At a given signal, a quick march is played, and before the music is half over, the instrumentalists depart in procession through the streets leading to their barracks.
At the inspiring tones of La Danza some lady neighbours flock to the scene, and follow us and our swarthy instrumentalists into our host's reception-room, which is entered direct from the street by a huge door.
It used to be customary for singers and instrumentalists to take more liberty in the introduction of graces and embellishments than is allowed in modern times, or is possible with modern compositions.
This is almost akin to the method adopted by some instrumentalists to heighten the effect in a passage made up of detached notes.
And, for that matter, the instrumentalists themselves were unaccustomed to this method of treating the art of playing because, all told, very few conductors employ it.
But there I was balked by a fresh obstacle, namely, the great difficulty for the conductor of synchronizing the parts executed by instrumentalists and singers with those rendered by the mechanical players.
Another consideration which made this idea particularly attractive to me was the interest afforded to the spectator by being able to see these instrumentalists each playing his own part in the ensemble.
To conduct or control a group of instrumentalists at such a distance is an exceedingly arduous task.
I like to hear him make sport of them, and then the instrumentalists laugh at them.
He was severe; his speeches roused the phlegmatic blood, set the professionalinstrumentalists laughing at their amateur co-operators, but provoked no reply or resentment.
Then followed a long succession of dilettanti, partly Singers, partly Instrumentalists with their Solo-pieces.
On the next day it had to be tried over with a hundred and twenty instrumentalists and three hundred singers.
Some of its better instrumentalists obtained engagements in good bands, as at Dresden, Darmstadt, Wolfenbuettel and Hamburg.
The prelude had to stop on a sign from the conductor that the instrumentalists were ready.
The rest of the instrumentalists are behind him, out of his sight.
The rest of the instrumentalists are out of his sight.
The instrumentalists were all first-class performers.
The band included the best instrumentalists in England, and the festival was very successful.
Works of the greatest composers have been well performed by the most eminent instrumentalists and vocalists of the day, and thereby a taste for music has been diffused throughout the city and county.
The instrumentalists proper seem to have numbered eleven.
These evening musicales, in which instrumentalists as well as choristers participated, were carried out on a scale larger than anything to which the young organist had been accustomed.
Exemplification of Oriental instrumentalists is seen on Assyrian bas reliefs.
He possesses an hitherto unheard of orchestral technique, and taxes both the executive ability and the artistic attributes of the instrumentalists to the utmost.
As Maestro at San Marco, Venice, he increased the number of instrumentalists at that church to over thirty.
Even the letter of the Duke of Milan in 1473 (see Chapter III), in which he announces his intention of engaging a good orchestra from Rome, can hardly mean anything more than a purpose to get as many good instrumentalists as he could.
It will not be a bad idea to have a prompter to aid the singers, instrumentalists and reciters.
They make all the chorus-singers study at once, on the one hand; and all the instrumentalists at once, on the other.
It is his best interest to rid himself of instrumentalists who cannot play their instrument.
The instrumentalists and singers considered that they were the best anywhere.
These instrumentalists attended all the festivities in a village, wakes, harvest homes, revels, and weddings, and were well received and well treated.
An unheard melody is no melody at all, and as soon as we have music in which a number of singers or instrumentalists are employed, the taste, feeling, and judgment of an individual are essential to its intelligent and effective publication.
Before a city can give sustenance to even a small body of instrumentalists it must be large enough and rich enough to maintain a theatre from which those instrumentalists can derive their support.
As late as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries instrumentalists were vagabonds in law, like strolling players.
The judges granted the desired permission, upon which the instrumentalists drew themselves up in orchestral order and under the direction of Campra commenced an overture of Lulli's.
Her execution, marvellous in audacity, made talents of the first order pale before it, and instrumentalists no longer dared figure by her side.
It was a usual custom with the nobility to keep a company of instrumentalists as well as actors; and to these were not unfrequently added skilful tumblers, or acrobats, who seem to have enjoyed great popularity.
The names are here given to enable the reader to compare them with the names, often arbitrarily spelt, of the English actors and instrumentalists in the German records.
In the representations of the English comedians in the Ottoneum, at Cassel, anno 1606, the instrumentalists always struck up after each act.
The English instrumentalists played, of course, chiefly the popular tunes of their time.
We gather from Leech's picture that other instrumentalistswere also present.
The wonderful duet between the cricket and the kettle at the commencement of The Cricket on the Hearth certainly deserves mention, though it is rather difficult to know whether to class the performers as instrumentalists or singers.
The most prominent vocalists are Madam Brown, Mr. John Mills, and Mrs. Lucy Adger; and the most prominent instrumentalists are Miss M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instrumentalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
