[COMPLETE] How to Appreciate Music by Gustav Kobbé - ava

anne21 · Post by **anne21** » January 6th, 2011, 9:35 am

debolee wrote:Is there a 'correct' way to pronounce his name? I know this is nitpicky, but just in case there is a preference - is it Gustav or Gustav? And is it koh-bay or kaw-bay?

Thanks!
Deborah

I think the standard pronunciation would be 'Gus-tav Kobb-bay', but no one will take you to task if you pronounce it differently. One of the beauties of LibriVox lies in the multiplicity of accents and colours brought to readings by the various volunteer readers.

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » January 6th, 2011, 9:50 am

Thanks for that Anne. I was wondering that too.

debolee · Post by **debolee** » January 6th, 2011, 1:59 pm

That works for me.

Thank you!

Deborah

borg · Post by **borg** » January 7th, 2011, 5:40 am

I've proof listened chapter one, The Pianoforte. The beginning and end of the recording are correct. No long silences, pauses, stumbles or repeats that bothered me. Voice/noise ratio is great, so is the volume.

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » January 7th, 2011, 8:26 am

Thank you for the PLing.

sherlock85 · Post by **sherlock85** » January 8th, 2011, 8:14 pm

I'll take section 4 off of your hands.

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » January 8th, 2011, 9:01 pm

Thanks. Have fun!

Latimer · Post by **Latimer** » January 10th, 2011, 9:57 am

Hi

Uploading Chapter 13 (A Note on Chamber Music) -

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ava/howtoappreciatemusic_13_kobbe.mp3

Duration - 6:54

Regards
Dick Summerfield

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » January 10th, 2011, 10:07 am

Latimer wrote:Hi

Uploading Chapter 13 (A Note on Chamber Music) -

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ava/howtoappreciatemusic_13_kobbe.mp3

Duration - 6:54

Thank you. I've uploaded the MW.

MARTIN GEESON · Post by **MARTIN GEESON** » January 10th, 2011, 12:11 pm

Hi

May I also read Chapter 7 (Liszt, the Giant among Virtuosos), please?

Martin

johntkucz · Post by **johntkucz** » January 10th, 2011, 2:52 pm

Hi,
Could I do Sections 3 (fugue) and 12 (strauss)? Skimmed over those and they look very interesting. Thanks!

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » January 10th, 2011, 3:24 pm

Sure. Thanks for taking them.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » January 11th, 2011, 11:47 am

Don't forget to assign ch 7 to Martin. He asked for it a couple of posts above :)

(Just popped in to see if I should claim it, since it looks like the only remaining unassigned chapter)

prwells32 · Post by **prwells32** » January 11th, 2011, 12:02 pm

Oh. Thank you Karay. I missed that post.

Edit: Looks like we are now fully subscribed!

kayray · Post by **kayray** » January 11th, 2011, 4:00 pm

Here is Chapter 2:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ava/howtoappreciatemusic_02_kobbe.mp3 - 53:19 (with the three musical examples included)

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Fastest hour-long chapter I've ever read. Though I disagree rather violently with some of the author's opinions. He claims that "...when there is a fugue or other complicated contrapuntal work on the program of a pianoforte recital, the average listener is apt to find it dry and uninteresting." Bach, dry and uninteresting??? Please! Who could possibly be MORE interesting than Bach?

And "None the less is it true that Bach appeals more strongly to the scientific musician than to the music-lover who seeks in music a secondary meaning—love, passion, grief; the mood awakened by the contemplation of a forest landscape with its murmuring foliage, a boundless prairie, or the unquiet sea."

Ok, I'm the "scientific musician" then. I hate Romantic era's mushy, overwrought, program music. I don't want a secondary emotional "meaning" in my music!

Anyway, that was fun :)