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... strains of the last age would be considered intolerably dull and stupid by the listen- tempt to stir , till the bells began to ring round , which intimated the finishing of the peal , and which he always noticed . He would then get up ...
... strains of the last age would be considered intolerably dull and stupid by the listen- tempt to stir , till the bells began to ring round , which intimated the finishing of the peal , and which he always noticed . He would then get up ...
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... strains of Rossini . The true composer may be said to live , move , and have his being ' in the midst of sounds . To him they are the materials of his art . Not so with the painter : he loves stillness and repose , and rambles in search ...
... strains of Rossini . The true composer may be said to live , move , and have his being ' in the midst of sounds . To him they are the materials of his art . Not so with the painter : he loves stillness and repose , and rambles in search ...
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... strain of music upon the ear . Language is made up of words and syllables ; and these syllables , like notes in music , are of all possible lengths . It is a rude and incorrect distinc- tion which the Latin scholars have made in ...
... strain of music upon the ear . Language is made up of words and syllables ; and these syllables , like notes in music , are of all possible lengths . It is a rude and incorrect distinc- tion which the Latin scholars have made in ...
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... strain of music , founded upon the laws of musical expression . If we inspect the fine Adagios of Haydn and Beet- hoven , we shall find them composed of sounds vary- ing in duration from the slowest note to those of the greatest ...
... strain of music , founded upon the laws of musical expression . If we inspect the fine Adagios of Haydn and Beet- hoven , we shall find them composed of sounds vary- ing in duration from the slowest note to those of the greatest ...
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... strains of eloquence , delivered in the same level tone , always fail to produce much effect . Musically speaking , he is the best orator who has the greatest number of tones at his command , who unites the upper and lower voices to his ...
... strains of eloquence , delivered in the same level tone , always fail to produce much effect . Musically speaking , he is the best orator who has the greatest number of tones at his command , who unites the upper and lower voices to his ...
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The Music of Nature, Or, an Attempt to Prove That What Is Passionate and ... William Gardiner Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2015 |
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Сторінка 51 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Сторінка 256 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet...
Сторінка 51 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Сторінка i - The Music of Nature ; or, An Attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking, and Performing upon Musical Instruments, is derived from the Sounds of the Animated World.
Сторінка 434 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch...
Сторінка 434 - There's naught in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy!
Сторінка 220 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Сторінка 177 - But will GOD indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less the house that I have builded.
Сторінка 304 - But that which did please me beyond anything in the whole world, was the wind-musique when the angel comes down ; which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife...
Сторінка 126 - The first note he sang was taken with such delicacy, swelled by minute degrees to such an amazing volume, and afterward diminished in the same manner to a mere point, that it was applauded for full five minutes. After this he set off with such brilliancy and rapidity of execution, that it was difficult for the violins of those days to keep pace with him.