The Lighter Classics in Music by David Ewen
introduction in which a stately idea is offered by the woodwind. In the
main body, the principal melody is heard in the strings while the
subsidiary theme is first presented by the violins. After both ideas are
amplified, a crescendo section leads to the triumphant reappearance of
the first theme in the full orchestra. The overture ends with a short
but spirited coda.
Out of the opera _Roméo et Juliet_ comes a most charming waltz. The
opera was introduced in Paris on April 27, 1867. The libretto, once
again by Barbier and Carré, was based on the Shakespeare tragedy. The
waltz opens the first act, a ballroom scene in the Capulet palace
honoring Juliet. Against the lilting strains of this music, the guests
perform an eye-filling dance.
Percy Grainger
Percy Aldridge Grainger was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 8,
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- introduction, random phrases bring up the image of various attitudes and Ch.2
- 1884. He acquired his musical training in Prague and with Felix Mottl in Ch.3
- Introduction there appear fragments of the first dance; these same Ch.4
- 1894. He began his music study in Kansas City: piano with his mother; Ch.5
- 1803. As a young man he was sent to Paris to study medicine, but music Ch.6
- 1918. Early music study took place with private piano teachers, and Ch.7
- 1833. He was trained in the sciences, having attended the Academy of Ch.8
- introduction or coda, originated as a piece for piano duet: the Ch.9
- 1886. While attending the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he Ch.10
- 1899. He made his stage debut in 1911 in a fairy play, and for the next Ch.11
- 1884. In the compositions written in Rome under the provisions of the Ch.12
- 1836. After attending the Paris Conservatory from 1848 on, he became an Ch.13
- 1873. The plot revolves around a peasant boy whom a Marquis is trying to Ch.14
- episode depicts a pair of lovers in a secluded corner; the principal Ch.15
- 1931. He died in Worcester, England, on February 23, 1934. Ch.16
- 1902. The opening brisk, restless music is recalled after a full Ch.17
- 1916. He was graduated with honors from the National Conservatory in his Ch.18
- 1865. As a boy he studied music privately while attending a technical Ch.19
- 1612. During the struggle between Russia and Poland, Romanov becomes the Ch.20
- introduction, a vigorous Mazurka melody unfolds. This leads to a second Ch.21
- 1870. A prodigy pianist, he attended the Berlin High School for Music, Ch.22
- 1878. He came from a distinguished musical family. His uncles were Sam Ch.23
- 1875. The _Bacchanale_ takes place at the beginning of Act 3 in which a Ch.24
- 1872. After studying music with private teachers in New York, he Ch.25
- introduction, the cellos and violas in unison offer the strains of Ch.26
- 1734. After receiving some music instruction in his native town, he came Ch.27
- 1755. The general belief is that it was used by a certain Richard Ch.28
- introduction in which a stately idea is offered by the woodwind. In the Ch.29
- 1882. After receiving some piano instruction from his mother he was sent Ch.30
- introduction. The second, “The Cowherd’s Tune,” begins with a slow, Ch.31
- 1930. It is not quite clear who actually wrote this song. It was Ch.32
- 1832. Hérold died of consumption in Paris on January 19, 1833 before Ch.33
- 1854. He attended the Cologne Conservatory where his teachers included Ch.34
- episode in which is described the descent of the fairies who provide a Ch.35
- 1859. He was graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1882 Ch.36
- 1885. Precocious in music he completed a piano sonata when he was only Ch.37
- introduction and the coda came the succession of lilting, lovable, Ch.38
- 1895. The son of a choirmaster, he himself was a boy chorister, at the Ch.39
- 1809. His grandfather was the famous philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn; his Ch.40
- 1756. The son of Leopold, Kapellmeister at the court of the Salzburg Ch.41
- 1858. While studying medicine, he attended the Berlin High School for Ch.42
- 1920. Ochs died in Berlin on February 6, 1929. Ch.43
- 1834. For nine years he attended the Milan Conservatory where he wrote Ch.44
- 1916. He continued to develop his own personality, formulating his Ch.45
- 1900. It was a blood and thunder drama set in Rome at the turn of the Ch.46
- 1873. He attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory for three years, and Ch.47
- 1909. He also distinguished himself as a conductor, first at the Bolshoi Ch.48
- introduction are amplified and developed. A brilliant coda leads to the Ch.49
- 1829. He studied the piano with Alexandre Villoing after which, in 1839 Ch.50
- episode now appears in woodwind and violins after which the folk song Ch.51
- 1897. In 1897 Sousa was a tourist in Italy when he heard the news that Ch.52
- 1899. A century was coming to an end, and with it an entire epoch. This Ch.53
- 1898. Between 1876 and 1881 he was principal of, and professor of Ch.54
- 1889. After the operatic pretension of the _Yeomen of the Guard_ which Ch.55
- 1887. Because the Murgatroyd family has persecuted witches, an evil Ch.56
- introduction after which comes the brisk melody for woodwind followed by Ch.57
- introduction—with forceful chords in full orchestra—leads to a beautiful Ch.58
- introduction. The second aria is Philine’s polonaise, “_Je suis Ch.59
- 1843. “The Flying Dutchman” is a ship on which the Dutchman must sail Ch.60
- 1896. After completing his music study at the Prague Conservatory, and Ch.61
- 1872. After attending the Royal College of Music, he studied composition Ch.62
- episode. A third popular orchestral excerpt from this opera is the Ch.63
- 1809. Little is known of his career beyond the fact that his music Ch.64
- 1901. Zeller died in Baden near Vienna on August 17, 1898. Ch.65