Word: melodye
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Now a gentle, snow-haired lady of 82 living in London, Franz Peter Schubert's grandniece talks easily of how, when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor...
I LET A SONG Go RIGHT OUT OF MY HEART (Duke Ellington; Brunswick). Ellington at his pre-recession best. Probably more acceptable to lovers of melody than lovers of heat.
Particularly worthy of attention as an excellent example of dramatic a capella composition is Milhand's Psaume. This begins with a low bass note that is almost like a growl in its quiet intensity. There follows a rapid swell as the baritones rush upward, and the tenors break in with...
There follows a terrific fortissimo "Jersualem" in all voices, which is followed by a gradual diminuendo as the tenors continue their nervous melody, the baritones subside down the scale, and the basses chant repeatedly an ever-quieter "Jerusalem." This structure is typical of the whole piece-rapid crescendos, gradual diminuendos...
To Germans and Austrians the word Lied means simply song. To the rest of the world it means a particular kind of song, as peculiarly Austro-German as Knackwurst. In Italy, where a beautiful voice is regarded as a princely possession, songs are likely to have melodies constructed to show...