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 183
... means . All the rest means nothing . I : I think , it is ridiculous that Fuss , who himself has a very limited knowledge of piano playing has declared Meyer- beer to be the greatest of all piano players . Beethoven : He has no idea of ...
... means . All the rest means nothing . I : I think , it is ridiculous that Fuss , who himself has a very limited knowledge of piano playing has declared Meyer- beer to be the greatest of all piano players . Beethoven : He has no idea of ...
Page 221
... means death ? And what means life ? Life everlast- ing is where both meet in such beautiful re - union . . . . Let us too , O dear departed , join this union . We then will know no death , and no decay , only thriving and blossom- ing ...
... means death ? And what means life ? Life everlast- ing is where both meet in such beautiful re - union . . . . Let us too , O dear departed , join this union . We then will know no death , and no decay , only thriving and blossom- ing ...
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... means , signify a proposal to replace the old system of thirds by a structure of fourths . These fourth - chords are in- troduced at first like everything that is later accepted generally : as a technical means only , as merely an ...
... means , signify a proposal to replace the old system of thirds by a structure of fourths . These fourth - chords are in- troduced at first like everything that is later accepted generally : as a technical means only , as merely an ...
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