Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . yclus, andthe difference in the breeding of the charac-ters is startling. Yet the materials for bothwere drawn from the same stores of legend;and the music of Tennysons lines is inspiredby the same orchestral instinct that led Wag-ners music to victory. In fact, Tennysonwas making poetry orchestral at the momentthat Wagner was making music a philosophy of the Ring and of Par-sifal will ere long become a curiosity of thenineteenth century. The political polemicsof Wagner and his cult will be referred tothe effervescence of a young natio
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . yclus, andthe difference in the breeding of the charac-ters is startling. Yet the materials for bothwere drawn from the same stores of legend;and the music of Tennysons lines is inspiredby the same orchestral instinct that led Wag-ners music to victory. In fact, Tennysonwas making poetry orchestral at the momentthat Wagner was making music a philosophy of the Ring and of Par-sifal will ere long become a curiosity of thenineteenth century. The political polemicsof Wagner and his cult will be referred tothe effervescence of a young nation eager toset all society to rights. Music as the lan-guage of ideas can hardly go farther thanRichard Strausss reiteration of Nietzschesdismal propositions in Thus spake Zara-thushtra, unless it adopts a code of for-mulae, like telegraphy. The pendulum hasalready begun its backward swing towardLatin art. But the music of Wagner, freeand clear of all accidentals of time, will liveon, beautiful, noble, and unique, while civili-zation
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