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The magic of music ; an anthology for music weeks and days; music week, its origin and observance; musical memory contests, games and entertainments; music study; the music cure; stories; plays; with an anthology of the best prose and verse on music from Plato to Millay / Compiled and edited with a preface by Robert Haven Schauffler.

Author/creator Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Other author/creatorSchauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964, compiler.
Format Book and Print
New York : Dodd, Mead & company, 1950 [©1935]
Descriptionxxii, 387 pages : illustrations (including music) ; 20 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Our American holidays
Our American holidays. ^A642110
Contents Music week its origin and observance. -- National music week / C.M. Tremaine -- How to organize a music week committee -- Extracts from home night in national music week -- Music week in the churches -- Music memory contests. -- How to organize a music memory contest -- Music memory list 1933 -- It spreads -- Memory and the power to reproduce music / Frederick G Shinn -- Playing from memory / Robert Schumann -- Musical games and entertainments. -- New games for old / F.L. Hanlon -- Lots of fun for young folks / V.M. Moncrieff -- Games of the music master / Laura Rountree Smith -- A game of musicians / Laura Rountree Smith -- A musical party / Alice Cook Fuller -- A musical social / Helen Lovejoy M'Carthy -- Music study. -- Groundwork. / Goethe -- Who can estimate the effect / H deVere Stacpoole -- A youth of my acquaintance -- It is in learning music -- Music is an important element -- Music is one of the greatest educators -- Teach your children music / Horace Walpole -- he interim may be taken up / John Milton -- Careful listening / Ferdinand Hiller -- How to get the most pleasure from music / Robert Haven Schauffler -- Diligence / Beethoven -- Since singing is so good a thing / T Baldwin -- The study of the history of music / Schumann -- Natural gift may produce a poet / F Brendel -- Study of a work necessary for its comprehension / W.F. Apthorp -- What a little knowledge of music means described by Ignace Jan Paderewski to William Armstrong -- The uncultivated / Schumann -- The greatest pleasure I derive / Compton Mackenzie -- Learn all there is to learn / Handel -- A great university president's vision / Charles W Eliot -- Art / Schumann -- The gramophone enables the listener / Frank Swinnerton -- The importance of music / Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- The barriers are not erected / Beethoven -- Fingers are good servants / Van Cleve -- Music and the savage breast -- The underlying principle of practice / Kullak -- Thousands of willing hearers / AB Marx -- What everybody ought to know about music / Rupert Hughes -- The begining at the end / Schumann -- Gramophones in schools from The London Times -- Success won by patience / George Eliot -- Wieck's three trifles / Frederick Wieck -- Some of Robert Schumann's rules for young musicians -- Formation of opinion / Mendelssohn -- I would like the young artist / Verdi -- The path to perfection / Merz -- If we are to understand / Jules Lemaitre -- The boy who wanted a fiddle / Carlyle Ellis -- Living for the ideal / Schumann -- My advice for young pianists / Hans von Bulow -- Child Handel / Carrie Ward Lyon -- There is no real creation / Johannes Brahms -- The first requisite of musicianship / Mendelssohn -- There is a certain kind / Percy A Scholes -- Think more of your own progress / Mendelssohn -- Keep alive the sense of the beautiful / Goethe -- It is not enough / Gates -- You may be a genius / Ferdinand von Hiller -- About music study clubs / Harold Vincent Milligan -- Hints to music club program-builders / Margaret Anderton -- Music in community centers / Augustus Delafield Zanzig -- Music an athology. -- Oh music thou who bringest / Jean Paul Richter -- Music the paradise of the ears / Somaize -- See deep enough and you see musically / Carlyle -- Brahms no 2 in D major op 73 / Grace Hazard Conkling -- To RPC with a baton / Grace Hazard Conkling -- On hearing a symphony of Beethoven / Edna St Vincent Millay -- Christmas music / Theda Kenyon -- First hand / E.F. Benson -- The keyboard / William Watson -- At the symphony / Robert Nathan -- Sorrows... I can bear / E.V. Lucas -- You can attach any ideas you please / Arnold Bennett -- To a Scarlatti passapied / Robert Hillyer -- I believe... that when one comes to know / A Clutton-Brock -- To music / William Kean Seymour -- In that art which is wholly new / Cecil Gray -- By bad music we ought to mean The London Times -- We northerners are too cold / H.E. Wortham -- Some people find that music is ever suggesting / M.D. Calvocoressi -- The imagination to be exercised / C.P.E. Bach -- Which of the two powers... love of music / Hector Berlioz -- The divine wafer of music / Romain Rolland -- For a Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- On music / Walter Savage Landor -- Since it is music in space / F.W.J. Scheling -- A distinguished philosoher spoke / Goethe -- The music maker / Robert Haven Schauffler -- Life and song / Sidney Lanier -- It is in music perhaps / Edgar Allen Poe -- Believe me there is no greater delight / Richard Wagner -- Upon Julia's voice / Robert Herrick -- Generally music feedeth the disposition / Bacon -- Music resembles chess / Scuhumann -- Mutual faith, trust, dependence / Richard Capell -- Music lovers are a little too inclined / Edwin Evans -- On hearing of a lute well played on / Bishop Joseph Hall -- Music is almost all we have / Joseph Addison -- The opening of the piano / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The galway piper -- Musical compostions do not inhabit / Henri Ribaud -- The orchestra / M.A. DeWolfe Howe -- Extact from twelth night / William Shakespeare -- Music is only one of the arts / Charles Louis de S. Montesquieu -- Extracts from Ecclesiasticus XLIV -- Genius / Schumann -- From the symphony / Sidney Lanier -- Classical music is that which is recognized -- The unfading charm of classical music / Arnold Bennett -- There is an insane feeling / Sir Hamilton Harty -- Our consciousness is enabled to grasp / Richard Wagner -- Music is the literature of the heart / Alphonse de Lamartine -- Music speaks the most universal of languages / Schumann -- Music is omnipresent / Jules Lemaitre -- Figured bass is the whole foundation / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Every lovely fancy / J.H. Shorthouse -- Bach's second concerto / Bertram Dobell -- A musical instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- A conservative wails / Thomas Ravenscroft -- Two liberals respond / Horace and Franz Liszt -- Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha / Robert Browning -- Art measurement / Schopenhauer -- To know whether you are enjoying / Samuel Butler -- What can one say of the highest music / Beatrice Harraden -- The silent place / Robert Haven Schauffler -- The true classic / Sir Joshua Reynolds -- That music all around us / Walt Whitman -- If I were to begin life again / Sidney Smith -- Music is the only sensual gratification / Joseph Addison -- All art constantly aspires / Walter Pater -- The worth of art appears / Goethe -- The misunderstood relation of music to poetry / Richard Wagner -- While words do wonderfully suggest / S.A. Emery -- Music can always be played into meanings / Edward Prime Stevenson -- Words and music / Haweis and Robert Haven Schauffler -- The opera is nothing but a public rendezvous / Voltaire -- A test for vocal music / Ferdinand von Hiller -- Opera and music / Edward Prime-Stevenson -- Typical music / Richard Wagner -- The worth of art appears most earnest / Goethe -- Music and words / Richard Watson Gilder -- As in other branches of art / Dr. Charles Macpherson -- An enormous new public / Francis Toye -- My idea is that there is music / Sir Edward Elgar -- In these days / Dr. Charles Macpherson -- It is not the professional musicians / Sir Walford Davies -- That man who disparages music / Woodrow Wilson -- Music at twilight / George Sterling -- Two classes of amateurs / Felix Mendelssohn Bartoly -- From the merchant of Venice / William Shakespeare -- There is no feeling / George Eliot -- Let my due feet never fail / John Milton -- To me it is the most beautiful / Diderot -- A taste for art / Veron -- Amateur zest / The fundamental evil in music / Ferdinand von Hiller -- Nor flute nor lute / John Lyly -- I find it difficult to master / James Agate -- Whatever the relations of music / Richard Wagner -- A toccata of Galuppi's / Robert Browning -- It is at the moment of opening / J.M.D. Rorke -- Let the love for literature / Theodore Roosevelt -- Music that gentlier lies / Alfred Tennyson -- Where light and shade repose / Wordsworth -- Unfathomable speech / Thomas Carlyle -- To Browning, the music master / Robert Haven Schauffler -- Abt Vogler / Robert Browning -- In lighter vein. -- The owners of the gramophone / Hilaire Belloc -- Bad music / Stephen Leacock -- On a bad singer / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The choir of a certain orthodox church -- Dear fellow, I adore you -- An anonymous limerick -- Andreas Dippel -- On music and music-lovers / George Ade -- The thunder of the Gods -- The story of Prince Agib / W.S. Gilbert.
Contents The music cure. -- Music produces like efforts / Mirandola -- Divine musicke / Robert Burton -- The first recorded musical cure / I Samuel XVI 15-23 -- Where griping grefes the hart wounde / Richard Edwards -- We cannot imagine a complete education / Jean Paul Richter -- Music stands apart / Arthur Schopenhauer -- There ought not to be any doubt / George Birmingham -- I am no prophet / Gordon Craig -- The treasures which music can bestow / C.S. Evans -- Character building through music / James Francis Cooke -- The music cure / Robert Haven Schauffler -- The softest remedy / John Oldham -- It may perhaps be objected / Sir John Hawkins -- Music is fundamental / Luther Burbank -- I love to listen to music / George Eastman -- Music washes away the dust / Auerbach -- Where words at the best give comfort / H.E. Wortham -- They who think music ranks / William Ewart Gladstone -- From l'allegro / John Milton -- The harmony of sounds / Richard Hooker -- That which I have found / Bishop Beveridge -- Of all the fine arts / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Music hath charms / Congreve -- Often our seers and poets / Prior -- Tunes and airs have some affinity / Bacon -- Music in hospital / Robert Haven Schauffler -- Of musicke / Henry Peacham -- Music is to the mind / Arthur Brisbane -- To music we are indebted / Christopher Christian Sturm -- I think sometimes could I only have music / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- It is music's lofty mission / Schumann -- By music many tribulations / Martin Luther -- Music is to the mind / Plato -- From table talk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- There is no sweeter consolation / Amphis -- Current trends in music. -- What is happening in music today / Alexander Russel -- Stories. -- The great theme / Margaret Prescott Montague -- I mislay the band / Robert Haven Schauffler -- The magic fiddle from Grimm's Fairy Tales -- Plays. -- Young folks at home / Elbridge S Lyon -- Scenes from the childhood of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / James Francis Cooke -- To beat the band / Elbridge S Lyon.
Other titleAnthology for music weeks and days.
LCCN 35006563

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML66.S31 M3 1950 ✔ Available Place Hold