César Franck (1822–1890)

IN COUNTRIES like ours, where the influence of German music has been strong, French music has seemed to exemplify the schoolboy’s definition of the French as “a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines.” We have been slow to realize the purport of French tragedy, with its adherence to the unities...

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Published inMasterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire p. 250
Main Author DONALD N. FERGUSON
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Minnesota Press 25.03.1968
EditionNED - New edition
Subjects
Art music
Artists
Arts
Classical mechanics
Composers
Diminished intervals
Dissonant intervals
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
High culture
Instrumental music
Keyboard instruments
Kinetics
Labor economics
Mechanics
Melody
Music
Music ensembles
Music theory
Musical forms
Musical instruments
Musical intervals
Musical motives
Musical performance
Musical phrases
Musical pitch
Musicians
Occupations
Orchestral music
Orchestras
Performing arts
Physical sciences
Physics
Pianos
Solos
String instruments
Symphonies
Western art music
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Summary:IN COUNTRIES like ours, where the influence of German music has been strong, French music has seemed to exemplify the schoolboy’s definition of the French as “a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines.” We have been slow to realize the purport of French tragedy, with its adherence to the unities and its exclusion of everything that abates in the least from the high dignity associated with the tragic muse; and the similar formality of French music, together with its apparent lack of profundity, has blinded us to its virtues of clarity and logic, which we usually take for
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