I hope he will not refuse me this pleasure--and if it is not inconvenient to him will he also bring his flute and undertake the part in Faust?
These musical valets were as much slaves as the ancient flute players of the Roman nobles, and were bought, sold, and exchanged like horses and dogs.
When Tulou, however, presented himself, his flute was applauded with enthusiasm after Madame Catalani's voice.
Indeed if we will take the pains to consider their compositions, and the airs on the flute to which they marched when going to battle, we shall find that Terpander and Pindar had reason to say that music and valour were allied.
The sound of musical instruments, such as the flute and the cornet, will be reproduced much louder, if the front of such instrument be allowed to rest upon the rim of the hole in the board, just in front of the plate.
Take any instrument, say a flute: have one to blow it upon the proper pitch to respond to the largest sphere, then take each of the spheres in their order, applying them to the ear while the flute is being sounded.
In his earlier days Wren had played a flute in the village instrumental choir, and to the last he might be heard whiling away spare moments on a Sunday in the church (for he brought his dinner early in the morning and bivouacked there all day!
I have taken here Roots like an olive tree, And with my flute deep-sounding, I make the breezes languish.
I wished to cut a flute from the dry reed And wished a crown of laurel; but I lay Nailed down immovable as if the rod Of an enchantress evil-born had touched me; And within me, with wings of impotence, My wounded mind fluttered on hopelessly!
It is the tune the lone-owl always plays Blowing upon the cursèd flute of night Its lingering shrill notes of mournful measure, Herald of woe and prophet of all ill.
True, when one had listened to the same tune, not only scores but hundreds of times during one night, one rather felt the need of a change, but still even the sound of his flute was a great relief in the dreary night marches.
According to Pindar, she imitated on the flute the dismal wail of the two surviving Gorgons after the death of Medusa.
Until he was sixteen he worked in the shop of his father, a butcher; he then joined an elder brother in London, and there for four years was employed in the piano and flute factory of an uncle, of the firm of Astor & Broadwood.
The girls accepted situations occasionally, but there were always one or two at home, nursing sick animals, tending silkworms, or playing the flute in their bedrooms.
The same remark applies to the flute and the French horn.
Sometimes at night, when he had read the daily paper, he would play upon the flute to amuse his father, for whose qualities he entertained a great respect.
She's demure, though she walks with a hop and a skip; And her voice--but a flute were more fit than a pen To tell of the voice of the little brown wren.
In 1738 he presented to the French Academy his remarkable flute player.
That is to suppose that a flute player could play brilliant cadences on an infinite number of holes that he could not know, and on which he could not even put his finger!
The custom of blind fiddlers and flute players, accompanied by members of their families, going on a quarterly circuit among the villages has now fallen into disuse.
In front of him there stood a creature of the woods, a satyr, with pointed ears, cloven hoofs, and human eyes, in his hairy hands holding a flute made out of a reed.
When he was four years old he had made himself a flute out of a reed, and on this he played all day, imitating the song of the birds.
It was that of an army which on the night before the battle had heard the flute of Chang Liang.
At the age of ten he was an accomplished organ player, and he played with skill on the flute and the clavichord.
But Chang Liang had played his fluteto them in vain.
Presently the satyr breathed on hisflute and a wonderful note trembled in the air, soft, low, and liquid.
The newcomer wore a kind of white veil and high black-lacquered clogs, and was playing on his flute as he strolled along.
Ushiwaka to himself, but he was not in the least daunted, and went on playing his flute quite calmly.
In the speechless moments which followed they heard the sound of a flute from the village near by break the silence of the night--they watched the rain cease and the stars shine out one by one.
It was a beautiful moonlight night, and taking with him his favourite flute he strolled forth through the streets of the sleeping city till he came to the Gojo Bridge.
Those are vices at least that belong to our century and to civilisation, but a flute is nothing less than a relic of barbarism.
His attentive, deafened ears were for his music alone, and, letting the flute fall from his hands, he turned to look at her with the pathetic, innocent enquiry of a good but uncomprehending child.
The old man laid the flute on his knees, where his shrunken little hands still caressed it.
His wandering blue eyes fixed her for a moment, then, turning restlessly, travelled to his flute which lay silent on the table on his elbow.
The past had become a veritable obsession in his mind, and when he fingered the old flute strength came back to his half-palsied hands and breath returned to his shrunken little body.
With the final note, even as he laid the flute lovingly across his knees, she saw that the music had strengthened and controlled his enfeebled mind.
A person who has borne living in the house with a flute may be said to have unlimited powers of endurance.
But his last prayer to Apollo is that he may have his flute again before he dies.
I'm sure they'd dance and sing and flute and that would be the wafts of music.
It is said by some that boys' voices partake of one or other of two qualities, the flute quality or the oboe quality.
I find that boys acquire the cathedral style of singing (with the well-known flute or bell-like tone) chiefly by example.
It was an imperfect instrument, something between a flute and a clarionet, but the sound which it gave out was soft and musical.
