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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III Laws Of Construction Between the joyful discovery of an operatic subject and its definitive adaptation for composition there is a long road to travel, and this road leads, first of all, through the territory of substantial, workmanlike technic, such as all great dramatists from Shakespeare to Richard Wagner have possessed. What we call technic is, in the last analysis, merely the systematic application of those rules which guarantee a certain stage-effect on the audience. Technic therefore can never be gray theory; it is ever the golden fruit of the tree of life. Although it is thus, as to its better part, mostly gained by experience, it must be systematically practised in the outset in certain elementary concepts; otherwise the beginner would employ too much valuable time in learning experimentally from individual cases over which, viewed as members of a system, he would gain the mastery in brief space. Buffon remarked: "Art is mathematics; great effects are produced by simple means well combined." And Maupassant wrote to Vauclaire: "Genius is nothing but enduring patience." Certainly, one cannot get along with technic alone, but without it one will never be anything but a bungler, even when one has a superfluity of "splendid ideas." "Craftsmanship acquired within limitations must always precede all life, all action, all art. To know and practise one thing well is a higher education than half-knowledge of many things," declares Goethe. Great art-works can be created only by the reciprocal action of knowledge and imagination, never by imagination or knowledge alone. And hardly any other branch of art is so dependent on this reciprocal action, as the musical drama. This is the ultimate source of Wagner's tremendous...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230385631
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230385630
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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