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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... whole and nothing but ' . Certainty in Criticism . For there are two kinds of certainty in critical assertion . A man may rarely ( and perhaps always rashly ) feel that what he is writing is truth eternal and unchangeable , or he may ...
... whole and nothing but ' . Certainty in Criticism . For there are two kinds of certainty in critical assertion . A man may rarely ( and perhaps always rashly ) feel that what he is writing is truth eternal and unchangeable , or he may ...
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... whole modern art of sounds . What I have really done has been to compile an Anthology , and if every man had his rights I , proudly swelling , should be numbered in the public esteem with the world's Quiller Couchs and Palgraves . The ...
... whole modern art of sounds . What I have really done has been to compile an Anthology , and if every man had his rights I , proudly swelling , should be numbered in the public esteem with the world's Quiller Couchs and Palgraves . The ...
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... whole set of them , together with an instrument , would constitute one of the best wedding presents I can imagine . A first choice can be made , and periodical additions made to it , the order of acquirement of the Records being ...
... whole set of them , together with an instrument , would constitute one of the best wedding presents I can imagine . A first choice can be made , and periodical additions made to it , the order of acquirement of the Records being ...
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... whole . In cases where more than one company has recorded a piece , I have , with great care , chosen the Record or set of Records which I considered the best . In cases where I have found the Records of one company to be better in one ...
... whole . In cases where more than one company has recorded a piece , I have , with great care , chosen the Record or set of Records which I considered the best . In cases where I have found the Records of one company to be better in one ...
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... whole collection . We should not forget , too , that he is not answerable for the last two books , which were published after his death , without the great alterations which he habitually made before publication . One drawback to the ...
... whole collection . We should not forget , too , that he is not answerable for the last two books , which were published after his death , without the great alterations which he habitually made before publication . One drawback to the ...
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accompaniment Allegro arpeggio Ballet bars Bass Clarinet beautiful begins BRASS CELESTA CELLOS CELLOS and DOUBLE Chopin chromatic Clarinets and Bassoons Columbia Record composer composer's composition COR ANGLAIS Credo critic Cymbals Dance Double Basses DOUBLE BASSOON Drum Dvorak effect expression feeling Feldeinsamkeit Figaro FLUTE FLUTE and OBOE follows FULL ORCHESTRA Full Score give given GLOCKENSPIEL Gramophone Record gramophonists Grieg H.M.V. Record HALL ORCHESTRA Hamilton Harty HARP hear heard HORNS instruments Kettledrums listener LOWER STRINGS melody Mendelssohn Miniature minor mood motif Movement MUTED STRINGS Nocturne OBOE octaves opening Opera Orchestral Score Otello passage Peer performance Petrouchka phrase Piano PICCOLO piece pizzicato play poem Prelude Printed Music quoted readers repeated rhythm Scherzo Schumann Second Subject softly SOLO Songs Without Words String chords suggested Symphony theme tone translation tremolo TROMBONES Trumpets TUBA tune Variation Vaughan Williams Violas VIOLINS whilst whole Wood Wind
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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.