Musical History, Biography, and Criticism: Being a General Survey of Music, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time |
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... oratorio , and the opera . Both these kinds of musical drama , like theatrical performances of every kind , appear to have taken their rise from the Mysteries and Moralities which formed the amusement of most nations of Europe , during ...
... oratorio , and the opera . Both these kinds of musical drama , like theatrical performances of every kind , appear to have taken their rise from the Mysteries and Moralities which formed the amusement of most nations of Europe , during ...
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... oratorios , though consisting of various characters , came to be performed in churches , and without theatrical action . In England , this is now universally the case ; - and it is generally so in other parts of Europe . Of these ...
... oratorios , though consisting of various characters , came to be performed in churches , and without theatrical action . In England , this is now universally the case ; - and it is generally so in other parts of Europe . Of these ...
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... Oratorio by the celebrated Stradella , which was produced very soon after that time ; for it , and the other works of this distinguished person , though now known only to those who are curious in musical history , contain traits of the ...
... Oratorio by the celebrated Stradella , which was produced very soon after that time ; for it , and the other works of this distinguished person , though now known only to those who are curious in musical history , contain traits of the ...
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... oratorio of his composition was to be performed in one of the churches , in which he was himself to sing , they determined to waylay and murder him on his return home , in the darkness of the night . They entered the church while ...
... oratorio of his composition was to be performed in one of the churches , in which he was himself to sing , they determined to waylay and murder him on his return home , in the darkness of the night . They entered the church while ...
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... oratorio , which has been already mentioned , and which seems to have been the only one he composed , is entitled Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista . The prin- cipal personages are St. John , Herod , and Herodias his daughter , to whom ...
... oratorio , which has been already mentioned , and which seems to have been the only one he composed , is entitled Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista . The prin- cipal personages are St. John , Herod , and Herodias his daughter , to whom ...
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Page 74 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light.
Page iv - If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our senses to be so many sores and pains to us, as they are now instruments of gratification and enjoyment ; or by placing us amidst objects so ill suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight.
Page 277 - Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Page 277 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 255 - When I proceed to write down my ideas, I take out of the bag of my memory, if I may use that phrase, what has previously been collected into it in the way I have mentioned. For this reason the committing to paper is done quickly enough, for everything is, as I said before, already finished; and it rarely differs on paper from what it was in my imagination.
Page 267 - Church, but that the same so remain ; and that there be a modest and distinct song so used in ALL PARTS of the Common Prayers in the Church, that the same may be as plainly understanded as if it were read without singing...
Page 33 - Then she sat down low upon a cushion, and I upon my knees by her, but with her own hand she gave me a cushion to lay under my knee, which at first I refused, but she compelled me to take it. She then called for my Lady Strafford out of the next chamber, for the queen was alone.
Page 79 - But when that vast concording unity of the whole congregational chorus came, as I may say, thundering in, even so as it made the very ground shake under us ; oh ! the unutterable, ravishing, soul's delight! in the which I was so transported and wrapt up in high contemplations, that there was no room left in my whole man, viz. body, soul, and spirit, for anything below Divine and heavenly raptures...
Page 254 - You say, you should like to know my way of composing, and what method I follow in writing works of some extent. I can really say no more on this subject than the following ; for I myself know no more about it, and cannot account for it. When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer — say, travelling in a carriage, or walking...
Page 200 - ... embouchure was clear and even, his finger brilliant, and his taste pure and simple. I was much pleased, and even surprised with the neatness of his execution in the allegros, as well as by his expression and feeling in the adagio; in short, his performance surpassed, in many particulars, any thing I had ever heard among Dilettanti, or even professors. His majesty played three long and difficult concertos successively, and all with equal perfection.