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This is an educational book on writing music written by Clement Harris.
From the IntroductionIt is reasonable to
expect that a musician shall be at least an accurate and legible writer as well
as a reader of the language of his Art. The immense increase in the amount of
music published, and its cheapness, seem rather to have increased than
decreased this necessity, for they have vastly multiplied activity in the Art.
If they have not intensified the necessity for music-writing, they have
increased the number of those by whom the necessity is felt.
Intelligent knowledge
of Notation is the more necessary inasmuch as music-writing is in only a
comparatively few cases mere copying. Even when writing from a copy, some
alteration is frequently necessary, as will be shown in the following pages,
requiring independent knowledge of the subject on the part of the copyist.
(See e.g., par. 28.)
Yet many musicians,
thoroughly competent as performers, cannot write a measure of music without
bringing a smile to the lips of the initiated.
About the Composer/AuthorClement Hugh Gilbert Harris (8 July 1871 23 April 1897) was an English pianist and composer who studied in Germany and died fighting in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
He was born in London and educated at Harrow School. He subsequently studied music in Frankfurt, where he was a piano pupil of Clara Schumann. He became intimate friends with Siegfried Wagner and in 1892, undertook a trip to the far East in Wagner's company. During the voyage, he sketched his symphonic poem Paradise Lost, after Milton and helped Siegfried Wagner to choose a composing and conducting career rather than as an architect. An enthusiastic admirer of Greek culture, he was travelling in Greece at the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish war and organized his own battalion of mercenaries to fight on the Greek side. He was killed at Pente Pigadia on 23 April 1897 at the age of 25. Harris's death was commemorated by the poet Stefan George in the poem 'Pente Pigadia' in his collection Der siebente Ring.
Clement Harris's works included pieces for piano, including Il pensieroso and L'Allegro after Milton, romances for violin and piano and clarinet, cello and piano, and songs. His diaries were published in German by the Stefan George scholar Claus Bock.
In 192223 Siegfried Wagner composed the symphonic poem Glück as a memorial to Harris. - From Wikipedia
Publisher: Theoria Music Publishing
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