FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112  
113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   >>   >|  
h of horns sound now the returning tones of the first noble melody, with playful trill of the wood, in antiphonal song of trumpets and strings. And there are revels of new turns of the tune (where the stirring harmony seems the best of all) that will rise to a frenzy of tintinnabulation. A quicker counter-theme lends life and motion to all this play and plot. A big, solemn stride of the middle strain (of main melody) precedes the last returning verse, with all the tender pathos of the beginning. The Scherzo is wild race-feeling let loose--national music that has not yet found a melody. Significantly the drums begin the tune, to a dancing strain of _pizzicato_ strings. The tune is so elemental that the [Music: _Allegro_ (Violins) (_Pizz._ cellos double above in violas)] drums can really play it; the answer is equally rude,--an arpeggic motive of strings against quick runs of the higher wood. Out of it grows a tinge of tune with a fresh spring of dance,--whence returns the first savage motive. This is suddenly changed to the guise of a fugal theme, with new close, that starts a maze of disputation. Right from the full fire of the rough dance, sad-stressed chords plunge into a moving plaint with much sweetness of melody and higher counter-melody. Then returns again the original wild rhythm. [Music: _Lento ma non troppo_] In the last movement the composer confesses the "Fantasy" in the title. It begins with a broad sweep of the returning rhapsody, the prologue of the symphony, though without the former conclusion. Now it sings in a strong unison of the strings _largamente ed appassionato_, and with clang of chord in lower brass. The appealing middle phrase is all disguised in strum as of dance. The various strains sing freely in thirds, with sharp punctuating chords. Throughout is a balance of the pungent vigor of harmonies with dulcet melody. In sudden rapid pace the strumming figure dances in the lower reed, then yields to the play (in the strings) of a lively (almost comic) tune of a strong national tinge,--a kind that seems native to northern countries and is not unlike a strain that crept into [Music: _Allegro molto_] American song. A tempest of pranks is suddenly halted before the entrance of a broad melody, with underlying harmonies of latent passion. The feeling of fantasy is in the further flow, with free singing chords of harp. But ever between the lines creeps in the strumming phrase, from
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112  
113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

melody

 

strings

 

chords

 
returning
 
strain
 

feeling

 
middle
 

harmonies

 

strumming

 

strong


motive
 

returns

 

higher

 

suddenly

 

Allegro

 
phrase
 

national

 

counter

 

conclusion

 
symphony

singing

 
appassionato
 

largamente

 

unison

 

rhapsody

 

troppo

 

original

 
rhythm
 

creeps

 

movement


begins

 

fantasy

 

composer

 

confesses

 

Fantasy

 

prologue

 

passion

 

figure

 

dances

 

American


sudden

 

tempest

 

unlike

 

native

 

northern

 

countries

 
yields
 

lively

 

dulcet

 

pranks