The Book of Musical Documents"[A]n anthology of documents pertaining to music history. It contains quotations from theoretical works, letters, memoirs, poems, archives, newspaper and magazine articles, etc, ."--Page [v]. |
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... beginning of the piece at the close . Single lines are torn to pieces and very often one line is repeated over and over again . The accompanying chorus opens the introduction with " dya , oé , dya , oé , é ” or “ ha , oó , ho ho ho ho ...
... beginning of the piece at the close . Single lines are torn to pieces and very often one line is repeated over and over again . The accompanying chorus opens the introduction with " dya , oé , dya , oé , é ” or “ ha , oó , ho ho ho ho ...
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... beginning to the end ; because anterior to the attempt of Emilio del Cavaliere , a Roman gen- tleman , extremely well versed in music , there seems to have been nothing of that kind undertaken that is worth mention- ing . This composer ...
... beginning to the end ; because anterior to the attempt of Emilio del Cavaliere , a Roman gen- tleman , extremely well versed in music , there seems to have been nothing of that kind undertaken that is worth mention- ing . This composer ...
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... beginning bril- liantly effective . The Toreador song is very impressive . Then -coolness- . From that point on , Bizet leaves behind him the traditional form of the Opéra Comique , and the audience won- ders and doesn't know what to ...
... beginning bril- liantly effective . The Toreador song is very impressive . Then -coolness- . From that point on , Bizet leaves behind him the traditional form of the Opéra Comique , and the audience won- ders and doesn't know what to ...
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