More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . THE STYLE OF THE MUSIC 401 idiom of the East is transmuted into a speech which be-longs to the world of exalted fancy—exalted yet altogetheringenuous. The score is wonderfully transparent. Thereis not an opaque measure in it, not one in which instru-ments are multiplied or colors mixed till the utterance be-comes turgid, not one in which one voice invalidatesanother, not one in which even the most exotic of tonesand combinations does not seem native because
More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . THE STYLE OF THE MUSIC 401 idiom of the East is transmuted into a speech which be-longs to the world of exalted fancy—exalted yet altogetheringenuous. The score is wonderfully transparent. Thereis not an opaque measure in it, not one in which instru-ments are multiplied or colors mixed till the utterance be-comes turgid, not one in which one voice invalidatesanother, not one in which even the most exotic of tonesand combinations does not seem native because of its fitnessto scene or situation. There are throbbings of Arab drums and the reedy tonesof oboes which might bring up memories of the Streets ofCairo in the big show in Chicago in 1893, if they were notrefined and sublimated by the atmosphere in which theyfloat, the atmosphere of the land of romance throughwhich we walked when we put our hands in the long agowithin the irresistible fingers of Scheherazade, where theystill remain and whence they shall never be withdrawn. Faint tintinnabulations of golden-toned gongs floatthroug
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