How to Listen to Music : Hints And Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
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The professional musicians to whom they turned scorned their theories and would not help them ; so they fell back on their own resources. They cut the Gordian knot and invented a new style of music, which they fancied was like that used by the ancients in their stage- plays. They abolished polyphony, or contrapuntal music, in everything ex- cept their choruses, and created a sort of musical declamation, using variations of 21 7 CHAP. VII. Invention of Italian opera. Musical declama- tion. 2l8 C...HAP. VII. The music of the Flor- entine re- formers. The solo style, har- mony, and declama- tion. How to Listen to Music pitch and harmonies built up on a sim- ple bass to give emotional life to their words. In choosing their tones they were guided by observation of the vocal inflections produced in speech under stress of feeling, showing thus a recog- nition of the law which Herbert Spen- cer formulated two hundred and fifty years later. The music which these men pro- duced and admired sounds to us mo- notonous in the extreme, for what little melody there is in it is in the choruses, which they failed to emancipate from the ecclesiastical art, and which for that reason were as stiff and inelastic as the music which in their controversies with the musicians they condemned with vigor.
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