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The Great in Music; A Systematic Course of Study in the Music of Classical and Modern Composers. First Year. Prepared for the Student Clubs of the Music Extension Course

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: dered in the new path along which the northern school is now traveling. Following out the new path, the next few years show a remarkable development of the talent of this young master. Two of the songs on the present program were written in 1869 and 1870. In 1865 and 1870 he visited Italy and held intercourse with Liszt in Rome. He also went back again to Leipsic for a short residence and for contact with other musicians. In Norway he began to attract a good deal of attention. His choral society, which he conducted at Christiania from 1867 to 1880, led to his composing several cantatas upon Scandinavian subjects. He also wrote a large number of songs upon poems by Norwegian writers, such as Bjornson, Ibsen, etc. His first recognition on a wider scale took place at Leipsic, where he played his piano concerto at a Gwandhaus Concert in 1879. Concerning the peculiar style of Grieg's music, the following, by Dr. William Mason in the Century Magazine. March, 1894, is very much to the point: While original and spontaneous, his music is imbued with the old Norse melodies and folk-songs, which are distinguished from those of other Scandinavian nations by a certain robustness, ruggedness and abruptness in harmonic changes, that are for the most part in the minor key, and abound in peculiar rhythms so irregular as to seem almost without periodicity, or, in other words, almost without rhythm. Some of the older melodies are crude, harsh and barbarous. Many of them present such a succession of rough and abrupt rhythms without appreciable melody, as almost to prevent faithful and accurate notation. Grieg is always true to the Norwegian coloring, and the freedom of gesture and motion characteristic of peasant life is in his music. The strong contrast produced by marked emphasis and rhy...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217081719
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217081711
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr


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