. Modern orchestration and instrumentation : or, The art of instrumentation ; containing detailed descriptions of the character and peculiarities of all instruments and their practical employment. resulting incongru-ences, led to that indistinctness whereof I prom-ised an example from my experience. Thisoccurs in Maxs Arioso in the Freischiitz ; Durch die Walder, durch die Auen. Herethe poet had committed the egregious blunderof furnishing the composer with the followingverse : — ■ Abends bracht ich reiche Beute,Und wie iiber eignes Gliick —Drohend wohl dem Miirder — freuteSich Agathas Liebesb
. Modern orchestration and instrumentation : or, The art of instrumentation ; containing detailed descriptions of the character and peculiarities of all instruments and their practical employment. resulting incongru-ences, led to that indistinctness whereof I prom-ised an example from my experience. Thisoccurs in Maxs Arioso in the Freischiitz ; Durch die Walder, durch die Auen. Herethe poet had committed the egregious blunderof furnishing the composer with the followingverse : — ■ Abends bracht ich reiche Beute,Und wie iiber eignes Gliick —Drohend wohl dem Miirder — freuteSich Agathas Liebesblick. Now, Weber really takes the trouble to phrasethese lines in strict accordance with their senseand sequence; he therefore makes a break afterthe parenthesis, drohend wohl dem Morder,and begins with the closing line with freute ;but as that makes the line much longer, he feelsobliged to employ the verb — so important fora connection with the second line — as a pre-liminary Arsis {Auftakt) ; whereas the pro-noun sich merely introduced to supplementthe verb, receives the stronger accent of the fol-lowing beat. This certainly has resulted in anentrancing strain of melody : —. M or-der. freu - te sich a^ fctetegi^^S-lS thes Lie bes - blick. 292 KLINGS MODERN INSTRUMENTATrON AND ORCHESTRATION. Not only is the poets verse as such, however,revealed as an absurdity, but, for all the distinct-ness of its musical phrasing, the sense has be-come so hard of understanding that, accustomedto merely hear it sung, it was only after thisunintelligibleness had one day struck me that Idiscovered the true connection of ideas. A simi-lar difficulty arises in further course of the samearia through the favorite poetic trick of disasso-ciating words for sake of rhyme; and here thecomposer unfortunately makes things worse byrepeating the parenthesis : — • Wenn sich rauschend Blatter regen,Wahnt sie wohl, es sei mein Fuss,Hiipft vor Freuden, winkt entgegen —Nur dem Laub — nur d
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