This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...is the general mood or series of moods of the piece, using the descriptive details merely as aids to this. In many works of this class mood is almost everything, whether it be in smaller works such as Schumann's " Traumerei," or longer ones such as Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra," or Wagner's " Faust " overture. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...is the general mood or series of moods of the piece, using the descriptive details merely as aids to this. In many works of this class mood is almost everything, whether it be in smaller works such as Schumann's " Traumerei," or longer ones such as Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra," or Wagner's " Faust " overture. Programme music is the one branch of the greater art which must be approached by the performer and the listener from different directions. To perform a piece of programme music it is necessary to realise what every detail represents or means, for if the meaning of only some of the details is realised the balance and proportion of the work will be disturbed and the picture intended by the composer will be distorted. Every detail must be apprehended before the whole is put together to create the entire impression, just as the worker in mosaic must realise the relative position and importance of each stone he uses. And then must come the realisation of the complete design which comes from the proper placing of these various details. With the listener, however, just the reverse is the case. It is the complete impression, the mood, the general design which must first be realised. Then possibly may come some realisation of the details, of the descriptive significance of this birdcall, or that undulating background suggestive of the river, or whatever may be included in the pictorial aspect of the work. Still more may be sought the emotional significance both of the complete work and of its details. And the descriptive details to the hearer must always be subservient to the emotional force. In Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, for instance, we hear what has already been suggested, the bird calls and the flow of the river; but...
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