Music: An Art and a Language

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Author

Spalding, Walter Raymond, 1865-1962

Credits

Produced by Adam Buchbinder, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni.

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Musical form

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30560

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30560

Release Date

November 28, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MUSIC: AN ART AND A LANGUAGE — BY
2. 2.WALTER RAYMOND SPALDING
3. 3.Preface
4. 4.Contents — Music: an Art and a Language
5. 5.CHAPTER I — PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER II — THE FOLK-SONG
7. 7.CHAPTER III — POLYPHONIC MUSIC; SEBASTIAN BACH — Fugue in E-flat Major, No. VII, in the First Book.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV — THE MUSICAL SENTENCE — Minuetto of Beethoven’s First Sonata. [58] — First Sentence of the First Movement of the Twelfth Sonata.
9. 9.CHAPTER V — THE TWO-PART AND THREE-PART FORMS
10. 10.CHAPTER VI — THE CLASSICAL AND THE MODERN SUITE — LIST OF DANCES
11. 11.CHAPTER VII — THE OLDER RONDO FORM
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE VARIATION FORM
13. 13.CHAPTER IX — THE SONATA-FORM AND ITS FOUNDERS, EMMANUEL BACH AND HAYDN — THE SONATA-FORM OR FIRST-MOVEMENT FORM
14. 14.CHAPTER X — MOZART. THE PERFECTION OF CLASSIC STRUCTURE AND STYLE
15. 15.CHAPTER XI — BEETHOVEN, THE TONE-POET — Symphony No. 5 [150] — The Coriolanus Overture
16. 16.CHAPTER XII — THE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS. SCHUBERT AND WEBER
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII — SCHUMANN AND MENDELSSOHN — Des Abends. — Warum ? — Novellette in E major. — Song , Mondnacht . — Overture to Manfred . — Symphony in D Minor .
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV — CHOPIN AND PIANOFORTE STYLE — Prelude in C Major, Op. 28, No. 1. — Étude in A-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1. — Mazurka in F-sharp Minor, Op. 6, No. 1. — Polonaise in E-flat Minor, Op. 26, No. 11. — Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60. — Scherzo in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV — BERLIOZ AND LISZT. PROGRAMME MUSIC — The Carnaval Romain Overture ( See Supplement No. 57 ) — Symphonic Poem, Orpheus — The Faust Symphony — Concert Étude , Waldesrauschen ( See Supplement No. 59)
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI — BRAHMS — Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte — Ballade in G minor for Pianoforte ( See Supplement No. 60 ) — Song — Meine Liebe ist grün wie der Fliederbusch ( See Supplement No. 61 )
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII — CÉSAR FRANCK — Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte in A Major — Symphonic Variations for Pianoforte and Orchestra
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII — THE MODERN FRENCH SCHOOL—D’INDY AND DEBUSSY
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX — NATIONAL SCHOOLS—RUSSIAN, BOHEMIAN AND SCANDINAVIAN
24. 24.CHAPTER XX — THE VARIED TENDENCIES OF MODERN MUSIC — Index — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — V — W
25. 25.LIST OF COMPOSITIONS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK
26. 26.CRITICAL and HISTORICAL ESSAYS
27. 27.TONAL COUNTERPOINT — Studies in Part-Writing
28. 28.MODERN HARMONY; — ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE — Arthur Foote, A.M. and Walter R. Spalding, A.M.
29. 29.FOOTNOTES
30. 30.CORRECTED MUSIC

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