Louis Charles Elson

Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of Such Terms and Signs as are Used in Modern Music. Together with a List of Foreign Composers and Artists and a Short English-Italian Vocabulary of Musical Words and Expressions

Elson's Music Dictionary

Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists

A Collection of Facts Not Generally Known, Regarding the Music of Ancient and Savage Nations

Curiosities of Music

This book has endeavored to bring together the most curious points in the music of many nations, ancient and modern. Music has been broadly defined by Fetis as "the art of moving the feelings by combinations of sounds" - taken in this broad sense it may be considered as coeval with the human race. Vocal music is as natural in man, to express feelings, as it is for a cat to purr or a lion to roar; regarding instrumental music, the primitive man might have found in every hollow tree a reverberating drum, and in every conch shell or horn of cattle, the natural beginnings of instrumental music; we shall find later that many nations ascribe the discovery of their music to the accidental appliance of some natural instrument. That the art of music was esteemed among the more educated of the early Christians is very strongly shown by a fresco in the cemetery of Domitilla (in Rome). This painting which seems to be of the first or second century of our era, represents Christ as Orpheus, charming all nature by his music. It is probably only an allegorical figure, representing his divine gifts, but the figure must be a shock to all who are accustomed to see the face of Jesus, as drawn by the Leonardo da Vinci. Instead of the meek and beautiful form, we see here a lank loosely built young man, sitting in a very uncomfortable attitude, on a rock, and twanging away at a four-stringed lyre.

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Elson's Music Dictionary; Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of Such Terms and Signs as Are Used in Modern Music

Modern Music and Musicians: Encyclopedia: v. 1. A history of music; special articles; great composers; v. 2. Religious music of the world; vocal music and musicians; the opera; history and guide; v. 3. The theory of music; piano technique; special articles; modern instruments; anecdotes of musicians; dictionary. (musical terms and biography)

Modern Music and Musicians

Arthur Elson

Victor Herbert

The World's Best Music: The musicians's guide

"These volumes form a complete encyclopedia and history of music and musicians. They comprise a library covering the whole field of musical literature. The material has been written by more than forty of the greatest musicians, critics, and experts on musical subjects in this country and Europe." copyright 1914.

University Musical Encyclopedia

University Musical Encyclopedia: University dictionary of music and musicians

Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of Such Terms and Signs as are Used in Modern Music, Together with a List of Foreign Composer and Artists ...

Louis Charles Elson

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