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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Page 68
... dance , but actually did so , jumping according to the music . When the cytharist stopped playing , the spider at once stopped dancing . The players , being paid by the authorities and having orders to play for the miserably unhappy ...
... dance , but actually did so , jumping according to the music . When the cytharist stopped playing , the spider at once stopped dancing . The players , being paid by the authorities and having orders to play for the miserably unhappy ...
Page 83
... Dance pictures demand strongly out- lined traits , strong characters , daring mass effects , contrasts , and parallelisms . All its parts should be laid out on a grand scale , but with restraint and conviction . The theatre bans ...
... Dance pictures demand strongly out- lined traits , strong characters , daring mass effects , contrasts , and parallelisms . All its parts should be laid out on a grand scale , but with restraint and conviction . The theatre bans ...
Page 320
... dancing , playing and singing are practised as one , there is a bar to these gayeties . The dance is never a leaping and the song is never a screech . The accompanying music keeps its simple - not to say crude - character , and has done ...
... dancing , playing and singing are practised as one , there is a bar to these gayeties . The dance is never a leaping and the song is never a screech . The accompanying music keeps its simple - not to say crude - character , and has done ...
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