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PREFACE

THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST

BANTOCK

BEETHOVEN

BERLIOZ

BIZET

CHADWICK

CHARPENTIER

CHAUSSON

CONVERSE

DEBUSSY

DUKAS

DVO?AK

ELGAR

FRANCK

GLAZOUNOFF

GOLDMARK

GRIEG

HADLEY

HUBER

d'INDY

LISZT

LOEFFLER

MACDOWELL

MENDELSSOHN

RAFF

RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF

SAINT-SAENS

SCHUMANN

SIBELIUS

SMETANA

SPOHR

STRAUSS

TSCHAIKOWSKY

WAGNER

WOLF

INDEX OF WORKS AND COMPOSERS

A GUIDE TO THE MEANING OF IMPORTANT
SYMPHONIES, OVERTURES, AND
TONE-POEMS FROM BEETHOVEN
TO THE PRESENT DAY

BY
LAWRENCE GILMAN
AUTHOR OF
"PHASES OF MODERN MUSIC"
"THE MUSIC OF TO-MORROW" ETC.

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NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMVII

Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.
Published October, 1907.

TO
E. W. G.

CONTENTS

  PAGE
PREFACE xi
THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST 1
BANTOCK  
TONE-POEM, "THE WITCH OF ATLAS" 11
Prelude, "Sappho" 15
BEETHOVEN  
Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" 19
Overture to "Coriolanus" 24
Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral" 25
Overture to "Egmont" 27
BERLIOZ  
Overture to "King Lear" 31
Fantastic Symphony 34
Symphony, "Harold in Italy" 36
BIZET  
Suite from "L'ArlÉsienne" 43
CHADWICK  
Overture, "Melpomene" 49
Overture, "Adonais" 51
Overture, "Euterpe" 52
Symphonic Poem, "Cleopatra" 53
CHARPENTIER  
Suite, "Impressions of Italy" 57
CHAUSSON  
Symphonic Poem, "Viviane" 61
CONVERSE  
Romance, "The Festival of Pan" 65
Romance, "Endymion's Narrative" 67
Two Poems, "Night" and "Day" 68
Overture, "Euphrosyne" 70
Fantasy, "The Mystic Trumpeter" 70
DEBUSSY  
Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" 73
Three Nocturnes 75
Three Sketches, "The Sea" 77
DUKAS  
"Scherzo," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" 79
DVOŘÁK  
Overture, "Nature" 85
Overture, "Carnival" 87
Overture, "Othello" 89
Symphonic Poem, "The Wood Dove" 91
ELGAR  
Variations ("Enigma") 95
Overture, "Cockaigne" 96
Two Pieces, "Dream Children" 98
Overture, "In the South" 101
FRANCK  
Symphonic Poem, "Les Éolides" 105
Symphonic Poem, "The Wild Huntsman" 106
Suite, "Psyche" 108
Symphonic Poem, "The Djinns" 113
GLAZOUNOFF  
Symphonic Poem, "Stenka RÂzine" 115
Symphonic Picture, "The Kremlin" 117
GOLDMARK  
Overture, "Sakuntala" 119
Symphony, "Rustic Wedding" 120
GRIEG  
Suite (No. 1), "Peer Gynt" 123
HADLEY  
Tone-Poem, "Salome" 127
HUBER  
Symphony No. 2, in E Minor ["BÖcklin"] 131
d'INDY  
Legend, "The Enchanted Forest" 137
Legend, "Saugefleurie" 138
Variations, "Istar" 139
Tone-Poem, "Summer Day on the Mountain" 141
LISZT  
Symphonic Poem, "Tasso: Lament and Triumph" 145
Symphonic Poem, "The Preludes" 147
Symphonic Poem, "Orpheus" 148
Symphonic Poem, "Mazeppa" 151
Symphonic Poem, "FestklÄnge" 154
Symphonic Poem, "The Battle of the Huns" 155
Symphonic Poem, "The Ideal" 157
"A 'Faust' Symphony" 161
"Symphony after Dante's 'Divina Commedia'" 164
"Two Episodes from Lenau's 'Faust'" 173
LOEFFLER  
Symphonic Poem, "The Death of Tintagiles" 177
"Poem" ["La Bonne Chanson"] 182
Fantasia, "The Devil's Villanelle" 184
"A Pagan Poem" 187
MAC DOWELL  
Symphonic Poem, "Lancelot and Elaine" 191
Two Fragments (after the "Song of Roland") 194
Suite (No. 2), "Indian" 196
MENDELSSOHN  
Overture, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 199
Overture, "Fingal's Cave" 200
Overture, "Becalmed at Sea and Prosperous Voyage" 202
Overture, "The Lovely Melusina" 203
Symphony No. 3 ("Scotch") 206
Symphony No. 4 ("Italian") 208
RAFF  
Symphony No. 3, "In the Woods" 213
Symphony No. 5, "Lenore" 216
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF  
Symphonic Poem, "Sadko" 221
Symphony, "Antar" 222
Suite, "Scheherazade" 226
"A Night on Mount Triglav" (from the Opera-Ballet
"Mlada") 229
Suite, "Christmas Eve" 231
SAINT-SAËNS  
Symphonic Poem, "Omphale's Spinning-wheel" 235
Symphonic Poem, "PhaËton" 236
Symphonic Poem, "Dance of Death" 237
Symphonic Poem, "The Youth of Hercules" 238
SCHUMANN  
Symphony No. 1, in B-flat Major ["Spring"] 241
Overture to "Manfred" 243
SIBELIUS  
Symphonic Poem, "Lemminkainen:"  
"The Swan of Tuonela" 248
"Lemminkainen's Home-Faring" 249
SMETANA  
Symphonic Cycle, "My Fatherland:"
  I.  "Vysehrad" 251
 II.  "Vltava" 252
III.  "SÁrka" 252
 IV.  "From Bohemia's Fields and Groves" 253
  V.  "Tabor" 253
 VI.  "Blanik" 253
SPOHR
Symphony, "The Consecration of Sound" 255
STRAUSS  
Fantasia, "From Italy" 259
Tone-Poem, "Don Juan" 261
Tone-Poem, "Macbeth" 264
Tone-Poem, "Death and Transfiguration" 266
"Rondo," "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" 269
Tone-Poem, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" 275
Variations, "Don Quixote" 285
Tone-Poem, "A Hero's Life" 292
"Domestic Symphony" 297
TSCHAIKOWSKY  
Overture, "Romeo and Juliet" 303
Fantasia, "The Tempest" 305
Fantasia, "Francesca da Rimini" 308
Symphony No. 4, in F Minor 316
Symphony, "Manfred" 323
Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic" 329
Ballad, "The Voyvode" 335
WAGNER  
"A 'Faust' Overture" 339
"A Siegfried Idyl" 343
WOLF  
Symphonic Poem, "Penthesilea" 347
INDEX 353

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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