Music. A Guide to Understanding # 70569

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Music. A Guide to Understanding. By Erik Abrahamsen. Guðmundur Finnbogason, an Icelandic.
In the Journal of the Music Society, 1st year, 1st issue, 1938, it is mentioned about the publication of Erik Abrahamsen's book. It says "Last autumn, it was published for the first time in Icelandic.
a book about music in general. It was the Friends of the Nation, which
first attacked the issue of publishing such a book. Author
Her doctor is Dr. Erik Abrahamsen in Copenhagen, the one who
gave lectures here at the university a few years ago;
but Dr. Guðm. Finnbogason handled the translation. The book
provides the reader with 177 pages of basic information about most
is that music concerns, such as: the structure of a melody, the nature of the sound, chords, pure music and imitative music, musical form,
the history of music, etc. It is therefore a true treasure trove for music lovers, and furthermore, all those who
listen to the radio's music broadcast, the most immediate thing to get
sees it, because there will be many who understand Beethoven's symphonies and Bach's fugues as little as foreign
of the precious plains band verses, and is it not
without fail, since it is an equally important cultural issue
talk and music.

Dr. Guðm. Finnbogason has, with his translation, solved
a great work of art, in which he has, with great genius,
created a number of Icelandic musical terms. There was previously
not a rich garden to graze on, but it is worth mentioning
to the exam. Sigfús Einarsson had translated — and done well —
many words of phonetics, as GF has kept them
in its translation. I will leave it unsaid whether all the new words will
get stuck in the matter, but no doubt many of them will gain favor
musicians. I wish Dr. GF would end up at the ocean.
works and find good translations of the foreign musical terms that are relevant and still remain.

This book should be a textbook in all schools.
with mature students and would then its necessity
will soon be revealed. — If the board of the Friends of the Society and
Dr. Guðm. Finnbogason thanks for it."

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