 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1807 - 206 Seiten
...Cambrensis * jremarks, is still preserved in * " It is wonderful," says the archdeacon of St. David's, "how in such precipitate rapidity of the fingers the musical proportions are a certain description of Irish song, •where every note melodizes a word, and of which the line old... | |
 | 1810 - 612 Seiten
...not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain, to which we are accustomed ; but the soundc are rapid and precipitate, yet at the same time sweet and pleasing. It is jvonderful, how in such a precipitate rapidity of the fingers, the musical proproportions are preserved... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 Seiten
...that of any other nation that we see. For in these the modulation is not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain, to which we are accustomed ; but the sounds are rapid and precipitate, yet sweet and pleasing. It is extraordinary in such rapidity of the fingers, how the musical proportions... | |
 | 1823 - 512 Seiten
...comparison, superior to any nation I have seen. In these the modulation is not slov, and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain, to which we are accustomed, but the sounds are rapid and sudden, yet, at the same time, sweet and pleasing. It is wenderfnl how, in such precipitate rapidity... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1826 - 474 Seiten
...to any other " nation, that we see. For in these, modulation is ft not so slow and solemn, as in the instruments of " Britain, to which we are accustomed; but the " sounds are rapid and precipitate; yet sweet and " pleasing. It is extraordinary in such rapidity of " the fingers, how the musical proportions... | |
 | Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1838 - 430 Seiten
...we are accustomed, but rapid and abrupt, yet, at the same time, sweet and pleasing in its effects.a It is wonderful how, in such precipitate rapidity...by their art, faultless throughout, in the midst of the most complicated modulation, and most intricate arrangement of notes; by a velocity so pleasing,... | |
 | William Dauney, Finlay Dun - 1838 - 436 Seiten
...we are accustomed, but rapid and abrupt, yet, at the same time, sweet and pleasing in its eflects.3 It is wonderful how, in such precipitate rapidity...by their art, faultless throughout, in the midst of the most complicated modulation, and most intricate arrangement of notes; by a velocity so pleasing,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 900 Seiten
...superior to that of any nation he had known. Their modulation, he adds, " is not slow and solemn, as m the instruments of Britain, to which we are accustomed,...precipitate, yet at the same time sweet and pleasing. It в woaderful how, in such precipitate rapidity of the fingers, the musical proportions are preserved... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1862 - 456 Seiten
...Giraldus Cambrensis, who says, speaking of the Irish, " their modulation is not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain to which we are accustomed,...rapid and precipitate, yet at the same time sweet and pleasing.1 A more correct view of the character of English music is, perhaps, given in an old French... | |
 | John Thrupp - 1862 - 438 Seiten
...Giraldus Cambrensis, who says, speaking of the Irish, " their modulation is not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain to which we are accustomed,...rapid and precipitate, yet at the same time sweet and pleasing.1 A more correct view of the character of English music is, perhaps, given in an old French... | |
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of this people to musical instruments, I find worthy of commendation ; their skill in which is, beyond comparison, superior to that of any nation I have seen. For in these the modulation is not slow and solemn, as in the instruments of Britain, to which... 
