Frasi di Walter Raymond Spalding

Walter Raymond Spalding graduated from Harvard College with an AB in 1887; graduated from Harvard University with an AM in 1888. He taught music at Harvard from 1895–1932 and was Chair of the Music Department from 1906–1932. He is the author of the books Music: An Art and a Language and Music at Harvard: Historical Review of Men and Events . Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Maggio 1865 – 10. Febbraio 1962
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Walter Raymond Spalding: Frasi in inglese

“The Introductory chords dissolve the dream which the music has evoked, and we are back once more in the world of reality.”

On the Coda of the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, page 187 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA187.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Schumann and Mendelssohn (Ch. XIII)

“A knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom.”

Page 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)

“The firmness of structure inherent in the canonic form is perfectly compatible with genuine freedom and poetry of inspiration.”

Page 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)

“The rhythm of music, akin to the human heart-beat and to the ceaseless change and motion, which is the basic fact in all life, apeals at once to our own physical vitality.”

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

“One of the peculiar characteristics of music is that it is both the most natural and least artificial of the arts, and as well the most complicated and subtle.”

Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

“It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words.”

On instrumental music, page 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA2.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

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