The Musical Myths and Facts (Vol. 1&2). Engel Carl
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Carl Engel
The Musical Myths and Facts
(Vol. 1&2)
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2020 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066393991
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
COLLECTIONS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
THE STUDIES OF OUR GREAT COMPOSERS.
SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BELLS.
THE CHURCH BELLS BANISHING THE MOUNTAIN-DWARFS.
THE EXPULSION OF PAGANISM IN SWEDEN.
CURIOSITIES IN MUSICAL LITERATURE.
MUSICAL FAIRIES AND THEIR KINSFOLK.
THE FAIRY MUSIC OF OUR COMPOSERS.
SACRED SONGS OF CHRISTIAN SECTS.
PREFACE.
An idealized portrait of Beethoven, representing him as, in the opinion of many of his admirers, he must have looked in his moments of inspiration, would undoubtedly have made a handsomer frontispiece to this little work, than his figure roughly sketched by an artist who happened to see the composer rambling through the fields in the vicinity of Vienna.
The faithful sketch from life, however, indicates precisely the chief object of the present contribution to musical literature, which is simply to set forth the truth.
Whatever may be the short-comings