Excelsior Song Book: A Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed for Juvenile Classes, Schools and Seminaries; Containing a Complete System of ... of Musical Notation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Baker, Benjamin Franklin

 
9780243396078: Excelsior Song Book: A Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed for Juvenile Classes, Schools and Seminaries; Containing a Complete System of ... of Musical Notation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Excelsior Song Book: A Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed for Juvenile Classes, Schools and Seminaries; Containing a Complete System of Elementary Instruction in the Principles of Musical Notation

Third, the Mutual Adaptation of the Music and the Poetry. The music should sing the sentiment of the words, and the words should speak the feeling of the music. When the words are joyous, the music should be so; when they are sad, so must the music be. When the sense and feeling of the words pauses, the music should pause and when they uninterrupted, the music should flow on unbroken. These statements are so. Obviously founded on principle, that they seem almost superfluous, and the author has only made them because observation has shown him that they are sometimes forgotten.

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ISBN 10:  0483822450 ISBN 13:  9780483822450
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