| I. | Preliminary Considerations | 1 | | II. | The Folk-Song | 19 | | III. | Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach, the Fugue | 33 | | IV. | The Musical Sentence | 50 | | V. | The Two-Part and Three-Part Forms | 69 | | VI. | The Classical and the Modern Suite | 73 | | VII. | The Rondo Form | 81 | | VIII. | The Variation Form | 85 | | IX. | The Sonata-Form and Its Founders—Emmanuel Bach and Haydn | 91 | | X. | Mozart. The Perfection of Classic Structure and Style | 108 | | XI. | Beethoven, the Tone-Poet | 122 | | XII. | The Romantic Composers. Schubert, Weber | 160 | | XIII. | Schumann and Mendelssohn | 172 | | XIV. | Chopin and Pianoforte Style | 188 | | XV. | Berlioz and Liszt. Program Music | 202 | | XVI. | Brahms | 228 | | XVII. | CÉsar Franck | 255 | | XVIII. | The Modern French School—d'Indy and Debussy | 280 | | XIX. | National Schools—Russian, Bohemian and Scandinavian | 300 | | XX. | The Varied Tendencies of Modern Music | 326 | Index List of Compositions
Music is the universal language of mankind. —Longfellow.
Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love;
With unsuspected eloquence can move
And manage all the man with secret art. | —Addison.
Music is the sound of the circulation in nature's veins. It is the flux which melts nature. Men dance to it, glasses ring and vibrate, and the fields seem to undulate. The healthy ear always hears it, nearer or more remote. —Thoreau.
To strike all this life dead,
Run mercury into a mold like lead,
And henceforth have the plain result to show—
How we Feel hard and fast, and what we Know—
This were the prize, and is the puzzle!—which
Music essays to solve. | —Browning.
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. —Whitman.
Music: an Art and a Language
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