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Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013811018
Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 121 pages
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Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732670208
Reproduction of the original: Old Scores and New Readings by John F. Runciman
Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : EAN:4064066243111
"Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians" is a collection of essays on the greatest musicians of all times and their creations. The book is full of interesting details about different moments in the lives of the great masters. It contains a professional analysis of some of the greatest music works, such as "Lohengrin" or "Tristan and Isolda."
Author : Runciman John F
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318813689
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Author : John F. RUNCIMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504029250
Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789359323176
"Old Scores and New Readings" is a literary work by John F. Runciman, a British writer and literary critic who was actively involved throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This edition of "Old Scores and New Readings" is characterized by a visually appealing cover design and a meticulously typeset manuscript, which collectively contribute to its contemporary aesthetic and enhanced legibility. Some tales are brutal or weird, and while others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. The literary work consists of a collection of essays and thoughtful compositions which provide readers with a captivating exploration of various themes and subjects in literature that were prominent throughout its era. Runciman's work in "Old Scores and New Readings" demonstrates a perceptive and engaged perspective on the prevalent societal and cultural challenges of the early 20th century. Within a compilation of scholarly pieces, the author undertakes an analysis of several subjects, encompassing interpersonal relationships, cultural norms and practices, introspection, and the psychological ramifications of historical occurrences. The book's title pertains to its core premise, which entails the process of revisiting past events and reexamining them via fresh and perceptive perspectives.
Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0484145754
Excerpt from Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music Certain Musicians Was as great as Palestrina or merely great amongst the English - whether a lord amongst wits, or simply a wit amongst lords. For the most part he has been left comfortably alone, and held to be - Iike his mighty successor Purcell - one of the forerunners of the great English school of church composers. To have prepared the way for Jack son in F - that has been thought his best claim to remembrance. The notion is as absurd as would be the notion (if anyone were foolish enough to advance it) that Palestrina is mainly to be remembered as having prepared the way for Perosi. Byrde prepared the way for Purcell, it is true but even that exceeding glory pales before the greater glory of having written the Cantiones Sacrae and the D minor Mass. In its way the D minor Mass is as noble and complete an achieve ment as the St. Matthew Passion or the Messiah, the Choral symphony of Beethoven or the G minor symphony of Mozart, Tristan or the Nibe lung's Ring. It is splendidly planned it is per fectly beautiful and from the first page to the last it is charged with a grave, sweet, lovely emotion. The reason why Byrde has not until lately won the homage he deserves is simply this: that the musical doctors who have hitherto judged him have judged him in the light of the eighteenth-century contrapuntal music, and have applied to him in all seriousness Artemus Ward's joke about Chaucer he couldn't spell. The plain harmonic progressions of the later men could be understood by the doctors: they could not understand the freer style of harmony which prevailed before the strict school came into existence. Artemus Ward, taking up Chaucer, professed amazement to find spelling that would not be tolerated in an ele mentary school; the learned doctors, taking up Byrde, found he had disregarded all the rules rules, be it remembered, formulated after Byrde's time, just as our modern rules of spelling were made after Chaucer's time and as Artemus Ward jocularly condemned Chaucer, and showed his wit in the joke, so the doctors seriously condemned Byrde, and showed their stupidity in their uncon scious joke. They could understand one side of Tallis. His motet in forty parts, for instance: they knew the difficulties of writing such a thing, and they could see the ingenuity he showed in his various ways of getting round the difficulties. They could not see the really fine points of the forty-part motet: the broad scheme of the whole thing, and the almost Handelian way of mass ing the various choirs so as to heap climax on climax until a perfectly satisfying finish was reached. Still, there was something for them to see in Tallis; whereas in Byrde there was nothing for them to see that they had eyes to see, or to hear that they had ears to hear. They could see that he either wrote consecutive fifths and octaves, or dodged them in a way Opposed to all the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1508582513
Mr. Runciman's 'Old Scores and New Readings' is a collection of entertaining papers on musical topics which must be cordially commended to the attention of all lovers of the art who like to be stimulated to thought, and are not afraid to be shocked once in a. while by an opinion outrageously opposed to everything they have ever heard and believed. The author is one of the leaders among the new school of English critics who are making life a burden to Joseph Bennett and other veterans in the profession. Early in his career he involved the Saturday Review in a law suit by some indiscretion. That was six years ago, and he has since toned down a little; yet he is not afraid to refer, in the book now before us, to one of the English idols, the late eminent MacFarren, as “the worst enemy music has ever had” in England; and he will arouse much indignation by his remarks on the “Messiah.” Not that he underrates that oratorio or its composer; be rather overrates them; but he tells his countrymen bluntly (and truly) that the real "Messiah" is practically unknown, and that its vogue in the provinces is due to the fact that it has become a Christmas institution, like plum pudding and mince pie. Greatly as he admires Handel—the real Handel—Mr. Runciman points out his enormous debt to Purcell, England's “last great musician” (1658-95), and quotes with approval Burney's opinion that, “in the accent of passion, and expression of English words, the vocal music of Purcell is... as superior to Handel's as an original poem to a translation." Mr. Runciman's general attitude is well illustrated in the remark, anent the latest phase of German music, that “it is high time for a return to the simplicity of Mozart, of Handel, of our own Purcell; to dare, as Wagner dared, to write folk-melody, and to put it on the trombones at the risk of being called vulgar and rowdy by persons who do not know great art when it is original, but only when it resembles some great art of the past which they have learnt to know." Perhaps the best of Mr. Runciman's twenty essays are those on six of Wagner's operas. They show much more true critical insight than the comments of any of the German essayists, be their name Hanslick, Ehlert, Ehrlich, Chamberlain, Porges, Wolzogen, or what not. He begins one of his essays with the statement that “ 'Lohengrin' has been sung scores of times at Covent Garden in one fashion or another; but I declare that we heard something resembling the real 'Lohengrin' for the first time when Mr. Anton Seidl crossed the Atlantic to conduct it and other of Wagner's operas. Mr. Seidl came all the way from New York city to show us how out of sweetness can come forth strength"; and he specifies the reasons for this judgment. in the paper on "Siegfried" he remarks that “the music Siegfried has to sing is the richest. most copious stream of melody ever given to one artist"; and he has some eloquent pages regarding the scenic charms of these operas, closing with the words that, “had Wagner not lived in Switzerland, and gone his daily walks amongst the mountains, the 'Ring' might have been written; but certainly it would have been written very differently.” The real secret of Brahms's success Mr. Runciman has summed up in six pages better than anyone else has done it. There are also interesting papers on Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, “Fidelio,” Verdi, “Italian Opera, Dead and Dying,” Dvorak, Lamoreux and his orchestra, all of them worth reading and re-reading… — The Nation, Volume 70 [1900]
Author : John F Runciman
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355161096
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Author : Paul Watt,Sarah Collins,Michael Allis
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190616922
Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the academy. An exciting and much-needed new volume, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century draws deserved attention to the people and institutions of this period who worked to produce these writings. Editors Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis, along with an international slate of contributors, discuss music's fascinating and unexpected interactions with debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture. Part I of the handbook establishes the historical context for the intellectual world of the period, including the significant genres and disciplines of its music literature, while Part II focuses on the century's institutions and networks - from journalists to monasteries - that circulated ideas about music throughout the world. Finally, Part III assesses how the music research of the period reverberates in the present, connecting studies in aestheticism, cosmopolitanism, and intertextuality to their nineteenth-century origins. The Handbook challenges Western music history's traditionally sole focus on musical work by treating writings about music as valuable cultural artifacts in themselves. Engaging and comprehensive, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century brings together a wealth of new interdisciplinary research into this critical area of study.
Author : Helena (Mont.) Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036808023
Author : Roger Hansford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317135302
This new study of the intersection of romance novels with vocal music records a society on the cusp of modernisation, with a printing industry emerging to serve people’s growing appetites for entertainment amidst their changing views of religion and the occult. No mere diversion, fiction was integral to musical culture and together both art forms reveal key intellectual currents that circulated in the early nineteenth-century British home and were shared by many consumers. Roger Hansford explores relationships between music produced in the early 1800s for domestic consumption and the fictional genre of romance, offering a new view of romanticism in British print culture. He surveys romance novels by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, Edward Bulwer and Charles Kingsley in the period 1790–1850, interrogating the ways that music served to create mood and atmosphere, enlivened social scenes and contributed to plot developments. He explores the connections between musical scenes in romance fiction and the domestic song literature, treating both types of source and their intersection as examples of material culture. Hansford’s intersectional reading revolves around a series of imaginative figures – including the minstrel, fairies, mermaids, ghosts, and witches, and Christians engaged both in virtue and vice – the identities of which remained consistent as influence passed between the art forms. While romance authors quoted song lyrics and included musical descriptions and characters, their novels recorded and modelled the performance of songs by the middle and upper classes, influencing the work of composers and the actions of performers who read romance fiction.
Author : Peter Horton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351556330
Selected from papers given at the third biennial conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, this volume, in common with its two predecessors, reflects the interdisciplinary character of the topic. The introductory essay by Julian Rushton foregrounds some of the questions that are key to this area of study: what is the nineteenth century? what is British music? and did London influence the continent? The essays which follow are divided into broad thematic groups covering aspects of gender, church music, national identity, and local and national institutions. This collection illustrates that while nineteenth-century British music studies is still in its infancy as a field of research, it is one that is burgeoning and contributing to our understanding of British social and cultural life of the period.
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027886253
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268104