Books written by William James Henderson
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How Music Developed: A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music
We still have notes called breve and semibreve. We have now seen how melody, harmony, and rhythm entered the process of development of modern music. But I have already called attention to the fact that the early medieval composers had ...
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Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
His Life and His Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work William James Henderson. San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Temesvar, Salzburg, Melbourne, Lemburg, 1877; Gorlitz, Barmen, Regensburg, ...
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The Story Of Music: W. J. Henderson
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
The American music critic and lecturer William James Henderson (1855-1937) wrote for The New York Times and The New York Sun, provided the libretto for Walter Damrosch's opera Cyrano (1913)...
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Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
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Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
Excerpt from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The purpose of this volume is to offer to the English reader a short study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera, and to note in its history the growth of the artistic ...