Oberon," on the other hand, abounds in more peaceful melodic and harmonic fancies, poetic revery, and dainty scoring.
The use of deep, sonorous basses never interferes with harmonic clearness or with the outline of melodic and rhythmic movement.
His works display harmonic rather than melodic strength, and were frequently performed by Theodore Thomas.
Some of the most impressive effects are obtained by means of such comparatively simple combinations as one solo oboe supported by two flutes, a clarinet and a bassoon, further assisted by a second fragmentary melodic theme in the 'cellos.
The clavichord, according to Hipkins, was derived from the polychord with four strings, which in turn was developed from the monochord "to facilitate the melodic division of the Gregorian tones.
His melodic form is conspicuously Italian, while his harmonic substructure is more or less Teutonic.
He emphasized solidity, made the orchestra firm and supple, increased its melodic as well as harmonic force, and used it for two definite purposes: to render emotion and to portray action and situations.
Not only was melodic exuberance stemmed in Rigoletto for a mixture of tune and recitative or musica parlante, but the orchestration had met a chastening process.
It is fairly safe to predict that Verdi's First and Second, or traditional period operas will all go in time, but they possess such melodic vitality that it would not be safe to say how soon.
With the composer's next opera we meet Verdi the melodic universalist.
It was a species of melodic vein and choral combination that the Milanese dilettanti had never before heard; such instrumentation, too; such novel and impressive effects were not within the memory of the oldest habitue of La Scala.
His first opera had been unrestrained melodic settings--after the Italian fashion--of morbid and gloomy stories.
What a reply, too, it is to all the early critical opposition which made out that there was nothing in Verdi beyond the power of adapting his countrymen's melodic commonplaces, and stringing them together suitably for a speedy oblivion!
Donizetti, mainly through his melodic prolificness, had brought Italian grand opera to a level of triviality and mediocrity; Verdi, with his depth of feeling and breadth of melody, promised an exactly opposite musical manner.
None of the fervour and force that were heralded in Nabucco were wanting, but the composer's melodicvein appeared to be drying up!
The feminine rhyming throughout and the shorter opening lines keep the strophe much lighter and more melodicthan that of the canzo which Canello prints last of all.
The use of the pedal for melodic phrases is rare, it being more generally employed simply to give the fundamental support of the harmonies and passages executed upon the manuals.
The first of these, the German school, is especially characterized by the importance given to the use of the pedals, the feet being called upon to execute passages of equal melodic value with that assigned to the fingers.
The polyphony of the vocal parts is masterly and the melodic flow most charming.
Puccini reveals himself in Manon as a composer gifted with strong dramatic power, possessing an apparently innate feeling for stage effect and considerable melodic expression.
Handel's melodic form and mass effects are easily appreciable by the masses; Bach requires more attention than the masses ever give, but he repays study with a revelation of great riches.
Melodic form is more obvious than harmonic, hence they developed it.
A composition does not exist unless there is repetition of the melodic subjects of it.
Domenico naturally endeavored to imitate the general form and melodic fluency of the aria in his sonatas, and in doing this he developed a harpsichord style of much beauty.
Their treatment of musical figures and melodic material is singularly vague.
And when he wrote in three parts he simply "doubled" the lower note of his fourth or fifth in the octave above, which is a process also forbidden in modern part writing because it makes two parts the same in melodic progression.
But in "Falstaff" Verdi has filled his orchestration with illustrative melodic fragments, which are not repeated.
His instrumentation was much broader and more highly colored than his predecessor's, and his declamation is more musical, and hence more fruitful in melodic beauty.
Form in music is based on the systematic repetition of fundamental melodic ideas.
Much of the score is in the modern style of arioso, a species of recitative in which the phrases are highly melodic in style without forming a complete tune, and yet preserve their dramatic truthfulness.
His melodic diction is not of the kind popular with the masses, and his music to-day is enjoyed only by those who truly love the best.
We find hidden melodies in all good music because it is the character of good music to have interesting and beautiful melodic thought everywhere.
For the identification of the thematic ideas with the poetic thoughts enabled him to make on perfectly logical and natural grounds those melodic repetitions without which music is devoid of form.
The chorus of sailors in the first finale is in a popular, rhythmical, melodic vein and might almost have been written by a Frenchman.
At Marienbad in the summer of 1845 he laid down the outlines of his plan, and in the winter ensuing he wrote the book and invented some of the melodic ideas.
Every student of music knows that a melody is constructed of certain phrases which have identifiable rhythmic andmelodic shape.
For Siegfried, the mature hero, the melodic sequence is preserved, but the rhythm is changed to a dual one.
It would be superfluous to trace the manifold treatment of the various melodic fragments through the score.
Most of the other melodic features are freely composed and do not figure in the subsequent episodes.
The first movement, allegro con brio, is built on a first subject, inspiringly vigorous in movement, but quite devoid of originality in melodic form.
When David tells Walther of the art of a mastersinger we hear the lovely theme of the Art of Song, plainly enough a variant of the melodic basis of the prize song: [Music: THE ART OF SONG.
Sometimes it ascends, and again it descends, and at times it becomes purely melodicin the diatonic scale and the major mode, but it never loses its flickering, wavering character.
The art of solo writing was in its infancy, and the melodic and harmonic expression of dramatic emotion had just begun.
Old forms jostle the new; thin melodic strophes in conventional song-patterns lower the potency of some scenes to the level of Italian opera.
By all means never discard any embellishment which may serve to emphasize the melodic curve, or any one which may add to its declamatory character.
What a splendid thing it would be if little children at their first lessons were taught the desirability of observingmelodic phrases.
I do not think that there need be any fear of a lack of original melodic material or original methods of treating such material.
Not a few have some considerable apprehension regarding the possible dearth of new melodic material and the technical and artistic treatment of such material.
In addition to the melodic phrases the pupil should be able to see the metrical divisions which underlie the form of the piece.
This one is distinctly melodic in structure, though there are suggested harmonies.
The singer never uses either the raised 6th or 7th in ascending, as do moderns in the melodic minor, but adheres strictly to the old normal or natural minor form.
As an example of this we find in this song the first melodic motive transposed from the fourth degree of the scale (where it is originally announced) to the first, the fifth, and the sixth degrees.
But apart from his own endless verve, gaiety, and melodic inventiveness, what really does belong to Rossini in the matter of operatic forms is the preghiera for a whole body of voices, as first introduced in "Mose.
The trio, independently of its wonderful melodic and harmonic beauty, is a fine example of the power of music to give a simultaneous presentation of various and conflicting emotions.
Defn: The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed.
Defn: A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
Defn: Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
A melodicphrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label.
This melodic poverty is very apparent and easily demonstrable in the early works.
Chopin is clearly an advance on Field in every way--he has a much stronger melodic line, and a much deeper sense of harmonic values.
Foster's ballad form was extremely attenuated, but the melodic content filled it so completely that it seems to strain at the bounds and must be repeated and repeated to furnish full gratification to the ear.
Aside from its rhythmic-melodic effect the refrain helps to center the attention on a certain idea or motif.
Thus the structure of the various stanzas may be made to differentiate and the rhythmic-melodic character of the poem be thereby modified (44 and 56 and notes).
Thereupon Beethoven, in his unconscious or conscious unconscious progress, promulgates some of these characteristic utterances of his--those harmonious and melodic breathings, so profound and pregnant with we know not what.
What Wagner called the melos, the melody, or melodic outline, that begins at the beginning and ends only at the end--this is the thing.
The short cutting themes are absent and sharp contrasts are generally avoided; the music flows rather in a broad melodic stream, serene but magnificent.
In the midst of all this melodic chaos the leader, cradling his fiddle like something alive, swayed as sways a tall tree in the gale.
Then arises the belief in a deliverer, a faith motif which is one of those heartfelt inventions of the melodic Liszt.
While the notes are identical in both, the effect upon the ear is different, according to the starting note, just as the descending melodic minor scale is de facto the same as the relative major scale, but not in its effect.
The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed.
The distinguishing trait of his music is its rich melodic beauty and its almost ravishing sweetness.
Of course, in our modern harmonic music the melodic movement proceeds by means, not of single tones, but of chords.
For each of these claims to be the center of the melodic progression, and draws to itself all the tones which belong to its chord.
The harmonic progressions of the one, the melodic form of the other, constantly suggest a balance of alternative issues, and as constantly make the selection which the hearer finally acknowledges as the best.
Our scale is notoriously a rough approximation in which only certain types of melodic curve are possible.
It is, indeed, the most natural form of melodic sentence which the popular songs of any nation can assume: it is the living germ from which all our most complex musical organisms are developed.
And always, whether severe or vehement, whether gay or dejected, he offers for our admiration the same perfection of curve, the same delicate balance of rhythm, and the same plasticity of melodic stanza.
Still more, in cases where there is no external requisition of metre, shall we find the unity of the melodic organism qualified by the diversity of its parts.
They move with recurrent figure, with exact balance of melodic phrase, with that precise symmetry which is required by a 'Muse of the many-twinkling feet.
Hence we should naturally expect that in the earliest examples there would be a comparative homogeneity of melodic style and key system, and that this homogeneity would be gradually differentiated as the form advanced towards perfection.
Again, there are two general types ofmelodic curve; one which rises and falls by a progression of consecutive notes, one which follows the constituent parts of a chord in arpeggio.
The other point is the change in emotional and melodic phraseology, due partly to the influence of Beethoven and Schubert, partly to that of the more distinctively Romantic composers.
Now, the primary fact in music is the simple melodic phrase: the spontaneous, almost unconscious, utterance of an emotional state that is too vivid for ordinary speech.
Composers were not held to so strict and scrupulous an accountability touching melodic meum and tuum a century ago as they are now; yet there was then a thousand-fold more melodic inventiveness.
Yet they are, in a way, uncompromisingly formal, architectural, strophic, and conventionally Verdian in their repetition of rhythmical motives and their melodic formularies.
It shall be called the "Counter-Charm" theme, because it is the melodic phrase which serves as a formula with which the spell which the witch puts upon her victims is released by her as well as by the children who overhear it.
Simply for the sake of identification hereafter names will be attached to the themes out of which the prelude is constructed and which come from the chief melodic factors of the opera.
And having thus duly apologized, I will venture to transgress and digress anew, and mention here a kind of melodic malady, a singular obsession to which I am subject, and which I will call unconscious musical cerebration.
