success. who was frequently in Paris, the French school of violin playing had now of the great classical school of violin playing in Paris. At the end of three years he resumed his travels and his violin playing, age, and a few years later she became well known as a concert violinist. soon began to appear in concerts, generally playing compositions of his remained two years in the United States, during which time he played in plays in public at any time from eight to twelve years old. nine years old he played in a concert in Limburg and received great id = 33168 author = Lahee, Henry Charles title = Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday date = keywords = America; Berlin; Emma; England; Europe; London; Madame; Mapleson; Marie; Miss; Mr.; New; Nilsson; Opera; Paris; Patti; Vienna; Wagner; York; italian summary = in that year the first public performance of regular opera took place in the same year she visited London, singing alternately with Mrs. Billington. Rossini, the celebrated composer, married an opera singer, Isabella the greatest singers for many years, was the daughter of an Italian Like so many of the great singers of his time, Rubini first gained his the following year, the first prizes for singing and comic opera. Ronconi sang for many years in London, in all the great comic operas. Opera in Paris, but she also sang frequently in London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and other cities of Europe. In the following year appeared two singers of high rank, Maria and the company met with great success, singing not only in opera, but The year 1862 produced a singer of great ability, Ilma di Murska, a In 1881, Nilsson sang in opera for the last time, but continued to sing id = 16595 author = Lightwood, James T. (James Thomas) title = Charles Dickens and Music date = keywords = B.H.; Charles; D.C.; David; Dickens; Dombey; Dr.; John; L.D.; London; M.C.; Miss; Moore; Mr.; Mrs.; O.C.S.; O.M.F.; P.P.; S.B.T.; little; music; song summary = know a note of music, and sing entirely by ear. references in his letters and works to the music he heard in sing an old-time stage song, such as he used to enjoy in his musical resources in a letter to Miss Power written on July 2, Dickens wrote a few songs and ballads, and in most cases he wrote ''The British Lion, a new song but an old story,'' which Dickens has little to say about the music of his time, but in The numerous songs and vocal works referred to by Dickens Dickens often refers to these old song-books, either under The original reference was to a very popular song of the period Mrs. Micawber''s ''Little Taffline'' was a song in Storace''s Junction, who composed ''Little comic songs-like.'' In this A LIST OF SONGS AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC MENTIONED BY DICKENS (This song has been published by almost every music id = 4386 author = Liszt, Franz title = Life of Chopin date = keywords = Chopin; Liszt; Madame; Mazourka; Paris; Poland; Prince; Sand; art; artist; feeling; footnote; form; great; heart; life; like; long; love; polish; polonaise; time summary = The following is an e-text of "Life of Chopin," written by Franz Liszt pen; how the musician feels as a man; how he estimates art and artists. and artist; Chopin loved to hear him interpret his music, and himself nationality of these forms, traces them through the heart of the Polish The description of the last days of poor Chopin''s melancholy life, future, who feel its life in advance, and prefigure it in their works, In making an analysis of the works of Chopin, we meet with beauties of a Chopin had been playing for a long time, one of the most distinguished Art-Language of the Sclaves--Chopin''s Love of Home Memories. Not wishing the course of his life, his thoughts, his time, to be human heart;--Madame Sand in vain sought another form for the expression The memory of the days passed in the lovely isle of Majorca, like the id = 22104 author = London, Jack title = The Acorn-Planter A California Forest Play (1916) date = keywords = Cloud; Man; Red; Sun summary = the white men follows, and Red Cloud, dying, Red Cloud, first man of the Nishinam! The Sun Man fights with the thunder in his hand. The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand. The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand. The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand. The Sun Man will bear the thunder in his hand. _(Sun Man, with handful of followers, singing I am Red Cloud, the first man. In the day the Sun Man comes, In the day the Sun Man comes, In the day the Sun Man comes, Now shall the Sun Man die that the Nishinam Chief himself kills the Sun Man.)_ The War Chief of long ago slew the Sun Man. The Sun Man planted acorns, The Sun Man was an acorn-planter, and we Sun Men--war chiefs who carry the thunder in many Sun Men--war chiefs and cloth-makers id = 39392 author = Lytton, Henry A. title = The Secrets of a Savoyard date = keywords = Bah; Bunthorne; Carte; D''Oyly; Duke; Gilbert; Ida; Jack; King; Lady; London; Lord; Lytton; Mikado; Mr.; Nanki; Point; Poo; Princess; Ruddigore; Savoy; Sir; Sullivan; Yum summary = the public who love and follow the operas, and when the roll comes to be "To-night there is no need for the Lyttons to turn in their graves." Mr. Carte, though always a man of few words, gave me to understand that he Shortly after he left the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, he went on The very next day Mr. Carte, unknown to me at the time, came down to Bath. generous praise--D''Oyly Carte and I rehearse a love scene--A The Savoy audiences in the old days, of course, were like no other for several of the plays not by Gilbert and Sullivan produced by Mr. D''Oyly Carte. stage, and it was my good fortune to play leading comedy parts under "I don''t like that man singing that song," he said once, just Everybody who plays in Gilbert and Sullivan makes it a point of honour id = 16351 author = MacDowell, Edward title = Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University date = keywords = A.D.; B.C.; Bach; Beethoven; France; Haydn; Mozart; Paris; Wagner; chinese; figure; form; french; german; greek; instrument; italian; music; note; opera; sound; time summary = while it could not be said to originate a musical instrument, completed the first musical instrument known to man, namely, in other words, fear, and they have no musical instruments no musical instrument of any kind was known to them. Having described the musical instruments in use in China an example of this kind of music; the mere sound of the words Greek music many centuries later said: "Metre is not a thing As the Greek modes formed the basis for the musical system of folk song is composed of the same material as savage music, These dances gave the music _form_, and to make instrumental music expressive of something beyond forms of instrumental music (especially for the pianoforte) by this word the art of arranging musical sounds into the most There are two kinds of suggestion in music: one has been called the so-called "form" and "science" of music. id = 36143 author = Mapleson, James Henry title = The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I date = keywords = Company; Costa; Covent; Drury; Faust; Garden; Giuglini; Gye; Italian; Lane; London; Madame; Majesty; Mapleson; Mdlle; Mdme; Mr.; New; Nilsson; Opera; Patti; Royal; Signor; Smith; Theatre; York summary = of the new Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, just rebuilt, in order years, or even longer, at the Opera-houses and other theatres in London, The success of _Faust_ at the Royal Italian Opera was so great that it rehearsal at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, where the season Wood could only reply that he would not sign with Mapleson and Gye. There was no money made that season at the Royal Italian Opera; whilst theatre seven times every week (four for opera, three for tragedy), from The new theatre opened on 28th April, Titiens appearing as "Norma;" and that city just in time to commence the opera the following Monday, when On my return to New York for the spring opera season I produced About this time the building of the new Metropolitan Opera-house had fortunes with the new Metropolitan Opera-house the following season. id = 36144 author = Mapleson, James Henry title = The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol II date = keywords = Academy; Chicago; Colonel; Company; Dr.; Francisco; Gerster; Hauk; London; Mapleson; Mdlle; Mdme; Mr.; New; Opera; Patti; Ravelli; San; Signor; St.; Vol; York; italian summary = must have Patti to fight the strong attraction of a new Opera-house, saw announced to sing the opening night at the new Metropolitan Opera House. On the following night we performed _Norma_ at Brooklyn, with Mdme. Patti appeared in _Ernani_ to a 10,000-dollar house, Mdme. We performed the opera of _Lucia_ that evening in Salt Lake Theatre in On the opening night the Grand Opera-house presented a spectacle of On that evening we performed the opera _Puritani_, in which Mdme. When the arrival of Patti became known in New York great excitement appearance at the New York Academy of Music, great preparations were The following account of Patti''s _début_, which appeared in the New York off-night and an opera worn to bits, the public interest in Miss Patti''s The following night _Aida_ was performed with the great cast of Patti, That on the night of said day, and while the Opera Company id = 35520 author = Mason, William title = Memories of a Musical Life date = keywords = Beethoven; Boston; Brahms; Chopin; Leipsic; Liszt; Mason; Moscheles; Mr.; New; Raff; Rubinstein; Schumann; Thomas; Wagner; Weimar; York; illustration; musical summary = music, played the organ well, and was a good vocal teacher. remember as the occasion of Liszt''s playing the Beethoven "Kreutzer musicians who came to Weimar to visit Liszt at that time,--"die goldene sent word to Liszt that he could play the great Beethoven sonata, not an Weimar long when Liszt said to me: "Mason, I don''t like to see you Time and again at Weimar I heard Liszt play. In his concertizing days Liszt always played without the music before Wieniawski played with Liszt the violin and pianoforte ''Sonata in A'' by A little later some one asked Liszt to play his own sonata, a work which public performances--to play _musically_ at all times. repose, and at such times his playing was musical and poetic in the heard them played not only by Liszt in Weimar, but in other German himself--and I have heard Liszt play this work many times. id = 36728 author = Massenet, Jules title = My Recollections date = keywords = Carlo; Comique; Conservatoire; Hartmann; Hérodiade; Institute; Italy; Manon; Marie; Mlle; Mme; Monte; Opéra; Paris; Roma; Rome; Rue; Thérèse; Théâtre; day; work summary = the master''s work was finished by that time, the hour at which he gave A friend, who to my great joy is still living, got me better lessons. great Gounod who managed our work from the stage. after thirty-two years he returned to Rome a great artist, Hippolyte To-day I regret that at that time I was unable to put into the work all The year following my dear friend and director Albert Carré put the work labor continued without ceasing for years that works of great power and The idea of writing this work had haunted me for a long time. took up the work at the Opéra-Comique and she played in the Oh, the dear great friend, the marvellous artist I have known for Gunsbourg, who wanted the work for the Monte Carlo Opéra, Mme. Massenet heard the work played at sight by the artists of the Opéra conducted id = 20293 author = Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) title = A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlin; CHAPTER; Church; England; Europe; Fig; France; Haydn; Händel; Italy; Leipsic; Liszt; London; Mendelssohn; Mozart; Paganini; Paris; Rome; Schubert; Schumann; St.; Venice; Vienna; Wagner; composer; english; french; german; great; greek; illustration; italian; music; opera; work summary = in piano playing--Meyerbeer--early life--master works--place in art; playing--inspiring effect--Berlioz--works--place in art--progress of of mind in general and in the art of music in particular, every great appreciating the works of the latest of the great musical geniuses, great European cathedrals were built; painting about 1500 to 1600 A.D. Poetry, like music, representing the continual life of soul, has never Very important developments of the art of music took place in India times, the new work of the French composers was produced in 1659. study of the music of Cavalli, for several of whose operas he composed this century was purely apprentice work in instrumental music, its pieces of chamber music, symphonies, two or three operas, a number of great master produced a variety of works in every province of music, that all the music of his successful opera of "_Alsinda_" was composed found time to compose much church music, his most important works id = 40643 author = May, Florence title = The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 1 of 2) date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Brahms; Clara; Concerto; Detmold; Dietrich; Dr.; Düsseldorf; Frau; Fräulein; Hamburg; Hanover; Herr; Jakob; Joachim; Johannes; Leipzig; Liszt; Magelone; Marxsen; Mendelssohn; Mozart; Peter; Pianoforte; Reményi; Schumann; Sonata; Vienna; Winsen; music summary = Brahms and Reményi visit Joachim in Hanover--Concert at Court--Visit Brahms--Music at the Halliers'' and Wagners''--First public performance Brahms, which took place the very day of my arrival on my first visit to good fortune to listen to the two great artists playing duets; Brahms, conducted by the great Johann Strauss, Brahms'' particular friend, and he during the performance of this work, taking the place that Brahms had been played at his concert by the young Brahms, of which one variation Brahms and Reményi visit Joachim in Hanover--Concert at young Brahms from Hamburg, referred to the other day in Schumann''s affections of the great composer is given in Brahms'' next letter to him: about Brahms?'' His own great interest in the young composer, his desire Both Johannes and Joachim appeared as composers--Brahms with the Concert season in Hamburg--Frau Denninghoff-Giesemann--Brahms at when Frau Schumann performed with Brahms his duet arrangement of the id = 40644 author = May, Florence title = The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2) date = keywords = Bach; Baden; Beethoven; Berlin; Billroth; Brahms; Chorus; Concerto; December; Dr.; February; Frau; Gesellschaft; Hamburg; Hanslick; Herr; January; Joachim; Johannes; Leipzig; March; November; Orchestra; Pianoforte; Quartet; Requiem; Schumann; Stockhausen; Vienna; german; song summary = Bülow in Leipzig--Brahms'' Vienna friends--Dr. and Frau Vienna--Musical societies--Leading musicians--The Prater--Brahms'' Vienna--Musical societies--Leading musicians--The Prater--Brahms'' Brahms appeared on December 20 at Frau Passy-Cornet''s concert in the This second concert, indeed, stamped Brahms'' visit to Vienna with the the Pianoforte Quintet--Death of Frau Brahms--Concert-journey--The indubitably present to Brahms'' mind as he composed the songs, which, Brahms'' music is accordingly composed for tenor solo, men''s chorus, and Pending Frau Schumann''s return, Brahms remained among his friends in the invite the composer to conduct his work, and Brahms therefore withheld Chorus and Orchestra lately composed by Johannes Brahms (under the Brahms returned to Vienna for the concert-season of 1872-73 with a new Brahms'' fame amongst Britons.''[54] The new work was performed in London ''The performance of Brahms'' second symphony under Joachim was a performances of Brahms'' works during the closing seventies, no mention Leipzig--Brahms'' friends in Vienna--Dr. and Frau " Works of, played by Brahms on the pianoforte, id = 28252 author = Mayson, Walter H. (Walter Henry) title = Violin Making ''The Strad'' Library, No. IX. date = keywords = CHAPTER; Free; LIBRARY; PLATE; Post; STRAD; illustration; inch; violin; wood; work summary = inches from the edge, cut a one-inch square right through the wood, your right, clamp down a piece of hard wood, three inches broad, and inch broad, and make the edge of the wood clean, and so even all them, in my hand gouge 24, three-eighths of an inch, and work them I begin by firmly placing the wood, etc., as before, and working the off the work done, and the next stage is glueing on the end blocks, broad centres or outside edges thus exposed, I work rapidly a good work on the back up to cutting the groove after purfling, plate 6, the rib, and cut away the small bit of lining as just marked. fit again, ribs going to end blocks now free, linings _flush_ with make a clean cut hole in centre of broad end of violin for the end id = 39384 author = Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix title = Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlin; FELIX; Fanny; Germany; God; Goethe; Italy; London; Mendelssohn; Munich; Naples; Night; Paris; Peter; Pope; Psalms; Rome; St.; Sunday; Switzerland; day; great; italian; letter; music; time; wish summary = Mendelssohn completed the music to Shakspeare''s great play. from their Latin to-day, that they might hear Felix play, I think I have just received your welcome letter, written on Ascension Day. I cannot help myself, but must still write to you from this place. Some days after my last letter from Weimar, I wished, as I told shall find letters from you the day after to-morrow, and possibly looked at me; while I thought it may one day actually come to pass a long time, and take delight in my work, and feel such an begin my work, and play, and sing, and compose till near noon. day glides away till sunset: but I should like in the evening to time, for some days past, we yesterday had fine weather. two months the work shall be completed, for every day I feel more If I compose really good music, which in these days is id = 33160 author = Messenger, Ruth Ellis title = Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries date = keywords = Christianity; God; Greek; Lord; New; Old; Testament; christian; hymn summary = _Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries_ _Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries_ Christian hymns were largely of the psalm type, to be chanted in rhythmic influence of the Hebrew psalms upon the composition of new hymns is Christian hymns, which, together with the song of the angelic host at the In the remaining portions of the New Testament other hymn fragments are hymn sources in the New Testament seems more likely to be productive of a Christian worship.[23] At this point, hymn and prayer origins merge. Christian hymns the two forms of worship have overlapped or been It is evident that the Christian hymns embedded in the books of the New extant hymns composed by Gnostics, either within or without the Christian Early Christian Hymns a fragment of a Christian hymn. the culture and the vicissitudes of the age, Christian hymns of the early id = 21204 author = Miller, George Laing title = The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments date = keywords = Cathedral; Church; Diapason; England; Flute; Hope; Jones; Mr.; Pedal; STOPS; St.; Swell; Tuba; Willis; foot; great; open; organ summary = The early organ-builders to obtain variety of tone divided the pipes [4] Console--the keyboards, pedals and stop action by which the organ Upon touching the "Pedal Help" under the Swell organ keys, the Great organ group of Pedal stops and couplers would be rendered If playing on the Swell organ, the Choir stops will sound as similarly the stops on the Great, Choir and Pedal organs could be drawn stop on the Swell organ, he can (provided the double-touch action be to supply open bass tone in organ chambers and swell boxes where there organ Open Diapason, long regarded as the foundation tone of the Other Flutes found in organs are the Stopped Diapason, Clarabella, the wind pressure on four of the reed stops on the Solo organ increased Double Open Diapason on the Pedal organ were replaced by This instrument, built by the Hope-Jones Organ Company and opened id = 40288 author = Monro, D. B. (David Binning) title = The Modes of Ancient Greek Music date = keywords = Aristotle; Aristoxenus; Dorian; Enharmonic; Greek; Hypatê; Hypo; Lydian; Mesê; Modes; Octave; Plato; Ptolemy; System; Westphal; footnote; music; phrygian; symbol summary = Mixo-lydian octave--the keys of Sacadas--[Greek: tonos] The Mesê as a key-note--the close on the Hypatê--[Greek: archê] in ''form'' or species ([Greek: eidos]) of the octave scale, that is to the earlier periods of Greek music the scales in use, whether called form of the musical scale ([Greek: tropon de tina thaumaston Aristoxenus is the chief authority on the keys of Greek music. for the Phrygian mode ([Greek: harmonia]); and the so-called Lydian Systems are melodies set at the pitch of the different keys ([Greek: Greek musical instruments differed very much in the variety of modes a key-note, so far the Greek scale was that of the modern Minor mode The subject of the musical scales ([Greek: systêmata]) is treated by Looking at the octaves which on our key-board, as on the Greek scale, ([Greek: mesê kata dynamin]) is the key-note, the scale must have Greek music to the modern Major mode,--the Lydian or _c_-species not id = 18284 author = Moore, Aubertine Woodward title = For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Chopin; Dr.; Liszt; London; Mozart; Paris; Wagner; art; french; german; great; life; music; musical; piano; time; tone; violin; work summary = Story of music affording knowledge of man''s inner life. the art, music study is placed on an equal footing with any other worthy sing out of tune, play wrong notes, or fail to notice when the musical artistic soloist: well directed musical aptitude, love of art, an ear A musical work of art originates in the deep well of the fertile of a fugue, symphony or other great work of musical art heard for the Musical sound, or tone, is produced by regular vibrations, and differs ordered succession of musical sounds, heard one at a time, and selected departments of art and life, progress in music comes through the musical education was by having the pupil learn to play the violin. to 1896, with great musical and dramatic intelligence, with a voice of The art music of the time was polyphonic, that is, their hands musical instruments and seemed to play as they acted and id = 5307 author = Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus title = The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 date = keywords = Archbishop; Augsburg; Cannabich; Count; December; Elector; God; Grimm; Herr; Italy; Madame; Madlle; Mannheim; Mozart; Munich; November; October; Paris; Raaff; Salzburg; Seeau; Wendling; footnote; good summary = father had written in a previous letter, "Herr von Aman''s accident, I WISH mamma joy of her name-day, and hope that she may live for many should mamma wish it, for she must know well what a good thing it is to mean time by writing church and chamber music, and we have two excellent invariably said, "Let no one deceive himself; none can play like Mozart; time I will write more fully, but I can''t possibly go on to-day, for my When I said to Herr Stein that I should like to play on one of I thank you most truly, dear papa, for your good wishes on my name-day. sung three times a day at least, played on the piano and violin, or don''t wish her to write operas, or arias, or concertos, or symphonies, hope that the day will come, and the sooner the better, when we shall id = 19676 author = Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall) title = Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries date = keywords = Appendix; England; English; Galliard; Henry; III; John; July; King; Pavan; Shakespeare; Sir; dance; music; note; play; song summary = lady''s guests to sing unaccompanied music from "parts," after supper; Chappell''s Old English Popular Music gives a passage from a letter of to sing it." For the music and words, see Hawkins, pp. and Instruments, (2) Musical Education, (3) Songs and Singing, (4) The following lines, though not in a play, are so full of musical of several passages on Shakespeare, where ''broken music'' is referred A long time out of _play_, may bring his _plain-song_, music, accompanied by viols and harps, with songs and catches, were music, and scraps of the actual words of old songs--some with sir.'' Further on, Paris also plays on the term ''broken'' music. There is an old song, given in Chappell''s Popular Music, ''O Death, dances of the time, as far as words can do it; dance tunes in music Elizabethan times, music in, 2, 4-8, 16, 113, 114 (dances) ff. id = 46587 author = Newmarch, Rosa title = The Russian Opera date = keywords = Balakirev; Boris; Borodin; Court; Cui; Dargomijsky; Empress; Glinka; Igor; Imperial; Ivan; King; Korsakov; Life; Moscow; Moussorgsky; Opera; Petersburg; Poushkin; Prince; Rimsky; Rubinstein; Serov; St.; Stassov; Tchaikovsky; Theatre; Tsar; Wagner; french; italian; music; russian; work summary = earlier phases of Russian music, and the operas that have appeared since Russian Opera at Drury Lane last year, Rimsky-Korsakov''s early Musical life in Russia at the time of Glinka and Dargomijsky. years later Serov composed a popular opera on the subject of Judith, an music to the first Russian comic opera, _Taniousha or The Fortunate played more or less useful minor parts in the musical life of St. Petersburg and Moscow during the second half of the eighteenth century. four-act opera to a Russian text called _The Invisible Prince_, which music, he wrote at this time a few piano pieces and two songs to Russian of the masterpieces of Russian music--his opera _The Stone Guest_. experiment of basing an opera upon the forms of the national music as a Balakirev left no legacy of opera, but his influence on Russian music as of the music of this opera was utilised in later works. id = 4972 author = Niecks, Frederick title = Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 date = keywords = April; August; Ballade; Breitkopf; Chopin; December; Fontana; Franchomme; George; Grzymala; Gutmann; Hartel; Lenz; Liszt; London; Madame; Majorca; March; Mazurkas; Mdlle; Moscheles; Mr.; Nocturnes; Nohant; November; October; Palma; Paris; Pleyel; Preludes; Probst; Rue; Sand; Schlesinger; Schumann; September; Vol; footnote; french; german; polish summary = Chopin played a great deal, and George Sand devoured him with her Chopin''s love for George Sand was not instantaneous like that of DESCRIBED IN CHOPIN''S AND GEORGE SAND''S LETTERS, AND THE LATTER''S Chopin said: "I may perhaps go for a few days to George Sand''s." doubtful points which Chopin''s and George Sand''s letters settle, CHOPIN''S AND MADAME SAND''S LETTERS.--HIS STATE OF HEALTH.-namely, letters of Chopin and George Sand--to throw a little Although Chopin and George Sand came to Paris towards the end of One day Balzac had invited George Sand, Chopin, and Gutmann to Whether Chopin loved country life or not, whether he liked George Sonatas in C and A flat major (Chopin made his pupils play these PLAYED; THE CHARACTER OF THE AUDIENCE.--GEORGE SAND AND CHOPIN was with Chopin at the time the letter arrived, and he said to Chopin played this work, which was probably composed, id = 4973 author = Niecks, Frederick title = Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete date = keywords = April; August; Beethoven; Berlin; Breitkopf; Chopin; Concerto; Count; December; Elsner; February; Field; Fontana; France; Franchomme; Frederick; George; Gutmann; Hartel; Hiller; Hummel; January; July; June; Kalkbrenner; Karasowski; Liszt; London; Madame; March; Mazurkas; Mdlle; Mendelssohn; Miss; Moscheles; Mozart; Mr.; Nocturnes; Nohant; November; October; Paris; Pleyel; Poland; Polonaise; Prince; Princess; Rondo; Sand; Schlesinger; Schumann; September; Thalberg; Vienna; Vol; Warsaw; footnote; french; german; polish summary = E. Hill, under the title Frederick Chopin: "His Life, Letters, and Work," Liszt''s informant was no doubt Chopin''s Paris friend Albert Grzymala, man like me dare not do that." After Chopin had played a mazurka as a Hummel''s works Chopin had indeed a life-long admiration and love. 2. Allegro from the Concerto in F minor, composed and played by Chopin. 3. Fantasia on Polish airs, composed and played by Chopin. asking Chopin ''whether Kalkbrenner had understood much about it'' [i.e. the art of pianoforte-playing], followed the answer: ''It was at the every pianist to play Chopin." The composer, however, cannot be said to Elsner, like all Chopin''s friends, was pleased with the young artist''s artist like Chopin, of whose music it can be said with greater force George Sand''s remarks about the Preludes, saying that Chopin composed he liked best to play, he met for the first time Chopin, who had just id = 31526 author = Nohl, Ludwig title = Life of Wagner date = keywords = Baireuth; Beethoven; Dutchman; Flying; Grail; King; Lohengrin; Munich; Nibelungen; Paris; Parsifal; Tannhaeuser; Vienna; Wagner; art; german; time; work summary = LIFE OF WAGNER, From the German of Dr. LOUIS NOHL. essay on "Wagner''s Influence upon the National Art" has been adjudged nature, which, from primeval times, the German spirit has put into the mental activity of the time and the longing for a new world, which first time I fully comprehended the purely human nature of love," he Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner''s Musical Ideas Expressed Pamphlets--"Lohengrin" Performed--Wagner''s Musical Ideas Expressed 1862, the prize song of German life and art which enchants every true festival-building for a national art-work and thus realize his grand "German good-nature" that Wagner this time conquered the nations. "As artist and man, I am now approaching a new world," Wagner had first time in his life he fully secured the purely human happiness that in his art also he sought that life by which the ideal nature of floated before Wagner''s mind in his "combined art-work" and which id = 39078 author = Odum, Howard Washington title = Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes date = keywords = God; Heaven; Jesus; Jordan; Lord; Ole; Rock; Zion; negro; sing; song summary = giving the expression of a present-day negro leader toward the songs of more rhymed words in the present-day negro song than there was in the dialect of the older songs is purer than those of the present-day negro. negroes who sing know a great many songs--in fact, all of their regular sing the church songs, it is very evident that many of the younger negroes negroes of to-day songs have arisen in much the same way. expression, so common in negro songs, "O my Lord", seems to have been common songs of the negroes from the time of slavery to the present day. "Old Satan" as found in the songs of the slave and the negro of to-day:[3] man_." So in another song the negro sings of the _sinners_ and _mourners_. the present song; this is due to the fact that the negro of to-day sings In his songs to-day the negro says: id = 15915 author = Offenbach, Jacques title = New version of Les contes d''Hoffmann (The tales of Hoffman) date = keywords = ANTONIA; CHOEUR; CHORUS; CRESPEL; GIULIETTA; HOFFMAN; MIRACLE; NATHANAEL; NICKLAUSSE; Olympia; SPALANZANI; Zach summary = general applause, and Hoffmann falls desperately in love with her. Giulietta, but she is bribed by Dapertutto to make Hoffmann love her, proof of his love she wants Hoffmann to get the key of her room away Hoffmann demands the key; Schlemil tells him to come and Antonia has been told by her father, Crespel, to sing no more. Hoffmann, who has long loved her, comes, he wonders why, but he soon Que mon premier toast soit pour elle! Comment Hoffmann n''est-il pas là O toi qui dans ce drame où mon coeur se consume Il ne lui manque rien, Elle est très bien! Et moi, ce n''est pas là, pardieu, ce qui m''enchante! C''est pour Hoffman à ce qu''il semble, Tout mon coeur est à toi. Tout ce qui n''est pas toi n''est plus rien dans ma vie. Ah, qu''elle est cette voix qui me trouble l''esprit? Mais n''est-ce pas elle id = 13767 author = Page, Elizabeth Fry title = Edward MacDowell His Work and Ideals date = keywords = MacDowell; Peterboro; Wagner; american; composition; man; music; work summary = musical form is represented by the three shadows dancing before two "Music is love in search of a word," said the same poet-musician. love and sympathetic appreciation of the finest in music, or a great the greatest musical compositions we have were inspired, like most of In some compositions combining both words and music, one will be very MacDowell had great advantages over Lanier in his early life in music, MacDowell died to the world of men through a mental collapse such a thing as music, the great tone-poet dwelt in a soundless world. young MacDowell to leave off music and study art, assuring him that he or song, and conceived and mastered a new form, taking poetry into Applying this idea to the familiar piano compositions of MacDowell, few bold, characteristic strokes, MacDowell still works out his tone ''Twas for like-conditioned people, aspiring to work out their dreams id = 37309 author = Pearce, Joseph title = Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. date = keywords = Amati; Cremona; Guarnerius; London; Paris; Steiner; Stradiuarius; Violin; century; instrument; maker summary = fine tone of a good violin will not now tolerate a bad piano-forte. flat Stradiuarius Model, made of good wood, with amber varnish, and all the better class of instruments is excellent, the tone good of all; now given to the Italian instruments over all the old English makers. pupils of Stradiuarius and made some good instruments of his pattern. best instruments of Nicholas Amati, Antonius Stradiuarius, and Joseph These makers produced some very good but not handsome instruments. a pupil of Steiner, and the first violin maker of this well known name. All his instruments are of a good Italian quality of tone, and are absence of the three great makers, Nicholas Amati, Antonio Stradiuarius the greatest maker of his time, and connoisseurs value his instruments repairing old instruments, he says, "There is no violin maker now, who artiste is not famous for producing a great tone in his instruments, id = 26878 author = Petherick, Horace title = The Repairing & Restoration of Violins ''The Strad'' Library, No. XII. date = keywords = CHAPTER; DIAGRAM; James; STRAD; end; glue; good; illustration; italian; old; place; repair; surface; time; violin; wood; work summary = Insertion of Pieces of Wood for Repairing Lost Parts-with Fresh Wood Large Portions of Upper Table--Lost Parts possibly the very slight portion of glue originally placed at the time present in good glue, especially with regard to violin repairing. may include temporarily glueing fresh wood on to the old parts to be purchase, it may be necessary to glue one or more pieces of wood, cut cutting the small veneer of wood to be placed in position, care should great neatness--the line of old work and new wood being exactly level, careful measurement cut pieces to fit as exactly as possible the parts When a sufficient time has elapsed for the glue to dry, a piece of hard, parts, as to leave little or no glue above the surface of the wood. You will take care to have the upper surface of the fresh wood a little THE REPAIRED PARTS HAVING FRESH WOOD. id = 36535 author = Petherick, Horace title = Antonio Stradivari date = keywords = Amati; Antonio; Bergonzi; Carlo; Cremona; Nicolas; STRAD; Stradivari; master; time; tone; violin; work summary = ART OF VIOLIN MAKING--PECULIARITY OF HIS EARLY WORK, NOTHING Stradivari had been working on the simplest of Amati patterns for these parts of the different instruments--for Stradivari soon got to liutaro''s art that the imitators or forgers of Stradivari''s work have one time influenced by the work of the great Cremonese artist as it on during the time the master''s works were being sent out to parts of for a time actually working in the atelier of Stradivari--whether as thicknesses over the different parts of a violin by Antonio Stradivari. Stradivari, but all the other masters of his time and before. quality," that of Stradivari, and when other masters did not produce it, Bergonzi, a great master himself, but little inferior to Stradivari, and Stradivari''s work during the last ten or more years of his EVIDENCES IN STRADIVARI''S WORK OF OLD AGE--HIS DEATH AND EVIDENCES IN STRADIVARI''S WORK OF OLD AGE--HIS DEATH AND id = 59085 author = Pirro, André title = Johann Sebastian Bach: The Organist and His Works for the Organ date = keywords = B.-G.; Bach; Buxtehude; Church; Footnote; Frescobaldi; Froberger; Gott; Herr; Issue; J.S.; Leipzig; Pachelbel; St.; Toccata; VOL; Weimar; YEAR; music; organ summary = THE PRELUDES AND FUGUES OF J.S. BACH.--TOCCATAS--FANTASIES-the publication of works by Bach for organ and for clavecin, an fugue form, would reply: "Bach is a Colossus, dominating the musical We are to study in this work only the organist Bach. progression of the parts, all of Bach''s works are admirably written, we here wish to consider is the compositions of Bach for the organ. pedal-notes; and never do these works indicate that organs with The organ compositions of J.S. Bach (especially such of them as are this prelude was the "best work with pedal ever written by Bach." It subject taken from a chorale melody, Bach forms a figure, which [Footnote 139: Various arrangements by Bach of this chorale are in It is known that the last work of Bach was a chorale-prelude upon REGISTRATION AND ORNAMENTS OF BACH''S ORGAN WORKS of the _rôle_ which the organ played in the orchestras of Bach and id = 38726 author = Quigley, Margery Closey title = Index to Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs date = keywords = Gaynor; Hubbard; MSG; Music; RCS; SC1; SC2; SHS; SL1; SL2; Smith; TLB; little summary = Songs for little child''s day. Songs for little child''s day. Sunday songs for little children. Sunday songs for little children. Songs for little children. Songs for little children. Songs and games for little ones. Songs and games for little ones. *Come little children and sing. *Come little children and sing. Come, little children, your praise sing. *Come little robin, and sing me a song. Come now, little birds. Dear little light bird, happy and free. Five little children, busy all the day. Good morning, little children dear. Good morning, little children dear. ---Come dance, little Thumbkin. ---Come dance, little Thumbkin. Little boy went walking one lovely summer''s day. Little children, come let us form our ring. Oh come, dear little children. Oh come, dear little children. ---Little songs and dances. ---Little songs and dances. ---Little songs and dances. ---Little songs and dances. ---Little songs and dances. id = 16467 author = Rolland, Romain title = Musicians of To-Day date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Conservatoire; Debussy; Don; Footnote; France; Gluck; Les; Lieder; Liszt; Mahler; Mémoires; Paris; Richard; Saint; Saëns; Schola; Siegfried; Strauss; Tristan; Wagner; Wolf; art; french; german; music; work summary = Berlioz''s music before France, it is doubtful whether the German nature see what a poor figure the young Wagner cut at that time, working away us two entirely different aspects of music--that of a great popular art, likely that an artist''s work will express the opposite of his life--the German music, the poetical expression of the people''s thought. thought worthiest to represent us in music from the time of Berlioz is coming over music, and the way that French art is silently setting of French art, and aroused a love for music in people other than his work in art, not only engaged the interest of the musical world, but French art was that it interested the general public in music; although the work he is performing; for what is most liked in music is the [Footnote 241: They have performed classical music of composers like id = 39671 author = Rolland, Romain title = Handel date = keywords = Alexander; April; Bach; Chrysander; Concerto; Duke; England; February; Hamburg; Handel; Hanover; Israel; Italy; Keiser; London; Mattheson; Messiah; Music; Opera; Scarlatti; St.; Steffani; Venice; english; french; german; italian summary = of the operas of Handel in the long chain of musical evolution, and it The Duke heard the little seven-year-old Handel play the little Handel had, thanks to his master, a living summary of the musical wrote Italian operas; and after that, his musical theatre was without music, and played the clavier well, Handel was received with open arms of Italian Opera, and finally Lord Burlington, Handel''s former patron, Once again Handel returned to Italian Opera. rival opera, and Handel, driven from the house in which he had worked Handel''s good fortune, he wrote his brilliant Firework Music--a model Handel worked no less with the music of other composers than with his Favourite Airs from Handel''s operas and oratorios, arranged as _Sonatas relation of the instrumental works of Handel with the rest of his music. works by various Italian and German composers, which Handel has utilised id = 19557 author = Rosenfeld, Paul title = Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Bloch; Borodin; Brahms; Debussy; Franck; Jew; Korsakoff; Liszt; Mahler; Moussorgsky; Opus; Ornstein; Paris; Ravel; Reger; Rimsky; Schoenberg; Scriabine; Sibelius; Strauss; Strawinsky; Symphony; Wagner; french; man; music; russian; work summary = And with Wagner, the new period of music begins. His work appeared the climax toward which music had aspired feel." We have finally come to recognize that we require of music forms, great men who had developed music, were wanting in his work. The man who composed such music, one knew, had been born Had the new time produced no musical art, had no Debussy nor Scriabine, Strauss the inevitable development awaiting musical genius in the modern actually invented an art of music with each step of composition. every piece makes you the link between classic and modern musical art. the works of Berlioz music and instruments are inseparable. For Debussy is, of all the artists who have made music in our time, the It is doubtful whether any living composer has opened new musical land in his own work, he went to the great masters of musical science, to id = 19748 author = Rowbotham, Francis Jameson title = Story-Lives of Great Musicians date = keywords = Archbishop; Bach; Beethoven; Church; Court; Duke; Emperor; Felix; Franz; Handel; Haydn; Joseph; King; Leopold; London; Ludwig; Mendelssohn; Mozart; Prince; Schubert; Sebastian; St.; Symphony; Vienna; Wolfgang; illustration summary = Musicians''; Townsend''s _Haydn_ in ''The Great Musicians''; Jahn''s _W.A. Mozart_ (translated by P.D. Townsend); Schindler''s _Life of Beethoven_; Late in life, and just after he had completed his great work, ''The Art that the works of Handel which were performed in Italy were composed A love of fun formed an essential part of Haydn''s nature, but music on every hand as the father of instrumental music, Haydn compels our playing, and it was not long ere her music-lessons from her father a short time the boy began to write in the book little compositions of set to music by Herr Wolfgang Mozart, aged ten years.'' conductor, Wolfgang soon became great friends, giving music-lessons work in the shape of music-lessons at small fees, the time which he Mozart felt all his love for Church music reawakened by the new part of his house, he gave music-lessons to his friend''s little id = 21056 author = Rowlands, Walter title = Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Cecilia; Chopin; Fanny; Handel; Haydn; Liszt; London; Mozart; Paganini; Paris; Schubert; St.; Tartini; Vienna; Weber; great; illustration; music summary = giving special musical performances on St. Cecilia''s Day (November 22) Dryden''s "Song for St. Cecilia''s Day, 1687," set to music by Draghi, an that time, Flemish composers had supplied all the music of the Church, compose dance-music for the ballets performed at court, and afterward bring more noise than music out of the instrument, play upon the violin During his long life (he died in 1737), the great violin-maker worked lived a long time in Paris, won many medals and other honours, and died the "English" Bach, composed a large number of works,--songs, operas, "The father set to work to stifle his son''s musical proclivities in music, and in 1725, when only seven years old, sang in an opera by Fux, after Beethoven?" At a later day he said of the master, "Mozart stands musical dramatic work of art which the last twenty years have to show. id = 13504 author = Runciman, John F. title = Haydn date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; England; Handel; Haydn; London; Mozart; Prince; Vienna; music summary = Haydn found music in the eighteenth-century stage, and carried it on to first section of a piece of music in symphony-form ends. fact, in every other part of writing music for courts, Haydn was now the Haydn''s chief in musical affairs was old Werner. music, leaving Haydn to look after the incessant concerts--each of them Haydn everlastingly writing special music. composer then living; Mozart regarded Haydn as a father, and dedicated Haydn did a lot of spade-work for Mozart and Beethoven, Symphony, worked out a gigantic piece of music from four notes. Haydn, in fact, having done his day''s work manfully, seemed Terms were arranged; Haydn was to compose six symphonies and to _The Creation_ and so much church music; but Haydn the artist remained When music in London came to life again, both Haydn and Salomon Haydn knew what his music was, Haydn''s way of composing at the id = 14430 author = Runciman, John F. title = Purcell date = keywords = Abbey; Blow; Church; Handel; Henry; King; Purcell; Queen; illustration; music summary = the immortal youth of Purcell''s music, let us make a comparison. day did that come to pass; but the music of Purcell and of others in his was long held that Purcell wrote the incidental music for _Aureng-Zebe_, time and in tune; he wanted secular, not sacred, music in church. old-fashioned genuine devotional music, Purcell must have heard from is that in Purcell''s music there are no marked stages of development, no Emperour_ was first played in 1665; Purcell added music in 1692. plays embellished by Purcell have nothing like the quantity of music we that in the theatre of that time Purcell had only strings to write for. The set forms of Purcell''s day were the dances. theatre manager demanded of Purcell was a piece of music to occupy the little either of Purcell''s music or Handel''s. Purcell''s music it is not needed. In these ten sonatas we have Purcell, the composer of pure music, id = 14441 author = Runciman, John F. title = Wagner date = keywords = Bayreuth; Brangaena; Brunnhilda; Dutchman; Isolda; Lohengrin; Siegmund; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Wagner; Wotan; music summary = the music was partly written; and in 1839 Wagner took one of the most for the first time the drama grows out of an idea and the music out of The _Dutchman_ must stand amongst Wagner''s great works. outside the theatre, and from that time forward Wagner and his music _Tannhäuser_ and Wagner''s succeeding operas for two reasons. A second reason for thoroughly knowing the drama of the later Wagner would have grown had the opera been written when Wagner was ten years opera-house, and everywhere triumphed, so that a few years later Wagner _Tristan_ was the first opera to be finished after Wagner had published are things sweet to man''s thought, so long will the music of Wagner''s There are four music-dramas, or operas (I use the terms There has been some of Wagner''s finest and freshest love-music, and one The music throughout the act is amongst Wagner''s noblest and most id = 15369 author = Runciman, John F. title = Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians date = keywords = Bach; Bayreuth; Beethoven; Brünnhilde; Byrde; Don; Giovanni; Handel; John; Lohengrin; Matthew; Mozart; Mr.; Parsifal; Purcell; Verdi; Wagner; Weber; german; italian; music summary = early music to be as beautiful as any ever written, as expressive, and music; but though Handel wrote more great choruses, his debt to as Wagner insists that in music-drama only mad persons should speak; passion, and expression of English words, the vocal music of Purcell is brief compared with the love music, besides having a great deal of For Handel''s best music is in the songs, which rarely find coming of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, and Wagner has only characteristic of the great men, of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, music, that he lived in the fine old world when stately men and women an early Wagner music-drama. now--that is, like an early Wagner music-drama--but as Weber intended Wagner''s music and of his drama. In all Wagner''s music-plays there is shown an astonishing may be the art with which music-drama or play or story is set before id = 16431 author = Runciman, John F. title = Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas date = keywords = Act; Bayreuth; Beethoven; Brünnhilda; Dresden; Dutchman; Elsa; Geyer; Isolda; Leipzig; Liszt; Lohengrin; Mastersingers; Meyerbeer; Paris; Richard; Rienzi; Ring; Sachs; Senta; Siegfried; Siegmund; Tannhäuser; Tristan; Valkyrie; Wagner; Walther; Weber; Wotan; german; music summary = Wagner, like Weber, wrote theatrical music for the theatre, whilst hint Wagner got from Meyerbeer we shall see when we examine the music. kind of thing when we come to the beginning of Wagner''s riper work, Tannhäuser''s music grows in intensity, and Wagner is careful time afterwards he played some of his music to Wagner, who found it dream is not dramatic as Wagner, by the time he wrote his next work, Wagner the songs are "absolute" music: the words were his own, and he Wagner was at his best when writing about music or about musicians he is Wagner''s most perfect work, is the finest opera in the world. means believe even Wagner capable of writing a three-act music-drama Wagner''s only opera in which music and drama had birth simultaneously So far as Wagner could he let music and drama grow up _Tannhäuser_ onward Wagner showed in the music of his operas a id = 29112 author = Saint-George, Henry title = The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use ''The Strad'' Library, No. III. date = keywords = CHAPTER; Dodd; FIG; Mirecourt; Mr.; Paris; Tourte; Vuillaume; bow; hair; illustration; maker; work summary = I. Head and nut of inlaid bow probably by Stradivari Head and nut of ornamented Cremonese bow (actual size) . Head and nut of Dodd bow (reduced) . Nut of bow showing screw and method of hairing . Of existing bowed instruments the Ravanastron (Fig. 4) most certainly handsome ivory nut of this bow is shown in Fig. 28. This is very remarkable as none of the bow makers now working know of The mean length of a violin bow as fixed by Tourte is from 74 to 75 nut, the curved ferrule, and the self-hairing bow. The hair is usually inserted in a bow in the natural position of its them, but good makers always make the nut for each bow as it is shaped notches in the head and nut and the bow was haired. The hair in this bow is placed at such an id = 16459 author = Saint-Saëns, Camille title = Musical Memories date = keywords = Beethoven; Berlioz; Gluck; Haydn; Hugo; Les; Liszt; Madame; Meyerbeer; Mozart; Opéra; Paris; Queen; Rossini; french; italian; music; time; work summary = They couldn''t let a little monkey like that work away at the piano, and concert organ, a necessary adjunct for musical performances. music and the authors went to work on it. performing large vocal works, as they too often do to-day to the great hear an opera, when if the same piece was played without music they The directors of great concerts should love music themselves and should more and each time, after his homily, music was played. concert I organized and managed at a time when Liszt''s works were the author of numerous works and wrote a good deal of church music. accompaniments, the two great artists played the illustrious author''s is a great pity, for it is almost impossible to perform our old music, music; "poseurs," others said, who pretended to admire works they did continue his Penelope-like work, which showed a great love of id = 29361 author = Sampson, George title = A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy date = keywords = Bennett; David; Mendelssohn; Schumann summary = "Yes," said Mendelssohn, with a graceful gesture, "I shall be greatly "Well, David," said Mendelssohn, "it''s to be your Concerto, so I want "Thank you," said David with a smile of deep pleasure; and turning to me "Thank you," said Mendelssohn, with a smile; "Handel is certainly yours "Yes," said Mendelssohn; "and people know so little of him. "We shall all be glad if you will," said Mendelssohn, as he turned once "Come along and play it with me," said Mendelssohn to Bennett; "you''ve "Yes," said Mendelssohn, with a smile, "it was in Wales, and I wrote the "By-the-by," said Schumann, "David''s antics remind me that Mendelssohn "Ah," said Mendelssohn, "I don''t think the old poet would really have "Yes," said Schumann, warmly; "Goethe liked you because you were "I agree with Mendelssohn," said Schumann. Mendelssohn nodded with a smile, and, turning to me, said in id = 39093 author = Schindler, Anton title = Life of Beethoven Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works date = keywords = Archduke; Beethoven; Bonn; Breuning; Count; Dr.; England; Fidelio; God; Göthe; Haydn; Lichnowsky; London; Maelzel; March; Mass; Mozart; Mr.; Opera; Philharmonic; Prince; Ries; Society; Sonata; Symphony; Vienna; Wegeler; friend; illustration; letter; time; work summary = musical meetings Beethoven''s works first made their way to public one day met Beethoven, when he was coming with his roll of music under Lichnowsky''s musical parties that almost all Beethoven''s works were General View of the Second Period of Beethoven''s Life--Composition both these great works, and of which Beethoven many years afterwards mean time Beethoven wrote several Sonatas and Quartetts, which were time before Beethoven recovered from the shock, and permitted this work Beethoven''s warmest friends at that time, and who, like the two just of Beethoven''s works probably conferred a benefit on musical art. To perform Beethoven''s music, without regard to meaning Let Beethoven''s piano-forte works be played according to the new time in the performance, under his direction, of Beethoven''s works at If Beethoven did not direct the performance of his instrumental music in At the time of sending off these Sonatas, Beethoven lived id = 31880 author = Scrici title = Physiology of the Opera date = keywords = Brown; George; Harry; Miss; Mr.; Smith; donna; gentleman; illustration; lady; opera; tenor; time summary = The tenor, basso, prima donna and baritone may be considered as Sometimes the tenor is seen riding out with the prima donna, with whom a winter night; until the young gentlemen have jammed their opera hats Another effect of a beautiful prima donna, is to make young husbands, admiring the courage of the little tenor (the outlaw), which they and the prima donna to follow him up in order to raise his head on her ill-fated young man is placed by the side of Miss Smith''s mother, a that prima donna against the whole world; whereupon Miss Smith with one the word "stupid," Miss Smith makes no reply, but merely looks at Mr. Brown as if she had not the slightest idea whatever that a very personal the point of cutting off his head, but a very prima donna like looking he is just going to be married to the prima donna like looking lady, id = 17074 author = Shedlock, J. S. (John South) title = The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development date = keywords = Adagio; Allegro; Andante; Bach; Beethoven; Clementi; Dussek; Emanuel; Finale; Haydn; Kuhnau; Mozart; Scarlatti; Schubert; Sonata; movement; music summary = speak of a movement in sonata-form, containing three sections Scarlatti''s sonatas consist, then, of one movement in binary form of Adagio (a movement in binary form) of that sonata, the theme appears, follow, and the third movement is an Allegro in sonata-form. Mozart composed his C minor Sonata towards the end of the year 1784. theme of the slow movement of Beethoven''s sonata in A (Op. 2, No. 2) Beethoven, however, wrote six sonatas consisting of two movements. movements of Beethoven''s Sonata in D minor (Op. 31, No. 2) illustrate keys, some other movements of the Beethoven sonatas show departures also in the Allegro of Op. 13, and other sonatas; the opening movement the opening movement of the sonata in C minor (Op. 10, No. 1), in In Beethoven''s sonatas we find many movements, [2] Among the four-movement sonatas of Op. 1, No. 6 (in B minor) has id = 27149 author = Shortridge, John D. title = Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries date = keywords = italian summary = [Illustration: Figure 1.--OUTER CASE OF ALBANA HARPSICHORD.] typical Italian instruments and a general discussion of the stringing and tuning of Italian harpsichords and virginals that is based on virginals as well as the spinet and the harpsichord were keyed [Illustration: Figure 2.--POLYGONAL VIRGINAL IN OUTER CASE.] [Illustration: Figure 3.--POLYGONAL VIRGINAL REMOVED FROM OUTER CASE.] As is true of the great majority of Italian virginals and harpsichords [Illustration: Figure 6.--SOUNDBOARD LAYOUT OF POLYGONAL VIRGINAL. The vibrating lengths of the strings of the polygonal virginal and of If the length of one treble string of an instrument of this sort is that single manual keyboard instruments a fourth apart in pitch were in The correlation of compass and string length of the Italian instruments, that appeared in soundboards of virginals and harpsichords.] The average of the pitch _C_ lengths of the transposing instruments in measured lengths of the pitch _C_ strings of the three instruments tuned id = 2589 author = Sousa, John Philip title = The Experiences of a Bandmaster date = keywords = President; White summary = While conductor of the Marine Band, which plays at all the state door of the main lobby of the White House, where the Marine Band was The ladies of the White House were always interested in the music, and President, and the band did not play at the White House, except for a The Marine Band played all the music for President Cleveland''s wedding, March" was played by the band just as the bride and groom reached the "Dixie," by the President''s Band. bugle-calls and patriotic airs, and when the band played them the he was interested arranged for my band, and agreed to play it at a The music was given to a member of the band with As the band ceased playing, went there and was ordered to take the band to the White House at eight uniform, I sat in front of the band platform in the White House lobby, id = 30560 author = Spalding, Walter Raymond title = Music: An Art and a Language date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Brahms; Chopin; Coda; Debussy; English; Fifth; Finale; Footnote; Form; Franck; Haydn; Liszt; Mozart; Overture; Pianoforte; Scherzo; Schubert; Schumann; Sonata; Suite; Supplement; Symphony; Tchaikowsky; Wagner; french; music; russian; theme; work summary = foundation of any large work of music, be it symphony, symphonic poem part in the music of Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Grieg, movement of Brahms''s _C minor Symphony_, the second phrase of which is theme of the Slow movement of Schumann''s Second Symphony (measures instrumental music gradually worked out a structure of its own,[64] Invention, the Two and Three-part forms, the Rondo and the Varied Air. Through the perfecting of these means of expression music became a two living musical personalities, the first and second themes. For actual musical examples it seems best to begin with the works of invent pure instrumental melody, _i.e._, musical expression suited to Bach''s work, we feel that his musical sense operated abstractly like a than the mere development of musical themes. working principles of musical composition, they are as much subject to use made of themes in modern music, in the works of Strauss, id = 36215 author = Strang, Lewis Clinton title = Famous Prima Donnas date = keywords = Alice; Boston; Company; D''Arville; Davis; Della; Fox; Girl; Hall; Hopper; Lillian; Marie; Miss; Mr.; New; Nielsen; Opera; Pauline; Russell; York summary = appeared in light opera, in extravaganza, in musical comedy, and in the seasons with this organization Miss Earle acted Della Fox''s famous part to England, where they remained two years, Miss Russell appearing in two During the season of 1897-98 Miss Russell appeared with Della Fox and in charm to lead a burlesque company to great success." Miss Templeton After Miss Celeste returned to New York, she studied singing for a time, acting as understudy to Miss Fox, whose rôle she played many times. next season she returned to Miss Russell''s company, making so effective Next Miss Fox created the principal soubrette rôle in Mr. Hopper''s opera has not appeared in opera for some time, for during the season of Miss D''Arville became connected with the New York Casino, appearing in On her return to New York, Miss Hall again appeared at the Bijou, on May id = 39571 author = Stratton, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) title = Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work date = keywords = Appendix; Beethoven; Berlioz; Genoa; Italy; LIBRARY; Liszt; London; Milan; Mr.; Musical; Nicolo; Paganini; Paris; Plate; Rossini; STRAD; Sonata; Vienna; Violin; concert; illustration; italian; play; variation summary = violinists, too, are all playing Paganini''s music; they seem to glory in Leghorn, an announcement of Paganini''s concert, lost no time, but (Paganini will cause his violin to be heard.) He was received with no At the fourth concert, on the 16th, Paganini played a one, at the King''s Theatre on July 4th, Paganini played a new Concerto At one of the concerts Paganini played the concerto in B minor, with the death of Beethoven, Paganini attended a concert, and heard a performance said that when Paganini''s concerts took place at the King''s Theatre, it Paganini''s Art of Playing the Violin"--which is presumably still Violin-playing will never be quite what it was before Paganini. During Paganini''s lifetime no one else seems to have played his music, Paganini." This was played at the concert of June 27th, 1831, at the The Sonata was played by Paganini at his first concert in London. id = 16248 author = Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander) title = The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. date = keywords = Brünnhilde; Count; Der; Die; Don; England; English; Faust; Gluck; Gounod; Handel; Italy; King; Les; Lohengrin; London; Massenet; Meyerbeer; Mozart; Mr.; Paris; Rossini; Sullivan; Tannhäuser; Verdi; Wagner; Weber; french; german; italian; music; opera; work summary = French operas, works of tragic import, treated with all the intricacy ever at war in his earlier operas, musical beauty and dramatic truth. music-loving people of Naples when they found that the opera which they little work written by a Neapolitan composer, Duni, to a French modelled upon an earlier French work which had already been set to music works, written for the Paris stage, show the influence of the composer Weber''s last opera, ''Oberon,'' is one of the few works written in recent the most characteristic part of the work is, after all, the love music works produced at the Paris Opera, may be passed over as comparative musical reasons for the instantaneous success of Verdi''s early operas. The effect of Wagner''s music upon German opera has points of resemblance to Wagner''s later works, and the music follows his composer''s while to produce it as a one-act opera, in which form it id = 14339 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Music Talks with Children date = keywords = CHAPTER; good; great; heart; music; talk; thing; thought; tone summary = In our next Talk we shall learn that pure thought, written out of the to study music rightly is to cultivate in our own hearts the same good shall learn that true music comes from a true heart; and that great Remember, in playing music, that great and good men have put into even now I am sure we understand that good music comes from pure scale and we shall learn that all the music we have comes out of it. of good music to have interesting and beautiful melodic thought thoughts when we study great music, or read a great poem, or look at a choose true music with pure thought in it, and do their best to play Now we have said again and again that true music comes from the heart, True music is written out of good thought; hence, when we begin In these days we learn many things in our schools--even music. id = 34550 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Franz Joseph Haydn : The Story of the Choir Boy who became a Great Composer date = keywords = Haydn; illustration summary = from the Lives of the Great Composers for Children," "Music The Story of the Choir Boy who Became a Great Composer Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, a little Austrian village not far from It will be easy for you to remember the year in which Joseph Haydn was Joseph Haydn was born on March 31st of the same year (he used to say Washington''s father died in the year when he and Joseph Haydn were ten Little Joseph Haydn''s father and mother were poor, but they loved to watch him very closely, and one day he, too, began to play the violin When he was six years old, Sepperl could "stand up like a man" and sing heard the little boy sing and liked his voice so much that he invited Five years after Joseph Haydn entered St. Stephen''s, his brother Michael 1. Where and in what year was Joseph Haydn born? id = 34568 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Johann Sebastian Bach : The story of the boy who sang in the streets date = keywords = illustration summary = This is the house in which JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH was born. Little Sebastian''s father was named JOHANN AMBROSIUS BACH. His name was Veit Bach, and his little boy was called Hans, When Sebastian was ten years old his father and mother died. [Illustration: BACH COPYING MUSIC BY MOONLIGHT.] Benjamin Franklin was quite a little younger than Sebastian Bach. At that time Sebastian Bach was living in Leipsic and had been for many Sebastian Bach to visit him at his castle. [Illustration: BACH PLAYING BEFORE FREDERICK THE GREAT.] The kind of a piano that Sebastian Bach played on was not called a piano Some day you will study a collection of pieces by Sebastian Bach which [Illustration: MORNING PRAYERS IN THE HOME OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.] Sebastian Bach died in 1750. 4. What other great German composer lived in Bach''s time? THE STORY OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH id = 34582 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Mozart : The story of a little boy and his sister who gave concerts date = keywords = Mozart summary = The composer whom we call WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART was called Wolferl When Wolferl was three years old he used to listen to Nannerl''s playing. And here is a picture of Wolferl trying to reach the keys so as to play [Illustration: MOZART PLAYING WITH HIS FATHER AND SISTER.] picture of the Mozart children when they played for the King and the In the year when Mozart was born both Handel and Haydn were living. When Mozart was fourteen years old Beethoven was born. 6. Little Mozart loved to hear his sister play. 8. Mozart went on a concert tour with his sister when he was six years Mozart was five years old when he wrote his first piece. 4. Did Mozart play games and have a good time like other boys? 5. Why did people ask Mozart to play upon the harpsichord with a cloth [Illustration: THE BOY MOZART PLAYING.] id = 34737 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Beethoven : The story of a little boy who was forced to practice date = keywords = Beethoven; illustration summary = This series of the Child''s Own Book of Great Musicians includes at Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the lovely town of Bonn, on the River Ludwig was only four years old when he began to study music. Beethoven''s father, punish the little boy severely to keep him at his had the great Beethoven when he was a child. funny old organ in the Minorite Church of Bonn upon which Beethoven little boy ten years of age was taken by his father to visit Beethoven. Like every other human being, Beethoven loved music in just this way. BEETHOVEN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS] Read these facts about Ludwig van Beethoven and try to write his story 1. The composer''s full name was Ludwig van Beethoven. 8. Even as a little boy he composed music. What composer, as a little boy, went to see Beethoven? Name some of the forms of music which Beethoven composed. id = 35013 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Chopin : The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies date = keywords = Chopin; illustration summary = of the Great Composers for Children," "Music Talks with Children," As long as we live and keep in touch with the works of the great great composers kept busily at their work until the last year of their Here is a picture of little Chopin playing for a group of boyhood [Illustration 4: LITTLE CHOPIN PLAYING FOR HIS FRIENDS] [Illustration 11: CHOPIN PLAYING FOR THE PRINCE] "Chopin talks little, and rarely about music. Germany, to learn that a genius by the name of Chopin lived in Paris. [Illustration 14: CHOPIN DREAMING OF POLAND] While it is true that Chopin was ill in the last years of his life, we 7. Who were some of the people who welcomed Chopin to Paris? Name some of the kinds of music that Chopin composed. What music by Chopin have you heard? the kinds of music that Chopin composed?) was changed to a period. id = 35070 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Franz Schubert : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs date = keywords = illustration summary = book blank pages upon which the child is to write his own story of the Schubert composed many kinds of music, but his songs are most loved by Franz Schubert was born in......... Even though these boys were a little older than Franz Schubert, let us But from the time when Franz Schubert was a very little boy he had Well, Franz Schubert also lived for a time with the Esterhazy family. you read more about this singer''s friendship for Franz Schubert you will Beethoven lived in Vienna at that time and Schubert with two friends This is the way that Franz Schubert wrote his name. 4. When Schubert was born Beethoven was twenty-seven years old. 5. What was the father of Franz Schubert? 7. Give the name of a famous song by Schubert. 8. What famous musician died in Vienna when Schubert was twelve years id = 35097 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Edvard Grieg : The Story of the Boy Who Made Music in the Land of the Midnight Sun date = keywords = Grieg; illustration summary = of the Great Composers for Children," "Music Talks with Children," loved his mother country and the music which the people sang. [Illustration: No. 2 GRIEG AS A BOY] instead of taking his school books he took with him his music writing music that kept singing in him, but he loved Norway and all its people. Then Ole Bull sits down and talks with Father and Mother Grieg. [Illustration: No. 10 GADE''S MUSICAL NAME] Grieg''s life was Bjornson''s _Patriotic Poem_ to his own music. entirely of Norwegian music, the Government gave Grieg a small pension So sensitive was Grieg about music writing that he never allowed any one Here are some pictures of Grieg as he looked in later years. [Illustration: No. 20 GRIEG IN LATER YEARS] [Illustration: No. 20 GRIEG IN LATER YEARS] You have learned two, Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull. THE STORY OF EDVARD GRIEG id = 35128 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Wagner : The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays date = keywords = Wagner; illustration summary = book blank pages upon which the child is to write his own story of the Wagner''s father died when he was only six months old, and the boy was There is Walter, who sings the Prize Song in Die Meistersinger, and Eva, there are in the operas by Richard Wagner, gods and goddesses, giants Here is a list of the operas by Richard Wagner, with their names Read these facts about Richard Wagner and try to write his story out of 1. Richard Wagner wrote operas. 6. As a boy Richard Wagner went to a classical school. Among the books that Richard Wagner read as a boy were the story of 1. What kind of music did Richard Wagner compose? 3. Can you name some of the musicians who lived when Richard Wagner was 5. In what opera by Richard Wagner is _The Prize Song_? id = 35157 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Handel : The Story of a Little Boy who Practiced in an Attic date = keywords = Handel; illustration summary = Handel was born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685. "Here," said Mother Handel, "my little boy can play the harpsichord to may imagine Father Handel exclaiming, "my son shall be a famous lawyer." One day when little George was seven years old his father set out by HANDEL FOLLOWING HIS FATHER''S COACH.] Handel studied with Zachau for three years. When Handel was twelve years old his father died. One day Handel and Mattheson went by coach Though Handel went to Hamburg an unknown boy, he soon became famous. After his residence in Italy Handel went back to Germany, where he met so that Handel should compose some music for the king''s coronation, For many years Handel composed operas, but finally he won fame by 1. In what year was Handel born? Name some of the famous composers of the day whom Handel knew. What kinds of music did Handel write? id = 35158 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Verdi : The Story of the Little Boy who Loved the Hand Organ date = keywords = Verdi; illustration summary = The picture on this page is of the house wherein a great composer was for nothing, because the little boy, Giuseppe Verdi, showed such It was on this spinet that the little boy discovered one day a wonderful He must have been a weary little boy after the day''s music-making at the Do you know that of one of Verdi''s operas the scene is laid in our Another famous opera by Verdi, the scene of which is laid in a foreign After Verdi had composed Aida he wrote no more operas for sixteen years. of Verdi, which shows us how the little boy of Roncole grew to be a man 4. Among the great composers who were alive when Verdi was a little boy For a period of sixteen years Verdi wrote no operas. 8. What did Verdi love to do besides compose music? How many operas, in all, did Verdi compose? THE STORY OF GIUSEPPE VERDI id = 35596 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Robt. Schumann : The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music date = keywords = Schumann summary = book blank pages upon which the child is to write his own story of the When Robert Schumann was a boy he used to amuse his friends by playing Some day you will be able to play a lot of pieces by Schumann that In one of his books there is a music picture of a boy There was lots of music making in the Schumann home, for Robert and all And still there was another little boy only a year older than Robert Papa Wieck, as he was called, was not very kind to Robert Schumann when ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN.] In the sixteen years that Robert Schumann lived after he and Clara Wieck Schumann is best known as a composer of music, although he was also a 7. With whom did Robert Schumann study the piano? 8. Whom did Robert Schumann marry? THE STORY OF ROBERT SCHUMANN. id = 35601 author = Tapper, Thomas title = Franz Liszt : The Story of a Boy Who Became a Great Pianist and Teacher date = keywords = Liszt; illustration summary = This series of the Child''s Own Book of Great Musicians includes at HOUSE IN WHICH FRANZ LISZT WAS BORN] Franz Liszt was born in this house, on the Twenty-second Day of October, Now, long after Joseph Haydn''s time, Adam Liszt, father of Franz, lived I am sure you will like to know how Liszt looked as he sat at the piano. Franz Liszt was kind to all people who came to him. But Franz Liszt believed in him and in his work. So we may end by saying that Franz Liszt was a great man who remained FACTS ABOUT FRANZ LISZT 6. Among Liszt''s boyhood friends were Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. 7. After many years as a concert pianist, Liszt became opera conductor 1. When and where was Franz Liszt born? What great musician''s life was written by Franz Liszt? THE STORY OF FRANZ LISZT id = 35592 author = Thomas, W. H. (William Henry) title = Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro date = keywords = Lord; Society; Texas summary = SOME CURRENT FOLK-SONGS OF THE NEGRO _Read before the Folk-Lore Society of Texas, 1912_ WILL THOMAS AND THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY Now that this brochure is being reprinted by the Texas Folk-Lore Society, Although not a numbered publication, =Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro= work with folk-lore should not only collect it but interpret it and also at San Marcos, who has done notable work in Negro folk songs and who is SOME CURRENT FOLK-SONGS OF THE NEGRO AND THEIR ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION. misleading at this day and time to speak of the negro as a "folk." That Now a great change has come into the negro''s economic life within the past follow one as he works with a white man, the latter, of course, being If you consider these songs as the negro''s literature, you will notice We now come to songs originated by the present generation of negroes. id = 28056 author = Trotter, James M. title = Music and Some Highly Musical People date = keywords = Beethoven; Boston; Brown; Church; Cleveland; England; France; Greenfield; Hall; Holland; Hyers; Jubilee; Lewis; Luca; March; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Orleans; Philadelphia; Professor; States; Tom; White; Williams; York; great; music; musical; note summary = Take from man all creative and performing power in music, leaving him noble art of music began a new, unimpeded, and brilliant career among great musical composer Mozart was a wonderful instance of precocity, instrumental artists, a large number of classical musical clubs and this country skilled in music and of fine general culture, as well as press, and by music-loving, cultured people, everywhere Miss of a naturally musical ear and a good voice, and by diligent study of by this time quite a fine knowledge of music, and being an excellent guitar, playing the best music with a fine degree of proficiency. performer upon that instrument, and a successful musical and sings in admirable style, both in songs and concerted music. pianist, a leading soprano-singer in choirs, a lady of fine musical years, possess very sweet voices; and the music was given Canada, Miss Brown, in the display of fine musical powers, won new id = 32248 author = Upton, George P. (George Putnam) title = The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook date = keywords = Acis; Bach; Cantata; Cecilia; Don; England; Faust; Fay; Festival; Frithjof; Galatea; God; Handel; Hymn; John; King; Leipsic; London; Lord; March; Mendelssohn; Mozart; Mr.; Night; Paris; Prince; Psalm; Queen; St.; Vienna; chorus; german; music; song; work; year summary = occasions an ode was written and set to music.[13] In the latter year the music, including an obligato soprano solo with chorus of angels ("Praise scene the music changes to a bright and tripping strain, the chorus of worlds and of music, as the song of stars unites with the angel chorus in The "Song of Victory," a cantata for soprano solo, chorus, and orchestra, Time shall come"), the number closing with double chorus in full rich beautiful cantatas, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. The cantata is written for tenor solo, male chorus, and orchestra, and "King Trojan," composed for chorus, solos, and orchestra, was written in soprano solo, chorus, orchestra, and organ (1872); cantata, "Fridolin" The work is for soprano solo and chorus, the words by the poet The cantata is written for the four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. The cantata is written for the four solo voices, chorus of sopranos, id = 26320 author = Van Vechten, Carl title = The Merry-Go-Round date = keywords = Arthur; Co.; Cou; Edgar; Footnote; Garden; George; Henry; Isadora; John; London; Madame; Mary; Miss; Mme; Moore; Mozart; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Opera; Paris; Paul; Saltus; Theatre; Wilde; York; american; french; like; music; singer summary = old men who tell us that we shall soon tire of the music of Puccini each may play its part, but in music there is no idea without form, no Wilde as saying to her one night at dinner, "In Edgar Saltus''s work year old, half-witted school boy, after three minutes light thinking, There was but one way to sing the new music and On our music hall stage there are not more than ten singers who our music hall stage, is not a good interpreter of popular songs. youth emphasized the effect of folk-dancing by playing old _chansons be able to write novels, but they cannot compose great music.... instrumental music." We are given a picture of Mrs. Kellow at work: book on American music has been written. music she sings at every turn. artist than the man who plays that music, the poet who id = 32979 author = Van Vechten, Carl title = Interpreters date = keywords = America; Carmen; Farrar; Fremstad; Garden; House; Louise; Mary; Metropolitan; Miss; Mme; New; Nijinsky; Olive; Opera; Paris; Salome; York; french summary = itinerant opera company to sing in an ill-rehearsed performance of two in America Mme. Fremstad appeared in the rôle, singing it, indeed, more human in song, grander and more noble in opera, than that of Mme. Tetrazzini, but the public as a whole prefers to hear the latter, the only other opera Mme. Fremstad had ever sung in French was _Carmen_, The singer told me that she went to work on this opera with fear in her But it was in the closing scene of the drama that Mme. Fremstad, like the poet and the composer, achieved her most effective On the occasion of Mme. Sembrich''s farewell to the American opera stage she appeared as Flora Previous to this time Miss Garden had never sung this opera in Before she appeared as Mélisande in New York, Miss Garden was a little Feodor Chaliapine, the Russian bass singer, appeared in New York at the id = 38153 author = Wagnalls, Mabel title = Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba date = keywords = Aida; Butterfly; Carmen; Charlotte; Don; Elsa; Faust; Hamlet; José; Lakme; Lehmann; Lohengrin; Madame; Marguerite; Nordica; Ophelia; Raoul; Rhadames; Valentine; Wagner; like; music summary = training his voice, studying music, memorizing operas, overcoming orchestra, like the dim visions of a dying man, that first love-theme so This is the great theme of the opera, the center-stone of the musical The peaceful love-music greets our ears as we look upon the next scene, effect of dream-music by having the chorus sing behind the scenes with love-music like a beacon-light on a turbulent sea. distressing thought agitates the music like the passing of a great ship The great theme of the opera is the Huguenot hymn, a thrilling song of The opening of the second act is like a musical mirage--tone-phantasies swinging theme in which all the voices move together like a great his voice greeting her like familiar music. love-music, followed by the somber theme of revenge like a shadow after like a buried diamond, the great love-theme of the opera. id = 11633 author = Wagner, Richard title = Parsifal A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation date = keywords = God; Grail; Gurnemanz; Holy; King; Kundry; Parsifal; Spear summary = Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail Parsifal revealing the Holy Grail the Holy Grail of God. Those who desire to study further the mystical and spiritual meanings Is needing thee, for here doth come the King!" Spake with his own sad heart: "He comes, my King,-Of Monsalvat, forever given to God. And ye, blest servants of the Holy Grail, And live the life of warriors of God. This Klingsor came to holy Titurel For e''en the heart of bird doth know sweet love,-"My son Amfortas, art thou at thy post?... And let thy holy hands reveal the Grail And let me die, and come to Thee pure-hearted!" But she: "O Parsifal, thou foolish heart! Look up, and this heart''s love shall comfort thee!" "Ah, woman, now I know thee who thou art. Now do I come to thee with heart of love; O let me serve thee and the Holy Grail." id = 16250 author = Wagner, Richard title = Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts date = keywords = BRANGÆNA; ISOLDA; KURVENAL; King; Mark; TRISTAN summary = Tristan, a valiant Cornish knight, is bringing Isolda, princess of Isolda has been wedded to King Mark, but holds stolen interviews with Tristan''s faithful servant, Kurvenal, has carried his wounded master (_She lets the curtain fall and hastens to_ ISOLDA.) thou''st quitted thy father and mother, ISOLDA (_whose eyes have at once sought_ TRISTAN _and fixed KURVENAL (_observing Brangæna''s approach, plucks Tristan by the robe Sir Tristan gives thee ISOLDA (_advancing with the cup to_ TRISTAN, _who gazes Tristan and Isolda remain absorbed in mutual (_Rushing between_ TRISTAN _and_ ISOLDA.) Love''s goddess dost thou not know? (TRISTAN _draws_ ISOLDA _gently aside to a flowery bank, sinks TRISTAN (_drawing_ ISOLDA _gently towards him with expressive ISOLDA (looking fondly up at TRISTAN). wilt thou, Isolda, follow? See''st thou Isolda? See''st thou Isolda? But thou, Tristan, TRISTAN (_turning, his dying eyes on_ ISOLDA). Tristan, where art thou? and give thee up to thy love. id = 48214 author = Wagner, Richard title = The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie The Ring of the Niblung, part 1 date = keywords = ALBERICH; BRÜNNHILDE; FRICKA; Freia; LOGE; Sieglinde; Siegmund; Thou; WOTAN; illustration; plate summary = He brings thee this sword" plate 22 With dismay thou art filling thy child!" plate 26 As he moves slowly away, Wotan turns and looks GODS: WOTAN, DONNER, FROH, LOGE To thy bosom with love and with longing. Thou hast thy hall; Abandon thee in thy need. When thy hand held forth a ring The hoard and thy gleaming gold. It will crush thee to thy cost, rogue. Thou wouldst have wooed for thy bride; For the gold thou hast let go. Who pursues thee so close at thy heels? Here comes Fricka, thy wife, I seek thee, where thou dost hide With dismay thou art filling thy child!"] With dismay thou art filling thy child!"] That she carries of thee and thy love! Pierce thou my heart with thy sword! Of thy love, O woman! Thou hast shaped thy doom for thyself. With Wotan no part hast thou-- id = 49507 author = Wagner, Richard title = Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods The Ring of the Niblung, part 2 date = keywords = ALBERICH; BRÜNNHILDE; Fafner; Gunther; HAGEN; MIME; Rhine; SIEGFRIED; WANDERER; Wotan; illustration summary = Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with ''Tis plain thou lovest thy Mime, And yet thou dost owe me thy life! "Brought thee thy food, "Brought thee thy food, And thou shalt learn on thy limbs Fear thou wilt learn from Fafner, Once more art thou firm in thy hilt. Wilt thou hold thy hand from the hoard? Thou wilt remember who brought thee, Hast thou thy home in this wood? Thou thyself with thy taunting So long loved wert thou, Siegfried! Nevermore thy mother will greet thee! [Illustration: Brünnhilde throws herself into Siegfried''s arms. Then wert thou Siegfried and Brünnhild''. [Illustration: Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and [_Gunther drinks and hands the horn to Siegfried, [Illustration: Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with Hear thou thy son! Brünnhild'' greets thee, thy bride! id = 5144 author = Wagner, Richard title = My Life — Volume 2 date = keywords = Bulow; Count; Dresden; Duke; Frau; Grand; Herr; Herwegh; Karl; Karlsruhe; Liszt; Lohengrin; London; Meistersinger; Minna; Mme; Opera; Paris; Princess; Ritter; St.; Tannhauser; Theatre; Tristan; Venice; Vienna; Weimar; Wesendonck; Zurich; french; german summary = twelve consecutive evenings to our Zurich friends, Herwegh stayed away, a good deal of each other in my early Dresden days, and he soon felt at long and pleasant visit of our amiable and charming young friend. following day my Zurich friends arrived. the Grand Duke of Baden, Liszt had arranged and conducted a musical at work at my music, I felt the longing to express myself in poetry. About the time of my birthday I had a visit from my old friend on a visit to her friends in Saxony after her cure, time would some days in my friends'' house, where I saw my old Zurich acquaintances September, when I went for a three days'' visit to my friends in Zurich. the time my concerts were being given, and upon whom my friend know, I only heard that my old friend several times addressed him, to id = 5197 author = Wagner, Richard title = My Life — Volume 1 date = keywords = Bakunin; Beethoven; Berlin; Brockhaus; Count; Devrient; Dresden; Fliegender; Friedrich; Hall; Herr; Hiller; Hollander; Holtei; King; Konigsberg; Laube; Leipzig; Liszt; Lohengrin; Luttichau; Magdeburg; Meyerbeer; Minna; Opera; Paris; Prague; Rienzi; Riga; Rockel; Saxony; Schlesinger; Schroder; Spontini; Symphony; Tannhauser; Theatre; Tichatschek; Weber; Zurich; french; german; time; work summary = For a long time the thought of leaving Saxony on another visit to time been secretly busy working out the great tragedy I had already conscious of living at a time in which such things took place could not Dorn, who was at that time musical director of the Leipzig theatre. the Leipzig theatre regarded me for a long time as a very doubtful impressions of musical and theatrical life, and for a long time Vienna Leipzig for the New Year, in order to get my opera accepted by the having been kept waiting for a long time--as a matter of fact they The journey from Paris to Dresden at that time took five days and As Schroder-Devrient soon left Dresden for a considerable time, the also in Dresden at this time, and was busy working out on opera, which id = 30409 author = Watts, Isaac title = A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church. date = keywords = David; God; Gospel; Lord; Psalms; Song; word summary = how the Psalms of _David_ ought to be translated into Christian Songs, Songs; singing and making Melody in your Hearts to the Lord, giving in Psalms and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs; singing with Grace in your 3. _They sing the Song of Moses, the Servant of God, and the _Levites_ that _sing Praise unto the Lord with the Words of_ David learn what God speaks to us in his Word; but when we sing, especially ourselves to _David_''s Psalms, or the Words of any Songs in Scripture. them; Sing unto the Lord a new Song, and his Praise from the End of Spirit to compose or sing spiritual Songs in the primitive Church, required to worship God by Singing, we are not commanded to make a new the Psalms of _David_ and other Scripture-Songs, as are suited to our Spiritual Songs at the End of the old Translation of the Psalm-Book, id = 35721 author = Wilson, Christopher title = Shakespeare and Music date = keywords = Act; Ariel; Berlioz; Bishop; Falstaff; Hamlet; Henry; John; King; Macbeth; Ophelia; Othello; Paris; Prospero; Shakespeare; Sir; Wagner; english; music; play; scene summary = great number of Shakespeare''s plays, read some of them, and written or Shakespeare''s plays and only use settings composed for the original Musically, there are many ways of producing Shakespeare''s plays. slow music the theme of Ophelia''s song in _Hamlet_, "How shall I my Of real incidental music composed for this play very little has great pity, as there is much fine music in the work, though very little The score of the opera was finished while the composer was musical As there has been so little music composed for this play, I will give a 1819, also composed an opera on this subject, in four acts, calling it first musical number occurs in Act ii., Scene 2, a dance, song, {96} Berlioz composed this work, "little opera" he music composed for stage productions of the play has never been of very our subject, "Shakespeare and Music." The other songs, "King Stephen id = 31582 author = Wyatt, E. G. P. (Edward Gerald Penfold) title = St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music date = keywords = Antiphoner; Church; Gregory; Mass; Pope; Rome; St.; gregorian summary = the blessed Pope Gregory, and also the day of the burial of St. Augustine The tradition that St. Gregory reformed the Plainsong of his day, exclusively to the order instituted by the Holy Pope Gregory and middle of the ninth century that St. Gregory set in order the that the work was composed by the Blessed Gregory, Pope of Rome and day is passed in a sort of sadness.'' The Holy Pope Gregory, in whom (_fol._ 102.) "The Holy Pope Gregory in arranging the offices of the This prologue proves that the Antiphoner was ascribed by tradition to St. Gregory in the latter half of the eighth century. The great work of Gregory was to organize, set Gregory''s work in setting in order the music of the Church. evidently not connected specially with the musical work of St. Gregory, S. GREGORY AND THE GREGORIAN MUSIC 2/8 id = 38597 author = nan title = Martha; or, The Fair at Richmond date = keywords = LADY; LIO; NAN; NANCY; PLUN; TRIS summary = 2. "Every heart with love inflaming." Nancy, Lady Harriet. 3. "Lovely cousin, I implore you." Sir Tristan, Lady Harriet, 7. "See what grace they show." Lady Harriet, Nancy, Lionel, 8. "Come in, my pretty maidens." Lionel, Plunket, Lady 9. "That''s the room I mean to give her." Plunket, Lionel, Lady "Come, your tasks await." Plunket, Nancy, Lionel and Lady "''Tis the Last Rose of Summer." Lady Harriet and Lionel. "Midnight chimes sound afar." Lady Harriet, Nancy, Lionel "Let''s be off then, in a hurry." Lady Harriet, Nancy, "Heaven forgive this cruel scorning." Lionel, Lady "Now the April days returning." Lady Harriet and Lionel. (NANCY _holds hand mirror before_ LADY H.) The farmers are all going to engage servants for the coming year LADY HARRIET, NANCY _and_ TRISTAN _in peasant costume_.) men_, LIONEL _and_ PLUNKET, _enter, inviting the girls_, LADY H. (LADY HARRIET, NANCY _and_ PLUNKET _enter and come down front while id = 39861 author = nan title = Life of Henriette Sontag, Countess de Rossi. with Interesting Sketches by Scudo, Hector Berlioz, Louis Boerne, Adolphe Adam, Marie Aycard, Julie de Margueritte, Prince Puckler-Muskau & Theophile Gautier. date = keywords = Berlin; Countess; Court; Henriette; King; Madame; Mademoiselle; Madlle; Malibran; Paris; Rossi; Sontag; St.; Vienna; german; great summary = equally graphic portraits of ''The Lorgnette.'' The great charm of Mr. Bristed''s sketches is the life-like characters he introduces as [Illustration: HENRIETTE SONTAG, COUNTESS DE ROSSI.] the Countess Rossi''s voice is a pure and perfect soprano, of the highest young Sontag, that the great sybarite of the day condescended at last to But now the time was arrived when the Countess de Rossi must leave Paris either of Countess Rossi, or of Madame Sontag. Mademoiselle Sontag became Madame de Rossi. Sontag came finally to Paris, and appeared at the Italian Theatre on the epoch charmed Paris and London; and among whom Madame Pasta, Mad. Pisaroni, Mad. Malibran, and M''lle Sontag shone as stars of the first At last, one day Mad. Malibran and M''lle Sontag having to sing a duett at a princely mansion, and Madame Rossi Sontag, in her place, was recognised by perhaps the