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Proceedings of the Musical Association Volume 18

Proceedings of the Musical Association Volume 18

Proceedings of the Musical Association Volume 18. Musical Association

Proceedings of the Musical Association Volume 18
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Author: Musical Association
Page Count: 60 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130484731
File Name: Proceedings.of.the.Musical.Association.Volume.18.pdf
Download Link: Proceedings of the Musical Association Volume 18
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...in music have been glorified into an end. If music concerns herself only with beautiful sounds, having no origin or meaning beyond their beauty, she depresses herself to the level of the arts of gem-cutting and tesselated pavement. From this point of view, we might as well say that painting should only appeal to a sense of colour and drawing; that poetry should only comfort a sense of the harmony of words, whereas these are the means and not the end of Art. Music, however, is capable of expressing emotions, but from whence is this emotion to be obtained unless it be from a subject or programme? Ought music to seek inspiration from notes? literature from words? painting from pigments? Surely not. Music feeding on itself attenuates to a mathematical science. Musical form has been really the programme of absolute music, but it is a programme of progressions of sound and not of poetic sense. I believe that, as a matter of fact, music does not enter a composer's head unless his emotions have been aroused by thought or imagination, springing from his own experience or caused by reflection and contemplation either of external nature or of the sorrows, hopes, and joys of the human race. Therefore, in a large work of absolute music there are the expressions of many emotions aroused by many causes and all these incongruous expressions are bound together and distorted by musical form. But when composed to a programme of poetic sense there is a relationship between the emotions, and the whole work becomes musically and emotionally organic. When Berlioz treated a complete story in a symphony he rather misunderstood the function of music, which is not descriptive and objective, but should treat of the very essence of poetry and life. One of the charges brought against Wa...

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