Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . CHOPIN MEDAL DESIGNED BY MARY GERSON. WHAT POET IS MOST AKIN TO CHOPIN? BY FANNY MORRIS SMITH SINCE Jean Ingelow suggested it, theproposition Las been frequently laiddown that Chopin is to music what Tenny-son is to poetry. Undoubtedly there ismuch in the exquisite tone-coloring, fault-less finish, and extreme delicacy and refine-ment of the one poet which suggests theother. Both, moreover, belong, in a broadsense, to the same artistic period,—thatperiod which includes Shelley, Keats, andSwinburne on the one hand, and the entiregroup of romantic pi
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . CHOPIN MEDAL DESIGNED BY MARY GERSON. WHAT POET IS MOST AKIN TO CHOPIN? BY FANNY MORRIS SMITH SINCE Jean Ingelow suggested it, theproposition Las been frequently laiddown that Chopin is to music what Tenny-son is to poetry. Undoubtedly there ismuch in the exquisite tone-coloring, fault-less finish, and extreme delicacy and refine-ment of the one poet which suggests theother. Both, moreover, belong, in a broadsense, to the same artistic period,—thatperiod which includes Shelley, Keats, andSwinburne on the one hand, and the entiregroup of romantic pianists on the other;and which, in its poetical development, com-prehends the phase of art that depends forits charm on the play of tone-color in thewords selected to express the thought, whiletending more and more to the subordinationof both rhyme and metrical motion to theclaims of alliteration. In so far as what Tyndall has called theclang-tint makes or mars music, and, to anequal degree, interpretation, this is Chopinsschool. But it sho
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