Music
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That the Pan's pipes are the originals of all these species seems hardly open to doubt. Even among the Greeks and Romans we see traces of them in the double trumpet and the doub...
17. Part 17Now to do all this, there must be rules; or, to put it more broadly, there must be some innate quality that enables this art of sounds to move in sympathy with our feelings. I h...
14. Part 14In addition to this combination of singing and acting, the _tenson_ or poetic debate (which was one form of the troubadour songs, and one very often _acted_ by the jongleurs) pr...
5. Part 5We are aware that the drum is the most primitive instrument known to man. If all our knowledge of the Chinese were included in a simple list of their orchestral instruments, we...
16. Part 16Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico, both celebrated in their day, are the next to demand attention. The former was born about 1650 and died about 1725. He wrote many oper...
8. Part 8To appreciate the change made by Gregory (540-604 A.D.), it is necessary to bear in mind the state of the church just before his time. As the Ambrosian chant had brought somethi...
10. Part 10An instrument of the harpsichord family which has significance in the development of the instruments of the Middle Ages is the spinet (from _spina_, "thorn"; it had leather poin...
6. Part 6Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare, black cliff clang'd round him as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that...
13. Part 13If we take the next step in advance of instrumental music we come to the giving of meanings to these dances, and, as I have explained, these meanings will at first have referenc...
15. Part 15Until 1872, Bizet wrote but small and unimportant works, such as "The Pearl Fisher," "The Fair Maid of Perth," and several vaudeville operettas, some of which he wrote to order...
1. Part 1Round brackets: when around a single note these represent a note in the extract which was bracketed or otherwise highlighted. When around two or more notes, they represent a slu...
11. Part 11The fourth consists of a seemingly capricious intermixture of dual and triple rhythm, and is especially noticeable in Spanish and Portuguese music as well as in that of their So...
12. Part 12Referring to some newspaper reports which he knew to be without foundation, Bismarck once said, "Newspapers are simply a union of printer's ink and paper." Omitting the implied...
4. Part 4In making a Hindu melody (which of course must be in one of the seventy-two modes, just as in English we should say that a melody must be in one of our two modes, either major o...
9. Part 9Now that music began taking a more definite rhythmic form than before, a more regular dividing off of the phrases became necessary. This was accomplished by the use of a dot, an...
3. Part 3Carry this theory still further, and we shall make new discoveries. If we dance in the open air, unless we would dance over the horizon, we must turn somewhere; and if we have b...
7. Part 7disjunct Aeolian. [G: a'] +- A. Nete, or highest. ---+ Hypophrygian. +-| G. Paranete, next highest. | Hypolydian. +-| | F. Trite, third. | Dorian. +-| | | E. Nete, highest. ---+...
18. Part 18Last of all I wish to speak of the suggestion conveyed by means of tone-tint, the blending of timbre and pitch. It is essentially a modern element in music, and in our delight i...