The Lighter Classics in Music by David Ewen
Introduction there appear fragments of the first dance; these same
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fragments return in the coda. There are eight sections: Introduction and
“Heller’s Reel”; “The Old Plunk”; “The Bundle Straw”; “He Piped So
Sweet”; “Fill the Bowl”; “Pigeon on the Pier”; “Calder Fair”; and
“Salamanca” and “Coda.” The fourth and seventh dances are in slow tempo,
while all others are fast.
Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 15,
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. introduction, random phrases bring up the image of various attitudes and
3. 1884. He acquired his musical training in Prague and with Felix Mottl in
4. Introduction there appear fragments of the first dance; these same
5. 1894. He began his music study in Kansas City: piano with his mother;
6. 1803. As a young man he was sent to Paris to study medicine, but music
7. 1918. Early music study took place with private piano teachers, and
8. 1833. He was trained in the sciences, having attended the Academy of
9. introduction or coda, originated as a piece for piano duet: the
10. 1886. While attending the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he
11. 1899. He made his stage debut in 1911 in a fairy play, and for the next
12. 1884. In the compositions written in Rome under the provisions of the
13. 1836. After attending the Paris Conservatory from 1848 on, he became an
14. 1873. The plot revolves around a peasant boy whom a Marquis is trying to
15. episode depicts a pair of lovers in a secluded corner; the principal
16. 1931. He died in Worcester, England, on February 23, 1934.
17. 1902. The opening brisk, restless music is recalled after a full
18. 1916. He was graduated with honors from the National Conservatory in his
19. 1865. As a boy he studied music privately while attending a technical
20. 1612. During the struggle between Russia and Poland, Romanov becomes the
21. introduction, a vigorous Mazurka melody unfolds. This leads to a second
22. 1870. A prodigy pianist, he attended the Berlin High School for Music,
23. 1878. He came from a distinguished musical family. His uncles were Sam
24. 1875. The _Bacchanale_ takes place at the beginning of Act 3 in which a
25. 1872. After studying music with private teachers in New York, he
26. introduction, the cellos and violas in unison offer the strains of
27. 1734. After receiving some music instruction in his native town, he came
28. 1755. The general belief is that it was used by a certain Richard
29. introduction in which a stately idea is offered by the woodwind. In the
30. 1882. After receiving some piano instruction from his mother he was sent
31. introduction. The second, “The Cowherd’s Tune,” begins with a slow,
32. 1930. It is not quite clear who actually wrote this song. It was
33. 1832. Hérold died of consumption in Paris on January 19, 1833 before
34. 1854. He attended the Cologne Conservatory where his teachers included
35. episode in which is described the descent of the fairies who provide a
36. 1859. He was graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1882
37. 1885. Precocious in music he completed a piano sonata when he was only
38. introduction and the coda came the succession of lilting, lovable,
39. 1895. The son of a choirmaster, he himself was a boy chorister, at the
40. 1809. His grandfather was the famous philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn; his
41. 1756. The son of Leopold, Kapellmeister at the court of the Salzburg
42. 1858. While studying medicine, he attended the Berlin High School for
43. 1920. Ochs died in Berlin on February 6, 1929.
44. 1834. For nine years he attended the Milan Conservatory where he wrote
45. 1916. He continued to develop his own personality, formulating his
46. 1900. It was a blood and thunder drama set in Rome at the turn of the
47. 1873. He attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory for three years, and
48. 1909. He also distinguished himself as a conductor, first at the Bolshoi
49. introduction are amplified and developed. A brilliant coda leads to the
50. 1829. He studied the piano with Alexandre Villoing after which, in 1839
51. episode now appears in woodwind and violins after which the folk song
52. 1897. In 1897 Sousa was a tourist in Italy when he heard the news that
53. 1899. A century was coming to an end, and with it an entire epoch. This
54. 1898. Between 1876 and 1881 he was principal of, and professor of
55. 1889. After the operatic pretension of the _Yeomen of the Guard_ which
56. 1887. Because the Murgatroyd family has persecuted witches, an evil
57. introduction after which comes the brisk melody for woodwind followed by
58. introduction—with forceful chords in full orchestra—leads to a beautiful
59. introduction. The second aria is Philine’s polonaise, “_Je suis
60. 1843. “The Flying Dutchman” is a ship on which the Dutchman must sail
61. 1896. After completing his music study at the Prague Conservatory, and
62. 1872. After attending the Royal College of Music, he studied composition
63. episode. A third popular orchestral excerpt from this opera is the
64. 1809. Little is known of his career beyond the fact that his music
65. 1901. Zeller died in Baden near Vienna on August 17, 1898.
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