Category: Music
During the last twenty or thirty years there has been an enormous increase in the United States of what may be called “institutional” music. We have built opera houses, we have formed many new orchestras, and we have established the teaching of music in nearly all our public a...
During the last twenty or thirty years there has been an enormous increase in the United States of what may be called “institutional” music. We have built opera houses, we have...
9. CHAPTER IAny discussion of the art of music,--of its significance in relation to ourselves, of its æsthetic qualities, or of methods of teaching it,--to be comprehensive, must be based o...
10. CHAPTER IIIn what I have to say about music for children I am not unmindful of the diversity of American life, and of the prevalent idea that Americans do not pay much attention to music...
11. CHAPTER IIIIt is characteristic of our compliance in matters educational that of late years we have seen subject after subject added to the curricula of our public schools, and have cheerf...
12. CHAPTER IVIn the preceding chapters I have dealt with special musical subjects, and have constantly referred to music as a distinct and independent art having its own reasons for existenc...
13. CHAPTER VThe form of drama with music which we loosely call “opera” is such a curious mixture of many elements--some of them closely related, others nearly irreconcilable--that it is alm...
14. CHAPTER VIIn the first chapter I discussed the nature of music itself in order that I might clear away certain popular misconceptions about it and arrive at some estimate of what it reall...
15. CHAPTER VIIFor the ordinary listener to a symphony the one great difficulty lies in “making sense” out of it as a whole. He enjoys certain themes and is, perhaps, able to follow their devi...
16. CHAPTER VIIIOne of the most unfortunate conditions surrounding our musical life is the small part men take in it. This is not altogether their fault. Their business is engrossing, and conce...