Category: History - Other

The art of music, Vol. 02 (of 14)

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...

Chapters

9. CHAPTER IV

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 III

Social 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 I

The 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 VI

Modern 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 IX

The perfection of instruments; emotionalism of the romantic period; enlargement of orchestral resources--The symphony in the romantic period; Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann; Sp...

17. CHAPTER XII

The 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 V

Italian 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 II

Classicism 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 X

The 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 XIII

One 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 VII

Song 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 VIII

The 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 XI

Periods 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 II

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...

2. PART I. THE CLASSIC IDEAL

The 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 IDEAL

Modern 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 WAGNER

Periods 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...