Faded habits of mind are lightly dismissed as typical of the Victorian Age, and old favourite poets, painters, and musicians are treated with the same scorn as the glued chairs and glass bowls of wax flowers of sixty years ago.
I am trying to present the Wartons to you as I see them, and that is as enthusiastic youths, flushed with a kind of intellectual felicity, and dreaming how poetry shall be produced as musicians make airs, by inspiration, not by rote.
I heard you tell Jennie Stone last night that you had to drive street musicians away from the school grounds, sir?
The old Irishman, Tony Foyle, had mentioned chasing itinerant musiciansoff the grounds that very evening--among them a harpist.
The two girls enjoyed the music, and Helen searched her purse for a coin to give whichever of the musicians came around for the collection at the end of the concert.
The three musicians were all foreigners--French or Italian.
The musicians struck into some rollicking ditty that pleased the ear.
Maybe some of these traveling musicians can play the marble harp yonder," said Heavy, with a chuckle, pointing to the now half-shrouded figure in the center of the campus.
Rising from the table at which he sat, the young count approached the window, and found that he was right in supposing the party of musicians had arrived.
The Donkey, to these musicians he collected, spoke as a leader and as a true humorist.
The Musicians of Bremen is a good type of humorous tale.
The Town Musicians of Bremen exhibits vivid emotion, for all four characters are in the same desperate danger of losing life, all four unite to save it, and to find a home.
The musicians then supped, and the promenades in the gallery and the gardens commenced, beneath a spring sky, mild and flower-scented.
In the meanwhile the boat continued its course, the musicians made a great noise, and the courtiers began, like them, to be out of breath.
Cases of proximate material cooperation are those of musicians or singers, who do not perform lascivious music; of spectators, who show no approval of the evil that is done; of those who buy tickets but do not attend.
The violin family had only a precarious footing amongst musicians up to 1650.
Besides the amateurs, there were eight or nine professionalmusicians who frequented these meetings.
To go on with the Royal musicians (who are interesting as such, because their habit must have set the fashion of the day), in James I.
The author also ventures to believe that some brother musicians will be gratified to see at one view what a liberal treatment the great Poet has given to our noble art.
Wood went to a weekly meeting of musicians in Oxford.
They took their station upon the side opposite the entrance, the musicians standing behind them.
In the middle was a circular bandstand where greasy musicians fiddled with perspiring zeal.
All the Actors as well as the Dancers and the Musicians of the Orchestre were Persons of Quality.
The Generality of these Damsels understand Music and Dancing; they also perform Operas at the Theatre of the Palace, and are Musicians of the Chappel.
The Generality keep Musicians in their Service, so that let the Weather be what it will, one may be always amused in this Country.
Antiently, then, Musicians and Poets were the same.
In the present time the instruments for our musicians cannot be chosen sufficiently high and shrill.
These productions were substantially increased by other musicians who were not cello players.
Then, like so many other Italian musicians of this time, he was seized with a desire to travel, and betook himself to London.
At the same time (1761) he was appointed one of the private musicians of the Prince de Conti.
On the contrary, Germany called out more instrumental vigour in order to satisfy the need of good musicians for the numberless Courts.
The musicians have suddenly broken off in the middle of a bar.
Musicians with reeds and tom-toms paraded the bazaars.
As the women spread about the throne, Ramabai signified to the musicians to cease.
Scarcely had the musicians gone back, and scarcely had the party left Endringen well behind, when the cry was: "Put out the torches!
Most of our musicians can no longer play even a Haydn minuet because they no longer have an ear or a pulse for the comfortable moderate movement of these compositions.
Farmer Rodel, in particular, who on this day was eating and drinking with double relish, snapped his fingers and whistled the waltz the musicianswere playing, while Amrei went on dancing and seemed to know no weariness.
Among the painters and musicians especially, even the smallest master carried on his particular legerdemain with the "secrets" of art, which he alone ostensibly possessed and communicated only to his pupils.
For our musicians have not the slightest suspicion that it is their own history, the history of the disfigurement of the soul, which they are transposing into music.
Through their very weaknesses, these musicians have created in us an ardent desire for their virtues, and have given us a palate which is ten times more sensitive to every note of this tuneful intellect, tuneful beauty, and tuneful goodness.
Oh, if only our thinkers could probe into the depths of the souls of our musicians when listening to their music!
Soon after the Chancellor left the King, Madame de Maintenon, who remained, sent for the ladies; and the musicians came at seven o'clock in the evening.
The musicianswere nothing more nor less than servants in the royal household.
The study of the ancient theoreticians led the musicians of the Middle Ages to apply the word to harmony in general.
The utterances of musicians have long ago made it plain that as between the critic and the public the greater measure of their respect and deference is given to the public.
Since they were to play out of doors, Sir Thurio's musicians would have used wind instruments instead of viols, and the oldest serenades are composed for oboes and bassoons.
The professional musicians to whom they turned scorned their theories and would not help them; so they fell back on their own resources.
Frequently musicians were hired, and the tribute took the form of a nocturnal concert.
The end of the sixteenth century saw a coterie of scholars, art-lovers, and amateur musicians in Florence who desired to re-establish the relationship which they knew had once existed between music and the drama.
Musicians frequently call it the Adagio, for convenience, though the tempi of slow movements ranges from extremely slow (Largo) to the border line of fast, as in the case of the Allegretto of the Seventh Symphony of Beethoven.
A serenade in the olden time opened very properly with a march, to the strains of which we may imagine the musicians approaching the lady's chamber window.
At the back of the stage sit several musicianswith tom-toms, cymbals, fiddles, and divers other instruments all of wonderful construction and with frightful capacity for setting anybody but a Chinaman crazy.
One comic song and street tune follows another; the band suggests and the young musicians take it up with a will.
Under the stage, in a "music-room," the musicians may be found when they are not harassing the audience with some unanimously discordant air.
These musicians seem to be as important elements in the action and meaning of the play as the actors themselves are.
For musicians there are schools; but what school is there for critics?
The style was so new and so perplexing to the musicians of the day that Richter encountered apparently insuperable obstacles at every turn.
After the dance, the musicians were allowed to walk off with the deer skins as their compensation.
Sire, to-morrow morning at nine o'clock the Te Deum shall be performed in the chapel, should I even be compelled to pass the night in arousing the musicians from their beds.
My musicians are coming from Berlin, and we will see if my lips, which have been accustomed so long to rough words of discipline, are capable of producing a few sweet notes from my flute.
Suddenly, all the musicians shuddered, and Quantz was heard to mutter angrily.
When he goes to battle--which is but going to victory--he takes with him his musicians and dancers, who must perform the dance of triumph before him.
In the mean time, the musicians commenced to play the grave and at the same time coquettish minuet, and the officers drew near the ladies to lead them to the dance.
The musicians began a new strain, in which the girls and young men joined.
Travelling musicians All the more reason for mistrusting you; no good was ever heard of wandering musicians.
But the other musicianswere concerned with their own gossip, and he felt free to turn again and from under his half- closed eyelids to observe her covertly.
As he played, Edouard stepped down from the dais on which the musicians sat, and advanced slowly between the tables.
Miss Morton, amid a deal of simpering, confessed she favoured a minuet on occasions, so Mr. Lovely hurried off to fetch Mr. Chalkley before the musicians began to play the opening bars of the dance.
First walked two musicians slowly tapping gongs shaped like saucers with large spoons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "musicians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
