Anecdotes of Music, Historical and Biographical: In a Series of Letters from a Gentleman to His Daughter, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 - Music |
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... Sacred Volumes ; and who had ideas of justice and rectitude , and treated him with hospitality and kindness . That architecture was cultivated in Egypt much earlier than in other parts of the known world , ap- pears from the wonderful ...
... Sacred Volumes ; and who had ideas of justice and rectitude , and treated him with hospitality and kindness . That architecture was cultivated in Egypt much earlier than in other parts of the known world , ap- pears from the wonderful ...
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... Sacred Writings , must ever render them inte- resting to readers of true taste ; and the chronologi- cal arrangement of those passages , which relate to the progress of music in those distant times , will not be entirely useless , as it ...
... Sacred Writings , must ever render them inte- resting to readers of true taste ; and the chronologi- cal arrangement of those passages , which relate to the progress of music in those distant times , will not be entirely useless , as it ...
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... Sacred Text furnishes no mu- sical incident till 1491 before Christ , when we have the first hymn , or psalm , to the Supreme Being upon record . It contains the pious effusions of ses , after the passage of the Red Sea , at the head of ...
... Sacred Text furnishes no mu- sical incident till 1491 before Christ , when we have the first hymn , or psalm , to the Supreme Being upon record . It contains the pious effusions of ses , after the passage of the Red Sea , at the head of ...
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... Sacred Text is wholly silent in regard to every species of music , with the exception of the trumpet in military expeditions . But here an incident occurs , which merits particular attention . It is evident from many passages in ...
... Sacred Text is wholly silent in regard to every species of music , with the exception of the trumpet in military expeditions . But here an incident occurs , which merits particular attention . It is evident from many passages in ...
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... sacred historians , we find that David , on account of his great skill in this science , was called in to administer relief by the power of his harp to Saul , afflicted with an evil spirit . If it be possible for music to operate ...
... sacred historians , we find that David , on account of his great skill in this science , was called in to administer relief by the power of his harp to Saul , afflicted with an evil spirit . If it be possible for music to operate ...
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Page 275 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 30 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 20 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Page 30 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
Page 25 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand : so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 24 - Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man who is a cunning player on the harp : and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
Page 331 - I answered, as I was walking with my Lord Hunsdon, as we passed by the chamber door, I heard such a melody as ravished me, whereby I was drawn in ere I knew how ; excusing my fault of homeliness, as being brought up in the court of France, where such freedom was allowed...
Page 21 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with 21 dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he 8hath triumphed gloriously ; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 23 - Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets com'ing down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy...
Page 20 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.