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📖 POEM: MUSIC - VII - DANCE-MUSIC

Now let the sleep-tune blend with the play-tune,
Weaving the mystical spell of the dance;
Lighten the deep tune, soften the gay tune,
Mingle a tempo that turns in a trance.
Half of it sighing, half of it smiling,
Smoothly it swings, with a triplicate beat;
Calling, replying, yearning, beguiling,
Wooing the heart and bewitching the feet.
Every drop of blood
Rises with the flood,
Rocking on the waves of the strain;
Youth and beauty glide
Turning with the tide—
Music making one out of twain,
Bearing them away, and away, and away,
Like a tone and its terce—
Till the chord dissolves, and the dancers stay,
And reverse.

Violins leading, take up the measure,
Turn with the tune again,—clarinets clear
Answer their pleading,—harps full of pleasure
Sprinkle their silver like light on the mere.
Semiquaver notes,
Merry little motes,
Tangled in the haze
Of the lamp's golden rays,
Quiver everywhere
In the air,
Like a spray,—
Till the fuller stream of the might of the tune,
Gliding like a dream in the light of the moon,
Bears them all away, and away, and away,
Floating in the trance of the dance.

Then begins a measure stately,
Languid, slow, serene;
All the dancers move sedately,
Stepping leisurely and straitly,
With a courtly mien;
Crossing hands and changing places,
Bowing low between,
While the minuet inlaces
Waving arms and woven paces,—
Glittering damaskeen.
Where is she whose form is folden
In its royal sheen?
From our longing eyes withholden
By her mystic girdle golden,
Beauty sought but never seen,
Music walks the maze, a queen.

Henry van Dyke

"Men such as Sauer, Rachmaninov, d’Albert, Paderewski, Godowsky, Bachaus, Rosenthal, Pauer, Joseffy, Stojowski, Scharwenka, Gabrilowitsch, Hofmann, Bauer, Lhevinne, to say nothing of the ladies, Bloomfield-Zeisler, Carreño, Goodson, et al.,many of whom are intellectual giants. Most all are exceedingly regular in their habits, and at least two are strong temperance advocates. Intellectually, pianists of this class represent a very remarkable kind of mentality. One is impressed with the surprising quickness with which their brains operate even in ordinary conversation. Speaking in alien languages, they find comparatively little difficulty in expressing themselves with rapidity and fluency. Very few great singers ever acquire a similar ease. These pianists are wonderfully well read, many being acquainted with the liter-
ature of three or more tongues in the original. Indeed, it is not unusual to find them skipping through several languages during ordinary conversation without realizing that they are performing linguistic feats that would put the average college graduate to shame. They are familiar with art, science, politics, manufactures, even in their most recent developments."

James Francis Cooke Great Pianists on Piano Playing

Music Documentaries about Musicians and Music Education

Explore and watch documentaries and films about musicians - pianist, conductors, violinists, singers and much more.

Among the film makers who had the insight to make fantastic documentaries about music and musicians are Bruno Monsaingeon and Christopher Nupen to name only a few. Bruno Monsaingeon made films with the legendary Glenn Gould.

Documentaries about Chamber Music

Schubert Piano Quintet D667 The Trout Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas

Documentaries about Conductors

The Art of Conducting - Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era (1997)

Documentaries about Pianists

Claudio Arrau “A life in music” (1977)

Documentary on Maria Yudina in Russian

Glenn Gould The Retreat

Documentary Film about the Pianist Arcadi Volodos in German

Ashkenazy Observed / Allegro Film (Christopher Nupen Documentary of 1987 about Vladimir Ashkenazy)

Vladimir Ashkenazy - The Vital Juices are Russian / Allegro Film (Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Evgeny Kissin - The Gift of Music / Allegro Film (Christopher Nupen Documentary of 1998)

Daniil Trifonov - The Magics of Music: An intimate portrait of the Russian pianist and composer

Documentary on Konstantin Igumnov - Pianist and Teacher (in Russian)
"Константин Игумнов. Аккорды жизни"
Автор Сергей Тихомиров

Stanislav Neuhaus - The Live Voice of the Soul
Documentary (with English subtitles), directed by Vladislav Bykov

Documentaries about Violinists

David Oistrakh Genius of the Violin
Russian Documentary

Paganini's Daemon: A Most Enduring Legend / Allegro Film (Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Nathan Milstein, Master of Invention - Some Memories of a Quiet Magician | Part One (Allegro Films / Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Nathan Milstein, Master of Invention - Some Memories of a Quiet Magician | Part Two (Allegro Films / Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Gidon Kremer - Man of Many Musics (Allegro Films / Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Pinchas Zukerman: Here to make music - Documentary of 1975 (Allegro Films / Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Documentaries about Cellists

Remembering Jacqueline du Pré (Allegro Films / Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Who was Jacqueline du Pré? (Allegro Films / Christopher Nupen Documentary)

Documentaries about Guitarists

John Williams at Ronnie Scott's - Documentary of 1971

Documentaries about Music Education

The film "Young Musicians" about the Central Music School (1945, directed by Vera Stroeva)

Documentary about Tatiana Nikolayeva