For Every Music Lover

For Every Music Lover

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Title: For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
Author: Aubertine Woodward Moore
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[Illustration: MALIBRAN]

FOR EVERY MUSIC LOVER

A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ESSAYS ON MUSIC
BY AUBERTINE WOODWARD MOORE
AUTHOR OF "FOR MY MUSICAL FRIEND" ETC.
NEW YORK DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 55 FIFTH
AVENUE

Copyright, 1902, by DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
PRINTED IN U. S. A.

Illustrations
1. MALIBRAN Frontispiece 2. MOZART 22 3. BRAHMS 54 4.
FRANZ LISZT 86 5. LILLIAN NORDICA 118 6. PAGANINI 150 7.
JENNY LIND 182 8. CORELLI 214 9. SAINT-SAËNS 246

Contents
Preface 17
How we can approach knowledge of music. Mistaken isolation of the
art. Those who belong to the privileged class. Music, as well as religion,
meant for all. Business of its ministers and teachers. Promise of the
twentieth century. Fruitage of our own free soil. American world-view.
Purpose of volume.
The Origin and Function of Music 21
Story of music affording knowledge of man's inner life. Mythology and
legendary lore. Emerson's dualism. Music a mirror. Ruskin and art.
Beethoven's lofty revelation. The real thing of Schopenhauer. Views of

Carlyle, Wagner and Mazzini. Raw materials. Craving for sympathy in
artistic type. Evolution of tone-language. French writer of 1835. Prince
of Waldthurn, in 1690. Spencer's theory. Controversy and answer.
Music of primeval man and early civilizations. The Vedas. Hebrew
scriptures. Basis of scientific laws. Church ritual. Folk-music. Influence
of crusades. Modern music architect of its own fortunes. Present
musical vocabulary and literature. Counsel of Pythagoras. What Plato
taught. Euripides on song. Auerbach. Martin Luther. Napoleon
Bonaparte. Bain and Dr. Marx. Shakespeare, in Merchant of Venice.
Wagner's unspoiled humanity. Tolstoi in art.
Blunders in Music Study 43
Voice from the unseen. Perverted soul. Normal instincts. Genius and
talent. Æsthetic tastes. Musical sound and rhythmic motion. Average
child. Frequent blunders. Appeal to intellect. Teacher with strong
personality. Experimenting with beginners. Legal protection. Vienna
musician. Class instruction. French solfège. English tonic sol-fa. Mrs.
John Spencer Curwen. Rev. John Curwen. Time a mental science.
Musical perception of the blind. Music in public schools. Phillips
Brooks on school song. Compulsory study. Socrates. Mirabeau.
Schumann on brilliancy. Unrighteous mammon of technique. Soul of
music. Neglect of ensemble work. As to accompaniments. Underlying
principles. Hearing good music. Going abroad. Wagner's hero. A
plumed knight wanted.
The Musical Education That Educates 61
Symmetrical development. Well-rounded musician. Well-balanced
individual. Profits proportionate to investment. Living force. What
Goethe said. Rich harvest. Aristotle on command over mind. Music
study many-sided. Madox-Brown on art. Mabie on beauty. Practical
forces in shaping character, purifying taste and elevating standards.
Master-works. Human voice as music teacher. Scientific methods of
study. Both art and science. Mental discipline. Stephen A. Emory.
Huxley on education.
How to Interpret Music 73

College professors on criticism and interpretation. External and
technical forms. Distrusting impressions. Trampling on God-given
intuitions. Throb and thrill of great art. Insight requisite for
interpretation. Living with masterpieces. Three souls of Browning. Dr.
Corson. Every faculty alive. Vital knowledge. Musical imagination.
Technical proficiency. Head, hand and physical forces. In service of
lofty ideal. Musical art work. Theme. Unfolding. Climax. Labor of
composition. Mind of genius. Elementary laws. Tonal language. Karl
Formes and operatic aspirant. Motto of Leschetitzky. Marks of
expression. Adolph Kullak. Hans von Bülow. Pulse of music. Memory.
Ruskin's fatal faults.
How to Listen to Music 89
Listening an art. Painting completed whole. Music passing panorama.
Not translatable into words. To follow, even anticipate composer.
Bach's absolute knowledge. Fire of Prometheus. Inner sanctuary of art.
Science of acoustics. Prime elements. Dr. Marx and Helmholtz. Motive.
Beethoven's fifth symphony. Phrase. Period. Simple melody. "God
Save the King." Our "America." Masters of counterpoint. Bach's fugues.
Monophony and polyphony. Classical and romantic. Heretic and hero.
Hadow on musical laws. Form the manifestation of these. Good music
versus ragtime. Dr. Corson on spiritual appeal.
The Piano and Piano Players 105
Pythagoras and musical intervals. Pan pipes. Portable organs.
Monochords with keys. Guido d'Arezzo. Clavier type. Virginal in
Elizabethan age. Early clavier masters. First woman court clavier
player. Scarlatti and Bach. True art of clavier-playing. Sonata form.
Where Haydn gained much. Mozart and Clementi. Pianoforte and
improvements. Viennese school. Clementi school. Giant on lofty
heights. Oscar Bie on Beethoven. Golden