42: Mary Russell Mitford.
43: “Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini,” Bohn edition, p. 23.
44: “The Miserere” of “Gregorio
Allegri.” It was written for nine
voices in two choirs.
“There was a time when it was so much
treasured that to copy it
was a crime visited with
excommunication. Mozart
took down the notes while the choir was
singing it.” (See Grove’s
“Dictionary of Music and Musicians.”
Vol. I, page 54.)
45: Dr. Bridge “On Simple Counterpoint.” Preface.
46: Take, in August Haupt’s “Choralbuch
zum haeuslichen Gebrauch,”
any simple choral. The
one entitled “Zion klagt mit Angst und
Schmerzen” is of
singular beauty and simplicity.
47: Peters Edition, No. 200, page 11.
48: I should advise the teacher to have the two
volumes entitled “Les
Maitres du Clavicin.”
(They can be had in the Litolff
collection.)
49: Op. 106.
50: “Der Erster Verlust” in
Schumann’s Op. 68 is well conceived in
the sense that it is freely
harmonic in some places, imitative in
others, while in the opening
the melody is very simply
accompanied. Show the
children how interesting the left-hand part
is in this little composition.
51: From a Letter of the Spectator.
52: From the eighth paragraph of the Lecture
entitled “Nicholas, the
Pisan,” in “Val
D’Arno.”
53: A blind beggar sitting on a bridge in an
English town (it was
Chester) many times astonished
me with the rapidity of his
hand-reading, and by the wonderful
light of his face. It was
wholly free from the perplexity
which most of us show. It must
arise in us from being attracted
by so many things.
54: Eighty-first paragraph of “Val d’Arno.”
55: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, “The Meditations,” Book V, Par. 34.
56: See footnote, p. 119.
57: From the thirteenth paragraph of the fourth
book. I have changed
the wording a very little
to make it simple.
58: Sixteenth paragraph of the fifth book.
59: Essi quam videri.
60: “The Memorabilia.”
61: “Epictetus,” H.W. Rollison’s Translation.
62: Plato.
63: Mozart wrote three symphonies between June
26th and August 10th,
in the year 1778; and an Italian,
Giovanni Animuccia, is said to
have written three masses,
four motettes, and fourteen hymns
within five months. As
an instance of early composition, Johann
Friedrich Bernold had written
a symphony before he was ten years
of age, and was famous all
over Europe.
64: Xenophon, “The Memorabilia,” Book IV, Chapter VIII.
65: From the “Pleasures of Life.” Eighth Chapter of the Second Series.
66: The little romance of N.B. Saintine is referred to.