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Title: For Every Music Lover
A Series of Practical Essays on Music

Author: Aubertine Woodward Moore

Release Date: April 29, 2006 [EBook #18284]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MALIBRAN]

FOR EVERY MUSIC LOVER

A SERIES OF PRACTICAL ESSAYS ON MUSIC

BY AUBERTINE WOODWARD MOORE

AUTHOR OF "FOR MY MUSICAL FRIEND" ETC.

NEW YORK
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
55 FIFTH AVENUE

Copyright, 1902, by
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

Illustrations

1. MALIBRAN _Frontispiece_
2. MOZART 22
3. BRAHMS 54
4. FRANZ LISZT 86
5. LILLIAN NORDICA 118
6. PAGANINI 150
7. JENNY LIND 182
8. CORELLI 214
9. SAINT-SAENS 246

Contents

Preface 17

How we can approach knowledge of music. Mistaken isolation of the
art. Those who belong to the privileged class. Music, as well as
religion, meant for all. Business of its ministers and teachers.
Promise of the twentieth century. Fruitage of our own free soil.
American world-view. Purpose of volume.

The Origin and Function of Music 21

Story of music affording knowledge of man's inner life. Mythology
and legendary lore. Emerson's dualism. Music a mirror. Ruskin and
art. Beethoven's lofty revelation. The real thing of Schopenhauer.
Views of Carlyle, Wagner and Mazzini. Raw materials. Craving for
sympathy in artistic type. Evolution of tone-language. French writer
of 1835. Prince of Waldthurn, in 1690. Spencer's theory. Controversy
and answer. Music of primeval man and early civilizations. The
Vedas. Hebrew scriptures. Basis of scientific laws. Church ritual.
Folk-music. In