My Musical Life
My Musical Life
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Chorley — the very humble servant of everybody's tunes; but these tunes had to be strung together, so the recitative, used for centuries in church, was borrowed ; then the product was naturally a little dull, so the whole had to be whipped up with a dance ; hence the ballet, and there you have the three fixed points of the opera — aria, recitative, and ballet — which to this day deter- mine the form of modern opera. Thus opera, whilst it had no connection with the real drama, did not even sprin...g from the best musical elements. '^ From the prosperity of opera in Italy, '' says Wagner, ''the art-student will date the decline of music in that country No one who has any conception of the grandeur and ineffable depth of the earlier Italian church music — Palestrina's ' Stabat Mater, ' for instance — will ever dream of maintaining that Italian opera can be looked upon as the legitimate daughter of that wondrous mother. '^* As ear-tickling, and not truth of expression, was the chief thing, and as there was nothing much to be expressed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Chorley — the very humble servant of everybody's tunes; but these tunes had to be strung together, so the recitative, used for centuries in church, was borrowed ; then the product was naturally a little dull, so the whole had to be whipped up with a dance ; hence the ballet, and there you have the three fixed points of the opera — aria, recitative, and ballet — which to this day deter- mine the form of modern opera. Thus opera, whilst it had no connection with the real drama, did not even sprin...g from the best musical elements. '^ From the prosperity of opera in Italy, '' says Wagner, ''the art-student will date the decline of music in that country No one who has any conception of the grandeur and ineffable depth of the earlier Italian church music — Palestrina's ' Stabat Mater, ' for instance — will ever dream of maintaining that Italian opera can be looked upon as the legitimate daughter of that wondrous mother. '^* As ear-tickling, and not truth of expression, was the chief thing, and as there was nothing much to be expressed.
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