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The New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians 5 Ed. 2nd, 1904
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1der Geister (1787) pictures an artist sick and discouraged, turning to his piano and finding on it
2Pergolesi's Salve regina as though sent by an angel I sang through it and the heavenly 'O dulcis, o pia, etc' filled my soul with such an exalted feeling of devotion and soft melancholy that I dissolved into tears.
3The book about the Aeolian harp is in the form of an allegorical dream that evokes an atmosphere similar to that found in many of E. T. A. Hoffmann's writings about music.
4Dalberg's compositions were generally for piano, for chamber ensemble or for solo voice with accompaniment. Many of them were reviewed in contemporary journals, where they were received with respect but with occasional comments suggesting technical shortcomings.
6WORKS
7VOCAL
8(a:1 for lv kbd, unless otherwise indicated)
9Sacred Eva's Klagen bei dem Anblick des sterbenden Messias, declamation (Klopstock), with insts (Speyer, '1783-4), Der sterbende Christ an seine Seele, with insts (Dresden, 1787), Todes-Feyer August Grafen von Hatzfeld (Mainz, '1788 9), Beatrice, cantata (Dante) (London, '1795), 6 geistliche Lieder, 1 (Mainz, after 1800), Jesus auf Golgotha, declamation (Klopstock) (Offenbach, '1810-12), Das Saytenspiel, cantata (Herder), with insts (Dresden and Leipzig, n d.) Secular Lieder, ded Princess of Zweibrucken, 3 vols (Munich, before 1783), 6 canzoni (Munich, '1791 2), 3 English Songs and a Glee, op 15 (London, c1795), [4] English Songs, op 15 (London, '1796), 12 Lieder (Erfurt, 1799), 12 Lieder (Bonn, 1799), 6 romances françaises, op 21 (Bonn, '1803-4), Deutsche Lieder, op 25, 2 vols (Bonn, 1806), 12 songs pubd singly
11INSTRUMENTAL
12Chamber 3 sonates, hpd/pf, vn, op 1 (Mannheim, before 1784), 3 sonates, pf, vn (Mainz, before 1785), Qt, pf, ob, hn/cl, bn, or pf, str trio, op 25 (Offenbach, '1805-6), Trio, pf, vn, vc, op 26 (Mainz, 'after 1806), Sonate, pl, vn, op 28 (Offenbach, '1810-12)
13Kbd 3 sonates, hpd/pf, op 2 (Mannheim, before 1785), Sonate, hpd/pf 4 hands (Augsburg, c1790), Grande sonate, hpd/pf 4 hands (Mainz, c1792), 3 sonates, hpd/pf, op 9 (Offenbach, 1794), no 3 for 4 hands, Variations, pf 4 hands, op 18 (Mainz, after 1800), Sonata, pf 5 hands, op 19 (Bonn, 1803), Grande sonate, pl, op 20 (Bonn, 1803), 2 sonates, pl, op.23 (Bonn, '1804 5), Sonate, kbd 4 hands, op 24 (Bonn, '1805), Fantasie, pf 4 hands, op 26 (Offenbach, '1805 6), 3 polonaises, pf 4 hands, op.28 no 3 (Mainz, 'after 1806)
15WRITINGS
16(only those on music)
17Blüche eines Tonkünstlers in die Musik der Geister (Mannheim, 1787, 2/c1800)
18Vom Erfinden und Bilden (Frankfurt am Main, 1791)
19'Versuch den Dreyklang und die harmonischen Mitlaute vermittelst Glasstabens an Metallsaiten hervorzubringen', AMZ, ii (1799), cols 105, 129, 145
20Untersuchung über den Ursprung der Harmonie und ihre allmähliche Ausbildung (Erfurt, 1800)
21Die Äolsharfe ein allegorischer Traum (Erfurt, 1801)
22Lieder der Inden und anderer orientalischer Volker (Erfurt, 1802)
23Ueber die Musik der Inden eine Abhandlung des Sir William Jones, aus dem Englischen übersetzt mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und Zusätzen begleitet (Erfurt, 1802)
24Fantasien aus dem Reich der Töne (Erfurt, 1806)
25'Ueber griechische Instrumentalmusik und ihre Wirkung', AMZ, ix (1806), col 17
26'Nachrichten ueber Kaufmanns Harmonichord', AMZ, xiii (1811), col 254
28BIBLIOGRAPHY
29'Nekrolog', 4MZ, xiv (1812), cols 609ff
30A Weinmann 'Zwei unechte Mozart-Lieder', Mf, xx (1967), 167
31HOWARD SERWER
33Dalby, (John) Martin (b Aberdeen, 25 April 1942). Scottish composer. After three years as a viola player in the National Youth Orchestra he won a scholarship in 1960 to the RCM in London. There he studied composition with Howells and the viola with Riddle. Further scholarships enabled him to spend two years in Italy, during which time he toured Europe and North Africa with an Italian chamber orchestra. Already he was showing himself to be a fluent composer in a conventional idiom, which was employed to fastidious and sensitive effect in his Eight Songs from the Chinese. With his Piano Trio (1967), commissioned by Glasgow University, he reached a stylistic turning-point. The work revealed a tough new intellectual force, sharper-edged and more abstract. Already it had been signalled by his Waltz Overture (1965), a succinct and witty tribute to the Second Viennese School, and it was to be developed in his Symphony (1970) and The Tower of Victory (1973), both written for the Scottish National Orchestra. The latter, a tone poem inspired by an Indian legend, atmospherically explores the sonorities of lower-pitch instruments.
34Dalby has stated that he regards each of his works as an adventure (for himself as much as for his performers and listeners) The Concerto Martin Pescatore, written in 1971 for the Academy of St Martin's-in-the-Fields, is thus an adventure for strings, and the trumpet-biassed Cancionera para una mariposa, one of a group of works based on old Spanish music, is a kind of 'classical' parallel to the sound world explored by the jazz musician Miles Davis in his Sketches of Spain. Dalby's vocal and choral music, especially the mystical The Keeper of the Pass (1971) and Orpheus (1972), likewise makes creative use of many of the modern sounds and techniques His Whisper Music (1971), with its delicate sprays of woodwind, trumpet, harp, percussion and cello tone, ranks high in his chamber output
35Apart from composing, Dalby has worked in other areas of music From 1965 to 1971 he was a BBC radio producer in London, in 1971 he was appointed Cramb Research Fellow in composition at Glasgow University and the following year he became the BBC's head of music in Scotland.
37WORKS
38(selective list)
39Orch Waltz Ov, 1965, Sym, 1970, Conc Martin Pescatore, stt. 1971, The Tower of Victory, 1973, Va Conc, 1974
40Choral 4 Miniature Songs (Pound), SATB, 1963, Laudate Dominum, T, SATB, org/orch, 1964, Requiem for Philip Sparrow, Mez, vv, 3 ob, str, 1967, Missa fi-fi, vv, 5 saxhn ad lib, 1969, Orpheus, 16vv, 11 insts, narrator ad lib, 1972, Cantigas del cancionero, 5 solo male vv, 1972, El remanso del pitido, 12 solo vv, 1974
41Solo vocal 8 Songs from the Chinese, Bar, pf, 1963, Wanderer, Mez, pf, 1964, Cantica (T Campanella), S, cl, va, pl, 1969, The Keeper of the Pass, S, 3 cl, perc, pf, 1971
42Chamber Variations, vc, pf, 1966, Pf Trio, 1967, Pindar is Dead, cl, pf, 1968, Arlecchino, gui, 1968, Sonatina, ob, pf, 1969, Commedia, cl, pf trio, 1969, Cancionera para una mariposa, 9 insts, 1971, Whisper Music, 6 insts, 1971, Str Qnt, 1972
43Org pieces, brass band music, church music
44Principal publisher Novello
46BIBLIOGRAPHY
47T Souster 'Martin Dalby', MT, cviii (1967), 321
48M Dalby: 'The Tower of Victory', The Listener, xc (1973), 385
49CONRAD WILSON
51Dalcaraz, Alfonso Flores. See FLORES, ALFONSO.
53Dale. English family of music publishers, music sellers and instrument dealers, established in London
55(1) Joseph Dale (b 1750; d London, 1821). He founded a business in 1783 at his private house, and from there issued his first publications, including a number of operas such as Shield's Rosina and The Flitch of Bacon. A music catalogue of 1785 announced that the copyrights and plates of these and other works had recently been purchased from WILLIAM NAPIER; at about the same time he also purchased plates and copyrights from Charles Bennett, once the property of John Welcker. In January 1786 he moved to premises
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