Tones consist of the modulations of the voice, or the notes or variations of sound which we use in speak-ing: thus differing materially both from emphasis, and pauses.
All the symphonies contain allegro, andante, scherzo, and finale; all consist of modulations and chords, and are played by highly trained musicians.
His modulations are carried into more remote keys, and the tempered scale is taken as a finality of our tonal system.
It is the peculiar merit of Philipp Emanuel Bach that he introduced a second theme into his sonatas, or suggested it by striking modulations when he employed only one theme, and thus paved the way for its further elaboration by Joseph Haydn.
By simple modulations of it she could always differ from an opponent without giving personal offence, and she seldom provoked bitter opposition because nothing she said ever sounded aggressive.
Some of their modulations are made obviously for the sake of oddity.
In the forty-ninth measure begins another chapter, in which we have a series of recitative-like phrases, the most of which end upon diminished chords and contain or suggest enharmonic modulations of extreme modern type.
Nevertheless, the tonality of the piece throughout is extremely vague, no key being adhered to for any length of time, but modulations occurring with a free hand.
Beautifully simple, delightfully symmetrical, their simplicity relieved by short modulations into neighboring keys, it is not possible to find elsewhere compositions so short, so simple, and yet so beautiful.
This is a very remarkable work indeed, the fantasia being full of chromatic changes and very expressive and thoroughly modern modulations and sequences.
The peculiar timbre of her voice, with its modulations of audacity and sadness, would have given interest to the most inane chatter.
And whether because he was humane or because her voice included all the modulationsof pathos, cheerfulness, and courage in its compass, it was not disgust that the tale awakened in him, but the sense of an immense sadness.
The elements of natural language in man, may be reduced to three kinds; modulations of the voice, gestures, and features.
In ordinary speech we arrive at a certain harmony by the modulationsof the voice; in poetry the same thing is done systematically by a regular collocation of syllables.
She has thrown on a dressing-gown, and thrust her naked feet into slippers; and her magnificent hair floats in messy modulations and luxuriant waves over her fine shoulders and her ample bosom.
I am a living being like yourself,” was the reply, delivered in a voice disguised in deeper modulations than before.
He supported himself by singing in the streets, generally psalms, and with eccentric modulations of the voice which always occasioned mirth in hearers.
As the vocabulary of their speech is limited, so the notes of their music are few, but expressive gestures and modulations of the voice supplement both.
By certain rhythms and vibratory modulations of the voice it is possible to produce harmonics of sound which awaken the inner name into life--and then to spell it out.
For several minutes the clergyman played a series of beautiful modulationsin double-stopping upon the violin.
The passage of the years has tempered the glistening brilliancies and audacious chromatic modulations to a suave harmony that is absolutely fascinating.
What a subtle prevision of modulations to be effected by the careless scratch of his nail or the whip of a knife's edge!
All their songs are plaintive, and contain modulations of the voice so mysteriously charming in effect, and so good in tone, that they really affect one profoundly.
Their love-songs generally open with a sentimental recitative, and then change into actual singing, with frequent modulations from one key into another.
He observed a rhythm and modulations totally different from those we are accustomed to, and seemed to allow his voice to go at random, like the smoke of the vessel carried away and swayed by the breeze.
We look in vain for beauty of melody and harmony; dreary unisons, querulous melodic phrases, hollow-eyed chords, hard progressions and modulations throughout every part of the polonaise proper.
This ingenious contrivance, which renders the bass strings more useful in compositions having modulations into distant major or minor keys, occurs also on a French theorbo dating from about the year 1700, which is in my collection.
Do the tunes contain modulationsfrom one key into another?
What effect has the erect attitude upon the modulations of the voice?
But she could not help listening, as the cunning modulations of the reader drew out the simple fervor of each line.
His eyes would kindle into the magic gleam that enervated resolution and let loose a flood of vague, delicious fancies upon her brain; his voice melt into the modulations that enchained the ear like pathetic music.
The Bears signify their various moods by modulations of their remarkable voices, finding utterance in dull growling, snorting and murmuring, or grunting, whistling and sometimes barking sounds.
The modulations throb through the air, augmenting in richness and sweetness, till the fortissimo of the full orchestra reveals the sacred mystery.
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