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 WorldLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 - 505 páginas |
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... hundred yards , though not perceptible to any bystander . Miners , in boring for coal , can tell by the sound what substance they are penetrating ; and a recent discovery is that of applying a listen- ing - tube to the breast to detect ...
... hundred yards , though not perceptible to any bystander . Miners , in boring for coal , can tell by the sound what substance they are penetrating ; and a recent discovery is that of applying a listen- ing - tube to the breast to detect ...
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... hundred paces , when compared with the Amati , it will be scarcely heard . * Organs afford another proof of this observation ; for we often find those which are overpowering when near , fail to produce that solemn grandeur of note at a ...
... hundred paces , when compared with the Amati , it will be scarcely heard . * Organs afford another proof of this observation ; for we often find those which are overpowering when near , fail to produce that solemn grandeur of note at a ...
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... hundred notes in a breath , while many of our public singers are ready to drop with exhaustion in getting through the division of twelve bars in the last song of the Messiah . Though the noise of drawing the breath has been condemned ...
... hundred notes in a breath , while many of our public singers are ready to drop with exhaustion in getting through the division of twelve bars in the last song of the Messiah . Though the noise of drawing the breath has been condemned ...
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... hundred years ? * Where are we to look for ' that power of song ' which ancient poets speak of , but in the countries which gave it birth ? t * Mr. Pickering , in an essay on this subject , in the Memoirs of the American Academy ...
... hundred years ? * Where are we to look for ' that power of song ' which ancient poets speak of , but in the countries which gave it birth ? t * Mr. Pickering , in an essay on this subject , in the Memoirs of the American Academy ...
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... hundred persons . Shortly afterwards a dance was executed so elegantly as to attract the attention and applause of the whole audience . Indeed , the ease and grace when the party assumed their natural characters , made us doubt whether ...
... hundred persons . Shortly afterwards a dance was executed so elegantly as to attract the attention and applause of the whole audience . Indeed , the ease and grace when the party assumed their natural characters , made us doubt whether ...
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The Music of Nature: Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and ... William Gardiner Visualização integral - 1849 |
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accent Adagio admiration Anacreon ancient animals appeared ballad bass bassoon beauty Beethoven bells Bird Braham breath called CHAPTER character charm chord clarionet composer composition concert delight diphthong distance Don Giovanni double bass effect English excellence execution expression extraordinary feelings flute force formed grace Handel harmony Haydn hear heard heart human voice instance Italian language letter listen loud Madame Madame de Staël manner melody ment mind mouth Mozart musical expression musician natural never noise oboe octave Opera oratorio orchestra organs passage passion peculiar performance persons petto piano-forte play pleasure produced render Rossini scarcely scene singer singing soft song soul speaking stage strain string stringed instruments style sublime sung sweet syllables taste theatre thee tion tone tongue tune uttered violin violoncello vocal vocalists vowel wind instruments words writer yes yes
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Página 447 - 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 our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
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