2009, ISBN: 0217096042, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 636 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=36mm, Gew.=921gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 636 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=36mm, Gew.=921gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON MUSIC. No. 4.?With reference to the principles of the Beautiful in that Art. Thesb guides we intend to follow faithfully and strictly in our remarks on the fourth and last point to be considered in vocal composition, viz. verbal expression. Under character we understood the general nature and feeling which pervades a poem in toto. Verbal expression regards the appropriate musical utterance of every successive sentence in a poetical text. It might aptly be termed musical diction.; its functions are quite similar to those of declamation in oratory. Correctness of verbal expression is a most important requisite in vocal composition; and yet, strange to tell, it is more or less neglected by the greater part of composers, nay, it is scarcely dreamed of by many. Hundreds are quite satisfied if they have devised an air of agreeable melody and harmony, tolerably corresponding with the metre of the text. The words are held so cheap that some vocal composers, rather than lose the momentary inspiration of a motivo, are in the habit of -storing them up ready made against any poetry that subsequent chance may throw into their way. No wonder, then, that the fit often should resemble that of a Monmouth-street suit. In this manner the musical annals of England point out a whole, and indeed a favourite opera, composed about twenty years ago, the greater part of the music of which was ready made before the words were thought of. Some of these latitudinarian vocalists may ask, perchance, ?What does it matter whether " Darest thou thus upbraid a lover ?" be set one way or another, so that the musical phrase run smooth and tasteful ? and we may be called upon to prove altogether that there exist any laws for verbal expression, and that those laws rest upon solid and not imaginary ...<

2009, ISBN: 0217096042, Lieferbar binnen 4-6 Wochen

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 636 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=36mm, Gew.=921gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 636 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=36mm, Gew.=921gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON MUSIC. No. 4.?With reference to the principles of the Beautiful in that Art. Thesb guides we intend to follow faithfully and strictly in our remarks on the fourth and last point to be considered in vocal composition, viz. verbal expression. Under character we understood the general nature and feeling which pervades a poem in toto. Verbal expression regards the appropriate musical utterance of every successive sentence in a poetical text. It might aptly be termed musical diction.; its functions are quite similar to those of declamation in oratory. Correctness of verbal expression is a most important requisite in vocal composition; and yet, strange to tell, it is more or less neglected by the greater part of composers, nay, it is scarcely dreamed of by many. Hundreds are quite satisfied if they have devised an air of agreeable melody and harmony, tolerably corresponding with the metre of the text. The words are held so cheap that some vocal composers, rather than lose the momentary inspiration of a motivo, are in the habit of -storing them up ready made against any poetry that subsequent chance may throw into their way. No wonder, then, that the fit often should resemble that of a Monmouth-street suit. In this manner the musical annals of England point out a whole, and indeed a favourite opera, composed about twenty years ago, the greater part of the music of which was ready made before the words were thought of. Some of these latitudinarian vocalists may ask, perchance, ?What does it matter whether " Darest thou thus upbraid a lover ?" be set one way or another, so that the musical phrase run smooth and tasteful ? and we may be called upon to prove altogether that there exist any laws for verbal expression, and that those laws rest upon solid and not imaginary ...<