Any one must admit the futility of the attempt to give a dramatic interpretation or language to instrumental music, who reads the description attempted by Lenz and other writers of some of Beethoven's sonatas.
Instrumental music, by the melodious harmony of artificial sounds, had however a vast field peculiar to itself, and an existence independent of the human voice.
They are provided, either exclusively or in a much higher degree than the females, with organs for producing vocal or instrumental music, and with odoriferous glands.
They have a stronger objection, if it be possible, to vocal, than to instrumental music.
When we come to the consideration of instrumental music of olden times, we have little to guide us in the formation of any dear conception of its value or importance.
He was a voluminous writer of instrumental music, and his sonatas are in advance of any previously written.
His music for the viols and virginals not only emphasises the scope of his genius, but marks a veritable epoch in the history of instrumental music.
I was anxious to expose the dilemma, and to make everyone see and feel that since Beethoven there has been a very considerable change in the treatment and the execution of instrumental music.
An unusual amount of instrumental music is consumed at these concerts; but, as a rule, each piece is rehearsed once only.
As late indeed as 1872, in a deliverance of the United Presbyterian Church upon the subject of instrumental music in public worship, this jealousy of simplicity in worship hitherto enjoyed is evident.
The symphonies are, of course, the most important feature in the list, but of these we shall speak generally when treating of Haydn as the father of instrumental music.
He was practically the creator of more than one of our modern forms, and there was hardly a department of instrumental music in which he did not make his influence felt.
The Father of Instrumental Music Haydn has been called "the father of instrumental music," and although rigid critics may dispute his full right to that title, on broad grounds he must be allowed to have sufficiently earned it.
It will be more convenient to take up the progress of instrumental music first, and at the outset let us review the evolution of the piano.
The Roman school of organists made valuable contributions to the development of instrumental music.
He himself, being a church composer, naturally clung to the ecclesiastic style, and in his great organ and piano fugues transferred the whole contrapuntal science of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to instrumental music.
Concerning this, see my "History of Instrumental Music" in the Century, page 107.
Indeed he is credited with having been the earliest English composer of instrumental music.
Before Lanfranco's work was accessible to me, I also in bona fide had made the same assertion in my "History of Instrumental Music of the Sixteenth Century" (p.
Bach as the fountain-head of instrumental music, and ascribes its further and gradual development to C.
Charles Lamb inveighed against concertos and instrumental music because, as he wrote, "words are something; but to gaze on empty frames, and to be forced to make the pictures for yourself .
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