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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata”[52, 53]
“Two-Part Invention,” by Bach[54]
Love Motive from “Die Walküre”[180]
Opening of the “Lohengrin” Prelude[183]
Walhalla Motive[192]
Curse Motive[269]
Siegfried Motive[270]
Nibelung Smithy Motive[270]
Tarnhelm Motive[271]
Siegfried Horn Call[272]
Develops into Motive of Siegfried, the Hero[272]
And into Climax of the “Götterdämmerung” Funeral March[272]
Examples from “Tristan und Isolde”[273, 274]

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INTRODUCTION

“Are you musical?”

“No; I neither play nor sing.”

Your answer shows a complete misunderstanding of the case. Because you neither play nor sing, it by no means follows that you are unmusical. If you love music and appreciate it, you may be more musical than many pianists or singers; and certainly you may become so.

This book is planned for the lover of music, for those who throng the concert and recital halls and the opera—those who have not followed music as a profession, and yet love it as an art; who may not play or sing, and yet are musical. Among these is an ever-growing number that “wants to know,” that no longer is satisfied simply with allowing music to play upon the senses and the emotions, but wants to understand why it does so.