Till Eulenspiegel Research Articles

"Ausgezeichnete Aufnahme! Aber Was mach' ich damit?": A Suggestion for Advanced Lab

Our students are indeed lucky that so many fine commercially recorded language materials are available today. In some they can hear Gymnasiasten from Mannheim or Hamburg tell about their home towns, in others they can eavesdrop on a Berlin family beim Sonntagsessen, and in still others they can follow the dramatized adventures of Hans im Gliick or Till Eulenspiegel. There are poems, interviews, gems of wit, songs, commentaries, plays, stories, and many more audio materials through which our students can earwitness German as a living language in a living culture. Whether these recordings were prepared for American students of German or for the enjoyment of children and adults in Germany, they all constitute excellent materials for advanced lab--if we know how

A Study of Humor in Music

Composers of music have long implied by the very names they have given their works (Scherzo, A Musical Joke, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), that music can express humor. A number of psychological studies have tended to confirm this implication.' As the confirmation has been, however, somewhat incidental, the present investigation was planned to focus specifically upon humor in music and to discover especially (1) whether music of humorous intent can fulfill its purpose without benefit of title, and if so, (2) whether the sources of humor are ever wholly intrinsic to the music.2 The full scope of the study involves also the following questions, which depend upon an affirmative answer to our first general query. Is there unanimity of opinion as to what particular passages are humorous? Does the title make any difference to the humorousness of the composition? What are the alleged sources of humor? What information upon these sources is revealed by a musical analysis of humorous passages? Are humorous passages ever considered beautiful? Does a relation exist between a sense of humor in music and in life-situations or between 'a sense

Some Experiments in the Advanced Practice Course

The problem of teaching elementary German has been given so much attention in recent years that the issue of a new grammar has become a matter of rather little importance. Also reading material has been published and is still being published in such quantities that one can hardly understand how the printing costs of some of it can ever be met. In this respect, there is now only one lack, that of worth while easy reading material to accompany the study of the grammar and leading to texts somewhat more difficult than Immensee. Guerber's Mirchen und Erzihlungen I, Betz's adaptations of Till Eulenspiegel, Die Schildbiirger and Mirnchhausen, Henning's Klein Heini, and a few other readers are at present the only books to bridge this gap; but it is to be hoped that they will shortly be supplemented by a number of more modern texts.'

A STUDY OF STRAUSS

Journal Article A STUDY OF STRAUSS Get access DANIEL GREGORY MASON DANIEL GREGORY MASON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume II, Issue 2, April 1916, Pages 171–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/II.2.171 Published: 01 April 1916