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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
4 lines. Read by computer on 7 September 2026. Printed page 66. See the scan on archive.org.
1and I'll find love"); the great tenor song, "Il mio tesore" ("Go then my love entreating"); and Donna Anna's "Non mi dir" ("Say not then").
3The overture of this opera is a wonderful piece of musical construction, all the more remarkable from the fact of its having been written in a single night. It foretells the nature of the story which it precedes by a seeming argument, which grows to a struggle between a single choir, that of first violins, and the entire orchestra. One feels prepared for the combat which is to come, a strife between the licentious Don Giovanni and the combined efforts of the majority of the characters portrayed. After the almost chaotic music, in which the violins seem to be struggling to be heard above the other instruments, and exerting to their utmost power all the strength for conquest which is theirs, and the persistent, firm, but calmer and grander arguments of the rest of the orchestra, there comes a lull, the uproar gradually, softly, dies away, the conflict is over, and a calm pervades the atmosphere as the curtain rises on the first act.
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