Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... lifeblood ebbing slowly, "redder than the maple when spring forces the young leaves." A short interlude leads into the Allegro marziale, in D major ("To him greatness arises from suffering and anguish; the mantle of the hetman will fall upon him, and all will bow before him"). The treatment of the musical themes is similar to that generally employed by Liszt as set forth in the description of "Les Preludes." After an Introduction of eighteen measures, which starts from an abrupt discord with a passage in triplets for the strings, like the wild tramping of the horse ("They fly through the narrow straits of the valley as storms that force their way through the mountain gorges, like a falling star"), we strike the main theme. It is given out by the basses and trombones, and worked out with great effect. It may be mentioned here that in the first part Liszt, in rushing through diminished seventh chords, makes great use of"violini divisi;" that is, by using as many as six different violin parts, and once as many as eleven, thereby gaining great richness of sound, and at the same time retaining the rushing motion expressive of the fearful ride. A chromatic scale in the basses pressing upward against a trill on C sharp in the violins forms a short countertheme, and leads to the introduction of the main theme, which has been called the Mazeppa motive proper. In calling attention to the first three steps, repeated by the winds through twelve measures, with the note gemendo (" groaning ") as a guide for their characteristic expression, we turn to the Andante, only to find the same motive, used this time plaintively, "quasi recitative." During the next twelve measures the step of the sixth continua...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... lifeblood ebbing slowly, "redder than the maple when spring forces the young leaves." A short interlude leads into the Allegro marziale, in D major ("To him greatness arises from suffering and anguish; the mantle of the hetman will fall upon him, and all will bow before him"). The treatment of the musical themes is similar to that generally employed by Liszt as set forth in the description of "Les Preludes." After an Introduction of eighteen measures, which starts from an abrupt discord with a passage in triplets for the strings, like the wild tramping of the horse ("They fly through the narrow straits of the valley as storms that force their way through the mountain gorges, like a falling star"), we strike the main theme. It is given out by the basses and trombones, and worked out with great effect. It may be mentioned here that in the first part Liszt, in rushing through diminished seventh chords, makes great use of"violini divisi;" that is, by using as many as six different violin parts, and once as many as eleven, thereby gaining great richness of sound, and at the same time retaining the rushing motion expressive of the fearful ride. A chromatic scale in the basses pressing upward against a trill on C sharp in the violins forms a short countertheme, and leads to the introduction of the main theme, which has been called the Mazeppa motive proper. In calling attention to the first three steps, repeated by the winds through twelve measures, with the note gemendo (" groaning ") as a guide for their characteristic expression, we turn to the Andante, only to find the same motive, used this time plaintively, "quasi recitative." During the next twelve measures the step of the sixth continua...
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