have amateur singing societies, 257, 262;
spread of choral music in, 263

Unity in the symphony, 27, 137

Vaudevilles, 224

Verdi, 152, 203, 210, 228, 236, 238, 242, 243;
"Aida," 152, 228, 238;
"Il Trovatore," 210, 243;
"Otello," 228, 238;
"Falstaff," 228, 236;
Requiem, 290

Vestris, 153

Vibrato, 90

Vile, the, unfit for music, 50

Viola, 74, 77, 82, 92, 93

_Viole da braccio_, 93

_Viole da gamba_, 93

Violin, 73, 74, 77, 82, 86 _et seq._, 144, 162

Violin concertos, 145

Violoncello, 74, 77, 82, 92, 93, 94

Virginal, 168, 170

Vocal music, 61, 215

_Vorspiel_, 148

Wagner, 41, 79, 80, 81, 88, 89, 94, 111, 205, 206, 219, 226, 227, 232,
235, 237, 238, 244, 248, 249, 250, 251, 303, 305, 314;
on the content of music, 41;
his instrumentation, 80, 111;
his dramas, 219, 226, 227, 248;
_Musikdrama_, 227, 249;
his dialogue, 235;
his orchestra, 238, 250;
his operas, 248;
his theories, 249;
endless melody, 250;
typical phrases, 250;
"leading motives," 250;
popularity of his music, 303;
on criticism, 314;
"Flying Dutchman," 248;
"Tannhaeuser," 248;
"Lohengrin," 79, 88, 235, 248;
"Die Meistersinger," 249;
"Tristan und Isolde," 87, 237, 249;
"Rheingold," 237;
"Die Walkuere," 94, 237;
"Siegfried," 237, 244;
"Die Goetterdaemmerung," 237;
"Ring of the Nibelung," 249, 251, 305;
"Parsifal," 249

_Waldhorn,_ 107

Wallace, W.V., 223

Walter, Jacob, 53

Water, musical delineation of, 58, 59

Weber, 67, 96, 244, 248;
his Romanticism, 67;
"Der Freischuetz," 96, 225;
"Oberon," 225;
"Euryanthe," 225

Weitzmann, "Geschichte des Clavierspiels," 201

Welsh choirs, 255

Wood-wind instruments, 74, 77, 78, 95

Xylophone, 111

Ysaye, on Cadenzas, 146

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THE LETTERS OF FRANZ LISZT. Edited and collected by LA MARA.
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JENNY LIND THE ARTIST, 1820-1851. Memoir of Madame Jenny
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