Syllabi of the American Society for the Extension of University TeachingAmerican Society for Extension of University Teaching., 1897 |
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... played or sung in connection with each lecture are first given in detail , the lecturer show- ing how the musical ideas are arranged in relation to each other , what their characteristic qualities are and how they reflect the composer's ...
... played or sung in connection with each lecture are first given in detail , the lecturer show- ing how the musical ideas are arranged in relation to each other , what their characteristic qualities are and how they reflect the composer's ...
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... playing in his boyhood and made himself , by diligent study and by hearing all the great performers who came near his town , the first organist of his time . He played at Arn- stadt and Weimar but finally settled in Leipsic at the head ...
... playing in his boyhood and made himself , by diligent study and by hearing all the great performers who came near his town , the first organist of his time . He played at Arn- stadt and Weimar but finally settled in Leipsic at the head ...
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... play the part of a great man - and Handel did it well- meant endless social duties which interfered seriously with composing ; add to this the fighting and the peace - making which fall to the lot of all impressarios , and it is not to ...
... play the part of a great man - and Handel did it well- meant endless social duties which interfered seriously with composing ; add to this the fighting and the peace - making which fall to the lot of all impressarios , and it is not to ...
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... playing , also , was not advanced , and the style of Mozart's Piano Sonatas was constrained by these conditions . Chords were written well under the hand , where now we spread them out as far as possible ; melodies were accompanied by ...
... playing , also , was not advanced , and the style of Mozart's Piano Sonatas was constrained by these conditions . Chords were written well under the hand , where now we spread them out as far as possible ; melodies were accompanied by ...
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... play- ing in the fields , as Mozart did with his happy sister Nannerl , he was working hard to attain a position which should bring in money to support his mother . He lived solitary even as a youth ; a few friends at the Breuning house ...
... play- ing in the fields , as Mozart did with his happy sister Nannerl , he was working hard to attain a position which should bring in money to support his mother . He lived solitary even as a youth ; a few friends at the Breuning house ...
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