Programme Music in the Last Four Centuries; a Contribution to the History of Musical Expression
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Yet haply there may lie conceal'd Beneath those chambers of the Sun The charm, that can restore so soon. An erring spirit to the skies.' One of the two or three works for pianoforte to be considered here is Op. 10, lliree Musical Sketches, respectively entitled Lake, Mill-stream, and Fountain, which, says Schumann, are, as regards colouring, truth to nature, and poetic conception, genuine ClaudC' Lorraines in music — ^living, sounding landscapes. In fact, the great critic and composer held that... as to 2b 374 Great Britain. [Fifth & Sixth tendernesB and nalveti of presentation they surpassed everything he knew of genre painting, and that, like a genuine poet, Bennett had caught nature in some of her most musical scenes. Only in one of his pianoforte compositions, as also only in one of his orchestral compositions, does the English master add more than a title. The exception is the pianoforte sonate Op. 46, •which bears the title The Maid of Orleans, and the four movements of which have both special titles and one or two or three lines from Schiller's play prefixed to them~one movement, the third, having also a special motto for its second subject.
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