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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... Sounds of the Animated World William Gardiner. markable . A friend of the writer has declared he could readily perceive the motion of a flea , when on his nightcap , by the sound emitted by the ma- chinery of his leaping powers . However ...
... Sounds of the Animated World William Gardiner. markable . A friend of the writer has declared he could readily perceive the motion of a flea , when on his nightcap , by the sound emitted by the ma- chinery of his leaping powers . However ...
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... sounds as being high or low , grave or acute ; and how unintelligible the nicer distinctions are to an unpractised ear . As harmony is an inherent pro- perty of sound , the ear should be first called to the attention of simple sounds ...
... sounds as being high or low , grave or acute ; and how unintelligible the nicer distinctions are to an unpractised ear . As harmony is an inherent pro- perty of sound , the ear should be first called to the attention of simple sounds ...
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... Sounds of the Animated World William Gardiner. heard with those who have never seen , that the ear is of much more importance to us than the eye . CHAPTER II . NOISE AND SOUND . THERE is a marked distinction between noise and musical sound ...
... Sounds of the Animated World William Gardiner. heard with those who have never seen , that the ear is of much more importance to us than the eye . CHAPTER II . NOISE AND SOUND . THERE is a marked distinction between noise and musical sound ...
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... sound , were filled with such terror and surprise , that they instantly fled . In memory of this famous exploit , a meeting of minstrels is annually kept up to this day , with one of the Dutton family ( their royal mas- ter ) at their ...
... sound , were filled with such terror and surprise , that they instantly fled . In memory of this famous exploit , a meeting of minstrels is annually kept up to this day , with one of the Dutton family ( their royal mas- ter ) at their ...
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... sound in the human voice is strikingly shown in the cathedrals abroad . Here the mass is entirely performed in musical sounds , and be- comes audible to every devotee , however placed in the remotest part of the church ; wheras if the ...
... sound in the human voice is strikingly shown in the cathedrals abroad . Here the mass is entirely performed in musical sounds , and be- comes audible to every devotee , however placed in the remotest part of the church ; wheras if the ...
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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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