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... Beethoven's Andante Cantabile Behind yon hills Bell piece Bel raggio Bowing the Violin Beviamo tutti tre Braw , braw lads Can I forget Can nothing warm me Come , come , my Clori pastorella dear Cruda sorte Di tanti palpiti From glaring ...
... Beethoven's Andante Cantabile Behind yon hills Bell piece Bel raggio Bowing the Violin Beviamo tutti tre Braw , braw lads Can I forget Can nothing warm me Come , come , my Clori pastorella dear Cruda sorte Di tanti palpiti From glaring ...
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... Beethoven , † are instances . Then may we not suppose , that the decay of the organ arises from the internal action of the mind , calling up ideas of light and sound ? To those who have never heard , what a blank the creation must ...
... Beethoven , † are instances . Then may we not suppose , that the decay of the organ arises from the internal action of the mind , calling up ideas of light and sound ? To those who have never heard , what a blank the creation must ...
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... Beethoven , in his Pastoral Symphony , has given us the warm hum of the insects by the side of the babbling brook ; and , as our musical enterprise enlarges , noises will be introduced with effect into the modern orchestra that will ...
... Beethoven , in his Pastoral Symphony , has given us the warm hum of the insects by the side of the babbling brook ; and , as our musical enterprise enlarges , noises will be introduced with effect into the modern orchestra that will ...
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... Beethoven , the greatest writer for stringed instruments , we find many bars included in one bow ; particularly when he intends to diminish the tone to pianissimo . This requires skill in slowly measuring out the bow , to insure the ...
... Beethoven , the greatest writer for stringed instruments , we find many bars included in one bow ; particularly when he intends to diminish the tone to pianissimo . This requires skill in slowly measuring out the bow , to insure the ...
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... Beethoven's Adelaide , ' ' Marmion , ' with scenes from the Italian Operas , and the ballads of the day . The facility with which he executed every thing he undertook , was as apparent as the spirit with which he at once entered into ...
... Beethoven's Adelaide , ' ' Marmion , ' with scenes from the Italian Operas , and the ballads of the day . The facility with which he executed every thing he undertook , was as apparent as the spirit with which he at once entered into ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
accent admiration Anacreon ancient animals appeared attention bass bassoon beauty Beethoven bells Bird Braham breath called CHAPTER character charm chord church clarionet composer composition concert delight Don Giovanni double bass echoes effect English execution expression extraordinary feelings flute force formed grace Handel harmony Haydn hear heard heart human voice instance Italian language Leicester letter listen Lord loud Madame manner melody ment mind mouth Mozart musical expression musician natural never noise oboe octave Opera oratorio orchestra organ passage passion peculiar performance persons piano-forte play pleasure PORTAMENTO produced psalmody render Rossini scarcely scene semitone singer singing soft song soprano soul sound speaking strain string stringed instruments style sublime sung sweet syllables taste tenor theatre thee thunder tion tone tune uttered violin violoncello vocal vocalists vowel wind instruments words writer yes yes
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 434 - There's naught in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy!
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.