The Delphians, missing the god, instituted a paean and song, ranged choruses of young men around the tripod, and invoked him to come from the Hyperboreans.
Thus, alternately, were the song and the choruses performed during the night.
His clear, true voice was listened to with applause in many a well-known song, and echoed in joyous choruses afterward by the whole party.
Martin is fond of the miners; they are such a brave and hardy race, and they have fine bold songs and choruses of their own which he can sing, and wild original pastimes.
The choruses were glorious, about twelve hundred voices, pupils from the seminaries and colleges and from the Schola Cantorum taking part.
Otherwise the house was as brilliant as we had expected, and the singing very fine, the choruses unusually strong.
For as the Australians whooped up theirchoruses other soldiers popped into sight.
There were some wonderfulchoruses along those war-worn roads we traveled.
It is an Alexandrine, such as Dryden scattered so profusely, without asking himself why; but which Milton never tolerates except in the choruses of the Samson.
To write experimental music for choruses that are to support the else meagre outline of a Greek tragedy, will not do.
What a hubbub the four jammed-up processions of automobiles are making—like choruses of hoarse katydids crying only for repetition’s sake and the lust of noise!
Music is little developed among the Whites, though the singing of “Dixie” choruses is hailed as almost national.
As regards the former, it hardly matters about the text set to it: the heroes and choruses of Euripides are already dissolute enough when once they begin to sing; to what pass must things have come with his brazen successors?
But Aristophanes was something more than a master of mere mirth-provoking satire and ridicule: many of the choruses of his pieces are inexpressibly tender and beautiful.
The palace was brilliant with lights; it is on the grand canal, and immediately under the balcony was a boat from which fireworks were let off, and then a couple of boats succeeded them, in which choruses were sung.
The play, composed for the most part in octaves with choruses in terza rima, is, from the dramatic point of view, open to obvious and fatal objections.
Leigh Hunt pointed out, in some interesting if rather uncritical remarks prefixed to his translation of the Aminta (London, 1820), that some at any rate of the regular choruses cannot have formed part of the original composition.
The choruses to Acts III and IV are omitted, which proves that Fraunce worked, as we should expect, from some edition previous to the Aldine quarto of 1590.
The choruses of virgins and sweet melody of the lyre or pipe resound on every side; and, twining their hair with the glittering laurel, they feast joyfully.
The band was in attendance, and during the meal dealt with some of the British military choruses which have spread themselves round the world.
The band of the Cossack regiment tried valiantly to enliven the proceedings with music, but the English marching choruses soon silenced all opposition.
It is filled with the nymphs who attend her, and they are singing choruses in her praise, and dancing wonderful, mazy, mad, delirious dances.
I hummed the splendid air from the Choral Symphony, the motif of the music to the choruses to "Joy" which follow.
Choruses were rarely introduced; and concerted pieces, though by no means unknown, were still reserved, as a rule, for the conclusion of an act.
The first operas seem to have been little more than spoken dramas interspersed with choruses in the madrigal style.
Thus thechoruses in "Il Barbiere" are written exclusively for male voices.
All music not designed to embody these broad emotional states is scenic, such as the storm music and choruses of the sailors and the women.
The love-feast scene, which follows, is made up of the principal themes relating to the Grail and the faith of the knights, which are developed in choruses of wonderful beauty.
He consumes as much time as possible with his theatrically contrasting choruses of merry-making betrothal guests and ghostly wanderers of the sea.
The choruses were weak; they did not smite steadily upon the ear, but wavered, ghost-like, through the great tabernacle.
The choruseswere unendurable in the performance to-night.
This last misfortune is sure to overtake me when choruses are being performed.
So in Handel's choruses sublime He would train them for the Christmas time; Mould their measures for the concert hall, Roll their thunders round the Castle wall.
It swells with such sweetchoruses unnumbered, Decay and Death have slumbered since its chime.
There were rival prima-donnas, and they indulged in competitive screams; the choruses were coarse, and the orchestra much too noisy.
In one of his works he does not hesitate to use three orchestras, three choruses (all of full dimensions), four organs, and a triple quartet.
His choruses were full of energy and fire, his orchestral effects rich and massive.
In 1852 he composed the choruses for Poussard's classical tragedy of "Ulysse," performed at the Theatre Français.
When he takes his evening walks, the peasantry, who are devotedly attached to him, unite in singing choruses from his operas.
He developed the basso and baritone parts, giving them marked importance in serious opera, and worked out the choruses and finales with the most elaborate finish.
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