id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 30412 Saint-Saƫns, Camille On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music .txt text/plain 4984 265 68 his treatise on music, speaking of how Plain Song should be interpreted, the grievous practice of adapting popular songs to church music. century admirable music was written, though deprived of melody, properly attempts to execute the music of Palestrina were made in the time of me, differs completely from our musical conceptions; and it is a great Such a way of playing this music is simply out of the question. It was decided that in piano playing unless indicated to the Finally, in ancient times notes were not defined as they are to-day and written note indicating a long or short duration. A great obstacle to executing ancient works from the eighteenth century revolutionized the performance of music on the piano, but also the way A question of the greatest importance in playing the music of Chopin is Another plague in the modern execution of music is the abuse of the ./cache/30412.txt ./txt/30412.txt