Word: wagner
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Three lectures on "Modern Music; Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner," by Mr. T. M. Osborne '84, in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, beginning at 8 p. m. on the dates given below. These lectures are not of a technical character, and are illustrated by pianoforte and vocal selections. Open to the public. The remaining lectures are as follows; Mar. 5, Schubert and the Song; April 2, Wagner and the Opera...
...dreams, introduced by Rousseau and Chateaubriand and defined by Verlaine. The French symbolists or "decadents" belong to this latter class. They employ a very vague form of symbolism, endeavoring to make their verse musical, and paying little need to coherence. In this respect they are nearly akin to Wagner, the great symbolistic composer. The symbolists have trespassed against all rules of poetry, and for this reason are not recognized as good authors by the leading critics of the day. M. de Regnier is the only "decadent" who has really received recognition, and he has had an honor which none...
...advance in the art of music. In spite of this great progress, however, music is still in its formative stage. It is an art of which the nature is still mysterious and unknown. "Modern Music" is essentially individual in its expression, and is of dramatic tendency. Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner are the exponents of the more strictly modern music. Before Beethoven's time all the elements of the art existed, and were organized by Bach in such a way as to completely anticipate modern changes. But it remained for Beethoven to develop these elements into something like their present form...
Lectures on Modern Music.Mr. T. M. Osborne '84, will give three lectures on "Modern Music: Beethoven, Schubert. Wagner," in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, beginning at 8 p. m., on the dates given below. These lectures will be open to the public...
...Wagner and the Opera...