William H. Stone

Name: A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: William H. Stone

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

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“A Dictionary of Music and Musicians”, published in 1900, is a work by William H. Stone. It explores elements such as bass, clarinet and Sax.

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ The Saxophone, though inferior in compass, quality, and power of articulation to the clarinet, and bassethorn, and especially to the bassoon, has great value in military combinations. It reproduces on a magnified scale something of the violoncello quality, and gives great sustaining power to the full chorus of brass instruments, by introducing a mass of harmonic overtones very wanting in Sax's other contrivance. In the orchestra, except to replace the bass clarinet, it is all but unknown. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ There can be no doubt that the inventor of the Saxhorn added greatly to the compass, richness, and flexibility of the military brass and reed bands. But it is a question whether the tone of these powerful auxiliaries blends so well with the stringed instruments as that of the trumpet, French horn, and trombone and hence their comparative neglect. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ The name given to a family of brass instruments with valves, invented by the late M. Sax.
'No one can be ignorant,' say the editors of the Method for Saxhorn and Saxo-tromba, 'of the deplorable state in which brass instruments were when M. Sax's method made its appearance. No coherence, no unity between the individual members of the group; in one case keys, in another valves; a small compass, an imperfect scale, lack of accurate intonation throughout, bad quality of tone, variations of fingering requiring fresh study in passing from one instrument to another. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ TENOROON, a name sometimes given to the Tenor Bassoon or Alto Fagotto in F. It is obviously a modification of the word Bassoon, for which little authority can be found. The identity of this instrument with the Oboe di Caccia of Bach has already been adverted to, and the error of assigning parts written for it by that composer, Beethoven, and others, to the Corno Inglese or Alto Oboe in the same key has been corrected. At the present time it has entirely gone out of use. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ When represented by a full choir it materially improves the tone quality, while its capacity for distinct rendering of very rapid passages, combined with its powerful tone, make it a valuable adjunct for obtaining a good balance of instrumentation of wind-bands.
The Saxophone is extensively employed in most military reed-bands of the south of Europe, especially those of France; but in the infantry bands of Germany and Austria it remains almost unknown. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ The passage is translated in the Septuagint ἐν σάλπιγξιν ἐλαταῖς καὶ φανῇ σάλπιγγος κερατίνης, and in the Vulgate 'in tubis ductilibus.et voce tubæ corneæ.' The chatsotsrah is obviously the trombone, which it will be shown by other evidence is of extreme antiquity; the shophar is in both Greek and Latin versions described as the 'horn-trumpet or ramshorn,' well known to have been used in Jewish festivals, whence in Numbers xxix. 1 a feast day is called 'a day of blowing the trumpets,' and in Joshua vi. 4 'seven trumpets of ramshorns' are minutely described as preceding the Ark. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ But as they have a large mouthpiece, and require a very loose embouchure, more can be done towards correcting harmonic imperfections of the scale by the player than in acuter instruments of the same character. ”

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William H. Stone, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ The name of this ancient instrument is variously derived from the Latin Calamus, Calamellus, 'a reed,' or from the German schallen, 'to sound.' The σῦριγξ of the Greeks, supposed by Bernsdorff and others to be identical with it, is shown by Mr. ”

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