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There were three other girls besides me, and we had great fun. The Professor was very nice and encouraging. He is very old. We used to have picnics in the woods, and take it in turn to ride in the donkey-cart. And there were musical evenings with the Pastor and the Avocat and their wives. It was very amusing sometimes.
The words uttered by the person without, affected me as somewhat singular, but what chiefly rendered them remarkable, was the tone that accompanied them. It was wholly new. My brother's voice and Pleyel's were musical and energetic. I had fondly imagined, that, in this respect, they were surpassed by none. Now my mistake was detected.
Perhaps there was a touch of musical comedy about her appearance, but that was merely because she was so small and the cap, a muslin cap of a Quakerish shape, distinctly becoming. Well, there was no reason why she should want to look hideous. She would not be less capable because she was pleasing to the eye.
To sing these compositions night after night is beyond human powers, even in the case of those of the most perfect musical and technical training. If they were divided into two, and one half sung on one evening and the other on the next, it would be a gain for the public and the artists.
It is no less probable that his fine musical taste enabled him to see that the Middle Temple benchers were in the right, and gave especial weight to his words when he spoke against Harris's instrument. Though Jeffreys delighted in music, he does not seem to have held its professors in high esteem.
'Are you not withering your roses with sitting up so late, my young ladies? said the Colonel. 'Not a bit, sir, answered Julia; 'your friend Mr. Pleydell threatens to become a pupil of Mr. Sampson's to-morrow, so we must make the most of our conquest to-night. This led to another musical trial of skill, and that to lively conversation.
Morley would seek to do that if she had her rights?" asked Isaura, with her musical laugh. "Not a doubt of it; but perhaps you share her opinions." "I scarcely know what her opinions are, but " "Yes? but " "There is a what shall I call it? a persuasion, a sentiment, out of which the opinions probably spring, that I do share."
I happened to have in my pocket one of the Musical Bank pieces, which had been given me by Mrs. Nosnibor, so I tried to tip him with it; but having seen what it was, he became so angry that I had to give him a piece of the other kind of money to pacify him. When I had done this he became civil directly.
Musical chairs made the two hours between bed and dinner the time of the day they all looked forward to: the steady trot with every nerve alert, the ear listening for the sudden stoppage of the music, the eye seeking with artfulness the likeliest chair, the volcanic silence, the mad scramble.
The whole chapter in this memorandum is well worth reading. The final stages in the teaching of extemporization will consist in: 1. Expressing a given idea in musical form, e.g. a march, or a gavotte. Extemporizing on a given theme.
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