The Musical Magazine, Volume 1Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 - Music |
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... tastes of the times and people generally gave character to them , and of course often in a very indecent manner ; so ... taste . This was certainly a great step forwards , and among the men who made use of the popular predilections thus ...
... tastes of the times and people generally gave character to them , and of course often in a very indecent manner ; so ... taste . This was certainly a great step forwards , and among the men who made use of the popular predilections thus ...
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... taste of his times . At the present day , instrumental music , brought by the Germans to its greatest height , has reached a splendor which threatens to throw vocal music into the shade . Every excess is dangerous , and so is therefore ...
... taste of his times . At the present day , instrumental music , brought by the Germans to its greatest height , has reached a splendor which threatens to throw vocal music into the shade . Every excess is dangerous , and so is therefore ...
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... taste . We would therefore advise every parent , who resolves to let his child learn the piano forte , —if he does not want to throw away a great deal of his money and of the child's time , -if he does not want to cause this art to be a ...
... taste . We would therefore advise every parent , who resolves to let his child learn the piano forte , —if he does not want to throw away a great deal of his money and of the child's time , -if he does not want to cause this art to be a ...
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... in Boston . Instrumental concerts , and instrumental performances at con- certs , are of comparatively rare occurrence . The public , consequently , have not acquired a taste for them ; this was The Concert Season . 15.
... in Boston . Instrumental concerts , and instrumental performances at con- certs , are of comparatively rare occurrence . The public , consequently , have not acquired a taste for them ; this was The Concert Season . 15.
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... taste for them will spring up . Of the Musical Institute we must confess we know as yet but little : but we have confidence in Messrs . Ostinelli and Comer's abilities ; and we are glad to observe from the papers , that they have ...
... taste for them will spring up . Of the Musical Institute we must confess we know as yet but little : but we have confidence in Messrs . Ostinelli and Comer's abilities ; and we are glad to observe from the papers , that they have ...
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Page 188 - When I proceed to write down my ideas, I take out of the bag of my memory, if I may use that phrase, what has previously been collected into it in the way I have mentioned. For this reason the committing to paper is done quickly enough, for everything is, as I said before, already finished; and it rarely differs on paper from what it was in my imagination.
Page 188 - When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer— say, travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them.
Page 189 - Mozart, | With Observations on | Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. | Translated from the French of LAC Bombet. | With Notes | By the author of the Sacred Melodies.
Page 189 - ... so large, so aquiline, or, in short, makes it Mozart's and different from those of other people. For I really do not study or aim at any originality; I should, in fact, not be able to describe in what mine consists, though I think it quite natural that persons who have really an individual appearance of their own are also differently organized from others, both externally and internally.
Page 167 - ... moral instruction and the Bible, have been introduced into schools, was another fact peculiarly interesting to me. I asked all the teachers with whom I conversed, whether they did not sometimes find children who were actually incapable of learning to draw and to sing. I have had but one reply, and that was, that they found the same diversity of natural talent in regard to these as in regard to reading, writing, and...
Page 106 - AT a period when Music is more and more extensively cultivated as a branch of polite knowledge, as a powerful aid in the exercises of devotion, and as a rational and elegant recreation in social and domestic life, a work like the present appears to be called for. The Author's object is, to give in...
Page 169 - ... him a hut, which was to be dedicated in a similar way ; but when the boys came together, they saw in it a piece of timber which belonged to the establishment, and ascertaining that it had been taken without permission, they at once demolished the whole edifice, and restored the timber to its place. At the time of harvest, when they first entered the field to gather the potatoes, before commencing the work, they formed into a circle, and much to the surprise of the Superintendent, broke out together...
Page 188 - All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once.
Page 189 - For this reason the committing to paper is done quickly enough, for everything is, as I said before, already finished; and it rarely differs on paper from what it was in my imagination. At this occupation I can therefore suffer myself to be disturbed; for whatever may be going on around me, I write and even talk, but only of fowls and geese, or of Gretel or Barbel, or some such matters.
Page 365 - Harsh, strained, and tense, as the notes of this bird are, yet they are pleasing from their variety. The voice of the blackbird is infinitely more mellow, but has much less variety, compass, or execution; and he too commences his carols with the morning light, persevering from hour to hour without effort, or any sensible faltering of voice. The cuckoo wearies us throughout some long May morning with the unceasing monotony of its song; and, though there are others as vociferous, yet it is the only...