Music and morals / by the Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.A.
| Author/creator | Haweis, H. R. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1892. |
| Description | xii pages, 1 leaf, [15]-478 pages : illustrations (including facsimiles) ; 20 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | First book. -- Philosophical music emotion and morals. -- The fount of color -- The fount of sound -- Nature and art -- Music and other arts -- Emotions and objects -- Abstract emotion -- Analysis of emotion -- Connection between music and emotion -- Dull music -- Objections -- Connection between music and words -- Sound art and color art -- Music and the age -- Art and morals -- Morality defined -- Morality applied -- Music and morality -- Emotion and morals -- The composer -- Rise of music -- Realism and sentimentalism -- German Italian and French schools -- The executive musician -- Soloists -- Orchestral players -- Culture -- Morality -- Longevity -- The listener -- Planes of emotion -- Shakspeare and Raphael -- Italian and German sentiment -- Patriotic songs -- Musical perturbations -- Memory -- Musical quotation -- Women and music -- Dream life -- Sacred music the oratorio -- Congregational singing -- Slow church -- Choir reformation -- Use of anthems of voluntaries -- Need of artistic unity -- Second book. -- Biographical from Ambrose to Handel. -- First and second periods -- Third period -- Carissimi Italy -- John Dunstable England -- Lulli France -- Purcell -- Handel Germany -- Handel. -- His portraits -- Childhood -- Early manhood -- Italy -- England -- Second visit to England -- Handel and his friends -- Operas -- Reverses -- More trials -- Contemporary composers -- Music in England -- Oratorios -- Cabals -- Handel at Oxford -- More operas and cabals -- A funeral anthem -- Failure and succes -- Saul and Israel in Egypt -- Handel in Ireland -- The Messiah -- Samson and the occasional oratorio -- Judas Maccabaeus -- Joshua Solomon Susannah Theodora -- Handel at peace -- A visit to the master hardcastle -- The last act -- Gluck. -- Portrait of Gluck -- Rise of Gluck and state of music in 1714 -- Gluck and Haydn -- Gluck's style -- The opera a defective form of art -- Rise of the German opera -- Gluck in Paris -- Gluckists and Piccinists -- Old age and death -- Estimate of his character -- Hayn. -- Likeness and difference -- Early days -- Metastasio and Porpora -- Quartets -- Temptests -- Symphonies -- Prince Esterhazy -- Work and wife -- Mozart -- Haydn in England -- The creation and the seasons -- Characteristics -- Schubert. -- Schubert and Chopin -- Precocious talent -- Early compositions -- His friends -- His appearance -- Work and romance -- Beethoven -- Last days -- His compositions -- Chopin. -- Romantic and classical school -- First years -- His manners -- His style -- Paris -- His friends -- Chopin and Madame Sand -- England -- Death -- His compositions -- The letters of Mozart. -- Omissions explained -- Vivid letters -- Paris Vienna and love -- Hayn -- Activity and death -- The letters of Beethoven -- Appearance -- Childhood and only loves -- Deafness -- Carl the young rascal -- His generosity and poverty -- His religion and his art -- Death -- Mendelssohn. -- Books about Mendelssohn -- Characteristics -- Temperament -- Wife, children, death -- Elijah introduction -- Entrance of the prophet Elijah -- Famine and death -- The desert -- The sacrifice on Mount Carmel -- The storm on Mount Carmel thanks be to God -- The Elijah and the Messiah -- Exultation and be not afraid -- Jezebel -- Elijah forsaken and comforted -- Earthquake on Mount Horeb -- Elijah is taken up into heaven -- A perfect close -- Third book. -- Instrumental. -- Violinists. -- Introduction -- Origin of the violin -- Gasparo di Salo, Magini, and the Amatis -- Stradiuarius -- Violin making -- Conclusion -- Piano fortes. -- Origin of the piano forte -- The virginal -- The spinet -- The piano forte -- Sebastian Bach -- Mozart and Clementi -- Erard, Broadwood, Collard, Pleyel -- Bells. -- Towers and Belfries -- Bell hunting -- Antiquity of bells -- Use of bells -- Bell founding in Belgium -- Belgium bell founders -- Inscriptions -- St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey -- Big Ben -- Carillons. -- Our Belfries -- Waste and ruin -- Remedies -- Our musical country again -- The bells of Belgium -- Bell music -- The Carillon -- Carillonneurs -- Matthias van den Gheyn -- Van den Gheyn's music -- Van den Gheyn redivivus -- English bell works -- Reform needed -- Fourth book. -- Critical. -- Music in England. -- England not musical -- English liberality -- Seed and soil -- Mendelssohn in England -- Growing taste for good music -- Mons. Jullien -- His followers -- Musical progress -- Conductors -- The opera -- Music halls and negro melodies -- String quartets -- The musical amateur -- People who play the piano -- Concerted chamber music -- The people who sing -- The quartet party -- The scratch quartet -- Orchestral societies -- Vocal associations -- Harp, bagpipes, cornemuse, and hurdy-gurdy -- The organ-grinder -- Bands -- The brass without the band -- The string band -- The string band dissolved -- Miscellaneous artists -- Vocal street music -- Ballad singers, male and female -- Blind singers -- Negro melodists -- Conclusion -- Appendix. |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML60.H395 M8 1892 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |