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id: 30412
author: Saint-Saëns, Camille
title: On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music
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  Finally, in ancient times notes were not defined as they are to-day and their value was approximative only. Such first attempts at music in several parts were made in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when they were hunting for laws, and such music was discordant.


id: 34610
author: Kobbé, Gustav
title: How to Appreciate Music
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  The Italian genius who gave the greatest impulse to the progress of pianoforte music and who, for his day, immensely improved the technique of pianoforte playing, was Domenico Scarlatti (1683-1757), the famous son of a famous father, Alessandro Scarlatti, the leading dramatic composer of his time. This, however, as I have sought to make clear before, is due to the universality of the pianoforte as an instrument and to the comprehensiveness of pianoforte music, which in itself illustrates in great part the development of the art.


id: 17474
author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward
title: How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
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  Periods in pianoforte music. He stands, therefore, as a perfect exemplar of the second period in the scheme which we have adopted for the study of pianoforte music and playing.


id: 30560
author: Spalding, Walter Raymond
title: Music: An Art and a Language
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  Perhaps the finest sections are _Vltava_ (Moldau), celebrating the beauties of Bohemia's sacred river, and _Vy[vs]ehrad_, a realistic description of the national fortress at Prague.[327] This book concerns itself with music _as_ music.


