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Page 85
... theme so that it would have a definite form or design . Music themes fall into phrases , or groups of tones , just as naturally as does our speech into groups of words . A good theme divides itself naturally into two or more phrases ...
... theme so that it would have a definite form or design . Music themes fall into phrases , or groups of tones , just as naturally as does our speech into groups of words . A good theme divides itself naturally into two or more phrases ...
Page 86
... theme , for music , like life , needs to be spiced with variety . A good pattern requires two or more themes to make ... theme on page 85. How can even an untrained eye discover balance in the pattern ? A melody that is built of two ...
... theme , for music , like life , needs to be spiced with variety . A good pattern requires two or more themes to make ... theme on page 85. How can even an untrained eye discover balance in the pattern ? A melody that is built of two ...
Page 186
... themes . Why listen to a lovely theme only once ? It is good to hear it over and over in a variety of uses , just as people like to talk over and discuss fully a question of interest . To give the rough and loose shape of the sonata a ...
... themes . Why listen to a lovely theme only once ? It is good to hear it over and over in a variety of uses , just as people like to talk over and discuss fully a question of interest . To give the rough and loose shape of the sonata a ...
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Allegro audience Bach ballads ballet bards bass beautiful music Beethoven called cathedral chapter Charlemagne Chorus church clavichord composer concert Cremona dance delighted DISCUSSION SENTENCES England English enjoy Erlking Europe Eurydice famous feeling folk music France French fugue German gift Gluck Greece Greek Handel happy harp harpsichord Haydn hear heard heart honor Hymn instruments Italian Italy keyboard instrument king knighthood knights learned listen Liszt lived Lohengrin London melody ment minnesingers minstrel movement Mozart MUSICAL MEASURE musician opera oratorio orchestra organ Overture palace Paris patron pattern piano play pleasure poem poet program music rhythm rich Roman Rome Russian Schubert singers singing sonata song soprano SPECIAL ACTIVITY spirit story suite sung symphony teacher tell theme THOUGHT QUESTIONS tion tone TOOL WORDS TRIAL trumpet tune Vienna violin voice Wagner William Tell worship write wrote young