 ... and the Traviata, where the most tragic and highly wrought passages of vocal declamation are supported by an ordinary waltz rhythm in the accompaniment, which indeed seems to be doing its best to belie the drift of the words sung. Sometimes traces...  Masters in music - Página 294editado por - 1903Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Charles Villiers Stanford - 1908 - 246 páginas
...belie the drift of the words sung. Sometimes traces of the most unqualified banality occur, as witness the music assigned to the stage-band at the opening...temperament, which has permeated Verdi's life-work, and resulted in this his latest, his most powerful, and his most beautiful composition. It is precisely... | |
 | 1893 - 1062 páginas
...lowest," while Professor Stanford finds that even the worst passages in his operas of this period " possess in the very outspokenness of their vulgarity...honest man doing his best according to his lights." Similarly the critic of The Times adopts the prevalent idea that Boito's " Mefistofele " " is indisputably... | |
 | Dexter Smith, Lorin Fuller Deland, Philip Hale, Thomas Tapper - 1893 - 400 páginas
...lowest;" whilo Professor Stanford finds that even the worst passages in his operas of this period " possess in the very outspokenness of their vulgarity...honest man, doing his best according to his lights." Similarly the critic of the Times adopts the prevalent idea that Boi'to's " Meflstofele " "is indisputably... | |
 | 1893 - 906 páginas
...their lowest;" while Professor Stanford finds that even the worst passages in his operas of this period "possess in the very outspokenness of their vulgarity...to bring home to the listener that the composer is au honest man, doing his best according to hie lights." Similarly the critic of the Times adopts the... | |
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