Word: musicologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Griffin writes in the first person in diary form. His hero is a young American musicologist in France who arrives at a Benedictine monastery to study Gregorian chant. Author Griffin did the same thing, admits that Devil is at least an "intellectual history." His hero is no Roman Catholic, but by the rules of the order he must live as a monk so long as he stays at the monastery. This is not easy. His unheated stone cell is bitterly cold, the food is execrable, and he must share such work as cleaning the primitive lavatories. Moreover, his brain...
...even the zestful playing of Lewin and Shapiro could rescue Beethoven's Sonata No.2 from its inherent dullness. Musicologist Paul Schauffler has called this an "optimistic" sonata, but to me it seems a very unpromising precursor of works like the Spring and Krentzer Sonatas. In theme and harmony it sounds, at its best, like bad Mozart...
First speaker was Karl Geiringer (second from left) chairman of the Boston University School of Music. Geiringer, a musicologist, spoke on the influences of Rennaissance and Gothic music on modern style. He defined musical history as "a spiral upwards instead of a direct climb. At times, we reach a point surprisingly near where our forebearers stood...
...Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud and a hoax...
...critic lamented for all: "Our emotions, our patriotic feelings, our attachment to those who made France great, have been abused." Musicologist Raugel and friends consoled themselves with plans for a possible concert of genuine music by Moulinié. Did they expect to hear a masterpiece? "My God, no," said one critic, "[Moulinié's] music has no pretensions." But, he promised, "it is ... loyal and sincere...