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The pretty room was a soft glow of firelight and lamplight mingled. The rich harmonies of dark color made by carpets, hangings and furniture were lighted here and there by an infinite number of the charming little things that are the perfecting touches of a tasteful room. A bunch of freshly-gathered autumn leaves was massed under the light from the shaded lamp. Near by sat Christine.
She calls it "a fallacious idea that all individual and all realistic expression in poetry is annulled by the presence of distinctive musical discernment, by the movement of rhyme with its keen heightening of the impulse of rhythm, by the word-shadows of assonance, by harmonies, overtones and the still beat of ordered time, subconsciously perceived but precise as the sense of the symphony leader's flying baton.
Never since that day have I been able to look upon the home of the predestined without comparing the majority of husbands to this orang-outang trying to play the violin. Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate.
The breezy effect with the poplars painted flat is an example very unlike Monet. The church of Varengeville at Dieppe is a classic specimen; so is the Pourville beach . What delicate greens in the Spring ! What fine distance, an ocean view, in the Pourville picture! Or, if you care for subdued harmonies, there is the ice floe at Vétheuil .
Her voice rose in sweeter and loftier harmonies to the pealing of the organ as she sang to the end the joyful yet solemn psalm, in a version made for Queen Mary of France and Scotland when life was good, hope all brightness, and dark days as if they would never come.
As it was with the lyre of Orpheus, so it is to-day with the great harmonies of Science, which are rescuing from the prisons of superstition the torn and bleeding heart of man. "His soul was like a star and dwelt apart." On every hand are the enemies of individuality, and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle, and leaves us only at the tomb.
I was thinking of something else. Did you ever hear this?" He played an old Sicilian melody with one hand, and then took it up in a second part, and then a third, that made strange minor harmonies. "I never heard that," Cecilia said, as he looked at her. "I like it. It must be very ancient. Play it again."
His very deadly earnestness over the "lesson" of his opera and his desire to express his feeling accurately and logically led to his overweighting small melodies with ponderous harmonies. The orchestration of the day was heavy.
But nine years in a convent had left me with next to no music but memories of the long-breathed harmonies of some of the beautiful masses of our Church, and hardly had I begun on these when my husband cried: "Oh, stop, stop, for heaven's sake stop, or I shall think we're attending a funeral." Another day I offered to read to him.
In its wake came music if music the mighty harmonies, the sonorous chords, the crystalline themes and the linked chaplet of notes that were like spiralings of tiny golden star bells could be named.
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