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From the first bars of music, from the first actions upon the stage, the audience was captured by the new work. There was no hesitating. There were no dangerous moments. The evening was like a crescendo, admirably devised and carried out.
Lady Jezebel pulled back in the throes of a wild fear, and the buckskin plunged madly to get free. He had hardly persuaded them to a temporary calmness, when a mournful cry, rising in a wailing crescendo, split the air and died away abruptly. And he knew that it came from the advancing "movement." And now it left the shadow and drew out into the moonlight.
I remember once when he was trying to explain the perfect crescendo to me, fire-engine bells began to ring in the distance, the sound gradually drawing nearer the house in Charles Street where I was taking my lesson. 'There you have it! Loeffler cried: 'There's your ideal crescendo!
And though each seemed equally real, of two of them, only one, I think, can be true; and of the third that may some time be true but surely is not yet." Through the air came a louder drum roll in it something ominous, something sinister. It swelled to a crescendo; abruptly ceased. And now I saw Norhala raise her head; listen. "I saw a world, a vast world, Goodwin, marching stately through space.
Possessed by a frantic contagion of released rage, their voices rose and fell in a frightful chanting malediction. In the weird gloom their vague forms leaped about, their arms writhing like black things in the air as they called the names of their individual dead to hear. As their voices approached a crescendo they danced with increasing hysteria.
Don't they look rather dusty and battered to you after a day's exposure in Bow Bazaar?" There came a light crunch of wheels on the red kunker drive outside and a switch past the bunch of sword ferns that grew beside the door. The muffled crescendo of steps on the stair and the sound of an inquiry penetrated from beyond the portière, and without further preliminary Duff Lindsay came into the room.
Some of this effect is undoubtedly produced by the gradual manner in which the different voices join in harmony, beginning with one or two, and increasing in numbers in a sort of geometrical progression, until all are singing at once, and then in the same gradual manner becoming silent. This produces the effect of a perfect crescendo and diminuendo.
"This is no Indian woman," he said slowly, with a wagging forefinger that beat off his words like the minute hand of Fate. "This is this is why, this is the English prisoner!" He brought out the last words in a crescendo, and again my hand clapped tight against his mouth. "Be still! Be still!" I spluttered wildly, and I threw a disordered glance at the horizon, and at my astonished crew.
And somehow emblematic of this physiognomy and physique, summing it up and expressing it in terms of apparel, were the soft collar and black scarf tied in a flowing bow. Janet longed to know what he was saying. His phrases, like music, played on her emotions, and at last, when his voice rose in crescendo at the climax of his speech, she felt like weeping. "Un poeta!" a woman beside her exclaimed.
Anything in such music marked as a long note to be sustained crescendo the most thrilling effect of orchestral, choral, and organ music is necessarily a sham and a delusion.
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