10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SINGABLENESS»
Discover the use of
singableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
singableness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Even in German, a still harsher language than English, the ear often luxuriates in
the singbarkeit, or singableness, if we might coin such an English word, which
the poet's art can elicit, and he wonders that the collocation of syllables can ...
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The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven:
He wanted advice in vocal composition, and submitted to Salieri some settings of
Italian songs which the latter corrected in respect of verbal accent and expression
, rhythm, metrical articulation, subdivision of thought, mood, singableness, and ...
Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, 2013
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Curiosities of Music: A Collection of Facts Not Generally ...
Von Dal- berg says that Sanscrit unites the splendor of the Spanish, the strength
of the German, and the singableness of the Italian. With the resemblance of
seven chief tones, however, the similarity ends, for while our scale has only half
tones ...
Louis Charles Elson, 2001
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The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own
By a long filtration from Sicily, the birthplace of their kind, they had achieved by
the time they had reached Tuscany recognized forms, a sufficiently classical
language and a very marked singableness. Known usually as rispetti and
stornelli ...
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Writing The Broadway Musical
“Singableness” in practice is whatlyricist and composer do coordinatelyfor vowels
and consonants. Thefollowing compilation of the vowel sounds is a starting point.
Open vowel sounds: Aasin bah, ago Oasingo, oh, odd,out(diphthong), too ...
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The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their ...
He says, "It is, asyou may imagine, a model of'singableness' (ifImay sayso); but it
isnot sufficiently church musictomytaste. Hissolitaryfugue is clumsy. Thecriticisms
on thework arevery various. Some agree with 'Tancredi,' and the 'Barber.
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The Life of Richard Wagner
He cannot agree that his opera would be especially difficult to produce. A
practised singer (his brother Albert) while at first critical as to the “ singableness ”
of a few passages, had shown the liveliest interest in the work; and he cannot see
that ...
Owing partly to Mr. Gershwin's valuable Broadway experience and partly to the
superior singableness of the text, there is in Porgy and Bess little of that fatal
discrepancy between word and note that has been the bane of American opera.
29 It ...
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The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I of III
He wanted advice in vocal composition,and submitted to Salieri some settings of
Italiansongs which the latter corrected inrespect ofverbalaccent andexpression,
rhythm, metrical articulation, subdivision of thought,mood, singableness, and the
...
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
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The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School
... Mozart died; Mozart who, indebted to the Italians for much of the sweetness
and singableness of his lovely melodies, was to give to Italy, through Rossini,
new instrumental combinations, new dramatic methods, and new operatic forms.
