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Phillips could now enlarge on his attractiveness as a singer, and could safely assure them what she herself believed that they had lost a really charming experience. "If you could only have heard him that Sunday!" she concluded.
"Hope so, because if it isn't that, then I've no chance for a career," explained she. He looked at her feet, pointed an uncannily long forefinger at them. "The crossings and sidewalks are slush and you, a singer, without overshoes! Lunacy! Lunacy!" "I've never worn overshoes?" said Mildred apologetically. "Don't tell me! I wish not to hear. It makes me like madness here."
In the iciest hours of winter nights, she must ascend to the roof of her dwelling-house, and there sing and play till the blood oozes from her fingers and the voice dies in her throat. The desired result is an atrocious cold. After a period of hoarse whispering, her voice changes its tone and strengthens. She is ready to become a public singer and dancer.
Yet ah! the priceless joy of all, Thou'st left upon an unknown strand. Undine dropped her lute with a melancholy smile, and the eyes of Bertalda's foster-parents were filled with tears. "Yes, so it was on the morning that I found you, my poor sweet orphan," said the duke, deeply agitated; "the beautiful singer is certainly right; we have not been able to give you that `priceless joy of all."
It is not deep nor very full, but, considering his great age, it is wonderfully clear and ringing, and it has a certain incisiveness of sound which gives it great carrying power. Pius the Ninth had as beautiful a voice, both in compass and richness of quality, as any baritone singer in the Sixtine choir.
Not a sound broke the stillness when Allan a Dale had done, but all sat gazing at the handsome singer, for so sweet was his voice and the music that each man sat with bated breath, lest one drop more should come and he should lose it. "By my faith and my troth," quoth Robin at last, drawing a deep breath, "lad, thou art Thou must not leave our company, Allan!
Schumann said: "The reason the nightingale sings love songs and the lap dog barks is because the soul of the nightingale is filled with love and that of the lap dog with bark." It will be apparent therefore, that the study of the art of singing should devote itself to developing in the singer the best elements of his nature all that is good, pure and elevating.
She had but one thought, one desire, one aim to be a celebrated singer, to obtain the hand of a man whom she neither loved nor esteemed, but who was a baron and an influential lord of the court. The object of Anna's life was to become the wife of the baron, not for love.
A singer in trying to hit the tone is compelled to measure the interval between it and the preceding tone, and the simplest and easiest mode of doing this is to associate every tone with the tonics, thus constituting it a term of a relation with this fundamental tone. Rousseau made a mistake when he supposed that his ideas were just as applicable to instrumental as they were to vocal music.
"The singer, though trying to act out the character he assumes, must not forget to sing. The combination of fine singing and fine acting is rare. Nowadays people think if they can act, that atones for inartistic singing; then they yield to the temptation to shout, to make harsh tones, simply for effect."
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