Bible Music: Being Variations, in Many Keys, on Musical Themes from ScriptureRoberts Brothers, 1872 - 330 páginas |
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... Perhaps they have been accustomed to an extremely rude and crude type of church or chapel psalmody , -offensive to every notion . they cherish of culture and æsthetical refinement ; and when they remember with what stentorian zest ...
... Perhaps they have been accustomed to an extremely rude and crude type of church or chapel psalmody , -offensive to every notion . they cherish of culture and æsthetical refinement ; and when they remember with what stentorian zest ...
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... perhaps , and now and then an impatient chorister will get a syllable or two in advance , or an enchanted ( not enchanting ) singer so lose all tracting and irrelevant an episode as the jigs and country- dances scraped between the acts ...
... perhaps , and now and then an impatient chorister will get a syllable or two in advance , or an enchanted ( not enchanting ) singer so lose all tracting and irrelevant an episode as the jigs and country- dances scraped between the acts ...
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... perhaps by name . to devout lovers of Handel than to cursory readers is a main ingredient in that once rare and dainty dish , an ovation . To revert , however , to ancient music . The Egyptians , we find , had a lyre with three strings ...
... perhaps by name . to devout lovers of Handel than to cursory readers is a main ingredient in that once rare and dainty dish , an ovation . To revert , however , to ancient music . The Egyptians , we find , had a lyre with three strings ...
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... perhaps it might be called the ancient shepherd's pipe , cor- responding most nearly , Jahn instructs us , to the σúpɩys , or the pipe of Pan among the Greeks ; — consisting at first of only one or two , it afterwards comprised about ...
... perhaps it might be called the ancient shepherd's pipe , cor- responding most nearly , Jahn instructs us , to the σúpɩys , or the pipe of Pan among the Greeks ; — consisting at first of only one or two , it afterwards comprised about ...
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... perhaps that in which the Psalmist , weary of the persecutions of bad men , wisheth to himself dove's wings - or that which , with a like measure of sobriety and pathos , inquireth by what means the young man shall best cleanse his way ...
... perhaps that in which the Psalmist , weary of the persecutions of bad men , wisheth to himself dove's wings - or that which , with a like measure of sobriety and pathos , inquireth by what means the young man shall best cleanse his way ...
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admiration ballad bassoon beasts beauty Beethoven bray breath called catgut chant charm choir church composer critic dancing David deaf death delight describes discordant divine effect emotion expression eyes favourite feeling fiddle flute French give Handel harmony harp Hartley Coleridge hear heard heart heaven human hymn imitation imitative music Italian King Lady Lady Eastlake Leigh Hunt listening Lord loud lute lyre Madame melancholy melody Mendelssohn mind Mozart musician nature never night notes once organ Orpheus Owen Feltham passage passion pipe playing pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry praise psalm psaltery sang says seems sense singer singing solemn song sort soul sound spirit story strain strange sung swan sweet symphony taste tears tells thing Thomas Hood Thomas Mace thought tion tones touch trumpet tune utterance verse vocal voice voix wild words Wordsworth writes
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Página 115 - And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place," " it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, 'For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever:' that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord...
Página 305 - So said he, and the barge with oar and sail Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the mere the wailing died away.
Página 173 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Página 41 - They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Página 270 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Página 25 - Their stops and chords was seen ; his volant touch, Instinct through all proportions low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.
Página 79 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Página 133 - This must not yet be so ; The Babe lies yet in smiling infancy, That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss ; So both Himself and us to glorify : Yet first, to those ychain'd in sleep, The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep...
Página 91 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Página 2 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony. This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass...