IT will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. Howards Endby Edward Morgan Forster - 1921 - 393 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Literary Criticism - 1976 - 96 pages
...Beethoven's Missa Solemnis begins to trace its patterns on the moonless sky.' 8. 'It will generally be admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most...Munt, and tap surreptitiously when the tunes come ... or like Helen, who can see ships and shipwrecks in the music's flood ... in any case the passion... | |
 | Gabriele Clemens - History - 1997 - 308 pages
...Roman von EM FORSTER ,Howards End' aus dem Jahre 1910 zitiert. So bemerkt Forster zur Musik Beethovens: „It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's...of Man. All sorts and conditions are satisfied by it."215. In einem dann folgenden Gespräch einer Britin mit ihren musikliebenden deutschstämmigen... | |
 | Glenn Stanley - Music - 2000 - 373 pages
...by playing the Piano Sonata op. I11 on a rainy day in Florence20 and when Helen Schlegel listens to "the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man" - register the ongoing influence of Romanticism on literary allusion to Beethoven. For Forster's Helen,... | |
 | John Carey - Philosophy - 2006 - 286 pages
...in praise of music too, of course, as EM Forster's Bloomsburyish raptures in Howards End remind us ('It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth...noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man'). Indeed, for some writers it is precisely being empty of meaning that makes music good. Meaning limits.... | |
 | Irene Morra - Music - 2007 - 138 pages
...subsuming Beethoven's achievement within descriptive prose, but also of affirming in the novel's structure that "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime...noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man" (25). As they incorporate what they define as musical effect and appreciation within literary forms,... | |
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