Without any sustained thematic elaboration, certain principal motifs are maintained and emphasised in different ways.
Thematic elaboration is only hinted at, except in the well worked-out middle movement of the finale.
The attempt after thematic elaboration in the finale is very ludicrous; it is as though the composer had heard of such a thing, and strove to imitate it in a few phrases, greatly to his own satisfaction.
Footnote 48: It appears in the Thematic Catalogue as: "O du eselhafter Martin," and is generally known as such.
This harmony of sound, combined with a somewhat strongly accentuated harmonic treatment, constitutes the principal charm of the work, which is not rich in thematic invention.
In the Thematic Catalogue, the following are noted as composed by Mozart:-- XV.
The mode of treatment is as free as the choice of subject; but the effect generally depends upon a thematic treatment which is often very artistically designed and woven together.
Thematic Catalogue to see that most of his compositions were written as short a time as possible before they were actually wanted.
They are, suitably to their enlarged resources, grander and broader in design, the motifs are fuller, and thematic treatment comes to the foreground.
But Bach's music is particularly qualified to develop the fingers in conjunction with musical expression and thematic characterization.
Then in passing rapidly over the score afterwards we shall see at a glance the structure of the whole, and how the new thematic matter is either welded into this sea music or stodgily interpolated.
First, we have the gorgeous prelude--the most brilliant Wagner wrote, and the last he was to write that has no thematic connection with any portion of the opera.
Any Three-Part Song-form, the moment that its First Part expands and divides into the semblance of two fairly distinct thematic sections, becomes what might be called a miniature sonata-allegro form.
The highest ideal of structural dignity and fitness is, to work from the thematic germ outward, and to let the development of this germ, the musical contents, determine and justify the structural plan and arrangement.
The thematic factors are small, but none is omitted; every essential component is represented.
Stress was laid by the orthodox Signale on the originality and freshness of the composer's invention, on the significance of histhematic material, and on his eminent gift for presenting his ideas in varied and interesting forms.
The translucent thematic treatment of classic masters, their conscientious observance of the laws of counterpoint, are reckoned flat and tedious.
Wolzogen, the writer of the Thematische Leitfaden (Thematic Guide) to the Niebelungen Tetralogy, finds in all these four prodigious works only ninety leit-motifs.
One fresh theme is introduced, also agitato, and thisthematic material suffices for the composer.
There is no need to describe the various developments, thematic and harmonic, which take place in the themes before the end of this work.
MacDowell has derived the greater part of the thematic substance of the suite, as he acknowledges in a prefatory note, from melodies of the North American Indians, with the exception of a few subsidiary themes of his own invention.
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A Series of Chapters giving a complete Account of Thematic Material and auxiliary Motives: an Analytical Chart of each Movement; full Technical Descriptions of Developments; Particulars of Formal and Rhythmic Features; Epitomical Tables, etc.
His thematic treatment is always clever, his orchestral coloring rich and varied, and his style elegant.
The melody, harmony, the thematic treatment, and the accompaniment with the instrumental coloring, all seem to have occurred to him at the same time.
In this point of view Schumann appears as the predecessor of Wagner, who almost certainly took his departure for thematic work from Schumann.
While Mozart was distinctly a melodist, counterpoint and fugue were at his fingers' ends, and his thematic treatment had all the freedom which comes from a thorough training in the use of musical material.
His preludes are not fugues, and their number almost equals that of the fugues; but the operative principles were not essentially different--merely the applications of thematic development were different.
The treatment of the orchestra is clever in many places, showing a manifest improvement over that of Lulli, especially in the freedom of thematic work.
In everything of Rubinstein beautiful melodies are found; his weakness lies in the development, which occasionally is carried too far, and with insufficient vitality of thematic work.
To the neat and symmetrical periods of the Haydn symphony and sonata, with their fresh, thematic treatment, Mozart added a tender grace and sweetness like the conceptions of a Raphael in painting.
Alixe could not refuse, for the moment he finished speaking she heard a too familiar motive, the ponderous phrase in the brass choir which Van Kuyp intended as the thematiclabel for his hero, "Sordello.
The dates of publication here printed are those given in Simrock's published Thematic Catalogue of Brahms' works, excepting in the few instances especially indicated in the main narrative.
The date of the publication of the Horn Trio is given in Simrock's Thematic Catalogue as 1868.
Wagner claimed that he merely applied to dramatic purposes Beethoven's thematic development; and the tone-poems of Strauss are symphonies in essence though on a free poetic basis.
Throughout this is a fine piece of work--with real thematic growth, bold modulations and no "padding.
A long and fiery coda of new thematic material closes the work.
A short, solemn, even ecclesiastical interruption by the trombones and bassoons is of more thematic importance.
Purely as a musician, however, Liszt was far greater, with a wider vocabulary and more power in thematic development.
Mozart's autograph Thematic Catalogue contains few important works between his return to Vienna and his second journey to Prague:-- 1787.
Footnote 77: The usual title of opera buffa is given to "Don Giovanni" by Mozart in his Thematic Catalogue; in the libretto it is called "dramma giocoso.
Mozart's Thematic Catalogue shows what he was capable of accomplishing even while at work upon "Figaro.
A glance at theThematic Catalogue of his compositions succeeding "Figaro" shows that they were probably suggested by his position as a teacher and in musical society:-- 1786.
And yet, despite the musically innovative nature of these works, from a thematic standpoint, they are strictly 19th century.
They also serve as an analysis of music itself as an artform, and provide a critical explanation of the "Concord" and the role that the philosophies of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts play in forming its thematic structure.
His power of inventing thematic material to correspond exactly with some peculiar mood of feeling is almost as remarkable as Wagner's.
The thematic material has been obtained in an easy-going manner--mostly by borrowing.
Such is the felicity of the invention that each new thematic element strikes the ear like a sort of revelation.
His thematic web is the exact analogue of the emotional and imaginative play to which the exposition of the story gives rise from point to point, and it thus partakes of the nature of language.
In both works one notes the same dramatic instinct, the same unconventional treatment, the same faculty of genuine thematic invention, and the same unmistakeable gift for orchestration.
It introduces, too, as a thematic motive, the opening phrase of the Russian folk-song which the convicts sing as they enter.
Giordano makes excellent use of it at the end as well as at the beginning of the act, though as a direct quotation, not for thematic treatment as Puccini uses the Japanese themes in his score.
Some of the thematic material for these choruses and orchestral interludes is borrowed from the symphonic poem Prometheus.
Rather is it a congeries of symphonic moods, structurally united by emotional intimacy and occasional thematic concourse.
It seemed to me simply impossible that any one could read at sight this thematic development, with octaves piled one on another for whole pages.
His scheme of thematic identification and development, in its union of calculation, reflection, and musical inspiration, is beyond the capacities of those who have come after him.
The thematic material of the "Leonore" overtures Nos.
By the latter is meant not so much the actual list of instruments as the pervading and accumulating use of thematic machinery.
Moreover the only thematic elements in the design are the various "motives" of the hero.
Jovial in high degree, the Scherzo begins with the thematic complexity of modern fashion.
Throughout, the intention is to alternate the thematic work of Bach and Schumann with the lyric or quasi-lyric writing of Beethoven and Chopin.
The thematic is generally based upon a short phrase or melodic figure, and this figure is repeated over and over in a variety of ways and different chords and the like until a complete idea is formed from it.
Of the various Bach numbers upon the programs the following distinctions may be made: The preludes and fugues are generally contrasted in respect of the qualities of lyric and thematic writing respectively.
According to Beethoven's almost invariable practice, the first subject of a sonata form is thematic in its character, and in developing this theme many of the principles of variation work are applied.
The first chapter contains from two to four different melodic subjects, of which one comes as principal, and is substantially of a thematic character.
In the "Wayside Inn" the thematic style of Schumann is well illustrated, and also the variety of effect possible to be obtained from a very small amount of musical material.
Essentially, the Hula-Hula is a dance of coquetry; its thematic position, which recurs like a refrain, is that shown in one of the accompanying drawings.
It is made the thematic step of some of the new Russian dance-poems of Greek nature.
No person or thing is labelled in Boris Godounov, and we need no thematic guide to thread our way through the psychological maze of the work.
