Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - Mozart

"Any familiarity with Mozart's works will convince us of the gratitude we owe him for his original harmonies, for the stimulating contrapuntal texture and for the perfect finish and care for detail found therein."
(location 1645, Kindle Edition)

"But Mozart, coming after Haydn's definite establishment of the Sonata-form and with the growing interest of the public in instrumental music for its own sake as an incentive, could take advantage of these circumstances to display his genius and to delight his hearers with a piece of genuine music."
(location 1764, Kindle Edition)

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Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Sonata Form

"Music is in very truth a language; and far too many people get from it nothing save the appeal which comes from its emotional power."
(location 1378, Kindle Edition)

"A knowledge of form is but a means to an end: for the composer, that he may express himself clearly and convincingly, and for the listener, that he may readily receive the message set forth."
(location 1528, Kindle Edition)

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Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Rondo Form

"For in a well-constructed Rondo the main theme must be one of such direct appeal that we look forward to hearing it again; and the successive repetitions must be so planned that we can easily enjoy this pleasure of reminiscence."
(location 1179, Kindle Edition)

"For, deadly dull as is the Variation form when treated in a stereotyped manner, by very reason of its freedom from arbitrary rules it may be a most elastic medium for the expression of poetic genius."
(location 1247, Kindle Edition)

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Music: An Art and a Language - Reading Together - The Classical and the Modern Suite

"These compositions—known in France as Ordres, in Germany as Suites and Partitas and in England as Lessons—though all the movements were in the same key, yet showed considerable variety by reason of the contrast in the dance rhythms."
(location 1000, Kindle Edition)

"Composers sometimes employ the Sarabande rhythm for its inherent beauty, or for dramatic purposes without indication of the fact."
(location 1097, Kindle Edition)

"The Minuet is of particular interest, not alone because of the many beautiful examples of its use but because it is the only dance which, carried over from the Suite, has remained an integral movement of Symphonic compositions."
(location 1106, Kindle Edition)

"The Suite, by reason of its freedom in combining different rhythms and moods, has appealed vividly to modern composers; and the literature of our times contains a number of Suites which should be known to the music-lover."
(location 1145, Kindle Edition)

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