Category: History - Other
In the first volume of THE ART OF MUSIC the history of the art has been carried in as straight a line as possible down to the death of Bach and Handel. These two great composers, while they still serve as the foundation of much present-day music, nevertheless stand as the culm...
Form and formalism--Beethoven’s life--His relations with his family, teachers, friends, and other contemporaries--His character--The man and the artist--Determining factors in h...
7. CHAPTER IIISocial aspects of the classic period; Vienna, its court and its people--Joseph Haydn--Haydn’s work; the symphony; the string quartet--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--Mozart’s style; Ha...
5. CHAPTER IThe eighteenth century and operatic convention--Porpora and Hasse--Pergolesi and the _opera buffa_--Jommelli, Piccini, Cimarosa, etc.--Gluck’s early life; the Metastasio period-...
11. CHAPTER VIModern music and modern history; characteristics of the music of the romantic period--Schubert and the German romantic movement in literature--Weber and the German reawakening--...
14. CHAPTER IXThe perfection of instruments; emotionalism of the romantic period; enlargement of orchestral resources--The symphony in the romantic period; Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann; Sp...
17. CHAPTER XIIThe antecedents of Brahms--The life and personality of Brahms--The idiosyncrasies of his music in rhythm, melody, and harmony as expressions of his character--His works for pian...
10. CHAPTER VItalian opera at the advent of Rossini--Rossini and the Italian operatic renaissance; _Guillaume Tell_--Donizetti and Bellini--Spontini and the historical opera--Meyerbeer’s lif...
6. CHAPTER IIClassicism and the classic period--Political and literary forces--The conflict of styles; the sonata form--The Berlin school; the sons of Bach--The Mannheim reform; the Genesis...
15. CHAPTER XThe rise of German opera; Weber and the romantic opera; Weber’s followers--Berlioz as opera composer--The _drame lyrique_ from Gounod to Bizet--_Opéra comique_ in the romantic p...
18. CHAPTER XIIIOne can hardly imagine the art of music being what it is to-day without Bach or Mozart or Beethoven, without Monteverdi or Gluck or Wagner. It has been said that great men sum u...
12. CHAPTER VIISong in the modern sense (the German word _Lied_ expresses it) is peculiarly a phenomenon of the nineteenth century. In the preceding centuries it can hardly be said to have cla...
13. CHAPTER VIIIThe striking difference between the pianoforte music of the nineteenth century and that of the eighteenth is, of course, not an accident. That of the eighteenth is in most cases...
16. CHAPTER XIPeriods of operatic reform; Wagner’s early life and works--Paris: _Rienzi_, ‘The Flying Dutchman’--Dresden: _Tannhäuser_ and _Lohengrin_; Wagner and Liszt; the revolution of 184...
8. Act II)? Or more delicious tenderness than Cherubino’s _Non so più_ and_Voi che sapete_, or Don Giovanni’s serenade _Deh vieni alla fenestra_; or more dashing gallantry than _Fin ch’an dal vino_? Were duets ever written with half the grace of _La c...
1. BOOK IIIn the first volume of THE ART OF MUSIC the history of the art has been carried in as straight a line as possible down to the death of Bach and Handel. These two great composers...
2. PART I. THE CLASSIC IDEALThe eighteenth century and operatic convention--Porpora and Hasse--Pergolesi and the _opera buffa_--_Jommelli_, Piccini, Cimarosa, etc.--Gluck’s early life; the Metastasio perio...
3. PART II. THE ROMANTIC IDEALModern music and modern history; characteristics of the music of the romantic period--Schubert and the German romantic movement in literature--Weber and the German reawakening--...
4. PART III. THE ERA OF WAGNERPeriods of operatic reform; Wagner’s early life and works--Paris: _Rienzi_, “The Flying Dutchman”--Dresden: _Tannhäuser_ and _Lohengrin_; Wagner and Liszt; the revolution of 184...