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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... kind to that deep and inward feeling of the lower voice . Its high and piercing cry is rather the language of imposture than sincerity . * In the voices of men the voce de testa is sometimes termed a falsetto , or feigned voice , the ...
... kind to that deep and inward feeling of the lower voice . Its high and piercing cry is rather the language of imposture than sincerity . * In the voices of men the voce de testa is sometimes termed a falsetto , or feigned voice , the ...
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... kind . These delineations were probably the first at- tempts at representing sounds by written characters . The assembling of them together would be analo- gous to the recording of musical sounds by notes . When once registered and made ...
... kind . These delineations were probably the first at- tempts at representing sounds by written characters . The assembling of them together would be analo- gous to the recording of musical sounds by notes . When once registered and made ...
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... kind , often springing from the harmonics of his natural voice , which he elicits with exquisite delicacy . We shall instance the peculiar softness of the following expressions : — b You mock me , mo - ther . b Remem - ber . But the ...
... kind , often springing from the harmonics of his natural voice , which he elicits with exquisite delicacy . We shall instance the peculiar softness of the following expressions : — b You mock me , mo - ther . b Remem - ber . But the ...
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... kind ; nothing could exceed the flow of language , and the powers of his imagination . At the trial of Warren Hastings , his shrill voice rang through the hall , but it was cold and ineffective . There wanted the darker tones to clothe ...
... kind ; nothing could exceed the flow of language , and the powers of his imagination . At the trial of Warren Hastings , his shrill voice rang through the hall , but it was cold and ineffective . There wanted the darker tones to clothe ...
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... kind , the singer seldom fails to please ; he trusts to the charm of the melody rather than the force of the words ; recollecting , that ' we must first please the ear before we can touch the heart . ' The pre- ceding lines , taken from ...
... kind , the singer seldom fails to please ; he trusts to the charm of the melody rather than the force of the words ; recollecting , that ' we must first please the ear before we can touch the heart . ' The pre- ceding lines , taken from ...
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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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