Book of Musical Knowledge

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Sep 19, 2024

In Category - Music

Authors: Arthur Elson In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

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Primitive and Savage Music
Greece and Rome
Early Christian Music
The Minstrel Knights
The Schools of Counterpoint
The Harmonic Style
Bach
Handel
Gluck
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Weber and Romanticism
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Chopin
Italian Opera
Cherubini and French Opera
Berlioz and Other Frenchmen
Liszt and his Circle
From Glinka to Tschaikovsky
Wagner and his Reforms
Brahms and the Symphonists
Grieg and the Northern Countries
Strauss and Recent Germans
Franck and Modern France
The Russian School
Other European Nations
America
Melody and Appreciation
Figures and Phrases
The Song-Forms
The Rondos
The Sonata-Allegro Form
Other Sonata Movements
The Orchestral Forms
Dances and Piano Styles
The Vocal Forms
The Contrapunctual Forms
The Piano and its Predecessors
The Organ
The Voice
The Violin
Other Bowed Instruments
Pluck-String Instruments
Flute and Piccolo
Oboe and English Horn
The Bassoons
The Clarinets
Horns, Trumpets and Cornets
Trombones and Tubas
Instruments of Percussion
Some Famous Pianists
Some Famous Singers
Violinists and Violin Music
Orchestration
Conducting
Acoustics
How to Read Music Part 1
How to Read Music Part 2
Appendix: Important Music Terms

This book has been planned with a view to placing before the general reader the main facts that will enable him to appreciate music intelligently. One often hears the remark, "I’m fond of music, but I don’t understand it." The present work has been written with the idea of enabling the non-musician to comprehend the real meaning of the tonal art, and to familiarize himself with the value of the great composers’ works, the use of the instruments, the various musical forms, and a number of subjects of similar importance. At the same time, certain other technical topics have been included. While these have been presented in such a way as to be understood by the non-musician, they have been given with sufficient thoroughness to make the work useful also as a textbook. It is therefore fitted to the needs of students and teachers, as well as amateurs. An effort has been made to condense the chief points of a general musical education into a single volume. While this book should prove of interest to the average reader, a course of study has been added, which will make it suitable for use in high schools or colleges also, or in any institution that aims to give a course in the understanding of music. - Summary by Preface NOTE: As with all historical texts, the language used in this volume should be interpreted within the context of the entire work and the cultural context of its publication.