item: #1 of 4
          id: 17474
      author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward
       title: How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
        date: None
       words: 63234
      flesch: 64
     summary: 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.
    keywords: art; bach; bass; beethoven; case; century; chamber music; character; choirs; church; composers; composition; concert; critic; day; drama; effect; expression; fact; form; german; handel; instruments; melody; movement; music; music illustration; musical; musician; nature; new; opera; orchestra; parts; people; performance; pianoforte; pianoforte music; popular; public; purpose; romantic; schumann; second; seq; sidenote; singers; singing; sonata; study; style; symphony; things; time; tone; use; voices; wagner; words; work
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 30412
      author: Saint-Saëns, Camille
       title: On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music
        date: None
       words: 4984
      flesch: 63
     summary: 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.
    keywords: century; legato; mozart; music; notes; piano; time; way
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 30560
      author: Spalding, Walter Raymond
       title: Music: An Art and a Language
        date: None
       words: 114893
      flesch: 61
     summary: 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.
    keywords: account; bach; beethoven; beginning; berlioz; brahms; chapter; characteristic; chopin; chords; closing; coda; color; comments; composer; compositions; debussy; development; effect; example; expression; fact; finale; folk; following; footnote; form; franck; french; fugue; genius; haydn; imagination; key; life; liszt; literature; major; material; measure; melodies; melody; minor; movement; mozart; music; nature; new; orchestra; overture; passage; phrase; pianoforte; pieces; portion; power; program music; rhythm; scherzo; schubert; schumann; second; set; sonata; songs; structure; style; subject; symphony; tchaikowsky; theme; time; tone; treatment; use; variations; violin; way; works; world; | |
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 34610
      author: Kobbé, Gustav
       title: How to Appreciate Music
        date: None
       words: 63730
      flesch: 57
     summary: 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.
    keywords: accompaniment; art; bach; beethoven; chamber music; chopin; composer; compositions; concert; counterpoint; day; development; drama; effect; expression; fact; form; fugue; genius; great; hand; instruments; life; liszt; melody; modern; movement; mozart; music; new; opera; orchestra; period; pianist; pianoforte; pianoforte music; pieces; play; player; recital; richard; schubert; schumann; second; sonata; sonata form; song; strauss; string; symphony; theme; time; tone; virtuoso; wagner; way; work; years
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