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. 1893 Excerpt: ...sense of propriety, could accomplish it without falling into pettiness and arbitrariness. For it is, unless one proceed with just so much talent and freedom, the most lamentable mistake to model a piece of music with scrupulous fidelity according to the word of command of a poem (of a program in verse). The saddest ...
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ...sense of propriety, could accomplish it without falling into pettiness and arbitrariness. For it is, unless one proceed with just so much talent and freedom, the most lamentable mistake to model a piece of music with scrupulous fidelity according to the word of command of a poem (of a program in verse). The saddest example is perhaps Spohr's "Weihe der Tone" (" Consecration of Sound"). In vain has the master tried his best--lovely, tuneful motives in the earlier movements, a magnificent march, a contrapuntal treatment of the Ambrosian hymn worthy of one of the old great masters, a noble, melodious finale penetrating to the heart--Pfeiffer's worthless poem with its unfortunate fundamental idea drags itself from one movement to another like some family curse in a tragedy of fate, and makes the entire work, so rich musically, a mere quodlibet, whose separate members are externally held together merely by means of the slender thread, that in human life there are situations to which music may appropriately be adapted, such as: --At the child's cradle, under the window of the beloved, or at the dance, likewise as battle-music, at the Te Deum, and lastly, at funeral ceremonies. Nay, since too many movements were not to be permitted, the very heterogeneous triad "Cradle-song, Dance and Serenade" had to be brought together in the second movement and finally to sound together, May it not be that Schiller's " Lay of the Bell" is to blame for the unfortunate idea? one then being naturally so astonished at the rhythmico-harmonico-melodic artifice as not to venture to ask if the matter really has a meaning. What is the meaning of the introduction to the whole? "The rigid silence of nature before the creation of sound!" Let...
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