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accent accompaniments Allegro alto trombone Andante Arco arpeggios bass trombone Bassoons beat Beethoven's brass instruments chords Chorus chromatic intervals Clarinets in Bb compass composers contrary cornet cornet à pistons corno inglese cres cymbals difficult ditto double double-basses Duet effect employed execution extreme fifth flute four fourth Fugue G clef give Gluck harmony harp Hautboys high notes Horns in F instru Iphigenia in Tauride Jephtha kettle-drums key-board less long drum low notes lower major Mass melodium melody ment minor movement NOVELLO'S octave open strings Ophicleide orchestra orchestral conductor organ passages pedal performers pianoforte piccolo flute piece Pizz pizzicato played players poco produce quality of tone Real harmonics real sounds render rhythm Saxophone scale score Solo sonorousness soprano sordini Symphony tenor trombone third tr tr tr transposing instruments tremolo trumpets tuned unison vibration Violas Violins violoncellos vocal voice wind instruments written
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Página 123 - ... this majestic instrument, to reduce it to this secondary condition. Moreover, it should be felt that its smooth, equal, and uniform sonorousness never entirely melts into the variously characterized sounds of the orchestra, and that there seems to exist between these two musical powers a secret antipathy. The organ and the orchestra are both kings ; or rather one is emperor, the other pope; their mission is not the same, their interests are too vast, and too diverse, to be confounded together.
Página 229 - ... and penetrating in the higher part and full and rich in the lower part of their compass. The Saxophones are six in number, the high, the soprano, the alto, the tenor, the baritone and the bass; they are played with a single reed and a clarinet mouthpiece, Saxotromba.
Página 142 - The quality of tone of the trumpet," says Berlioz, "is noble and brilliant; it comports with warlike ideas, with cries of fury and of vengeance, as with songs of triumph; it lends itself to the expression of all energetic, lofty, and grand sentiments, and to the majority of tragic accents.
Página 240 - I do not mean to say by this that it is necessary to imitate the mathematical regularity of the metronome , all music so performed would become of freezing stiffness...
Página 239 - It would evidently be necessary to adopt a style of extraordinary breadth, each time the entire mass is put in action; reserving the delicate effects, the light and rapid movements, for small bands which the author could easily arrange, and make them discourse together in the midst of this musical multitude. Beside the radiant colours which this myriad of different tonequalities would give out at every moment, unheard-of harmonic effects would be deduced from them.
Página 239 - ... therein would be heard the plaints, the murmurs, the mysterious sounds of primeval forests; the clamours, the prayers, the songs of triumph or of mourning of a people with expansive soul, ardent heart, and fiery passions; its silence would inspire awe by its solemnity; and organizations the...
Página 250 - ... accented parts of the bar. This is an idea fruitful in noisy platitudes; and one that has brought upon us the ridiculous excesses beneath which, if a stop be not put to them, dramatic music will sooner or later sink. I conclude by expressing sincere regret at beholding choral and orchestral studies still so badly organized. Everywhere, for grand choral and instrumental compositions, the system of rehearsals in the mass is maintained. They make all the chorus-singers study at once, on the one...
Página 104 - Does it not depict the lonely maiden, the forester's fair betrothed, who, raising her eyes to heaven, mingles her tender lament with the noise of the dark woods agitated by the storm? O Weber!