This was another factor in the enjoyment of Strauss, and it can be satisfied not only in such works as Scriabin's Prometheus, but in Sir Henry Wood's ingenious orchestral transcriptions of Moussorgsky.
Skilful transcriptions and arrangements are indeed as great a boon as are reproductions of the famous masterpieces of painting or sculpture, without which our knowledge of the art would be lamentably defective.
This need not, and should not, affect our judgment of it, even when we are informed that Theobald's delightful letters are almost literal transcriptions from those of Canon Butler.
The late Mr. Boswell showed me a Fuller in the Malone collection, with Steevens's transcriptions of Oldys's notes, which Malone purchased for 43l.
There exists sufficient proof of the high estimation in which accurate transcriptions of the works of their own writers were held by the Romans.
Books are, at the best, faint and imperfect transcriptions of Nature and life; when one comes to see Nature as she is with his own eyes, and to enter into the secrets of life, all transcriptions become inadequate.
There was that in the mystery of the woods which made all poetry seem pale and unreal to us; there was that in life, as we saw it in the noble souls about us, which made all records and transcriptions in books seem cold and superficial.
Neither must I omit the masterly variations for two pianos on a theme of Beethoven, or the splendid pianoforte transcriptions from Bach.
Also a number of piano transcriptions of Bach, Beethoven, &c.
The chief groups of the pianoforte works are (1) the transcriptions of songs, notably of Schubert and Schumann, and of operas, particularly of Wagner.
In his transcriptions of standard songs Liszt did as valuable a public service as any popularizer, and has thereby made familiar the melodies of Schubert and Schumann to hundreds who otherwise would know nothing of them.
This work Liszt set for the piano, and, if I am right, it was the beginning of the enormous number of transcriptions of orchestral works for piano which are to be found in his works.
The next group of pieces consists entirely of transcriptions from Schubert's songs.
Beaver Brook and Indian Summer Reveries are also transcriptionsof those idyllic days of his youth.
He remained abroad seven years, spending the last four on the Continent, some transcriptions of his experience being found in the celebrated Marble Faun and in several volumes of Note-Books.
We then gave a series of recitals for piano and violin, the programs including the above mentioned transcriptions as well as the Duo Concertant.
As was to be expected from a first attempt, both his readings of the texts and his transcriptions from them leave room for some improvement.
Kotalla has given transcriptions and translations of others in B.
Clay have published 119 texts with transcriptionsand translations of twelve, in the ninth volume of the series of Cuneiform Texts of the collections of the University of Philadelphia.
But still the mere reading your transcriptions does not satisfy me, and I should like to hear them, so as to be able fully to enjoy them.
With regard to the form in which the Songs and Wagner- transcriptions are to be published, you may act altogether as you think best.
This made it easier for Cicero to cast his transcriptions in the form of dialogues, revealing the beliefs of the various schools through the lips of the several interlocutors.
The introduction of the above means of rapidly shifting the stops in an organ has revolutionized organ-playing, and has rendered possible the performance of the orchestral transcriptions that we now so often hear at organ recitals.
The change to equal temperament has on the other hand greatly increased the scope of the organ and has rendered possible the performance of all compositions and transcriptions regardless of key or modulation.
The Biblical accounts are not mere transcriptions .
Although not unfrequently leaving something to be desired in the matter of discretion, his transcriptions of songs are justly famous masterpieces.
Marvellous in the reproduction of orchestral effects are the transcriptions of symphonies and overtures.
His piano transcriptionswere confined to works by Verdi and Von Buelow, and as a souvenir of the days passed with Wagner at Triebschen he transcribed Isolde's Liebestod.
The balance of this time was devoted to making arrangements of melodies by Mercadante, Donizetti, and Rossini, and to finishing the pianotranscriptions of the Beethoven symphonies.
The latter class consist of transcriptions of songs (Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Franz, etc.
Thus arose the transcriptions of the Paganini caprices in 1832, and the composition of his own "Studies for Transcendent Execution," in the same or the following year.
The transcriptions of the Paganini caprices were undertaken as studies for the composer himself in the direction of unexplored pianoforte effects, but Schumann had also the intention of providing in music new discipline for piano students.
There are fifteen Hungarian Rhapsodies, and a large number of transcriptions of vocal pieces (of songs alone there are upwards of a hundred).
They have not met with unanimous approval, for his transcriptions of the old pieces for the harpsichord and clavichord, in a manner suited to the modern pianoforte, is considered by many purists to be too free.
Think what a gap would be left in any artist's repertoire if Liszt's transcriptions, including the rhapsodies, were struck out of it; for the rhapsodies are onlytranscriptions of gipsy music.
Schubert-Liszt: Transcriptions Some of Liszt's very best though earliest work in the line of pianoforte transcription was done in connection with the Schubert songs; most of it in the thirties.
Whatever may be thought or said of Liszt as an original composer, in his piano transcriptions he has never had an equal, scarcely even a would-be competitor.
Liszt has not been merely a devoted adherent of the "Music of the Future" as expressed in operatic form, but he has embodied his belief in the close alliance of poetry and music in his symphonies and transcriptions of songs.
He composed not a few works for the orchestra, and transcriptions of opera, but these have now receded to the lumber closet.
This charge is best answered by a study of his transcriptions of songs and symphonies, which, difficult in an extreme degree, are yet rich in no less excess with musical thought and fullness of musical color.
Schuberth of Hamburg has just sent me your transcriptions of the Schumann songs, which have given me real pleasure.
Your transcriptions have interested me much through the correct perception of the melodies, and their elegant though simple style.
This and other transcriptions of the name into cuneiform character suggests that it was generally pronounced Neb-mu'a-Re'a.
It is possibly to this period, or a little later, that the transcriptions into Greek of Babylonian tablets (which promise to be of considerable value for the study of the Assyro-Babylonian language) belong.
I mean the Book of Mormon considered apart from any reference to an abridgment of the ancient records of the Jaredites; and the transcriptions from the ancient Hebrew scriptures carried by Lehi's colony to the western world.
As long ago as 1838 Liszt published them as short transcriptions of Hungarian tunes.
Widely known as they are for voice, they have through these transcriptions become almost as familiar for pianoforte.
Nevertheless, they have little by little managed to interpolate numerous transcriptions from works of recognized merit.
Footnote 66: Most of these examples have been selected from the transcriptionsin skeleton form of Friedrich Rösch.
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