 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pages
...excellence of the verfe, and fweetnefs of the voice that fung, or rather recited it. But, ai mu/if, there needs no other proof of the poverty of ancient melody than its being confined to long and ihort f) Hables. We have fome airs of the mod graceful and pleafing kind, which will fuit no arrangement,... | |
 | Books - 1776 - 612 pages
...excellence of the verte, and fwcetnefs of the v.oice that {Jung, or rather recited it. But, as mu/ic, there needs no other proof of the poverty of ancient melody than its being confined to long and Ihort fyllables. We have fomc airs of the mod graceful and plcjfing kind, which will fuit no arrangement... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1776 - 608 pages
...excellence of th« v«rfe, and fweemefs of the voice that fUng, or rather recited it. But, as mu/ic, there needs no other proof of the poverty of ancient melody than its being confined to long and ihort lyllaMes. We have fome airs of the aioft graceful and pleafing kind, which will fuit no arrangement... | |
 | John Walker - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 330 pages
...been heard " with delight. But as music, there needs no other proof of the poverly of an» " cient melody, than its being confined to long and short...most graceful and pleasing kind, which will suit no arrange" ment of syllables to be found in any poetical numbers, ancient or modern, and " which it is... | |
 | John Walker - Bible - 1830 - 200 pages
...earth ; and even the natural effusions of these must ever have been heard with delight. i'ut as music, there needs no other proof of the poverty of ancient...of the most graceful and pleasing kind, which will sult no arrangement of syllables to be found in any poetical numbers, ancient or modern, and which... | |
 | John Walker, William Trollope - Names in the Bible - 1833 - 194 pages
...nattir:,! effusions of these must ever have been heard with deliyht. lint as music, there needs no othur proof of the poverty of ancient melody, than its being...long and short syllables. We have some airs of the luot-t graceful and pleasing kind, which will suit no arrangement of syllables to be found in any poetical... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1894 - 724 pages
...Obviously the tune must have been poor ; but Burney went too far when he decided that "there needs no pther proof of the poverty of ancient melody than its being confined to long and short syllables". This would hold good of the chant of the bards, but not necessarily of all other music. And the lately... | |
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But, as music, there needs no other proof of the poverty of ancient melody, than its being confined to long and short syllables. We have some airs of the most graceful and pleasing kind, which will suit no... 