MacMillan on Music: Essays on MusicDundurn, 1997 - 234 oldal In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous prestige to further the causes of music, MacMillan took every opportunity to admonish Canadians to develop our own composers, to honour our own performers, to educate our children musically, and to offer opportunities for all to hear, learn about, and enjoy great music. This selection of twenty essays and lectures covers the period from 1928 to 1964, and ranges over the gamut of MacMillan's life and interests: the cause of the Canadian composer; music education for adults as well as children; critical reviews; his early years as an organist; internment in a German prison camp during the First World War; Shakespeare and music; church music; and the lighter side in two humorous send-ups of academic lectures on Bach and Wagner. Here is a panorama of music over thirty-five years at mid-century, through the eyes of one of Canada's most brilliant and all-embracing musicians. |
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... 148 Music and Adult Education 154 Three Lectures 161 In Quires and Places Where They Sing 163 The Bard and Music 185 The Canadian Musical Public 209 The publisher would like to acknowledge the cooperation and support Contents.
... sing the madrigals ( Yes , a madrigal choir had been formed in Ruhleben ! ) And the man who comes to see the camp and says " Wie schön es ist ! " - He never would be missed . The last was a reference to the Anglican Bishop of Northern ...
... singing : Oh , is there not one maiden here Who , for a small consideration , Will let her shyness disappear And pander to a mild flirtation . To such a one , if such there be I swear by Heaven's high arch above you , If you will cast ...
... ( singing two octaves below the pitch of Mabel's song ) : Poor wand'ring one Though thou hast surely strayed Out of the camp , Back you must stamp , Poor wand'ring one ! So we prisoners enjoyed some amenities . The Organ Was My First Love ...
... singing enthusiastic . However , in the end all was well , and the very fact that the organ was only a two - manual one taught me to make the most of modest resources also a valuable lesson . This article turns out to be more ...