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"Give Sally Howland a part," called out Ruth Lawrence. "She's just suited for something angelic." "We'll transpose Othello and sprinkle it with cherubs," said Nellie Saunders, who had been made chairman of the cast. "But the one thing to remember, girls, is secrecy," she announced loftily. "No one outside of Lenox must know what the ghosts are, or anything about the show."
I remember, too, how when she was eight years old we had to transpose the words a little to make the measure right.
LXIX. But the matter is one which requires much practice, lest we should do anything like those men who, though they have aimed at this style, have not attained it; so that we must not openly transpose our words in order to make our language sound better; a thing which Lucius Coelius Antipater, in the opening of his history of the Punic War, promises not to do unless it should be absolutely necessary.
It is, in a word, thought which keeps its freedom, activity which remains awake, suppleness of attitude, attention to life, an ever-renewed adjustment to suit ever-new situations. Its revealing virtue is derived from this moving contact with fact, and this living effort of sympathy. This is what we must tend to transpose from the practical to the speculative order.
I shall not hesitate to transpose sentences even when they appear in connected passages, in order, as I hope, to bring out more clearly their connection. For Duerer was not a writer by profession, and his thoughts were often more abundant than he knew how to deal with.
For the average child will be quite unable to transpose a simple ear test such as d f m l s t, d on the piano, from one key to another, say a fifth away, without a good deal of accurate knowledge. The first exercises in transposition will be very simple any child of seven or eight years old, who can sing at sight, and take down ear tests, in the keys of C and G major, can be expected to do them.
He gave him fifty pages of music to transpose for mandoline and guitar by the next day. After which, being satisfied that he had made him truckle down, he found him less distasteful work, but always so ungraciously that it was impossible to be grateful to him for it: Christophe had to be ground down by necessity before he would ever go to Hecht again.
It demands a muscular action entirely different from that of pressing down the keys either with the finger, forearm or arm motion. "The next form would employ another fingering "The next form might be "These I transpose through several keys, for instance There is a great deal of fun in devising new exercises. It assists in helping the student to concentrate.
It might pass in my handwriting, with a smudge for paternal grief it might. "To Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Rippau, etc., etc., etc., in trust for the Most Exalted the Princess of Eppenwelzen-Sarkeld." I transpose or omit a title or so. "Aha!" says she, "there's verwirrung in Roy's poor head, poor fellow; the boy has sunk to a certainty.
Being anxious to avoid every chance of interruption, or of impediment, to my repeating with the greatest possible freedom the facts I had recorded, and my opinions upon them, I took care to transpose and abbreviate the words in such a manner as to run no risk from the most inquisitorial visit.
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