Stories of SYMPHONIC MUSIC
Reading edition
A GUIDE TO THE MEANING OF IMPORTANT SYMPHONIES, OVERTURES, AND TONE-POEMS FROM BEETHOVEN TO THE PRESENT DAY
BY LAWRENCE GILMAN AUTHOR OF "PHASES OF MODERN MUSIC" "THE MUSIC OF TO-MORROW" ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS MCMVII
Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. Published October, 1907.
TO E. W. G.
CONTENTS
PAGE
PREFACE xi
THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST 1
BANTOCK
TONE-POEM, "THE WITCH OF ATLAS" 11
Prelude, "Sappho" 15
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" 19
Overture to "Coriolanus" 24
Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral" 25
Overture to "Egmont" 27
BERLIOZ
Overture to "King Lear" 31
Fantastic Symphony 34
Symphony, "Harold in Italy" 36
BIZET
Suite from "L'Arlésienne" 43
CHADWICK
Overture, "Melpomene" 49
Overture, "Adonais" 51
Overture, "Euterpe" 52
Symphonic Poem, "Cleopatra" 53
CHARPENTIER
Suite, "Impressions of Italy" 57
CHAUSSON
Symphonic Poem, "Viviane" 61
CONVERSE
Romance, "The Festival of Pan" 65
Romance, "Endymion's Narrative" 67
Two Poems, "Night" and "Day" 68
Overture, "Euphrosyne" 70
Fantasy, "The Mystic Trumpeter" 70
DEBUSSY
Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" 73
Three Nocturnes 75
Three Sketches, "The Sea" 77
DUKAS
"Scherzo," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" 79
DVOŘÁK
Overture, "Nature" 85
Overture, "Carnival" 87
Overture, "Othello" 89
Symphonic Poem, "The Wood Dove" 91
ELGAR
Variations ("Enigma") 95
Overture, "Cockaigne" 96
Two Pieces, "Dream Children" 98
Overture, "In the South" 101
FRANCK
Symphonic Poem, "Les Éolides" 105
Symphonic Poem, "The Wild Huntsman" 106
Suite, "Psyche" 108
Symphonic Poem, "The Djinns" 113
GLAZOUNOFF
Symphonic Poem, "Stenka Râzine" 115
Symphonic Picture, "The Kremlin" 117
GOLDMARK
Overture, "Sakuntala" 119
Symphony, "Rustic Wedding" 120
GRIEG
Suite (No. 1), "Peer Gynt" 123
HADLEY
Tone-Poem, "Salome" 127
HUBER
Symphony No. 2, in E Minor ["Böcklin"] 131
d'INDY
Legend, "The Enchanted Forest" 137
Legend, "Saugefleurie" 138
Variations, "Istar" 139
Tone-Poem, "Summer Day on the Mountain" 141
LISZT
Symphonic Poem, "Tasso: Lament and Triumph" 145
Symphonic Poem, "The Preludes" 147
Symphonic Poem, "Orpheus" 148
Symphonic Poem, "Mazeppa" 151
Symphonic Poem, "Festklänge" 154
Symphonic Poem, "The Battle of the Huns" 155
Symphonic Poem, "The Ideal" 157
"A 'Faust' Symphony" 161
"Symphony after Dante's 'Divina Commedia'" 164
"Two Episodes from Lenau's 'Faust'" 173
LOEFFLER
Symphonic Poem, "The Death of Tintagiles" 177
"Poem" ["La Bonne Chanson"] 182
Fantasia, "The Devil's Villanelle" 184
"A Pagan Poem" 187
MAC DOWELL
Symphonic Poem, "Lancelot and Elaine" 191
Two Fragments (after the "Song of Roland") 194
Suite (No. 2), "Indian" 196
MENDELSSOHN
Overture, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 199
Overture, "Fingal's Cave" 200
Overture, "Becalmed at Sea and Prosperous Voyage" 202
Overture, "The Lovely Melusina" 203
Symphony No. 3 ("Scotch") 206
Symphony No. 4 ("Italian") 208
RAFF
Symphony No. 3, "In the Woods" 213
Symphony No. 5, "Lenore" 216
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
Symphonic Poem, "Sadko" 221
Symphony, "Antar" 222
Suite, "Scheherazade" 226
"A Night on Mount Triglav" (from the Opera-Ballet
"Mlada") 229
Suite, "Christmas Eve" 231
SAINT-SAËNS
Symphonic Poem, "Omphale's Spinning-wheel" 235
Symphonic Poem, "Phaëton" 236
Symphonic Poem, "Dance of Death" 237
Symphonic Poem, "The Youth of Hercules" 238
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1, in B-flat Major ["Spring"] 241
Overture to "Manfred" 243
SIBELIUS
Symphonic Poem, "Lemminkainen:"
"The Swan of Tuonela" 248
"Lemminkainen's Home-Faring" 249
SMETANA
Symphonic Cycle, "My Fatherland:"
I. "Vysehrad" 251
II. "Vltava" 252
III. "Sárka" 252
IV. "From Bohemia's Fields and Groves" 253
V. "Tabor" 253
VI. "Blanik" 253
SPOHR
Symphony, "The Consecration of Sound" 255
STRAUSS
Fantasia, "From Italy" 259
Tone-Poem, "Don Juan" 261
Tone-Poem, "Macbeth" 264
Tone-Poem, "Death and Transfiguration" 266
"Rondo," "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" 269
Tone-Poem, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" 275
Variations, "Don Quixote"285
Tone-Poem, "A Hero's Life" 292
"Domestic Symphony" 297
TSCHAIKOWSKY
Overture, "Romeo and Juliet" 303
Fantasia, "The Tempest" 305
Fantasia, "Francesca da Rimini" 308
Symphony No. 4, in F Minor 316
Symphony, "Manfred" 323
Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic" 329
Ballad, "The Voyvode" 335
WAGNER
"A 'Faust' Overture" 339
"A Siegfried Idyl" 343
WOLF
Symphonic Poem, "Penthesilea" 347
INDEX 353