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The real musical feeling must exist in the mind of the composer or all the knowledge of correct phrasing he may possess will be worthless. If a fine musical feeling, or sensitiveness, must control the execution of the phrases, the regulation of the tempo demands a kind of musical ability no less exacting.
And there, without thinking of anything in particular, without even phrasing inwardly about something, I dreamed of coats of mail as pliable as gloves, of shields of buffalo hide soaked with sweat, of closed visors through which shot bloodthirsty glances, of wild and desperate night attacks with torches that set fire to the walls, and hatchets that mutilated the bodies; and of Louis XI, of the lover's war, of D'Aubigné and of the charlocks, the birds, the polished ivy, the denuded brambles, tasting in my pensive and idle occupation what is greatest in men, their memory; and what is most beautiful in nature, her ironical encroachments and eternal youth.
The most feasible surmise that could be arrived at was, that Jan was about to establish a mad-house as Deerham was in the habit of phrasing a receptacle for insane patients of the private, genteel order. Deerham felt very curious; and Jan, being a person whom they felt at ease to question without ceremony, was besieged upon the subject. And affairs were in this stage at the present time.
She was not entirely at ease; self-consciousness appeared in a furtive change of attitude from time to time; it might have been remarked, too, that she kept a guard upon her phrasing and even her pronunciation, emphasising certain words with a sort of academic pedantry. Perhaps it was this which caused Lady Ogram to ask at length whether she still worked for examinations.
Without phrasing a word, or absolutely shaping a thought in her head, she slanted across the sun to Mr. Raikes, who had taken refreshment, and in obedience to his instinct, notwithstanding his enormous pretensions, had commenced a few preliminary antics. 'Dear Mr. Raikes! she said, drawing him aside, 'not before dinner! 'I really can't contain the exuberant flow! returned that gentleman.
Holding in his hands a little package of cards on which notes were jotted down, he occasionally cast his eyes upon them, but he evidently trusted to the inspiration of the hour for his phrasing, and his trust was not misplaced. I never heard a more simple, strong, lucid use of the English language than was his on that occasion.
In an English magazine I read a short story, written by an Englishman who is regarded by a good many persons, competent to judge, as being the cleverest writer of English alive today. The story was beautifully done from the standpoint of composition; it bristled with flashing metaphors and whimsical phrasing.
In the inelegant phrasing of the day, me for the cellars! "Come," said I to the girl; "There's only one chance in a hundred, but we'll take it together." "Together? Where?" "Why, to the cellars. I've a pocketful of matches. We can make a try. For, if there's a thief around, and we are caught and proved impostors Well, I leave you to imagine!" "I will go with you," she replied resolutely.
Life, for him, was a purely practical function, not a question of more or less showy phrasing. It must be added that he had to Nick's perception his variations his back windows opening into grounds more private.
In all violin playing the left hand, the finger hand, might be compared to a perfectly adjusted technical machine, one that needs to be kept well oiled to function properly. The right hand, the bow hand, is the direct opposite it is the painter hand, the artist hand, its phrasing outlines the pictures of music; its nuances fill them with beauty of color.
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