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Chapter 38: Transcriber’s Notes
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A series of critical essays maps intersections between music and literature by profiling composers, examining orchestral technique and operatic drama, and surveying literary figures who engaged with music. The author analyzes stylistic approaches and thematic construction in works by modern composers, discusses the musical and dramatic implications of Parsifal and Wagnerian methods, and considers writers such as Nietzsche, Balzac, Flaubert, and Turgénieff in relation to musical taste. Recurring topics include orchestration, the autonomy of musical suggestion versus stage drama, artistic individualism, and changing cultural responses to late romantic and modern musical developments.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • pg 12 Changed: at the end its feverish esctasy
    to: at the end its feverish ecstasy
  • pg 20 Changed: significance of the development from Hadyn
    to: significance of the development from Haydn
  • pg 21 Changed: serious influence of the Brahms Schicksalied
    to: serious influence of the Brahms Schicksalslied
  • pg 29 Changed: A critic considers O warst du mein
    to: A critic considers O wärst du mein
  • pg 51 Changed: his juggling with bizzare rhythms
    to: his juggling with bizarre rhythms
  • pg 68 Changed: Invocation and Parsifal, Hunnenschlact
    to: Invocation and Parsifal, Hunnenschlacht
  • pg 97 Changed: Romantics for knights, mediæval myssteries
    to: Romantics for knights, mediæval mysteries
  • pg 100 Changed: which so often gravitates pedulum-wise
    to: which so often gravitates pendulum-wise
  • pg 117 Changed: Like the Buddhistic Tripatka
    to: Like the Buddhistic Tripitaka
  • pg 178 Changed: at the foot of the Vierge au donitaire
    to: at the foot of the Vierge au donataire
  • pg 191 Changed: he loves to finger the georgeous
    to: he loves to finger the gorgeous
  • pg 217 Changed: social democrat and freethinker; and Tschaïkowsy
    to: social democrat and freethinker; and Tschaïkowsky