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Secular and sacred texts ; Music and business / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Singing ; Performing and listening / William Byrd -- The beginnings of the monodic style / Giulio Caccini -- The fantasie-fugal composition ; Sight singing ; Tessitura and transposition ; Words and music ; Motet and madrigal / Thomas Morely -- A defense of modern music requirements of an opera libretto ; The imitation of nature ; The invention of the agitato style / Claudio Monteverdi -- Harpsichord playing ; Organ playing / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Tempo in the new style ; Composing new music for the church ; The modern Italian style in Germany ; Counterpoint versus thoroughbass / Heinrich Schütz -- The modern Italian style in England ; English music in its Nonage ; Composing upon a ground / Henry Purcell -- The beginner at the harpsichord ; Learning the notes ; A musician's hands ; Measure and rhythm / François Couperin -- Music and words ; Polish music ; Duties of a musician ; Progress in music / Georg Philipp Telemann -- On composition ; Taste ; Harmony ; Instinct ; Rhythm / Jean Philippe Rameau -- Instructions for librettists ; Instructions for composers / Bendetto Marcello -- Melody and harmony ; Sounds and colors ; The function of music / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Embellishments ; Performance ; Accompaniment ; Commissioned music ; Criticism ; Comparison between J.S. Bach and Handel / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- On opera reform ; Truth in music ; Music and libretto / Christoph Willibald Gluck -- On musical rules ; On composition ; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; Mozart ; Beethoven ; How the seven words of Christ on the cross was written / Joseph Haydn -- Music for the theater ; Analogy between color and sound ; Application ; Rules ; Music and declamation / André Ernest Grétry -- Pianos and piano playing ; Rubato playing ; Sight reading ; The duodrama ; Opera ; The abduction from the Seraglio ; The piano concerti K 413, 414, 415 ; Clementi's piano sonatas ; Publishing music ; The string quartets K 387, 421, 428, 458, 464, 465 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Music and business ; Composition ; The organ ; Transcriptions ; Pianoforte music ; J.S. Bach ; C.P.E. Bach ; On critics ; Piano teaching ; Tempo markings and he metronome / Ludwig van Beethoven -- The Russian imperial horn band in St. Petersburg ; Beethoven in 1813 ; London 1820 ; The first use of the baton / Louis Spohr -- Appreciation ; Criticism ; Speech and song ; Rhythm in singing ; Beethoven ; Rossini ; Poet and composer / Carl Maria von Weber -- The present state of music ; Requirements of an opera singer ; Rameau ;tThe best time to compose an overture ; Mixed voices in the church / Gioacchino Antonio Rossini -- Salieri's fiftieth Vienna anniversary ; The lady of the lake / Franz Schubert -- Bellini's Norma ; An error of Berlioz' ; Verdi / Gaetano Donizetti -- The composer and the piano ; Instrumentation and conductors ; Choral singing ; Palestrina ; Bach's St. Matthew Passion ; Gluck ; Mozart Operas ; Contrast between Freischutz and Oberon ; The young Wagner ; Johann Strauss the elder ; Self-evaluation / Hector Berlioz -- John Field's playing ; Liszt's playing ; Russian song ; Music in Paris Berlioz / Michael Ivanovitch Glinka -- Swiss yodeling ; Scholarly versus people's music ; Holy week in Rome ; The meaning of music ; A plea for new music ; Rossini ; Berlioz ; The Nibelungen poem as a possible opera subject / Felix Mendelssohn -- Musical life in Vienna 1830 ; Music in Paris 1831 ; Music in England 1848 / Frédéric François Chopin -- House rules and maxims for young musicians 1848 ; Reading scores in concertos ; Characterization of the keys ; Observations ; Child prodigies ; J.S. Bach ; Domenico Scarlatti ; Beethoven the four overtures to Fidelio ; Weber's Euryanthe ; Schubert's last compositions ; Chopin ; Liszt ; Liszt's recital at Leipzig March 17 1840 ; Berlioz ; Tannhauser ; Brahms / Robert Schumann -- Holiday synagogue service in Vienna ; The gypsy orchestra ; Conducting modern music ; The standing of the modern musician ; Beethoven's music to Egmont ; Styles of Beethoven ; Mendelssohn's music to a midsummer night's dream ; hopin ; Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet / Franz Liszt -- Artistic effect and artistic impression ; Official concert life ; The resources of folk music ; Confessions / Alexander Sergeivitch Dargomijsky -- Opera and drama ; Opera and the nature of music / Richard Wagner -- Opera ; On conductors ; Musical education ; Liberalism in music ; Palestrina ; Rossini and Bellini ; Berlioz ; Wagner ; Gounod ; Puccini ; On himself / Giuseppe Verdi -- Palestrina and Michelangelo ; Don Giovanni ; Berlioz / Charles Francois Gounod -- Titles of compositions ; Brahms ; Brahms's piano concerto in d minor / Edouard Lalo -- Absolute music ; Opera ; Music in Sweden / Bedrich Friedrich Smetana -- Inspiration ; Variations ; Bach's Chaconne ; Schumann ; The Meistersinger ; The young Beethoven ; Collected editions / Johannes Brahms -- Liszt's piano classes ; Balakirev ; Liszt on Borodin's first symphony ; The paraphrases / Alexander Borodin -- Russian folk music ; The credo of the "big five" / Cesar Cui -- Paris conservatory ; Simplicity ; Embellishments ; Opera subjects ; Bach and Mozart ; Color in Beethoven and Handel ; The Wagner literature ; Overcoloration in music / Camille Saint-Saens -- Tchaikovsky's fatum ; Tchaikovsky's overture Romeo and Juliet / Mili Alexeivitch Balakirev -- Genius ; Facility in art ; Verdi ; The melodic gift ; Italian music ; Some classical composers ; Wagner's Rienzi ; Wagner ; Success in art / Georges Bizet. |
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Text and music in the marriage ; The Germans as vocal composers ; Technique ; Musical giants ; Opera ; Self-evaluation / Modeste Petrovitch Moussorgsky -- The "big five" ; Richard Wagner and the ring ; Brahms and his concerto for violin ; Bizet's Carmen ; Composition ; Instrumentation / Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky -- Music in America / Antonin Dvorak -- Mozart and Wagner ; Schumann and Mendelssohn ; Schumann's songs / Edvard Hagerup Grieg -- Orchestration ; Formal study / Nicolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov -- Gluck ; Mozart ; Saint-Saens as teacher ; Carmen ; What is religious music/Franck and Gounod ; Puccini ; Salome / Gabriel Faure -- Methods of work ; Orchestration ; The string quartet ; Cesar Franck / Vincent D'Indy -- Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande ; Strauss's Salome ; Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps ; La Boheme ; Tosca ; Madame Butterfly ; The girl of the golden west ; Il Trittico il Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica ; Turandot / Giacomo Puccini -- Modern chamber and symphonic music ; Italian opera singers ; Visiting and resident conductors ; Brahms's third symphony ; Bruckner ; Haydn's creation ; Berlioz' damnation of Faust / Hugo Wolf -- Program notes ; Program music ; The word and music ; Advice to a composer ; Composing for theater and concert hall ; Tempo in conducting ; Brahms and Bruckner ; Richard Strauss ; Salome ; The second symphony ; The third symphony / Gustav Mahler -- Embellishments ; Rhythm and melody ; Folk song and harmony ; Criticism ; Suggestion in music / Edward Alexander Macdowell -- The state of music today ; The future of opera / Frederick Delius -- Bach ; Mozart ; Beethoven and the symphony ; Pedaling in Chopin ; Wagner and Parsifal ; Stravinsky's firebird ; Pelleas et Melisande ; Les Rondes de Printemps, images ; American prodigies ; Instinct / Claude Debussy -- Ten golden rules inscribed in the album of a young conductor ; Composing and conducting ; The equipment of a conductor ; Timely notes on music education ; Melodic inspiration ; Letters to Hugo von Hofmannsthal / Richard Strauss -- Intelligence and musicality among the animals ; The orchestra in opera ; Youth and experience ; Jazz ; Satie and Debussy / Erik Satie -- Inspiration and composition / Albert Roussel -- Should music be national ; Historic aspects of nationalism in music ; Genius / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Tempo, color and dynamics ; Organ music ; Free creation ; Brahms / Max Reger -- Sound and color ; The spring cantata ; Value of the composer, dead and alive ; The keen ear / Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff -- The composition with twelve tones ; Gershwin / Arnold Schoenberg -- Substance and manner ; Sonata form ; Musical truth ; Ragtime ; Definite meaning in music ; Beethoven and Strauss ; Brahms's orchestration / Charles Edward Ives -- Chopin ; Nationalism ; Self criticism ; Liszt ; The critics of Debussy ; Weber ; The Bolero / Maurice Ravel -- Cante Jondo / Manuel de Falla -- The state of modern music ; On his Hebrew music ; The story of Schelomo ; Macbeth / Ernest Block -- Liszt as composer ; Race purity in music ; The influence of peasant music on modern music ; The significance of folk music / Bela Bartok -- The orchestra ; Sonority ; Richard Strauss ; A plea for true comedy / Gian Francesco Malipiero -- New music for old ; Bartok the folklorist / Zoltan Kodaly-- Composing at the piano ; Music and expression ; Listening and looking at music ; Mechanical music ; Beethoven ; Dissonance and atonality ; Cacophony ; Style ; Tradition ; Modernism and academicism / Igor Stravinsky -- Schoenberg as teacher ; Knowledge ; Variations for orchestra op 30 / Anton von Webern -- Why is Schoenberg's music so hard to understand ; A word about Wozzeck ; Handel and Bach / Alan Berg -- Encounters with Rachmaninoff and Medtner ; Scythian Suite performance ; Orchestrating the gamblers ; Composing away from the piano / Sergei Prokofiev -- Originality ; Hit or miss ; Mind and matter ; Our musical age twelve tone music ; The future of music / Arthur Honegger -- Polytonality ; Brazilian folklore ; The "six" ; Musique d'Ameublement ; Jazz ; Decadence of jazz / Darius Milhaud -- The limits of novelty ; Emotion in music ; "Good" and "bad" music ; Modern music twelve tone technique ; Piano tone / Paul Hindemith -- Bach ; Chopin and rubato ; Interpreting Brahms ; Mahler and Strauss ; MacDowell's music ; Tempo ; Masterpieces ; Americanisms / Virgil Thomson -- The American future ; Listening to music ; The composer's indications ; The performer's function ; Mechanical reproduction ; Continuity in musical thought and form ; Understanding contemporary music / Roger Sessions -- American and European reciprocal influences ; Ideas and feeling ; Jazz ; Emotion ; Mechanical music / George Gershwin -- Tradition ; Young American composers ; Menotti's Consul ; The character of French music / Francis Poulenc -- Discovery of Satie / Georges Auric -- Music and electricity ; The training of the new composer ; Films and music ; The function of the composer / Carlos Chavez -- Wanted ; Opera by and for Americans ; Classicism, romanticism ; Nationalism / George Antheil -- Stravinsky and surrealism ; Schoenberg and atonality ; Some outstanding American composers / Ernst Krenek -- A modernist defends modern music ; The gifted listener ; The sonorous image ; Orchestration ; Conductor and composer ; Improvisation ; A national music ; Observations / Aaron Copland. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-569) and index. |
| LCCN | 55010283 |
| ISBN | 0394730402 ((pbk.)) |
