Stories of Symphonic Music / A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day
A GUIDE TO THE MEANING OF IMPORTANT SYMPHONIES, OVERTURES, AND TONE-POEMS FROM BEETHOVEN TO THE PRESENT DAY
BY LAWRENCE GILMAN AUTHOR OF PHASES OF MODERN MUSIC THE MUSIC OF TO-MORROW ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS MCMVII
Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. Published October, 1907.
TO E. W. G.
CONTENTS
Most concert-goers have observed, at performances of modern orchestral works of a descriptive character, the efforts of many persons in the audience to extract from programme notes and analyses information as to the dramatic or pictorial or poetic meaning of the music to which they were listening. A search for enlightenment under such conditions necessarily leads to disappointment, since it is either pursued distractedly while the music is actually in progress, or during the brief and unpropitious leisure of an intermission. The design of this book is to offer in compact and accessible form such information as will enable the intending concert-goer to prepare himself, in advance, to listen comprehendingly to those symphonic works of a suggestive or illustrative nature, from Beethoven to the present day, which are part of the standard orchestral repertoire, and such others as seem likely to become so—to serve, in effect, as a guide to modern orchestral programme-music. For convenience of indication, the designation tone poems, as used in the sub-title, is employed in its broadest significance to characterize all modern delineative music for orchestra in the freer forms, whether it be a symphonic poem by Liszt, a legend by d'Indy, a suite by Charpentier, a sketch by Debussy, or the precise thing described by Strauss as a Tondichtung .
Lawrence Gilman
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THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST
BANTOCK
BEETHOVEN
SYMPHONY No. 3. "EROICA": Op. 55
OVERTURE TO "CORIOLANUS": Op. 62
SYMPHONY No. 6, "PASTORAL": Op. 68
OVERTURE TO "EGMONT": Op. 84
BERLIOZ
OVERTURE TO "KING LEAR": Op. 4
FANTASTIC SYMPHONY: Op. 14-a
"HAROLD IN ITALY"
BIZET
CHADWICK
CHARPENTIER
CHAUSSON
SYMPHONIC POEM, "VIVIANE": Op. 5
CONVERSE
"THE FESTIVAL OF PAN," ROMANCE FOR ORCHESTRA: Op. 9
"ENDYMION'S NARRATIVE," ROMANCE FOR ORCHESTRA: Op. 10
FANTASY, "THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER": Op. 19
DEBUSSY
THREE NOCTURNES
"THE SEA," THREE SYMPHONIC SKETCHES
DUKAS
DVOŘÁK
OVERTURE, "CARNIVAL": Op. 92
OVERTURE, "OTHELLO": Op. 93
SYMPHONIC POEM, "THE WOOD DOVE": Op. 110
ELGAR
VARIATIONS ON AN ORIGINAL THEME ("ENIGMA"): Op. 36
OVERTURE, "COCKAIGNE" ("IN LONDON TOWN"): Op. 40
"DREAM CHILDREN," TWO PIECES FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA: Op. 43
FRANCK
GLAZOUNOFF
"STENKA RÂZINE," SYMPHONIC POEM: Op. 13
"THE KREMLIN," SYMPHONIC PICTURE IN THREE PARTS: Op. 30
GOLDMARK
OVERTURE, "SAKUNTALA": Op. 13
"RUSTIC WEDDING" SYMPHONY (No. 1): Op. 26
GRIEG
HADLEY
TONE-POEM, "SALOME": Op. 55
HUBER
SYMPHONY No. 2, in E MINOR: Op. 115
d'INDY
ORCHESTRAL LEGEND, "THE ENCHANTED FOREST": Op. 8
"ISTAR," SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS: Op. 42
"SUMMER DAY ON THE MOUNTAIN": Op. 61
LISZT
TWO EPISODES FROM LENAU'S "FAUST"
LOEFFLER
"THE DEATH OF TINTAGILES" SYMPHONIC POEM: Op. 6
"THE DEVIL'S VILLANELLE," SYMPHONIC FANTASIA: Op. 9
"A PAGAN POEM," FOR ORCHESTRA AND PIANO: Op. 14
MACDOWELL
"LANCELOT AND ELAINE," SYMPHONIC POEM: Op. 25
TWO FRAGMENTS (AFTER THE "SONG OF ROLAND"): Op. 30
SUITE (No. 2), "INDIAN": Op. 48
MENDELSSOHN
OVERTURE, "A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DREAM": Op. 21
OVERTURE, "BECALMED AT SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE": Op. 27
OVERTURE TO THE LEGEND OF THE LOVELY MELUSINA: Op. 32
SYMPHONY No. 3 ("SCOTCH"): Op. 56
SYMPHONY No. 4 ("ITALIAN"): Op. 90
RAFF
SYMPHONY No. 3, "IN THE WOODS": Op. 153
SYMPHONY No. 5, "LENORE": Op. 177
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
"SADKO," A MUSICAL PICTURE: Op. 5
"ANTAR," SYMPHONY No. 2: Op. 15
"SCHEHERAZADE," SYMPHONIC SUITE AFTER "A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT": Op. 35
SUITE, "CHRISTMAS EVE"
SAINT-SAËNS
"OMPHALE'S SPINNING-WHEEL," SYMPHONIC POEM No. 1: Op. 31
"PHAËTON," SYMPHONIC POEM No. 2: Op. 39
"THE YOUTH OF HERCULES," SYMPHONIC POEM No. 4: Op. 50
SCHUMANN
OVERTURE TO BYRON'S "MANFRED": Op. 115
SIBELIUS
"LEMMINKAINEN," SYMPHONIC POEM IN FOUR PARTS: Op. 22
SMETANA
SPOHR
STRAUSS
"FROM ITALY," SYMPHONIC FANTASIA: Op. 16
"DON JUAN," TONE-POEM: Op. 20
"MACBETH," TONE-POEM: Op. 23
"DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION," TONE-POEM: Op. 24
"TILL EULENSPIEGEL'S MERRY PRANKS": Op. 28
"THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA," TONE-POEM: Op. 30
"DON QUIXOTE," FANTASTIC VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF KNIGHTLY CHARACTER: Op. 35
"DOMESTIC SYMPHONY": Op. 53
TSCHAIKOWSKY
FANTASIA, "THE TEMPEST": Op. 18
FANTASIA, "FRANCESCA DA RIMINI": Op. 32
SYMPHONY No. 4, IN F MINOR: Op. 36
"MANFRED," SYMPHONY IN FOUR TABLEAUX: Op. 58
SYMPHONY No. 6, "PATHETIC": Op. 74
WAGNER
WOLF
