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The Appreciation of Music — Volume I

Thomas Whitney Surette and Daniel Gregory Mason
Music appreciation / listening guide · 1907 · English
Thomas Whitney Surette and Daniel Gregory Mason. The Appreciation of Music — Volume I: A practical guide for intelligent listening. New York: The H. W. Gray Co., sole agents for Novello & Co., Ltd., 1907.

Surette and Mason teach concentrated listening through motives, phrases, variation and form, then place these principles in historical perspective and apply them to repertory without requiring professional theoretical training.

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Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries

Frederick Niecks
History and criticism / programme music · 1907 · English
Frederick Niecks. Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries: A Contribution to the History of Musical Expression. London / New York: Novello and Company, Limited / The H. W. Gray Co., 1907.

Niecks surveys the long history of descriptive and programmatic music from early examples to Beethoven, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Strauss and Russian repertory. The book is substantial both historically and conceptually: it discusses imitation, poetic titles, narrative suggestion, symphonic poems and the debate between “absolute” and programme music, preserving…

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