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" ... of breath, he was able to protract to such a length as to excite incredulity even in those who heard him; who, though unable to detect the artifice, imagined him to have had the latent help of some instrument by which the tone was continued, while... "
The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review - Page 17
1826
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The Diorama of Life, Or, The Macrocosm and Microcosm Displayed ...

Andrew Wilkie - 1824 - 348 pages
...length, as to excite incredulity even in those 'o heard him. Some persons actually imagined that he had the latent help of some instrument by which the...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration. When Farinelli first visited the court of Philip V. King of Spain, where he became afterwards so great...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 17

Reuben Percy - 1826 - 386 pages
...length, as to excite incredulity even in those who heard him. Some persons actually imagined that he had the latent help of some instrument by which the...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration. When Farinelli first visited the court of Philip V. King of Spain, where he became afterwards so great...
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All the Year Round, Volume 7

1862 - 632 pages
...incredulity even in those who heard him, who, though unable to detect the artifiee, imagined him to have the latent help of some instrument by which the tone...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration." At seventeen years of age, Farinelli was already ealled " un ragazzo divino" (a divine youth), and...
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The Oxford History of Music...

William Henry Hadow - 1902 - 386 pages
...voce seems to have been the quality in which he surpassed all other singers, and some of his hearers ' imagined him to have had the latent help of some instrument...tone was continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration2.' In the season of 1735 Porpora's opera of Poltfemo was brought out, and, by way of a...
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Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy

James Stark - 1999 - 356 pages
...artificial economy of breath, he was able to protract to such a great length as to excite incredibility, even in those who heard him; who, though unable to...continued, while he renewed his powers by respiration' (Burney 1935, 2:739; MacClintock 1979, 262). Regarding his tone quality, Burney said, 'Farinelli, without...
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