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And everybody understood something none of them understood-while tea went on as usual to the chatter of daily details of external life. All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
"Melody is the essence of Music," said Mozart to Michael Kelly; "I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counter-points to hack post-horses." I think I can, in some degree, account for the fashion these composers have gained, and why, I fear, they are likely to maintain it. It is that the public have become too musical.
She played some pretty little things from Mendelssohn, Spohr, and Schubert. The gentlemen smoked and praised. Then she found an old music-book, and played Hamlet's overture to Otho, and the minuet. The gentlemen left off praising directly, and came silently into the room to hear the immortal melodist.
Over the loudness of their dialogue might be heard, from time to time, at a great distance, the song of the drunken melodist just alluded to, rising into those desperate tones which borrow their drowsy energy from intoxication alone.
Fouquet, the beautiful and gentle melodist whom Dante placed in paradise, served Adelaisie, wife of Berald, with long service of unhappy love, and wrote upon her death 'The Complaint of Berald des Baux for Adelaisie. Guillaume de Cabestan loved Berangère des Baux, and was so loved by her that she gave him a philtre to drink, whereof he sickened and grew mad.
And with the rhea go the flamingo, antique and splendid; and the swans in their bridal plumage; and the rufous tinamou sweet and mournful melodist of the eventide; and the noble crested screamer, that clarion-voiced watch-bird of the night in the wilderness.
But of all the composers of his own day, Shield was his favourite; and justly. He furnished him with most of his popular songs. The singer was the peculiar organ of the composer his "Thorn," his "Mouth which a Smile," "Tom Moody," "Heaving the Lead," and many, many others, seem to have faded away with the voice of the melodist.
It seems, indeed, as if musical people must be divided into two classes those who find their chief delight in melody pure and simple, and those who think that rich and varied harmony is the soul of music. Chopin fortunately wrote for both classes. Italy has produced no melodist equal to him, and Germany only one Franz Schubert.
Two Periods in the True Renaissance Andrea Mantegna His Statuesque Design His Naturalism Roman Inspiration Triumph of Julius Caesar Bas-reliefs Luca Signorelli The Precursor of Michael Angelo Anatomical Studies Sense of Beauty The Chapel of S. Brizio at Orvieto Its Arabesques and Medallions Degrees in his Ideal Enthusiasm for Organic Life Mode of treating Classical Subjects Perugino His Pietistic Style His Formalism The Psychological Problem of his Life Perugino's Pupils Pinturicchio At Spello and Siena Francia Fra Bartolommeo Transition to the Golden Age Lionardo da Vinci The Magician of the Renaissance Raphael The Melodist Correggio The Faun Michael Angelo The Prophet.
In the general construction of his opera Purcell followed the French model, but his treatment of recitative is bolder and more various than that of Lulli, while as a melodist he is incomparably superior. Purcell never repeated the experiment of 'Dido and Æneas. Musical taste in England was presumably not cultivated enough to appreciate a work of so advanced a style.
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