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How To Understand Music
Author: Oscar Thompson

i HO VV TO UNDERSTAND MUSIC CD OSCAR THOMPSON d Grtt intern 1936 D V NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1935, BY THE DIAL PRESS, INC. Second Prmtusft, October, IMC PRINTED IN TIIR UNITED STATES OK AMKKXCA BY VAN RKKK tfUKKK, NKW YOKlt JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH TO KEITH whose fresh interest in old problems has helped me to feel that this effort was worth while. Sep... more »t. 1, 1935 CONTENTS AN AVOWAL OF AIMS ....... i THE NATURE OF Music 5 THE LANGUAGE OF Music . . . . . .16 BARRIERS TO HEARING Music AS IT Is . . .24 OPERA AND MUSIC-DRAMA . . . . . .33 A MOZART ARIA OPERA Tin- MARRIAGE OF FIGARO . 55 A VERDI ARIA OPERA LA TRAYIATA .... 67 A WAGNER MUSIC-DRAMA DIE WALK. OR i . . 76 A DEBUSSY MUSIC-DRAMA PEJLLEAS BT MELISANDE . 93 THE SYMPHONY 104 THE ORCHESTRA 116 HAYDNS SYMPHONIES 122 MOZARTS SYMPHONIES . , . . .128 BEETHOVENS SYMPHONIES 13 S THE SYMPHONIES OF BRAHMS 149, AN INDEX OF FIFTY SYMPHONIES . . . . ,167 PROGRAM-MUSIC 188 PIANO Music 200 VIOLIN Music 240 THE SONG . , . . . . .254 CHAMBER Music 280 A SCHUBERT TRIO 293 A SCHUBERT QuARTxn 1 297 CHORAL MUSK 299 SOME NOTES ON COMMON MUSICAL FORMS . . .316 A NOTE ON THE USE OF BOOKS 334 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Frontispiece FACING PAGE SCENE FROM A VERDI OPERA, S1MONE BOCCANEGRA 23 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 38 PORTRAIT OF VERDI, BY BOLDIN1 71 RICHARD WAGNER 86 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ARTURO TOSCANtNI, CONDUCTOR 103 GENERAL SEATING PLAN FOR AN ORCHESTRA OF EIGHTY PIECES 118 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 135 THE USES OF THE BATON WALTER DAMROSCH CON DUCTING HO FRANZ SCHUBERT 183 A CELEBRATED STRING QUARTET, THE FLONZALEYS PEOPLES SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF BOSTON, FABIEN SEVITZKY, CONDUCTOR 279 STRING INSTRUMENTS 294 WOOD-WIND INSTRUMENTS 311 ORCHESTRAL BRASS INSTRUMENTS 32 PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS 333 AN AVOWAL OF AIMS T J. HE alms of this book are practical and realistic. The author addresses adults, not children. There are contained within these covers no elementary lessons In rhythms, scales, chords, key relationships. The adult who knows something of what the professional calls essentials does not need such lessons. The adult who is completely lacking in this knowledge will rarely learn anything about them from reading a book. They require study, not mere perusal and re flection. With few exceptions, the musically unlettered adult is in no position and no mood to attend a musical kindergarten If he can enjoy an opera or a symphony, he does not relish being talked to as a musical ignoramus and he has no intention of going to a piano stool and poking out, in one-finger drudg ery, little examples of the kind that prove useful for six-year-olds. For him, it Is not musicianship that Is at issue, but musical understanding. Without reflection on much valuable work that has been done and is now being done in the elementary

ISBN-13: 9781406710489
ISBN-10: 1406710482
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 396
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Publisher: Velikovsky Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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