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THE LETTERS OF FRANZ LISZT. Edited and collected by La Mara. With portraits. Crown 8vo, 2 vols., $6.00.
RICHARD WAGNER'S LETTERS to his Dresden Friends—Theodore Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine. Translated by J.S. Shedlock. Crown 8vo, $3.50.
JENNY LIND THE ARTIST, 1820-1851. Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt. Her Art Life and Dramatic Career, from original documents, etc. By Canon H.S. Holland and W.S. Rockstro. With illustrations, 12mo, $2.50.
WAGNER AND HIS WORKS. The Story of his Life, with Critical Comments. By Henry T. Finck. Third edition. With portraits. 2 vols., 12mo, $4.00.
CHOPIN AND OTHER MUSICAL ESSAYS. By Henry T. Finck. 12mo, $1.50.
A CONCISE HISTORY OF MUSIC, from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the present time. By H.G.B. Hunt. With numerous tables. 12mo, $1.00.
CHARLES GOUNOD, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES, with Family Letters and Notes on Music. Translated by the Hon. W. Hutchinson. With portrait. 8vo, $3.00.
THE GREAT MUSICIANS SERIES. Edited by F. Hueffer. 14 vols., 12mo, each, $1.00.
THE STUDENT'S HELMHOLTZ. Musical Acoustics, or the Phenomena of Sound. By John Broadhouse. With musical illustrations and examples. 12mo, $3.00.
CYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Edited by John Denison Champlin, Jr. Critical editor, W.F. Apthorp. Popular edition. Large octavo, 3 vols., $15.00 net.
LETTERS OF A BARITONE. By Francis Walker. 16mo, $1.25.
MUSICIANS AND MUSIC LOVERS, AND OTHER ESSAYS. By W.F. Apthorp. 12mo, $1.50.
THE WAGNER STORY BOOK. Firelight Tales of the Great Music-Dramas. By W.H. Frost. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50.
MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC. 4 vols., 12mo. Illustrated. Each, $1.75. Masters of English Music, by Charles Willeby; Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey; Masters of German Music, by J.A. Fuller-Maitland; Masters of Italian Music, by R.A. Streatfield.
THE EVOLUTION OF CHURCH MUSIC. By Rev. F.L. Humphreys, 12mo, $1.75 net.
THE STORY OF BRITISH MUSIC, from the Earliest Times to the Tudor Period. By F.J. Crowest. Illustrated. 8vo, $3.50.
THE HISTORY OF MUSIC, from the Earliest Times to the Time of the Troubadours. By J.F. Rowbotham. 12mo, $2.50.
THE LEGENDS OF THE WAGNER DRAMA. Studies in Mythology and Romance. By Jessie L. Weston. 12mo, $2.25.
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FOOTNOTES
[A] "Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies," p. 374.
[B] "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," p. 22.
[C] "Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies," by George Grove, C.B., 2d ed., p. 191.
[D] Weitzmann, "Geschichte des Clavierspiels," p. 197.
[E] "But no real student can have studied the score deeply, or listened discriminatingly to a good performance, without discovering that there is a tremendous chasm between the conventional aims of the Italian poet in the book of the opera and the work which emerged from the composer's profound imagination. Da Ponte contemplated a dramma giocoso; Mozart humored him until his imagination came within the shadow cast before by the catastrophe, and then he transformed the poet's comedy into a tragedy of crushing power. The climax of Da Ponte's ideal is reached in a picture of the dissolute Don wrestling in idle desperation with a host of spectacular devils, and finally disappearing through a trap, while fire bursts out on all sides, the thunders roll, and Leporello gazes on the scene, crouched in a comic attitude of terror, under the table. Such a picture satisfied the tastes of the public of his time, and that public found nothing incongruous in a return to the scene immediately afterward of all the characters save the reprobate, who had gone to his reward, to hear a description of the catastrophe from the buffoon under the table, and platitudinously to moralize that the perfidious wretch, having been stored away safely in the realm of Pluto and Proserpine, nothing remained for them to do except to raise their voices in the words of the "old song,"
E dei perfidi la morte
Alla vita è sempre ugual."
"New York Musical Season, 1889-90."
[F] "Review of the New York Musical Season, 1889-90," p. 75.
[G] See "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," chapter I.
[H] "Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music," by H.E. Krehbiel, p. 17.