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...Elizabeth Paley 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Elizabeth Paley Zwischenreden für Zwischenakte: Egmont and the Melodramatic Supplement A Melodramatic Experiment Eleven years after Beethoven composed his inci...

... that of Roger Fry, at which not a word was spoken, the entire service consisting in music. She herself composed much of The Waves during sessions with the later works of Beethoven on the gramophone, works to which T. S. Eliot s Four Quartets owe more than their title; and the passage on the Beethoven sonata...

... seems to laugh: So you thought an echo was India; you took the Marabar caves as final? The caves are not final, but neither are they irrelevant. The cave scene in A Passage to India needs to be put beside the concert scene in Howards End, in which Helen Schlegel is listening to Beethoven s Fifth...

.... Thus, set off from a Beethoven or a Tchaikov­ sky, the most disparate and mutually hostile schools and individuals of our time keep company after all in the same cultural basket. In the following pages I will use the term dissonant as my unifying cultural concept for the simple reason that every...

.... Thus, set off from a Beethoven or a Tchaikov­ sky, the most disparate and mutually hostile schools and individuals of our time keep company after all in the same cultural basket. In the following pages I will use the term dissonant as my unifying cultural concept for the simple reason that every...

... directions: opera, ballet, melodrama, modern dance, film, and hybrid forms of theater. Elizabeth Paley’s essay on early-nineteenth-century melo- drama, specifically Goethe’s Egmont and Beethoven’s incidental music, dis- cusses a unique artistic hybrid that—although now basically extinct—later informed...

.... Just as Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, and Mahler have left us nine symphonies each, so the German Expressionist painter Max Beck­ mann (1884 1950) has presented us with nine triptychs, all mon­ umental in format and symphonic in design. Since their enigmatic sub­ ject matter is often bafflingly...

.... This book illustrates once again the well-known truism that the artist s life and his art are sometimes but remotely connected. Indeed, the study of the lives of artists is often a positive hindrance to an understanding of their works, for, as Tovey remarks apropos of Beethoven, it is usually the study...

... including Dvorak s Ninth Symphony, Beethoven s Seventh Symphony, and Schubert s Eighth Symphony are currently available on long-playing re-releases: The Dvorak on RCA CRL 2-0334; the Beethoven and Schubert on Parnassus 5. The Leopold Stokowski Society has re-released the 1927 RCA coupling of Brahms , First...

..., Beethoven: thirty-seven years after Elvis s first recordings, rock has its own traditions and its own treasured clas­ sics. Seeing Rock & Roll next to Symphonic Literature and Music Ap­ preciation in course listings must seem like a nightmare come true for more traditionally minded faculty members whose...

... it was said that he sees the world darkly, a quality hard to understand, since Beethoven in his time could be optimistic, whereas Shostokovitch has the great advan­ tage of living in the Soviet Union so replete with buoyant enthusiasm. Too sick to attend this convention, Prokofiev sent word that the criti­...

... were removed (the apocalyptic finale [of The Four Zoas] reminds one of the finale of Beethoven s Ninth Symphony ) because such statements seem rather more, than less, typical of the whole book. There are occasional moments when Nurmi seems distracted or thinking of something else: Blake was probably...

... if some things I do not like were expunged their absence would not make much difference. For example, I would not be happier with the book if the doubtful analogies between poems and music were removed (the apocalyptic finale [of The Four Zoas] reminds one of the finale of Beethoven s Ninth Symphony...

..., 1955. Pp. 294. $4.00. This book illustrates once again the well-known truism that the artist s life and his art are sometimes but remotely connected. Indeed, the study of the lives of artists is often a positive hindrance to an understanding of their works, for, as Tovey remarks apropos of Beethoven...

... to an understanding of their works, for, as Tovey remarks apropos of Beethoven, it is usually the study of what they have not mastered, and thus it undermines their ...

... finds the key word to be sympathy with life. Humanity is depicted once more as throbbing with the desire to comprehend all, to sympathize with all, to feel at one with all. This spirit he finds symbolized in the far-famed statue of Beethoven by Klinger, a photograh of which forms the frontispiece...

.... By Charles S. Kessler. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. 173, with 41 illustrations, 9 in color. $15. Just as Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, and Mahler have left us nine symphonies each, so the German Expressionist painter Max Beck­ mann (1884 1950) has presented us...

... attained before. Beethoven, Wagner believed, had elevated music to a plane comparable to the art of Dante and Michelangelo, but he was obsessed with the belief that Jewish influence since Beethoven had ruined most of what the latter had achieved. This theory of Wagner s is rather extravagantly outlined...

... of the itinerant scholar s comings and goings in each of the four volumes. DUKE UNIVERSITY I. B. HOLLEY, JR. Max Beckmann s Triptychs. By Charles S. Kessler. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. 173, with 41 illustrations, 9 in color. $15. Just as Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner...

..., not suitable for framing but clearly a pinup. He is wearing a long winter scarf, is again bareheaded his hair curlier, longer, conventionally wilder than ever before; he stands, hands in pocket, frowning (or pouting) and looking very much like a youthful Beethoven. The entire classical-music package of a two...