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Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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key, which is in reality higherthan A sharp and lower than B flat. This was Bachs in-vention; and without this, either a piano would need to havemany more keys, or else the player would be unable to varyhis music by modulations. Bachs music is distinguished by remarkable grandeur andharmony and a marvelous freshness of invention. Generation after generation of the Bach family showedmarked musical ability. It was their custom each year tohold a reunion, with much music of course; first of all adignified chorale, and last a catch in which merry jests againstthe whims and foibles of those present were extemporized byone after another. The reproduction of Rosenthals painting is especiallycharming in its portraiture of quiet, happy family life, thecharacters ranging from the serious youth with the violin tothe baby playing with the kitten. The quaint little maiden atthe left might have stepped out of some courtly ballroom;but at the right the simple preparations for breakfast aregoing on.
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HANDEL, THE MASTER OF ORATORIO (1685-1759) L. B. URBINO (George Frederick Handel was born in 1685. His father, a physician and surgeon of reputation, meant to have a lawyer son, and had no sympathy with the boys love of music. The Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, however, fortunately chanced to hear him play on the church organ, and was so pleased with his ability that he persuaded the unwilling father to let his son study music. At the age of twenty-sixHandel became chapel-master of the Elector of Hanover. Somewhat later he paid a visit to England and did not keephis agreement to return promptly. When the elector be-came George I of England, Handel was in disgrace with him, but he was restored to favor. At length he became chapel-master to the Duke of Chandos. It was then that hecomposed his magnificent anthems and organ fugues. In1741, he brought out the Messiah, his masterpiece.It is said of his work that in boldness and strength of style,and in the combination of vigor, spirit, and invention in h

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