The same trouble confronts us with most other notes, so that "theory requires no less than seventy-two keys to the octave in order that the musician may have complete command over all the keys employed in modern music.
I think that even a reader who is not a musiciancan understand this.
This, of course, is due to the fact that nomusician of genius has found in that form a vehicle suitable to the character of his thought.
Outside of the German nations, where these guilds did not exist, the ordinary musician was a stroller, with hardly any legal rights and no consideration.
Every musician knows that in our time the kind of touch used for the organ is essentially different from that used for the piano, and that music suitable for one instrument is not suitable for the other.
Any musician will see that the old Lydian scale was our scale of C major.
In England the strolling musician was represented by the minstrel and the waits, and his status was about the same as it was on the Continent.
The idea of any musician being entitled to the consideration of an artist, except the great church composers, would have been scouted.
I have it at my rooms, but please don't think I am anything of a musician although my violin is a great solace to me.
Suppose I had fallen in love with Mr. Tamura, and Nan had picked up some crooked stick of an oily-haired musician who hadn't two cents to rub together and would waste the one cent he might have.
The delineation of movement is easier to the musician than it is to the poet.
The musician appeals to the public with volatile and elusive sounds.
Repetition is the constructive principle which was employed by the folk-musician in creating this melody; and repetition is the fundamental principle in all musical construction.
Sidenote: The musician should help to elevate the standard of criticism.
Very different is the case of the musician who must exercise a distinctly musical gift in the simple evocation of the materials of music, like the violinist and singer, who both form and produce the tone.
The abnormal sensitiveness of the musician to criticism, though it may excite his commiseration and even honest pity, should never count with the critic in the performance of a plain duty.
The critic should be the mediator between the musicianand the public.
If it were possible for the critic to withhold them and offer instead a modest sprig of enduring bay, would not the musician be his debtor?
It is toward the musician only as a representative of art, and his just claims can have nothing of selfishness in them.
By the way, I hear that the musician is your nephew,” said Pfefferkorn at the close of his report.
Well, I suppose I’ll have to visit that second-rate musician in his studio again and give him a piece of my mind.
Herr Francke gave it as his opinion that a musician who never made music could scarcely be regarded as one.
The words of the musician caused him infinite pain: there lay in them a greediness, a shamelessness, and a gruesomeness that filled him with terror.
A musician must be poor, Eleanore,” replied Daniel, and looked at her with eyes that seemed to be frozen.
And whenever the strange musician chanced to play the organ, the monk arose as quickly as possible, left the church, and sought out some place where the tones could not reach him.
She could not survey the ways of his art: the musician in him made neither a strange nor a special appeal to her.
He was squaring accounts with the woman he had been unable to bring before his Neronic tribunal in bodily form; and all the pent-up hatred in his heart for the musician Nothafft he was emptying into the music of another man.
He nevertheless understood his friend: the musician could not help but succumb to the charms of the phantom; the lonely man sought the least lonely of all human beings.
He said his name was Wurzelmann and that he was a musician himself; that he had attended the Vienna Conservatory, where his teacher had given him a letter of recommendation to Alexander Dörmaul.
The musician causes it to resound because he contains a harmonic power.
Thus a musician uses his lyre so long as he can; but as soon as it is beyond using, he repairs it, or abandons playing the lyre, because he now can do without it.
We, therefore, find an analogy between the soul and the musician who causes his instrument to produce sounds because he himself contains a harmonic power.
Affections of soul, like a musicianplaying a lyre, iii.
Musician educated by recognizing truths he already possesses, i.
The latter, which is a decline of character, might perhaps be defined provisionally in the following manner: the musician is now becoming an actor, his art is developing ever more and more into a talent for telling lies.
Wagner never calculates as a musician with a musician's conscience: all he strains after is effect, nothing more than effect.
Here is a musician who is a greater master than anyone else in the discovering of tones, peculiar to suffering, oppressed, and tormented souls, who can endow even dumb misery with speech.
I know only one musician who to-day would be able to compose an overture as an organic whole: and nobody else knows him.
Alongside of all other instincts he had the dictatorial instinct of a great actor in everything: and, as I have already said, as a musician also.
It is such a strong trait in him, that on two occasions I doubted whether he were a musician at all.
When a musician can no longer count up to three, he becomes "dramatic," he becomes "Wagnerian.
He is especially themusician of a species of dissatisfied women.
I can perfectly well understand a musician of to-day who says: "I hate Wagner but I can endure no other music.
His wealth of colour, of chiaroscuro, of the mystery of a dying light, so pampers our senses that afterwards almost every other musician strikes us as being too robust.
The houses gave out, and the musician and his audience swung about and retraced their steps.
No amount of art in heaping up instrumental effects will make a great musician or render his name immortal, unless he can give utterance to the passions and emotions of the heart.
Footnote 97: A closer analysis by a German musician is to be found in A.
Haydn was, as is well known, the musician who gave to the quartet its characteristic form and development.
The young musician was much respected and sought after as teacher.
Besides Cimarosa, who left Vienna a few months later, Beethoven found Peter Dutillieu, a Frenchman by birth but an Italian musician by education and profession, engaged as composer for the Court Theatre.
You are hereby graciously informed that our court musician Bethoven junior and the singer Ries will soon lay before you two decrees of appointment.
The gradual improvement of the elder Beethoven's condition in respect of both emolument and social position, is creditable to him alike as a musician and as a man.
From the above it appears that Vienna presented to the young musician no preeminent advantages either in opera, church-music or its public concerts.
Beethoven's memorial contains a fact or two in regard to his duties as Court Musician which are new: To His Electoral Grace of Cologne, etc.
Your gracious disposal by the death of Your court musician Philip Haveck; to merit this high grace by faithful and diligent service shall be my greatest striving.
Thirteen years later we find this: Allowance of an additional 100 Thalers annually to the Chamber Musician van Beethoven.
There followed upon this the following document: To the humble announcement of Court Musician Beethoven touching the singer Averdonck.
Was the young musician one of these "most capable musicians"?
The psychology of a musician is admirably set forth in Love Among the Artists, and the story, in addition, contains one of the most lifelike portraits of a Polish pianiste that has ever been painted.
The lyric musician in this poet, the lover of beauty, led him to make his formula a musical one.
This, dear senora, is all I have to tell you about the musicianwhose voice has delighted you so much; and from it alone you might easily perceive he is no muleteer, but a lord of hearts and towns, as I told you already.
It is the child, my lord," she said quickly, "the musician left her with me when he went away.
The next instant old Deena the drumbanger, his drum hitched to his back like a huge hump, hustled the departing musician at the door and flung himself blubbering at Atma's feet.
During the Rebellion he served two years as a musician in the Sixth Maine Volunteers, and was then appointed paymaster's clerk at Washington, District of Columbia.
Meantime Ahmad's musician played and Ahmad who knew Persian well, poured out an eloquent harangue.
These professional journeys to England led, in the course of time, to William Herschel establishing himself as a music-master and professional musicianat Bath.
Her father, who was a professional musician himself, wished to teach her music, but could only do so by stealth, or by taking advantage of half an hour now and then, when his wife was in an exceptionally good temper.
The double load was a pretty heavy one for the portly musician to handle, but all went well.
The fat musician reclined in a dip in the soft bedding; his bulky body had formed.
Mein friend," remarked the musician to Andy, "you vatch oud for dot poy.
Oh, yaw," declared the musicianin a matter-of-fact way.
When the Man with the Iron Jaw had whispered to the fat musician outside the dressing tent guarded by Wagner's assistants, he had asked him to get Andy out of the clutches of the constable.
Illustration] Handel, the Great Musician In the small German town of Halle there once lived a barber-surgeon named George Handel.
Another matter connected with the pianolist's repertory opens up a field for speculation into which, fortunately, it is quite possible for the layman to follow the musician and to appreciate the point I wish to make.
When you see a musician with long hair, don't you know instinctively that he's bad?
If this cave dweller is a musician like our cheery outdoor fiddler, how the empty walls must ring!
How beautiful the discordant notes become when the Master Musician breathes into them the melodies of infinite love!
The progress in modern music has been due to the invention of new instruments entirely, and in no way to an increased consciousness on the part of the musician of any wider social aim.
In the tone of this question there was a something as if the fluting was not quite so much of an enjoyment to him as to the musician himself.
That is absolutely false; but it was necessary to tell me that there was a lady in the audience who was an excellent musician and had fastidious tastes.
Grétry was no more a great musician than Offenbach, for he also wrote badly.
She was not the equal of her sister as a musician and could not have survived the decline of her voice as the latter did.
My hope is that these lines may repair an unnecessary injustice and redirect the fastidious who may read them to a great musician whom the general public has never ceased to listen to and applaud.
Some of the reformers are scandalized at the sight of a musician in charge of a school where elocution is taught.
No musician was ever more prolific or showed a greater wealth of imagination.
No musicianhas enjoyed so much favor with the public save Auber, whom Massenet did not care for any more than he did for his school, but whom he resembled closely.
And, by means of numerous tricks which every musician has up his sleeve, I managed to give it the form and character which it had lacked.
Unlike Gluck and Berlioz, who were greater artists than musicians, Meyerbeer was more a musician than an artist.
He is not a musician in the sense that he has studied music, but he has the soul of a musician, which is worth much more.
The extravagance of the libretto led the musician into many unfortunate things.
Madame Viardot was as learned a musician as any one could be and she was among the first subscribers to the complete edition of Sebastian Bach's works.
They forget that a musician may also be a man of letters--the present director combines these qualifications--and that it is improbable that it will be different in the future.
Bergerat, who has continued to be a charming friend to me, told him that I was a musician and that a ballet over his name would open the doors of the Opera to me.
The name of the great poet was so dazzling that the poor musician was completely lost in its brilliance.
He was a comrade at the Villa of his beloved musician Ambroise Thomas, whom he saw for the last time at the height of his glory.
I learned almost at once that the younger had come to Rome with her family on a sightseeing trip and that she had been recommended to Liszt so that he might select for her a musician capable of directing her studies.
As I knew not only Murger but also Schaunard and Musette, it seemed to me that there was no one better qualified than I to be the musician of La Vie de Boheme.
As a musician I was instructed to go bell in hand to call dinner through the numerous walks of the Villa Medici, now plunged in darkness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "musician" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
