Scan 325
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1instrument. This sympathy may be found in a large orchestra, inspired and matured by a wonderful conductor, but it is more often found in some of the famous quartets. Their close and long association and earnest study of the same works make it possible for them to play with a fineness of expression and with a unanimity such as calls forth the appreciation of the most intellectual music-lovers. Because of the flexibility of the instruments of a string quartet and the capability of expression of the strings the chamber music can be carried to a nicer, finer finish than almost any other instrumental performance; massiveness is not possible nor desirable but rather exquisite polish. It never depends upon grand, startling effects, such as are produced by an orchestra, by a volume of sound that reaches beyond the confines of a theatre or hall, but rather by its innate beauty, its purity, and appeals through the intellectual faculties to the higher emotions.
3THE PIANO.
5Piano technique includes not only skill and rapidity in striking the correct key but includes with this the manner of tone production. The player may play the most intricate passages without a flaw, striking no false notes, playing with exact time and perfect rhythm, but if in touching the keys he fails to produce a warmth of tone his performance leaves you cold and untouched. Brilliancy of execution, marvelous rapidity, bewildering images of tone dazzle many an audience and call forth enthusiastic applause, and yet the soul of the composition has not been revealed at all. And surely the composer wrote with his heart in his work, for music, more than any other art, is the expression of man's inner life. Music flows from the soul of the musician, it is an expression of his emotions and his moods, and since no two people think just alike nor feel just the same feelings, the same composition in the hands of different performers must be as different as the personality of the players. one of two readings
6Piano technique includes not only skill and rapidity in striking the correct key but includes with this the manner of tone production. The player may play the most intricate passages without a flaw, striking no false notes, playing with exact time and perfect rhythm, but if in touching the keys he fails to produce a warmth of tone his performance leaves you cold and untouched. Brilliance of execution, marvelous rapidity, bewildering images of tone dazzle many an audience and call forth enthusiastic applause, and yet the soul of the composition has not been revealed at all. And surely the composer wrote with his heart in his work, for music, more than any other art, is the expression of man's inner life. Music flows from the soul of the musician, it is an expression of his emotions and his moods, and since no two people think just alike nor feel just the same feelings, the same composition in the hands of different performers must be as different as the personality of the players. one of two readings
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