Musicon / Beethoven / Musical education / Programme music / Tone-Painting
A classification of Programme music might be made on these lines: I. Descriptive pieces which rest on imitation or suggestion of natural sounds. II. Pieces whose contents are purely musical, but the mood of which is suggested by a poetical title. III. Pieces in which the influence which ::More
Musicon / Mendelssohn / Musical education / Mendelssohn : Words can not go where music goes
A young poet who had given titles to a number of the Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words,” and incorporated what he conceived to be their sentiments in a set of poems, sent his work to Mendelssohn with the request that the composer inform the writer whether or not he had ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Moritz Hauptmann : Music is Not Ambiguous
“The same music will admit of the most varied verbal expositions, and of not one of them can it be correctly said that it is exhaustive, the right one, and contains the whole significance of the music. “This significance is contained most definitely in the music itself. “It is ::More
Musicon / Beethoven / Musical education / Intervallic characteristics of the unity of a musical work
Intervallic characteristics may place the badge of relationship upon melodies as distinctly as rhythmic. There is no more perfect illustration of this than that afforded by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Speaking of the subject of its finale, Sir George Grove says: “And note–while ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Definition of Melody, Harmony and Rhythm
In simple phrase Melody is a well-ordered series of tones heard successively; Harmony, a well-ordered series heard simultaneously; Rhythm, a symmetrical grouping of tonal time units vitalized by accent. The life-blood of music is Melody, and a complete conception of the term embodies within ::More
