| 1795 - 614 pages
...fymphohious harmony ; but with lefs variety, finging only in two parts, one murmuring in the bafc, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither...practice is now fo firmly rooted in them, that it is pnufcal to hear a fimple and finglc melody well fung. And, which is ilill more wonderful, their children,... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1795 - 614 pages
...the inhabitants ufe in fmging the fame kind of fymphonious harmony ; but with lefs variety, fmging only in two parts, one murmuring in the bafe, the...peculiar property by art, but by long habit, which has icndered it familiar and natural: and the praftice is now fo fimily rooted in them, that it if unufual... | |
| 1807 - 856 pages
...symphonious harmony, but with less variety ; singing only in two parts, oue murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity by art, but by long habit, which has Tendered it natural and familiar ; and the practice... | |
| 1806 - 816 pages
...symphonious harmony, but with less variety ; singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity by art, hut by long nahit, which has rendered it natural and familiar ; and the practice... | |
| John Jones - 1824 - 384 pages
...of symphonious harmony, but with less variety, singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity by art, but by long habit, which has rendered it natural and familiar ; and the practice... | |
| Thomas Stephens - 1849 - 532 pages
...variety, singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the treble, or acute. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiar...rendered it familiar and natural; and the practice is now so firmly rooted in them that it is unusual to hear a simple and single melody well feung. Their children... | |
| Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - 1863 - 548 pages
...symphoiiious harmony, but with less variety ; singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity by art, but by long habit, which has rendered it natural and familiar ; and the practice... | |
| Thomas Stephens - 1876 - 558 pages
...variety, singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the treble or acute. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiar...rendered it familiar and natural; and the practice is now so firmly rooted in them that it is unusual to hear a simple and single melody well sung. Their children... | |
| William Smythe Babcock Mathews - 1891 - 518 pages
...of symphonious harmony, but with less variety, singing in only two parts, one murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity by art, but by long habit, which has rendered it natural and familiar; and the practice... | |
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