A Practical Treatise on Singing and Playing With Just Expression and Real Elegance: Being an Essay on I. Grammar. Ii. Pronunciation; Or, the Art of Just Speaking. Iii. Singing -- Its Graces -- Their Application. -- on Cathedral Compositions
A Practical Treatise on Singing and Playing With Just Expression and Real Elegance: Being an Essay on I. Grammar. Ii. Pronunciation; Or, the Art of Just Speaking. Iii. Singing -- Its Graces -- Their Application. -- on Cathedral Compositions
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1771 edition. Excerpt: ... Musical expression then, particularly that parr of musick called vocal, is produced by a due.and agteeable application of notes to the measure and sentiments, or ideas of words, whether in haemony or simple modulation. From this definition are to be drawn certain rules, by which we may try with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1771 edition. Excerpt: ... Musical expression then, particularly that parr of musick called vocal, is produced by a due.and agteeable application of notes to the measure and sentiments, or ideas of words, whether in haemony or simple modulation. From this definition are to be drawn certain rules, by which we may try with precision the merit of vocal compositions, their proprieties and inaccuracies. In the first place must be regarded the measure of words and syllables. There can be no due, though there may be agreeable application of notes to words and syllables, without a strict observance of their measure, determined by their vowels; which are long, longer and very long by nature and emphasis; short, shorter, very short by nature and lack of emphasis: diphthongs are very long by nature, a vowel is also made long by position, that is, before two consonants written, or pronounced, and before a double consonant. These are the general rules, by which the Orator, Poet and Musician are guided, and not by the hurry of common discourse; yet have they a right to avail themselves, even of this and other licences. In compounds, a vowel before two consonants, as aspect, desolatet de/pi/e, acquaint', may be short, if derivation be regarded, that is, a-fpect, de-spise, a-cquaint, or long, according to pronunciation, that is, af-pect, des-olate, des-pise, ac-quaint. The musician can measure the degrees of length and shortness of words and syllables as well as their degrees of acuteness and gravity, that is, elevation and depression, with more exactness and variety than the poet. The Greek and Latin poets, guided by a flute, or lyre, fung, and their orators spoke according to certain rules of accent; in which accents it is easy to perceive a very great propriety, .
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