This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 30412 | Are they executed as they should be? |
| 30412 | Does it not inform us, among other things, that the copyists of former times were veritable collaborators? |
| 30412 | How are such works executed? |
| 30560 | Is the music conveying a logical message to me, or is it merely a sea of sound? |
| 30560 | Answer the question I''ve put you so oft: What do you mean by your mountainous fugues? |
| 30560 | But how about the tune when it is in the_ bass_ as is the case so frequently in Beethoven''s Symphonies or in Wagner''s Operas? |
| 30560 | But why all this pother? |
| 30560 | Every man was asking himself and his comrades the question posed by the most popular novel of the day:''What shall we do?'' |
| 30560 | For what is music without dissonance? |
| 30560 | For who can limit the combinations of sound and rhythm, or forecast the range of the human imagination? |
| 30560 | How could it be otherwise? |
| 30560 | In regard to any work of large dimensions the final test is this: can we sing all the themes and follow them in their polyphonic development? |
| 30560 | It was characteristic of the Romantic unrest of the German mind to question everything-- especially"Why am I not more happy in love?" |
| 30560 | Schumann''s well- known comment is apropos--"How is gravity to clothe itself if jest goes about in dark veils?" |
| 30560 | The first question, in the presence of an elaborate work of music, should never be,"Do I like it or not?" |
| 30560 | The mood of dreamy contemplation with which the Slow Movement begins can not be translated into words; why attempt it? |
| 30560 | The question, therefore, faces us: how shall we learn this mysterious language so as readily to understand it? |
| 30560 | WARUM? |
| 30560 | What, now, in this connection can be said of America? |
| 30560 | Why expect the work of any one composer to manifest all possible merits? |
| 30560 | [ Footnote 188: Perhaps the whirligig of time may restore them; who can say?] |
| 30560 | but"Do I understand it?" |
| 34610 | Are you musical? |
| 34610 | Did he not strike the final note? 34610 Did not Wagner put a full stop after the word''music''?" |
| 34610 | Do you know why you like it? |
| 34610 | Want a job? |
| 34610 | What are you doing? |
| 34610 | A vocalist can sing an air, but can you imagine a vocalist singing through an entire programme without accompaniment? |
| 34610 | After each concert, at supper, this conversation invariably takes place: Paderewski:"Well,''Doctor,''it sounded all right to- night, did n''t it?" |
| 34610 | And I wonder-- did or did not Elena learn to play the monochord? |
| 34610 | And what song has more of that valuable quality we call"atmosphere"than Liszt''s version of"Kennst du das Land?" |
| 34610 | And why not? |
| 34610 | Are the''Ring,''''Tristan''and''Parsifal''not to be succeeded by an eternal pause? |
| 34610 | But, you may ask, is there not in all sonatas this psychological inter- relationship of the several movements? |
| 34610 | Considering how closely related are the laws of acoustics and optics, is a"Piper of Dreams"so visionary? |
| 34610 | Did not even so broad- minded a composer as Schumann say,"The trouble with Wagner is that he is not a musician"? |
| 34610 | For are not his tone poems literally tone dramas? |
| 34610 | Have we not been told again and again that there is? |
| 34610 | He:"Are you going to the concert to- night?" |
| 34610 | Heresy? |
| 34610 | How is this scene treated in the score? |
| 34610 | How many people, when singing this, have realized that they were being initiated into that mysterious thing known as counterpoint? |
| 34610 | If Clara and a thought of Clara play the chief rôle, what becomes of_ Kreisler_ and_ Kater Murr_? |
| 34610 | In order to be great must music be"classic,"heavy and dull, and badly written for the instrument on which it is to be played? |
| 34610 | Indeed, the title of the familiar song"What Is Home Without a Mother?" |
| 34610 | Instrument? |
| 34610 | Is there something still to be achieved in music as in other arts and sciences?" |
| 34610 | Liszt expressed it exactly when he said:"You see that tree? |
| 34610 | Opera is the glorification of the voice and the deification of the singer.--Do we not call the prima donna a_ diva_? |
| 34610 | She:(_ Looking out and seeing that it still is raining hard_)"Do they play anything by Richard Strauss?" |
| 34610 | The only question to be considered is, how has he become so? |
| 34610 | The question naturally suggests itself, did Bach''s influence cease with his death? |
| 34610 | These words of the poet Bembo to his daughter Elena-- are they so wholly lacking in application to our own day? |
| 34610 | What is the difference between classical and modern music? |
| 34610 | When shall we have music that can be seen? |
| 34610 | When, in response to calls for the composer, Richard came out, some one in the audience asked:"What has that boy to do with the symphony?" |
| 34610 | Who hearing the noble subject of''I will sing unto the Lord,''led off by the tenors and altos, does not long to reinforce their voices with his own? |
| 34610 | Who knows but that the music of the future may be visible sound-- the work of a piper of dreams? |
| 34610 | Who would have thought there was so much to a pianoforte recital? |
| 34610 | Why deny so obvious a fact, especially when it is easy enough to explain? |
| 34610 | Why ignore facts? |
| 34610 | Would we so consider it now? |
| 34610 | [ Music illustration: Frisch weht der Wind der Hei- mat zu: mein i- risch Kind, wo wei- lest du?] |
| 34610 | might, without any undue stretch of imagination, be changed to"What Is Home Without a Pianoforte?" |
| 17474 | Did n''t they? 17474 How? |
| 17474 | Look where? 17474 What? |
| 17474 | Whom? 17474 Are such garlands worth the sacrifice of artistic honor? 17474 Are they not his? 17474 Can he recognize them with sufficient distinctness to seize upon their manifestations while music is sounding? 17474 Che do-_ been killed, you or the old one? 17474 Did man sing before he spoke? 17474 Did n''t they? |
| 17474 | Do they then antedate articulate speech? |
| 17474 | Does he recognize that musical tones are related to each other in respect of time and pitch? |
| 17474 | How far is it essential that the intellectual process shall go? |
| 17474 | If it were possible for the critic to withhold them and offer instead a modest sprig of enduring bay, would not the musician be his debtor? |
| 17474 | Is he therefore to be pitied? |
| 17474 | Is not their appearance in a public print proof of the shrewdness and soundness of his judgment? |
| 17474 | Is the picture or the statue a good copy of the object sought to be represented? |
| 17474 | Or to Coleridge''s"_ loud_ bassoon,"which made the wedding- guest to beat his breast? |
| 17474 | Or to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe''s pianist who played"with an airy and bird- like touch?" |
| 17474 | Son qui per_ Le- po- rel- lo, where are you? |
| 17474 | The more delightfully it is put by the writer the more the reader is pleased, for has he not had the same idea? |
| 17474 | This book being for the untrained, the question might be put thus: With how little knowledge of the science can an intelligent listener get along? |
| 17474 | To win their influence in favor of good art, think you? |
| 17474 | Who shall bid the restless waves be still? |
| 17474 | Who would look at a painting and rest satisfied with the impression made upon the sense of sight by the colors merely? |
| 17474 | [ Sidenote:_ A place for rhapsody._][ Sidenote:_ Intelligent rhapsody._] Is there, then, no place for rhapsodic writing in musical criticism? |
| 17474 | _ Le- po- rel- lo, o- ve sei? |
| 17474 | _ mor- to, voi, o il vec- chio? |
| 17474 | and you, Sir? |
| 17474 | cried Gluck;"when did the Greeks ever dance a chaconne?" |
| 17474 | e vo- i? |
| 17474 | that these colossal compositions were never heard by Handel from any chorus larger than the most modest of our church choirs? |