A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign: With Illustrations and Woodcuts, Tom 2Sir George Grove Macmillan, 1879 |
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... present century . Music is now performed , studied , and listened to by a much larger number of persons , and in a more serious spirit , than was the case at any previous period of our history . It is rapidly becoming an essential ...
... present century . Music is now performed , studied , and listened to by a much larger number of persons , and in a more serious spirit , than was the case at any previous period of our history . It is rapidly becoming an essential ...
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... present , and is always whimsical , so that when he will sing or not upon the stage are things very disputable , but he certainly sings beyond all creatures upon earth , and I have heard him very often both abroad and since he came over ...
... present , and is always whimsical , so that when he will sing or not upon the stage are things very disputable , but he certainly sings beyond all creatures upon earth , and I have heard him very often both abroad and since he came over ...
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... present himself of sufficient genius , culture and courage , to introduce it . Such an one at length did present himself in JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU , whose arrival in Paris in 1721 , at the somewhat mature age of forty- two , forms an ...
... present himself of sufficient genius , culture and courage , to introduce it . Such an one at length did present himself in JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU , whose arrival in Paris in 1721 , at the somewhat mature age of forty- two , forms an ...
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... present time its actual management has changed hands , in the course of two centuries , nearly fifty times , though many managers have held office more than once ; giving an average of only four years to each term of management . In the ...
... present time its actual management has changed hands , in the course of two centuries , nearly fifty times , though many managers have held office more than once ; giving an average of only four years to each term of management . In the ...
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... present day . The sign for chromatically raising a note , the sharp , is of later date , and is said to have been invented by Josquin de Pres ( 1450-1521 ) . It was originally written as a square B crossed out or cancelled , to show ...
... present day . The sign for chromatically raising a note , the sharp , is of later date , and is said to have been invented by Josquin de Pres ( 1450-1521 ) . It was originally written as a square B crossed out or cancelled , to show ...
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Strona 125 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strona 438 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Strona 306 - prentice, making holiday with his sweetheart, treated her with a sight of Bedlam, the puppet-shows, the flying-chairs, and all the elegancies of Moorfields; from whence, proceeding to the Farthing Pye-house, he gave her a collation of buns, cheesecakes, gammon of bacon, stuffed beef, and bottled ale ; through all which scenes the author dodged them (charmed with the simplicity of their courtship), from whence he drew this little sketch of Nature...
Strona 205 - I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas: the swallow, the moth, the bee, the ship, the flower, etc.
Strona 143 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Strona 305 - The most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by any Company of Tragedians...
Strona 67 - ... accompanying the organ, was introduced a concert of twenty-four violins between every pause, after the French fantastical light way, better suiting a tavern, or playhouse, than a church. This was the first time of change, and now we no more heard the cornet which gave life to the organ ; that instrument quite left off in which the English were so skilful.
Strona 321 - And yet nevertheless, for the comforting of such as delight in music, it may be permitted, that in the beginning or in the end of Common Prayer, either at morning or evening, there may be sung an hymn or such like song to the praise of Almighty God, in the best melody and music that may be conveniently devised, having respect that the sentence of the hymn may be understood and perceived.
Strona 311 - Dansons la carmagnole , Vive le son, vive le son, Dansons la carmagnole, Vive le son du canon.
Strona 58 - The identity of the pieces in the programmes at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century is rarely certain. ' New Grand Overture, Haydn,' or 'Grand Overture, MS., Haydn,' is the usual designation of Haydn's symphonies as they were produced at Salomon's concerts in 1 791, '92.