The Second Book of the Gramophone Record, Giving Advice Upon the Selection of Fifty Good Records from Shubert to Stravinsky: A Listener's Description of Their Music, Translations of the Words of Any Songs Included, and a Glossary of All Necessary Technical TermsOxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925 - 194 pages |
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... mentioned took a more reasonable view of the privilege and responsi- bilities than the correspondent I have just quoted . Without any great originality but with much pertinence he pleaded in the following words for public ...
... mentioned took a more reasonable view of the privilege and responsi- bilities than the correspondent I have just quoted . Without any great originality but with much pertinence he pleaded in the following words for public ...
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... mentioned in these two volumes need be considered an essential part of a first outfit , though the whole set of them , together with an instrument , would constitute one of the best wedding presents I can imagine . A first choice can be ...
... mentioned in these two volumes need be considered an essential part of a first outfit , though the whole set of them , together with an instrument , would constitute one of the best wedding presents I can imagine . A first choice can be ...
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... mentioned . Sins of Omission and Commission . As with the First Book of the Gramophone Record , so with the Second -- my many readers may wish that I had included some particular Record , but few , I think INTRODUCTION xix.
... mentioned . Sins of Omission and Commission . As with the First Book of the Gramophone Record , so with the Second -- my many readers may wish that I had included some particular Record , but few , I think INTRODUCTION xix.
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... use of words of songs or of extracts from music or books of which they hold the copyright - their names being , it is hoped , in every case mentioned on the appropriate pages . RECORD No. I The Bees ' Wedding ' or'Spinning Song.
... use of words of songs or of extracts from music or books of which they hold the copyright - their names being , it is hoped , in every case mentioned on the appropriate pages . RECORD No. I The Bees ' Wedding ' or'Spinning Song.
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... mentioned combination . ) Then comes the Second Subject , a simple , sustained melody for FIRST VIOLIN . 6 espress . ma sempre p Properly the First Subject should then return , but in this Record the repetition is omitted . We pass to ...
... mentioned combination . ) Then comes the Second Subject , a simple , sustained melody for FIRST VIOLIN . 6 espress . ma sempre p Properly the First Subject should then return , but in this Record the repetition is omitted . We pass to ...
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accompaniment appears arpeggio bars Bassoons beautiful become begins carry CELLOS Chopin chords CLARINET Columbia comes composer composition continues COR ANGLAIS critic Dance Development Double Basses effect English enter expression feeling figure FLUTE follows four friends give given Gramophone hand HARP hear heard HORNS interest introduced Kettledrums Large later less listener lower major March material matter means melody mentioned minor motif Movement MUTED nature never OBOE octaves once opening Opera orchestral original pass passage Peer performance perhaps phrase Piano PICCOLO piece play present Printed published quoted readers Record repeated represented rhythm score Second seems side slow SOLO sometimes song soon Strings Subject suggested Suite Symphony taken theme Third thought tone translation TROMBONES Trumpets TUBA tune turn Variation Violas VIOLINS whole Wood Wind write
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Page 18 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.
Page 18 - And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 18 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree : and he requested for himself that he might die ; and said, It is enough ; now, O LORD, take away my life ; for I am not better than my fathers.
Page 19 - Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Page 48 - Paused a moment ere he answered, Smoked a little while in silence, Looked at Hiawatha proudly, Fondly looked at Laughing Water, And made answer very gravely: "Yes, if Minnehaha wishes; Let your heart speak, Minnehaha...
Page 94 - motives, which, in the most manifold disguises, moods, and situations, pervade the whole up to the catastrophe, when, after he has been condemned to death, Till is strung up to the gibbet. For the rest, let them guess at the musical joke which a Rogue has offered them.
Page 18 - And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Page 19 - And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay ; and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Page 15 - Heer Und der Kaiser, der Kaiser gefangen. Da weinten zusammen die Grenadier Wohl ob der kläglichen Kunde. Der eine sprach: Wie weh wird mir, Wie brennt meine alte Wunde! Der andre sprach: Das Lied ist aus, Auch ich möcht mit dir sterben, Doch hab ich Weib und Kind zu Haus, Die ohne mich verderben.
Page 19 - Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus : and, when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: 16 And Jehu, the son of Nimshi, shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel ; and Elisha, the son of Shaphat, of Abel-meholah, shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.