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The Symphony
Chamber Music As Intro To Symphonies
My object in writing all this about the form and substance of the symphony, and in drawing comparisons between it and the novel or poetry, has not been to lead my readers to understand music through the other arts, for by themselves such comparisons are of small value.
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Materials Of The Symphony
I have said that the symphony evolved slowly under the laws of its own being, and I wish to state briefly and (as far as possible) in simple terms how that evolution came about.
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Symphony - Performer And The Public
I have spoken of certain social conditions which affect music unfavorably. There has been always a certain outcry against music because of its supposed emotionalism. The eye of cold intelligence, seeing the music-lover enthralled by a symphony, raises its lid in icy contempt for such a creature of feeling.
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Symphony - Stages Of Its Development
The history of the symphony is the history of all art. It moves in cycles ; it marks a parabola.
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Symphony - Tone Color And Design
Such has been the development of the elements of symphonic music. The processes I have described are the natural processes of an art which is continually striving for wider and deeper expression, And, speaking humanly, it is not too much to say that within ourselves there should take place a complete analogue to that development and to those processes.
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The Symphony - How Shall We Understand It?
It is obvious, then, that the only possible way to understand a symphony is to accept it as it is and not try to make it into something else.
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Unity Of The Symphony
FOR the ordinary listener to a symphony the one great difficulty lies in "making sense" out of it as a whole. He enjoys certain themes and is, perhaps, able to follow their devious wanderings, but he retains no comprehensive impression of the symphony as a complete thing, and he may even never conceive it as anything more than a series of interesting or uninteresting passages of music.
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What Is A Symphony?
IN the first chapter I discussed the nature of music itself in order that I might clear away certain popular misconceptions about it and arrive at some estimate of what it really is.
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