Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Two-Part and Three-Part Forms

"For a striking example of a movement which, although definitely in Two-part form, (i.e., it is in two clear divisions and has but one theme) is yet of considerable scope and variety, see the Allegretto of Beethoven's Fourth Sonata."
(location 982, Kindle Edition)

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Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Musical Sentence

"But just as Unity depends upon a definite basic tonality, so Variety is gained by this very freedom of modulation. Without it is monotony; with too much modulation, an irritating restlessness. By the perfect balance in his works of these two related elements a genius may be definitely recognized."
(location 794, Kindle Edition)

"When an extra measure is systematically introduced into each phrase of 4 measures we have what is known as 'five-bar rhythm'—so prevalent in the works of Schubert and Brahms."
(location 893, Kindle Edition)

"Just as in the case of the systematic insertion of an extra measure, which produces 'five-bar rhythm,' so when a measure is omitted in each phrase which would usually consist of four measures, we have 'three-bar rhythm.' This gives an effect of great concentration and intensity and is a prevalent feature in Scottish and Hungarian folk-music."
(location 906, Kindle Edition)

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Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach, the Fugue

"The form in which polyphonic skill reaches its highest possibilities is the Fugue."
(location 600, Kindle Edition)

"Schumann says that 'Music owes to Bach what a religion owes to its founder'; and it is true that a knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom."
(location 702, Kindle Edition)

"Furthermore, in Bach, we feel the force of a great character even more than the artistic skill with which the personality is revealed. In this respect Bach in music is quite on a par with Shakespeare in literature and Michael Angelo in plastic art."
(location 718, Kindle Edition)

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Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Folk Song

"Although all art reflects popular sentiment to a certain extent, in no one of the arts—as painting, sculpture and architecture—is there such a vital record of the emotions and artistic instincts of humanity as we find in the realm of folk-song."
(location 367, Kindle Edition)

"The interval of a perfect fifth having one of the simplest ratios (2-3), and being familiar to people as the first overtone (after the octave) struck off by any sounding body—such as a bell or an organ pipe."
(location 411, Kindle Edition)

"Even to-day these tonal centres are still used; for they are elemental, like the primitive colors of the spectroscope."
(location 414, Kindle Edition)

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