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Example sentences for "interludes"

Lexicographically close words:
interlocutress; interloper; interlopers; interloping; interlude; intermarriage; intermarriages; intermarried; intermarry; intermarrying
  1. The latter had followed with a mocking eye all the interludes of this little scene, and without making a movement, they let the monk seat himself by their side.

  2. The hunters followed with an interest mingled with terror the moving interludes of this mad race, when suddenly the horse changed its plans again, reared, and tried to fall back with its rider.

  3. The only music in it is that for orchestral interludes in the intervals between the phrases of declamation.

  4. It is a choral-like movement with intervening interludes in the bass, upon which Rubinstein must have modeled his "Kamennoi Ostrow," No.

  5. And what of the interludes between work hours?

  6. We find, therefore, in the acting of interludes the conditions which gave rise to modern comedy and to the modern traveling company.

  7. Although there had been comic episodes in miracle plays and moralities, it was as interludes that the amusing skit and the tiny farce achieved an independent existence.

  8. Some of the best Miracles, Moralities, and Interludes are easily accessible in Everyman with other Interludes (Everyman's Library) and J.

  9. Each act was followed by a ballet, and five beautiful moresche were given during the interludes of the play.

  10. The interludes can be replaced by lantern slide pictures, or may be omitted.

  11. If the interludes are retained there need not be any intermission in the whole drama.

  12. These extended interludes are included in the edition of the score for piano and voices, with French and English text, published in 1907.

  13. The other interludes were also filled with scenic and musical effects.

  14. The music of this and all the other interludes was the composition of Luca Bati, a man of this art most excellent.

  15. Indeed in the profusion of spectacular interludes one finds much that resembles not only opera, but also the English masque and sometimes even the French pastoral.

  16. Symonds describes at some length "Saint Uliva" and the interludes of Cecchi's "Esaltazione della Croce.

  17. From Noverre and from France the tradition of the pantomime with interludes of dancing, spread at first to Italy and Austria, and later to Russia.

  18. The few surviving practitioners of the art are reduced to the presentation of brief interludes in the all-devouring variety-shows, or to the impersonation of sparse negro characters in occasional comedies.

  19. But all this display of silk and camlet was nothing to the ballets and pantomimes which served as interludes between the acts of the Plautine dramas.

  20. Brief interludes of lesser agitation bring a second chorus on the reunited melodies in a new tonal quarter.

  21. And the whole hymn dominates, with mere interludes of tripping motion, breaking at the height into double pace of concluding strain.

  22. I have read two of his interludes and his life.

  23. He went on writing and performing interludes till he fell in love with a young woman rather religiously inclined, whom he married in the year 1763, when he was in his twenty-fourth year.

  24. No Baptist connection would ever have a writer of Interludes in it, not Twm o’r Nant himself, unless he left his ales and Interludes and wanton hussies, for the three things are sure to go together.

  25. It was called Y Llwyn Celyn, or the Holly Grove, and contained the life and one of the interludes of Tom O’ the Dingle, or Thomas Edwards.

  26. In the preceding chapter I have given an abstract of the life of Tom O’ the Dingle; I will now give an analysis of his interlude; first, however, a few words on interludes in general.

  27. Indeed, for some time dramatic pieces were called moralities and interludes indifferently.

  28. The same critics denounce its poetical interludes (see infra) as spurious, object to some traits in it as coarse, and otherwise pick it to pieces.

  29. It was certain, at any rate in France, that from comic interludes in sacred plays to sheer profane comedy in ordinary life the step would not be far nor the interval of time long.

  30. Fairy and demon operas and ballets, and farces and intermezzos, form an easy transition to the interludes of tumblers and jugglers.

  31. One of his interludes for children has allegorical characters that remotely suggest some that appear in the modern Bluebird, by Maeterlinck.

  32. In England the drama had for centuries slowly developed through Miracle plays, Moralities, and Interludes to the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.

  33. During the intervals of these larger works he wrote the Patrie overture and the interludes to "L'Arlesienne," a very poetical score which Theodore Thomas introduced to this country, and both works were received with enthusiasm.

  34. During the chorale and its interludes a quiet love-scene is being enacted between Eva, daughter of the wealthy goldsmith Veit Pogner, and Walter von Stolzing, a noble young knight.

  35. The orchestra was used independently only in the symphonies which repeated the motifs of the songs, in the short interludes of accompanied recitative, and finally in the introductory overture or sinfonia.

  36. Nardo seeks to win Serpetta's hand by compliments in different languages and styles, which form alternating interludes to the main theme; this is pretty enough, but the other jokes are obsolete.

  37. These qualities presuppose more individuality in the details, the interludes are developed with more independence, and the loosely connected violin and violoncello passages disappear altogether.

  38. The relish of the audience for these comic interludes soon led to the production of independent comic pieces called intermezzi, which took the place of the disjointed scenes from the opera.

  39. Such were Gilderoy's interludes of gaiety; and when you remember the cynical ferocity of his earlier performance, you cannot deny him the credit of versatility.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interludes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.