Modern Musical Drift
Modern Musical Drift
By W. J. Henderson Author of The Story of Music, Preludes and Studies, etc., etc.
Longmans, Green, and Co.
91 and 93 Fifth Avenue, New York London and Bombay 1904
Copyright, 1904 , By Longmans, Green, and Co.
All rights reserved
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE, JAMES HUNEKER.
Dear James :
Beside the ebon Styx
The brood harmonious wanders slow.
A backward gaze on earth they fix,
W. J. Henderson
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Modern Musical Drift
PARSIFALIA
I.—A PURE FOOL IN THE NEW WORLD
II.—ETHICS AND ÆSTHETICS
III.—THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS DRAMA
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
I.—A FUTILE GOD AND A POTENT DEVIL
II.—THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT
III.—BACK-WORLDS, GODS AND OVER-WOMAN
ISOLDE'S SERVING-WOMAN
RICHARD STRAUSS
I. THE HISTORICAL SURVEY
II.—THE ÆSTHETIC VIEW
III.—WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
IV.—STRAUSS AND THE SONG WRITERS
FOOTNOTES:
AUX ITALIENS
I.—ITALIAN OPERA OF TO-DAY
II.—THE CLASSIC OF THE UNPROGRESSIVE
THE ORATORIO OF TO-DAY
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