The Beautiful in Music; a Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics
The Beautiful in Music; a Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics
Hanslick, Eduard, 1825-1904
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They resemble a silhouette, the original of which we recognise only after being told whose likeness it is. What is true of isolated passages is true also in a wider application. There are many cases where an D THE BEAUTIFUL IN MUSIC. entirely new text has been employed for a complete musical work. If Meyerbeer's " Huguenots, " after changing the scene of action, the time, the characters, and the plot, were to be performed as "The Ghibellines of Pisa, " though so clumsy an adaptation would, undo...ubtedly, produce a dis- agreeable impression, the purely musical part would in no way suffer. And yet the religious feeling and fanaticism which are entirely wanting in " The Ghibellines" are supposed to be the motive power in " The Huguenots. " Luther's hymn must not be cited as counter-evidence, as it is merely a quotation. From a musical point of view it consists with any profession of faith whatever. Has the reader ever heard the Allegro fugato from the Overture to "The Magic Flute" changed into a vocal quartet of quarrelling Jewish pedlars?
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