The Dominant Seventh: A Musical StoryD. Appleton, 1890 - Počet stran: 164 |
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The Dominant Seventh a Musical Story (Classic Reprint) Kate Elizabeth Clark Náhled není k dispozici. - 2015 |
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Strana 73 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Strana 36 - Nicht Gut, nicht Gold, noch gottliche Pracht ; nicht Haus, nicht Hof, noch herrischer Prunk ; nicht triiber Vertrage triigender Bund, noch heuchelnder Sitte hartes Gesetz: selig in Lust und Leid lasst die Liebe nur sein.
Strana 55 - The true musician, the true composer," continued Ferranti, with that steady, unseeing gaze which betokens a man too occupied with the main current of thought to heed its murmuring tributaries, " the true genius shall seek constantly for new effects, for new combinations of old laws ; the performer shall recognize that the power of reproducing is in reality of the same value as the power of creation, for without reproduction creative work...
Strana 3 - ... but two states while in the body — the state of want and the state of satisfaction ; the conditions of desire and gratification. Analogous to this, music has but two leading chords, from which all others are derived. These are the tonic chord and the dominant chord of the seventh. The first is a chord of rest and calmness, the second is a chord of unrest, of longing and striving. Music is a continued succession of these two chords, and in this is represented our never-ceasing desires as followed...
Strana 35 - ) is the embodiment of that other, more jealous love, which although not incapable of self-sacrifice, aims instinctively and irresistibly at fuller and ever fuller possession of its object. Senta cares not a whit whence the Dutchman has come, who he is, or whither...
Strana 73 - My only books were women's looks, And folly's all they've taught me...
Strana 56 - The performer or interpreter must, of course, from this point of view, have the delicate perception of a true artist, and an accurate knowledge of the requirements of his own age. The listener and the critic, too (who should, in order to criticise this most subtle of all arts, be a born...
Strana 3 - ... is a continued alternating of desires and gratifications. The will is forever wanting, and it strives continually to gratify its wants. We really know but two states while in the body — the state of want and the state of satisfaction ; the conditions of desire and gratification. Analogous to this, music has but two leading chords, from which all others are derived. These are the tonic chord and the dominant chord of the seventh.
Strana 57 - ... must absorb all that has been done, must place himself in sympathy with his own age, and yet perceive, with the intuition of genius, the wants of the age to come, as Wagner understood his own and the coming age. The restless spirit of modern life has found expression through Wagner's genius in...
Strana 64 - He seemed not to have sufficient vitality even to toss back the lock of hair which had fallen over his forehead and which intensified by its blackness the gray pallor of the face.