The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem, as it Exists in the Iliad, Æneid, and Paradise LostJ. Stockdale, 1789 - 384 pages |
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... effects by execution of the voice , or inftrument , de- lighting the ear with agreeable founds , it is an art , the refult of a lively fancy , ex- quifite tafte and great attention . B 3 Many Many have written upon mufick as a science ...
... effects by execution of the voice , or inftrument , de- lighting the ear with agreeable founds , it is an art , the refult of a lively fancy , ex- quifite tafte and great attention . B 3 Many Many have written upon mufick as a science ...
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... no fenfe in lan- guage , nor tune and delight in mufick : to effect this they must proceed in a cer- tain mode and regular fucceffion , called modulation modulation or melody , and in propor- tionate combinations , MUSIC K. 1.
... no fenfe in lan- guage , nor tune and delight in mufick : to effect this they must proceed in a cer- tain mode and regular fucceffion , called modulation modulation or melody , and in propor- tionate combinations , MUSIC K. 1.
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... a fingle note , have a marvelous and most delightful effect ; but when other- wife , as is too frequently the cafe , they are most disgusting , and give the greatest pain to 9 are MUSICK . 29 In very flow time you are to count ...
... a fingle note , have a marvelous and most delightful effect ; but when other- wife , as is too frequently the cafe , they are most disgusting , and give the greatest pain to 9 are MUSICK . 29 In very flow time you are to count ...
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... Effect from a conjunction of Voices and Inftruments . From a multiplied conjunction of voices and inftruments in Homophony , that is , unifons , and in Antiphony , that is , oc- taves , fingle and double , muft certainly arife fulness ...
... Effect from a conjunction of Voices and Inftruments . From a multiplied conjunction of voices and inftruments in Homophony , that is , unifons , and in Antiphony , that is , oc- taves , fingle and double , muft certainly arife fulness ...
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... effects of pleafing founds are great , and very fenfibly felt even naked and bare , conveyed to the ear by inftruments only , but much more ravishing and active are they , when prefented to the mind and paffions by the human voice in ...
... effects of pleafing founds are great , and very fenfibly felt even naked and bare , conveyed to the ear by inftruments only , but much more ravishing and active are they , when prefented to the mind and paffions by the human voice in ...
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