They were as appropriate to each other as the melodies of a perfect duet, such a love-duet as Tristan and Isolde's.
There was nobody even to summon by telephone as a rescuing third party to make a crowd out of the appallingly tiresome duet with Willie.
She was dying, as Mary knew, to perform herduet with Purdy; but when the moment came she put forward so many reasons for not complying that most people retired in despair.
Miss Amelia's been practising up that duet all the week.
The Beautiful Blue Danube" Answered Through the Valley But One Guilo The Duet Little Queen Wherefore?
For the next quarter of an hour any one passing the drawing-room door might have heard the sound of a duet (parlando) being delivered in the musical Italian tongue within that room.
So without telling him how greatly she had enjoyed his singing of the tenor part in the "Nightingale" duet the previous evening, she made a very feeble excuse for leaving the room.
Agnes did not make any attempt to interrupt her, and the duet went on to its passionate close.
A duet to be agreeable must be to a certain extent confidential, and the dinner-table duet admits of little except generalities, and generalities between two have their limits of entertainment.
In two years he made his first public appearance at a concert at Pesth, when he played a duet concerto for two violins and orchestra with his master, and a solo on a theme by Schubert, with variations.
The sentiments and emotions aroused in the breast of this critic appear to have been those with which Paganini inspired his audience, when he played a duet on two strings, as related in an earlier chapter.
The priest's daughters were at the piano, singing a duet with feeble voices, one of which was more quavering than the other.
Moreover, they must continue the duet singing, for this was improving to the taste.
That's the only time the title shows up except a duet between the leading lady and the tenor entitled 'I Had Rather be a Doughnut in Harlem Than a Butter Cake in Childs'.
To hear them sing separately, was divine, but when they went through the tragic duet of ‘Red Ruffian, retire!
The duet was loudly applauded, and, certainly, the perfect independence of the parties deserved great commendation.
The third movement is called "In the Fields," and contains a duet between the two lovers in the guise of a shepherd and shepherdess.
She has composed a grand duet and a number of solos for piano, also numerous vocal duets and songs.
After the song came a duet from "Traviata," in which Christabel sang with a dramatic power which Leonard never remembered to have heard from her before.
Here the terrifying music is softened to gentler hues, like a storm dying away, and ends in the florid prettiness of a duet wholly unlike anything that has come before it.
Here we have the duetwith the viol; the rhythm is highly expressive of the brutal desires of a man who is omnipotent, and the Princess, by plaintive phrases, tries to win her lover back to moderation.
That nothing may be lacking to this composition," he went on, "the great artist has generously added the only buffo duet permissible for a devil: that in which he tempts the unhappy troubadour.
Ali arrives, the Koran prevails in every province (duet in D minor).
Alice flies, and you have the duet in D between Bertram and Robert.
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When she sang with Gerval a duet in which two lovers sing to each other of love, her eyes addressed to me the words that she sang.
The duet came to an end amid this uproar; indeed the singers had continued to sing after the other guests had ceased to pay any heed to them.
After the overture comes a duet for Page and Ford; then Falstaff's entrance and song.
The most important number is the farewell duet between Romeo and Juliet in the second act.
Hamlet and Ophelia have a very elaborate duet in this act, the former pretending to be mad.
The love music is in nocturne form, and is chiefly a duet for solo violin and 'cello.
In the fourth scene there is a very sentimental duet between Viola and Orsino.
He tells her to pray, as he does not want to kill her soul; and after a short duet he stifles her, and she utters a shriek.
The first number is a duet for Rosalind and Celia, "Whilst inconstant fortune smiled," words freely adapted from The Passionate Pilgrim.
The duet ends peacefully and happily with a duet for Ferdinand and Miranda about "gentle love, innocence, and chaste desire.
In the second act Jessica has a charming cavatina, and a very interesting duet with Shylock, who also has a fine song in this act.
A long duet between Desdemona and Othello follows, the former very loving, the latter very ironical, the whole culminating in a magnificent passage in which Othello sings the words, "I mistook you .
This duet is full of clever bits of imitation and good contrapuntal part-writing, and is melodious as well.
Bishop then composed a very obvious duet for tenor and baritone, with effective cantabile {12} passages and plenty of pauses and shakes.
It is the prelude to a union that nothing but death ought to dissolve; and, if it should appear impossible to execute harmoniously the duet which has now commenced, there is yet time to break it off calmly.
One fine day, therefore, I told her my mind, in good earnest terms, and the followingduet occurred between us: She.
As the spring comes round their youth will be renewed, and the sameduet will express the warmer emotions.
Instead of her coming, the echoes of the park took up once more in the mind of the master their vile, diabolical concert, the duet of their ravished accents.
The little duet between them adds to the beauty and interest of this portion of the work, the melody of which simply is exquisite.
The pianola roll is a reproduction of an arrangement for four hands, that is, for two players at one piano, yet only one player is required to produce the full effect of a pianoforte duet arranged from an orchestral composition.
Sylvia suggested they should write to the Bishop and explain the circumstances in which the duet was sent to him; he would no doubt return it.
As my playing was also agreeable to him, we determined to compose a duet together for violin and piano.
Hussarzewski has informed her that I am coming; I shall meet the celebrated Frau Cibini,[78] for whom Moscheles wrote a duet sonata.
A duet of admiration and amazement follows in a new, undulatory melody.
This is the occasion of the exquisite duet which was surely in the mind of the composer's father when, writing to his daughter from Vienna after the third performance of the opera, he said: "One little duet had to be sung three times.
After the opera had made good its success, the duet as we have it to-day alternated at the performance with a more ornate version--in all likelihood one of the earlier forms in which Mozart cast it.
A good hit is the sudden exit of Alfred thereupon, not stopping to make an andiamo duet as is so often done.
The duet is well worked up and is rousing, passionate music.
After a moment of alarm Gretel picks up a bit of the gingerbread which had fallen from Hänsel's hand at the sound of the Witch's voice, and the duet of enjoyment is resumed in a higher key.
A duet by the lovers, "Parigi, O cara," is especially original in its peroration.
The duetwhich is concerned with these transactions is full of striking effects.
A story goes that Mozart had to write this duet three or five times before it would pass muster in the censorious eyes of Schikaneder.
Paderewski has not yet the strength of technique for a love duet conceived more or less on the lines of the 'Tristan' love duet.
Ich ersticke," and a gypsy march; the love duet of Manru and Ulana from Act II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
