Dissertation on Musical Taste
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ISBN13: 9780217464611
Paperback|9780217464611
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SUBJECT CONTINUED. SECTION I. or Expression. The preceding properties of style, tone, intonation, time, articulation, accent and emphasis, embrace, as we have said, what relates to correct mechanical execution. But these alone will not suffice. A style may possess all the properties we have yet considered, and still be destitute of that which should have constituted its highest excellence. It may be exact, while deficient in character. The structure may be well formed, perfect and beautiful; it may seem to embrace all the mechanism required, and at the same time be destitute of true animation. A shapeless mass may be so wrought by the sculptor, as to resemble the human form: but we ask something beside the nice proportions of symmetry, from even a countenance of marble. The historic painter, too, may select an excellent subject, and supply his canvas with well-conditioned personages; but if he wishes to rise above the merit of an ordinary landscape painter, he must give to his personages an appropriate distinctness and diversity of character. Their countenances must be true to nature?such as the physiognomist might study and dwell upon with delight. Their passions, their peculiar traits of character, their capacities, their genius, their habits of mind, should be faithfully delineated. It is these that give instinct to the personages, and endow them with the appearance of real life; and these constitute the highest merit of the artist. Nor is expression less necessary to the musician, than to the sculptor or the historic painter. In instrumental music, the march, for instance, is expected to inspire us with military ardor; the chase, with the love of rural amusements; and the symphony, with the varied imaginative creations which breathe, as it were...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217464611 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217464610 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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