ISBN: 1154976580

[EAN: 9781154976588], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], WILLIAM HENRY HADOW,HISTORY AND CRITICISM, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 90 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.Thi… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781154976588], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], WILLIAM HENRY HADOW,HISTORY AND CRITICISM, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 90 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: . . . which recall Lambs epigram of sugar 1 Known in England as The Last Judgement. Known in England as Calvary. piled upon honey, the academic fugues which always give the impression that they were begun with reluctance and finished with relief, the rhythms which, in moments of the highest solemnity, sometimes descend to the triviality of the dance. One brief illustration, from the Chorus of Saints in The Last Judgement, will exhibit a characteristic point of style: --The general tenour of the phrase is like a large and simple utterance of Mozart; but on such an occasion Mozart would never have weakened his primary colour with a half-tone at the cadence. Spohr does so as a matter of course, here and everywhere; indeed, he touches his extreme of asceticism if once in thirty times he refrains from harmonizing it on a diminished seventh. His whole conception of the art is soft and voluptuous, his Heaven is a Garden of Atlantis and even his Judgement-day is iridescent. Yet we cannot deny that it is real music, and music which Spohr alone could have written. Grant everything that can be said against it, grant the overcharged sentiment and the overloaded palette, there still remains a sense of beauty which the world would be the poorer for having lost. The attenuated outlines are wonderfully clear and precise, the colour is exquisitely refined, the hedonism of his prevailing mood loses half its evil by losing all its grossness. One feels instinctively that he was incapable of a coarse or violent phrase. Add that he had genuine emotion and a true gift of pictorial effect; it will not be hard to explain the enthusiasm with which, during his lifetime, he was everywhere received. And after all, among German composers of oratorio, he is the most. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 1154976580

[EAN: 9781154976588], Neubuch, WILLIAM HENRY HADOW,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781154976588], Neubuch, WILLIAM HENRY HADOW,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: . . . which recall Lambs epigram of sugar 1 Known in England as The Last Judgement. Known in England as Calvary. piled upon honey, the academic fugues which always give the impression that they were begun with reluctance and finished with relief, the rhythms which, in moments of the highest solemnity, sometimes descend to the triviality of the dance. One brief illustration, from the Chorus of Saints in The Last Judgement, will exhibit a characteristic point of style: --The general tenour of the phrase is like a large and simple utterance of Mozart; but on such an occasion Mozart would never have weakened his primary colour with a half-tone at the cadence. Spohr does so as a matter of course, here and everywhere; indeed, he touches his extreme of asceticism if once in thirty times he refrains from harmonizing it on a diminished seventh. His whole conception of the art is soft and voluptuous, his Heaven is a Garden of Atlantis and even his Judgement-day is iridescent. Yet we cannot deny that it is real music, and music which Spohr alone could have written. Grant everything that can be said against it, grant the overcharged sentiment and the overloaded palette, there still remains a sense of beauty which the world would be the poorer for having lost. The attenuated outlines are wonderfully clear and precise, the colour is exquisitely refined, the hedonism of his prevailing mood loses half its evil by losing all its grossness. One feels instinctively that he was incapable of a coarse or violent phrase. Add that he had genuine emotion and a true gift of pictorial effect; it will not be hard to explain the enthusiasm with which, during his lifetime, he was everywhere received. And after all, among German composers of oratorio, he is the most. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., [PU: General Books, LLC]<