But though he makes the voice the paramount element, he uses it, in general, rather as a vehicle for the unconscious exposition of a determined lyricism than as an instrument of precise emotional utterance.
It is in songs of an untrammelled lyricism that his art finds its chief opportunity.
It is possible that towards the very end Prokofieff had found a new synthesis that brought to full flower the abiding lyricism of his nature.
And since my lyricismhas for a long time been denied appreciation, it has grown but slowly.
This lyricism makes them seem mostly Greek--often I have thought them Persian, sometimes again, Indian; certainly he learned something from the Chinese in their porcelains and in their embroidery.
We are grateful for hislyricism and for his exquisite goldsmithery.
This lyricism is expressed in a thousand ways of life.
For all that, his own personal lyricism surmounts his interest in outer interpretations of light and movement, and he leaves you with his own notion of a private and distinguished appreciation of nature.
With a lyricism that is as convincing as it is authentic, you feel that there is a certain underlying spirit of resignation.
But he could hardly have bettered the sheer and triumphant lyricism of The Skylark, of some of his choruses, and of the Ode to Dejection, and of the Lines written on the Eugenoen hills.
To the followers of Jonson we owe that delightful and simple lyric poetry which fills our anthologies, their courtly lyricism receiving a new impulse in the intenser loyalty of troubled times.
The earliest English hymn writing, our first devotional verse in the vernacular, belongs to this time, and a Catholic and religious school of lyricism grew and flourished beside the pagan neo-classical writers.
For the last century and a half the disordered efflorescence of individual lyricism has been tinged with morbidity.
It was a wordy and inverted prose: the profusion of metaphors clumsily tacked on to it in imitation of the lyricism of other nations produced an effect of utter falsity upon any sincere person.
No aspect of Tennyson's lyricism is more interesting than his constant employment of the newest scientific knowledge of his day, for instance, in geology, chemistry and astronomy.
Lyricism is magic and the precious possession of a spiritual communion which finds its deepest enjoyment in just these almost impalpable elements.
It is always necessary to assume an inter-relation between lyricism and the lawless, enigmatic and magic elements of the human soul and to associate vague threshold emotions with soft music.
Lyricism again is thought without consequence, instinct and presentiment, leaping quickly in lawless synthesis; it is union but not a chain formed of individual links, it is melody but not scales.
The greatness and power of his lyricismtakes its root in eternity, in the wonderful sincerity of its ever human and unalterable emotional content, and above all in the unconsciousness of its genesis.
It is never musical, for the sake of sheer musical beauty, when the emotion within the text or situation does not lift it to the plane where the quality of utterance tends naturally and inevitably toward lyricism of accent.
Yet in some of the vocal writing in his later works he is false to this principle, for he not infrequently permits himself to be ravishingly lyrical at moments wherelyricism is superfluous and distracting when it is not impertinent.
Their sentimental lyricism is better fitted to sing songs, to voice the thoughts of the universe in song, than to paint the universe in living forms and vital rhythms.
To be decorative where decoration is not suitable, to be lyrical where lyricism is out of place, is assuredly to spoil Art, not to achieve it.
Moreover, the lyricism of the Fontainebleau painters was not in him.
They represent the victory of lyricism over dry though inflated prose.
His lyricism is most human, while the portamento, the slides, trills and indescribably subtle turns--are they not of the violin?
Wagner externalized its dramatic soul; in Chopin the mad lyricism of the Time-spirit is made eloquent.
No doubt there is a certain almost Hebraic melancholy and sharp lyricism in Ravel's music which gives some color to the rumor that he is Jewish.
Phrases of an apparent intensity and lyricism are negated by frivolous and tinkling passage-work.
Aranha’s book is of far broader conception than the other two; it adds to their lyricism an epic sweep inherent in the subject and very soon felt in the treatment.
And his merit in that respect is greater than of any other writers, if we take in consideration that in Poland heroic lyricism and poetical picturesqueness prevail in the literature.
The music of every people begins in closest connection with lyricismand long before absolute music can be thought of, the music of a people in that connection passes through the most important stages of development.
Its complement is waking, lyricism no longer, but the concept; no longer the dream, but the judgment.
If this deduction of lyricism from the intimate essence of pure intuition do not appear easily acceptable, the reason is to be sought in two very deep-rooted prejudices, of which it is useful to indicate here the genesis.
From this we learn that an image, which is not the expression of a state of the soul, is not an image, since it is without any theoretical value; and therefore it cannot be an obstacle to the identification of lyricism and intuition.
It is in the nature of the lyric drama that this should be so, and there need be no wonder that wherever Verga offered an opportunity for set lyricism it was embraced by Mascagni and his librettists.
Japanese melody runs almost uninterruptedly through his instrumental score, giving way at intervals to the Italian style of lyricism when the characters and passions become universal rather than local types.
This I shall condense, as the exuberant lyricism and defiant dithyramb soon became monotonous.
