 | 1880 - 502 pagina’s
...dramatic, and his orchestra is ever busy, attempting (as Gluck says, in his Preface to Aleaste] " to second poetry by enforcing the expression of the sentiment and the interest of the situations." Let us quote Gluck again from the same Preface : " My idea was that the overture ought... | |
 | 1882 - 840 pagina’s
...one of Gluck's. lie says, in his preface to Alceste, that the proper function of music is to " second poetry by enforcing the expression of the sentiment and the interest of the situations, without interrupting the action, or weakening it by superfluous ornament." So in his recitations... | |
 | Wilhelm Langhans - 1886 - 198 pagina’s
...Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. I, Part V. Translator. stage of modern times. I endeavored to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding...expression of the sentiment, and the interest of the situations, without interrupting the action, or weakening it by superfluous ornament. My idea was that... | |
 | William James Henderson - 1889 - 230 pagina’s
...passages from the dedicatory epistle prefixed to the composer's " Alceste." " I endeavored," he says, " to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding...expression of the sentiment and the interest of the situations without interrupting the action, or weakening it by superfluous ornament. My idea was that... | |
 | John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser - 1891 - 298 pagina’s
...instead of being, as it once was, the grandest and most imposing stage of modern times. I have endeavored to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding poetry by enforcing the expression of sentiment and the interest of the situation, without interrupting the action or weakening it by superfluous... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1892 - 284 pagina’s
...with a poem — of ravishing beauty. " I have endeavoured," Gluck wrote of his own principles, ' ' to reduce music to its proper function : that of seconding...expression of the sentiment and the interest of the situations without interrupting the action or weakening it by superfluous ornament " ; and of these... | |
 | Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - 1894 - 392 pagina’s
...and proceeded:— " I endeavoured to restrict the music to its proper function, that of seconding the poetry by enforcing the expression of the sentiment and the interest of the situations, without interrupting the action or weakening it by superfluous ornament. ... I have been... | |
 | William Smythe Babcock Mathews - 1896 - 796 pagina’s
...instead of being as it once was the grandest and most imposing stage of modern times. 1 have endeavored to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding poetry, by enforcing the expression of sentiment and the interest of the situation, without interrupting the action or weakening it by useless... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 pagina’s
...Opera through the mistaken vanity of singers and the unwise compliance of Composers. " I endeavored to reduce Music to its proper function, that of seconding...expression of the sentiment, and the interest of the situations, -without interrupting the action, or weakening it by superfluous ornament. I have, therefore,... | |
 | William James Henderson - 1898 - 432 pagina’s
...efficient are best enumerated by himself in the preface to his " Alceste." He says : — " I endeavored to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding...expression of the sentiment and the interest of the situations without interrupting the action, or weakening it by superfluous ornament. My idea was that... | |
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I endeavored to reduce music to its proper function, that of seconding poetry by enforcing the expression of the sentiment, and the interest of the situations, without interrupting the action, or weakening it by superfluous ornament. 
