Download or read book Musicians Wit Humour and Anecdote Classic Reprint written by Frederick J. Crowest and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Musicians' Wit, Humour, and Anecdote Nearly a quarter of a century ago - in the good old days when publishing was a pleasant and profitable pursuit - the late Mr. George Bentley honoured me by issuing from the famous Burlington Street press two bulky volumes of Musical Anecdotes. The work soon ran out of print, despite its prohibitive price. Now, that work has been recast with so many additions that it is almost a new book; and is being published in order, mainly, to meet the requests of many known and unknown friends. No further apology is needed for this more handy volume. Many of the anecdotes are new, many old; some have been in print before, and some have not. They have been on a'its in their time, and are as true as on (tits in general; but the point is this - they are characteristic of the persons of whom they are told, and they furnish a glimpse of the private or lay side of musical personality not often successfully brought out amid the hard and dry facts of biography. It is most meet that I should acknowledge my indebted ness to my friend Mr. J. Philip Donne, who took up the present omnium gatherum, and illustrated it in a con amore spirit that will appeal to all who, haply, are gifted with the artistic temperament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Musicians Wit Humour and Anecdote written by Frederick James Crowest and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musicians Wit Humour and Anecdote written by Frederick James Crowest and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anecdotes of Great Musicians written by Willey Francis Gates and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anecdotes of Great Musicians: Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Famous Composers and Performers In the search for what this volume comprises, much material has been examined. Had the intention been to make it include all the anecdotes that are related of various musicians, three times the present space would have been necessary. But many of the narratives of past and current literature will not stand the test of probability, and in some cases the humor or reason for relation is hard to find. I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that came to my notice such anecdotes as have two features, - that of being characteristic of the person referred to, and that of possessing sufficient interest; and in this re-narration I have incorporated such bits of musical information, along biographical and historical lines, as came to mind at the time of writing, but letting this feature be secondary to the main idea of the work. Thus it is hoped that while my readers may find inter esting anecdote, they may also incidentally find that which is of more permanent value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Musician s Wit Humor and Anecdote written by Frederick J. Crowest and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Face to Face With Great Musicians Classic Reprint written by Charles David Isaacson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Face to Face With Great Musicians Each name in the whole history of music conjures up for me a living personality, with whom I may in the silences of solitude, converse in no mistakable manner. It is no dead, empty-sounding word for me to see the name of a composer on a program; each number that is to be heard is a key Which unlocks for me a stage on Which is reenacted a scene from the drama of a man's life. In these little meetings face to face with great musicians, I have tried to make it possible for the most unlearned novice in music to enter the inner circle of musical creators and interpreters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Haydn s Ingenious Jesting with Art written by Gretchen A. Wheelock and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wit, humor, and comic effects have been commonly noted in accounts of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music from his own day to ours. Haydn's Ingenious Jesting with Art is a unique critical and historical study of this celebrated aspect of the composer's music and the key role of listeners in its success. "Artful jesting" indicates a strategy that involves the listener as an active interpreter of compositional alternatives in a musical work. Wheelock discusses how Haydn, utilizing the subversive potential of wit in a variety of classical forms, genres, and venues, both challenged and affirmed the musical conventions of his day." "The book is divided into three sections, each providing a different perspective on the wit and humor of Haydn's music. Part I, "Coming to Terms," takes a multidisciplinary approach to issues of compositional intent and reception history, focusing on changing values of wit and humor in late eighteenth-century literary sources and reviews of Haydn's music. Chapter 1, "The Musical Joke: A Laughing Matter?" details the productive role of humor in heightening consciousness of play with the most basic classical conventions. Dependent on often subtle ambiguities, these musical jokes challenged listeners' understanding of how convention and invention should interact, engaging them as participants themselves in a process of completing the jest. Chapter 2 traces important distinctions between wit and humor in a broad range of eighteenth-century sources, both German and English. Chapter 3 examines the critical understanding of the composer as humorist. Such views - both favorable and unfavorable - are inextricably linked with changing attitudes toward the proper role of instrumental music, popular taste, and the role of the composer in fulfilling expectations of increasingly mixed audiences." "Part II, "Frames of Reference," establishes several models for investigating the process of jesting in Haydn's instrumental works. Chapter 4 explores incongruous manners in the composer's symphonic minuets. Wheelock argues that Haydn's fusing of strictly academic and more popular dance styles subverted the measured dignity and refinement of a "proper" minuet, and that such disturbances of the "humors" actually helped to activate the discovery of wit. Chapter 5, "Engaging Wit in the Chamber," examines the metaphor of conversation in connection with Haydn's Opus 33 string quartets, presenting a convincing case that as the voices of the quartet listen and respond to each other the audience is simultaneously engaged in actively mediating this complex dialogue. Chapter 6 explores the deceptions involved in the symphonic finales, where eccentric motives and procedures focus listeners' attention on predicting their progress. Chapter 7, "The Paradox of Distraction," takes theatrical comedy as a point of departure in locating numerous comic devices akin to fixation, memory lapses, digressions, and incongruous juxtapositions of melody and rhythm." "Part III, "The Implicated Listener," examines how Haydn transformed humorous rhetoric into a new aesthetic, and considers the broader implications of comic procedures in instrumental music of the Classic era." "Haydn's Ingenious Jesting with Art combines a historical and social perspective with strong critical analysis, appealing not only to students of Haydn's music but also to those interested in the Classic style in general."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Scribner s Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Mogul written by Frank Pixley and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Work and the Man Classic Reprint written by Agnes Rush Burr and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work and the Man (Classic Reprint) by Agnes Rush Burr offers a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between labor and character. This thought-provoking book argues that the work a person does can shape their character, and conversely, the character can influence their work. Through insightful commentary and vivid illustrations, Burr creates a compelling discourse on the importance of work in personal development. The Work and the Man is a timeless book that will inspire and challenge you to reflect on your own work and its impact on your character. Delve into the intriguing relationship between work and character with The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr. Discover the profound insights within this classic reprint today!
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Download or read book Old Scores and New Readings written by John F. Runciman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music Certain Musicians Was as great as Palestrina or merely great amongst the English - whether a lord amongst wits, or simply a wit amongst lords. For the most part he has been left comfortably alone, and held to be - Iike his mighty successor Purcell - one of the forerunners of the great English school of church composers. To have prepared the way for Jack son in F - that has been thought his best claim to remembrance. The notion is as absurd as would be the notion (if anyone were foolish enough to advance it) that Palestrina is mainly to be remembered as having prepared the way for Perosi. Byrde prepared the way for Purcell, it is true but even that exceeding glory pales before the greater glory of having written the Cantiones Sacrae and the D minor Mass. In its way the D minor Mass is as noble and complete an achieve ment as the St. Matthew Passion or the Messiah, the Choral symphony of Beethoven or the G minor symphony of Mozart, Tristan or the Nibe lung's Ring. It is splendidly planned it is per fectly beautiful and from the first page to the last it is charged with a grave, sweet, lovely emotion. The reason why Byrde has not until lately won the homage he deserves is simply this: that the musical doctors who have hitherto judged him have judged him in the light of the eighteenth-century contrapuntal music, and have applied to him in all seriousness Artemus Ward's joke about Chaucer he couldn't spell. The plain harmonic progressions of the later men could be understood by the doctors: they could not understand the freer style of harmony which prevailed before the strict school came into existence. Artemus Ward, taking up Chaucer, professed amazement to find spelling that would not be tolerated in an ele mentary school; the learned doctors, taking up Byrde, found he had disregarded all the rules rules, be it remembered, formulated after Byrde's time, just as our modern rules of spelling were made after Chaucer's time and as Artemus Ward jocularly condemned Chaucer, and showed his wit in the joke, so the doctors seriously condemned Byrde, and showed their stupidity in their uncon scious joke. They could understand one side of Tallis. His motet in forty parts, for instance: they knew the difficulties of writing such a thing, and they could see the ingenuity he showed in his various ways of getting round the difficulties. They could not see the really fine points of the forty-part motet: the broad scheme of the whole thing, and the almost Handelian way of mass ing the various choirs so as to heap climax on climax until a perfectly satisfying finish was reached. Still, there was something for them to see in Tallis; whereas in Byrde there was nothing for them to see that they had eyes to see, or to hear that they had ears to hear. They could see that he either wrote consecutive fifths and octaves, or dodged them in a way Opposed to all the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Musical News and Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Punch s Irish Humour written by Charles Keene and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mr. Punch's Irish Humour: In Picture and Story No punch artist has done more with Irish humour than Charles Keene. Well over a third of the punch drawings on this subject are from his pencil. Most of the punch artists have made good use of it, Phil May and Mr. Raven-hill in particular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
