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 WorldLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 - 505 páginas |
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... letter L , it so blocks up the pas- sage , that the voice escapes with difficulty . * The lips are employed in the softer tones , and are chargeable with the same lassitude of expression . The chin has an important office to perform ...
... letter L , it so blocks up the pas- sage , that the voice escapes with difficulty . * The lips are employed in the softer tones , and are chargeable with the same lassitude of expression . The chin has an important office to perform ...
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... letter should have its proper sound ; but in sounding many of the letters , we have not agreed as to that which is proper . How very differently we find travellers spell the same word which is to convey to us 38 38 SPEAKING .
... letter should have its proper sound ; but in sounding many of the letters , we have not agreed as to that which is proper . How very differently we find travellers spell the same word which is to convey to us 38 38 SPEAKING .
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... letter as Dr. Johnson and others would teach us , we should lite- rally carry back our language to the fourteenth century . There is a natural tendency in all languages to throw out the rugged parts which improper conso- nants produce ...
... letter as Dr. Johnson and others would teach us , we should lite- rally carry back our language to the fourteenth century . There is a natural tendency in all languages to throw out the rugged parts which improper conso- nants produce ...
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... letters would be resorted to as the means of retaining them . The spontaneous sound of the vowel Ah ! the sign of which is placed at the beginning of all the known alphabets , would * The very word Roar , when forcibly pronounced ...
... letters would be resorted to as the means of retaining them . The spontaneous sound of the vowel Ah ! the sign of which is placed at the beginning of all the known alphabets , would * The very word Roar , when forcibly pronounced ...
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... letter should aim at depicting the form of the mouth requisite for the production of this sound ? Though the original shapes of the letters are lost and forgotten , yet we can trace some remains of them in the alphabets of modern times ...
... letter should aim at depicting the form of the mouth requisite for the production of this sound ? Though the original shapes of the letters are lost and forgotten , yet we can trace some remains of them in the alphabets of modern times ...
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The Music of Nature: Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and ... William Gardiner Visualização completa - 1849 |
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accent Adagio admiration Anacreon ancient animals appeared ballad bass bassoon beauty Beethoven bells Bird Braham breath called CHAPTER character charm chord clarionet composer composition concert delight diphthong distance Don Giovanni double bass effect English excellence execution expression extraordinary feelings flute force formed grace Handel harmony Haydn hear heard heart human voice instance Italian language letter listen loud Madame Madame de Staël manner melody ment mind mouth Mozart musical expression musician natural never noise oboe octave Opera oratorio orchestra organs passage passion peculiar performance persons petto piano-forte play pleasure produced render Rossini scarcely scene singer singing soft song soul speaking stage strain string stringed instruments style sublime sung sweet syllables taste theatre thee tion tone tongue tune uttered violin violoncello vocal vocalists vowel wind instruments words writer yes yes
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