| 1806 - 606 pages
...nations. It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers, the musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout the difficult...instruments, the harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal an equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords sounded together fourths... | |
| Electronic journals - 1847 - 418 pages
...Ireland.) It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers, the musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout the difficult...instruments, the harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal in equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords sounded together fourths... | |
| Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - Ireland - 1863 - 550 pages
...gay. It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers, the musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout the difficult...instruments, the harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal an. equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chorda sounded together fourths... | |
| William Stewart Trench - Land tenure - 1871 - 408 pages
...gay. It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers, the musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout the difficult...instruments, the harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal an equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords sounded together fourths... | |
| William Steuart Trench - 1871 - 400 pages
...flat, and return to the same, that the whole may be completed under the sweetness of a pleasing sound. They enter into a movement, and conclude it in so delicate a manner, and play the little notes so sportively under the blunter sounds of the base strings, enlivening with wanton... | |
| William Smythe Babcock Mathews - Music - 1891 - 518 pages
...gay. It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers the musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout the difficult...various instruments the harmony is completed with so sweet a velocity, so unequal an equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords sounded together... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 740 pages
...skilful than any other nation I have ever seen. For their manner of playing on these instruments, uuliko that of the Britons or (Welsh) to which I am accustomed,...their various instruments, the harmony is completed witli such a sweet rapidity. They enter into a movement and conclude it in so delicate a manner, and... | |
| Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1903 - 670 pages
...astonishing that in so " complex and rapid a movement of the fingers the musical " proportions [as to time] can be preserved ; and that " throughout the difficult...of their art appears in the concealment " of art."* For centuries after the time of Giraldus music continued to be cultivated uninterruptedly, and there... | |
| Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1903 - 332 pages
...astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers the musical proportions [as to time] can be preserved ; and that throughout the difficult...harmony is completed with such a sweet rapidity." For centuries after the time of Giraldus music continued to be cultivated uninterruptedly ; and there... | |
| Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1904 - 586 pages
...astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers the musical proportions [as to time] can be preserved; and that throughout the difficult...strings so sportively under the deeper tones of the base strings — they delight so delicately and soothe with such gentleness, that the perfection of... | |
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