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.


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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 age of pianoforte. Piano
composers and virtuosi, from Weber to the present time. Teachers and
performers often corrupters of music.


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Rubinstein on Polish patriot and tone-poet who explored harmonic
vastness of pianoforte. Like exquisitely constructed sounding-board.
Enriched and spiritualized the pianoforte for all time. Universal
rather than individual experiences. National tonality. Zwyny and