The Music of Nature1841 |
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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 grace Handel harmony Haydn hear heard heart human voice instance Italian language Leicester letter listen Lord loud Madame 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 yes
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 434 - There's naught in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy!
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Music of Nature |
| Author | William Gadiner |
| Published | 1841 |
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