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Table of Contents
- HOW TO APPRECIATE MUSIC
- CONTENTS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- HOW TO APPRECIATE A PIANOFORTE RECITAL
- I
- THE PIANOFORTE
- The King of Instruments.
- Music Under One’s Fingers.
- Melody and Accompaniment on One Instrument.
- Music’s Debt to the Pianoforte.
- Its Lowly Origin.
- A Poet’s Advice to His Musical Daughter.
- The Clavichord.
- The Harpsichord.
- Piano and Forte.
- All Depends on the Player.
- Decorations That Do Not Beautify.
- THE PIANOFORTE
- II
- BACH’S SERVICE TO MUSIC
- Bach in Modern Music.
- Harmony and Counterpoint.
- What a Fugue Is.
- The Fugue and the Virtuoso.
- What Counterpoint Lacks.
- The Mission of the Player.
- Music as a Science.
- Science versus Feeling.
- That “Ear for Music.”
- Bach and the Weather Bureau.
- The Bacon, Not the Shakespeare, of Music.
- What Wagner Learned from Bach.
- The Language of an Epoch.
- Bach in the Recital Hall.
- Rubinstein and the “Triple Concerto.”
- “The Well-Tempered Clavichord.”
- A King’s Tribute to Bach.
- BACH’S SERVICE TO MUSIC
- III
- FROM FUGUE TO SONATA
- Three Periods of Musical Development.
- Rise of the Melodic School.
- Scarlatti’s Importance as Composer and Virtuoso.
- Rise of the Amateur.
- Changes in Musical Taste.
- Beethoven and the Epoch of the Sonata.
- Beethoven’s Slow Development.
- The Passing of the Sonata.
- Orchestral Instead of Pianistic.
- FROM FUGUE TO SONATA
- IV
- DAWN OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
- What a Sonata Is.
- How Beethoven Enlarged the Form.
- His “Moonlight Sonata.”
- Striving for Freedom.
- The Beethoven Periods.
- Sonatas Now Old-fashioned.
- The First Romantic Composers.
- Schubert’s Pianoforte Music.
- Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words.”
- DAWN OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
- V
- CHOPIN, THE POET OF THE PIANOFORTE
- Tempo Rubato.
- The Soul of the Pianoforte.
- A Clear Melodic Line.
- The Études.
- Vigor, Passion, and Impetus.
- The Préludes.
- Nocturnes.
- Chopin and Poe.
- Waltzes and Mazurkas.
- Liszt on the Mazurkas.
- Other Works.
- A Noble from Head to Foot.
- CHOPIN, THE POET OF THE PIANOFORTE
- VI
- SCHUMANN, THE “INTIMATE”
- Poet, Bourgeois, and Philosopher.
- “Carnaval” and “Kreisleriana.”
- Thoughts of His Clara.
- SCHUMANN, THE “INTIMATE”
- VII
- LISZT, THE GIANT AMONG VIRTUOSOS
- Kissed by Beethoven.
- Episode with Countess D’Agoult.
- The Don Juan Fantasie.
- Giant Strides in Virtuosity.
- Sonata, Concertos and Rhapsodies.
- How Liszt Played.
- LISZT, THE GIANT AMONG VIRTUOSOS
- VIII
- WITH PADEREWSKI—A MODERN PIANIST ON TOUR
- The “Piano Doctor.”
- Pianofortes on Their Travels.
- “Thawing Out” a Pianoforte.
- WITH PADEREWSKI—A MODERN PIANIST ON TOUR
- HOW TO APPRECIATE AN ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
- IX
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORCHESTRA
- Primitive Orchestral Efforts.
- Beethoven and the Modern Orchestra.
- How He Developed Orchestral Resources.
- Beethoven and Wagner.
- Berlioz, an Orchestral Juggler.
- Wagner, Greatest of Orchestral Composers.
- How Wagner Produces His Effects.
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORCHESTRA
- X
- INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA
- The Prima Donna of the Orchestra.
- Viola, Violoncello and Double Bass.
- Dividing the String Band.
- A Passage in “Die Walküre.”
- The Woodwind.
- The English Horn in “Tristan.”
- Brass Instruments.
- Richard Strauss’s Tribute to the Horn.
- INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA
- XI
- CONCERNING SYMPHONIES
- Esthetic Purpose of the Symphony.
- Seems to Hamper Modern Composers.
- The Naive Symphonists.
- Beethoven to the Fore.
- Schubert’s Genius.
- CONCERNING SYMPHONIES
- XII
- RICHARD STRAUSS AND HIS MUSIC
- Originator of the Tone Poem.
- Not a Juggler with the Orchestra.
- Not Mere Bulk and Noise.
- Life and Truth.
- Literally Tone Dramas.
- An Intellectual Force in Music.
- Tribute to Wagner.
- Richard Straussiana.
- RICHARD STRAUSS AND HIS MUSIC
- XIII
- A NOTE ON CHAMBER MUSIC
- HOW TO APPRECIATE VOCAL MUSIC
- XIV
- SONGS AND SONG COMPOSERS
- Too Poor to Buy Music Paper.
- How the “Erlking” was Composed.
- Finck on Schubert.
- Schumann’s Individuality.
- Phases of Franz’s Genius.
- Self-Critical.
- Brahms a Thinker in Music.
- Grieg’s Originality.
- Liszt’s Genius for Song.
- SONGS AND SONG COMPOSERS
- XV
- ORATORIO
- An Incongruous Art-Form.
- Primitive Efforts.
- Bach’s “Passion Music.”
- Rockstro on Händel.
- Mendelssohn’s Oratorios.
- ORATORIO
- XVI
- OPERA AND MUSIC-DRAMA
- Reforms by Gluck.
- Comparative Popularity of Certain Operas.
- Wagner’s Music-Dramas.
- Wagner a Melodist.
- Leading Motives not Mere Labels.
- OPERA AND MUSIC-DRAMA
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