How To Listen To Music - The Original Classic Edition

This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Henry Edward Krehbiel, which is now, at last, again available to you.

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Purpose and scope of this book-Not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art-neither for careless seekers after diversion unless they be willing to accept a higher conception of what entertainment means-The capacity properly to listen to music as a touchstone of musical talent-It is rarely found in popular concert-rooms-Travellers who do not see and listeners who do not hear-Music is of all the arts that which is practised most and thought about least-Popular ignorance of the art caused by the lack of an object for comparison-How simple terms are confounded by literary men-Blunders by Tennyson, Lamb, Coleridge, Mrs.

. . . The dual nature of music-Sense-perception, fancy, and imagination-Recognition of Design as Form in its primary stages-The crude materials of music-The co-ordination of tones-Rudimentary analysis of Form-Comparison, as in other arts, not possible-Recognition of the fundamental elements-Melody, Harmony, and [Pg x]Rhythm-The value of memory-The need of an intermediary-Familiar music best liked-Interrelation of the elements-Repetition the fundamental principle of Form-Motives, Phrases, and Periods-A Creole folk-tune analyzed-Repetition at the base of poetic forms-Refrain and Parallelism-Key-relationship as a bond of union-Symphonic unity illustrated in examples from Beethoven-The C minor symphony and Appassionata sonata-The Concerto in G major-The Seventh and Ninth symphonies.