Had he done more than he did, he would have been a genius; as it is, he remains a man of exceptional talent, whose influence on the history of modern music is still important, though his own compositions are now slightly superannuated.
He is a singular and striking figure in the world of modern music, and it is impossible to believe that he has spoken his last word as yet.
Saint Saëns is the Proteus of modern music, and his scores generally reveal the traces of many opposing influences.
Strauss is the stormy petrel of modern music, and 'Salome' has aroused more discussion than anything he has written.
And these designs illustrate three periods in modern music: two through which it has passed and one upon which it seems now to be entering.
That is tonality; nothing more nor less; and to the influence of this principle of tonality is due the distinctive character of modern music.
The invention of the opera about the year 1600 is usually looked upon as the event of paramount importance in the transition period of modern music history, yet it was only the most striking symptom of a radical, sweeping tendency.
But about the eleventh century a new conception made its appearance, in which lay the assurance of the whole magnificent art of modern music.
Modern music, and the instinctive observance of rhythm which is an essential part of it, have modified the old chant and given it accent and time.
This theatre has taken a very active part in the development of modern music.
Modern music is like the classic Andromeda, naked and divinely beautiful.
His object, as he clearly said, was to give a new form to modern music by means of a knowledge of the music of the past.
It is strongly urged that the reintroduction of the Gregorian chant in our churches, now wholly committed to the use of modern music, is impossible, for the hired singers will have nothing to do with it.
In modern music sonority, brilliancy are present, but the nuance is inevitable, not alone tonal but expressive nuance.
Liszt has been ranged; the indebtedness of modern music to his pioneer efforts has been duly credited.
In it are the harmonic, melodic, and spiritual germs of modern music.
It is to the antiphon that we may look as the precursor of harmony and counterpoint, and thus the origin of modern music.
To the monks of medi[ae]val times must be ascribed the glory of the greatest achievements in Gothic architecture, the art of fresco-painting, and the foundations of modern music.
Since then, it has leavened the spirit of modern music in a manner which has never been sufficiently emphasized.
For himself, Berlioz believed that the power ofmodern music is of at least equal value with the doubtful anecdotes of ancient historians.
As they open up new possibilities of emotional expression, they have been eagerly appropriated by other composers and have leavened all modern music.
Prokofieff next went to Paris, where he renewed ties with a group of Russian musicians and intellectuals, among them the two Serges who were to become so helpful in the development of his reputation as a dominant force in modern music.
The interlocking passages which have become so prevalent in modern musicwe find in his compositions dating from 1835.
Nor has he been profoundly affected by the passion for unbridled chromaticism engendered in modern music by the procedures of Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner.
For it heard one day a few pages of a symphony of Mozart's; the first it had ever heard save much more modern music; and those bars of symphony were intelligible words, conveyed to the child a secret.
Any person well versed in modern music, on hearing this composition for the first time, cannot but be astonished at the number of ideas, afterwards used by other composers, that it contains.
Two complete Concerti, each in the orthodox three movements, exhibited the distinguished Belgian master's style, first in strictly classical then in more florid and more highly coloured modern music.
These two philosophers--the only two that have taken a genuine interest in modern music--had both somewhat rudimentary musical taste, though good taste as far as it went.
He has expounded the poem musically, and to the task of expounding it he has brought what may be described without inflation as the resources of modern music.
The most valuable treatise ever written on pianoforte studies is incorporated in Mr. Huneker's recent volume, "Mezzotints in Modern Music.
Thus the volume opens with a paper on "Richard Wagner: Modern Music," by Henry T.
They belong in the realm of modern music quite as much as Wagner's music-dramas and Liszt's symphonic poems.
Liszt as a contributor to current of modern music.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern music" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
