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Updated: May 15, 2025
Most often, however, his voice puts me in mind of the cardinal grosbeak's; his voice, and perhaps still more his cadence, and especially his practice of the portamento. The 11th of the month was sunny, and the next morning I came back from my accustomed rounds under a sense of bereavement: the fox sparrows were gone.
When the oo can be sung softly and without resistance as high as E flat use the same exercise with o. The next step is to blend this light mechanism with the heavier mechanism. It may be done in this way, Sing this descending scale with a crescendo, always beginning it pp. It should be practiced very slowly at first, and with portamento.
Despite his idiomatic treatment of the piano it must be remembered that Chopin under Sontag's and Paganini's influence imitated both voice and violin on the keyboard. His lyricism is most human, while the portamento, the slides, trills and indescribably subtle turns are they not of the violin? Wagner said to Mr.
When these vowels can all be sung with perfect freedom transpose upward by half steps. In No. 7 when the crescendo has been made on the upper tone carry the full voice to the bottom of the scale. This is another way of blending the different parts of the voice. It should be sung portamento in both directions.
In this early period of instruction the pupil was exercised in both portamento and messa di voce.
In a very fine "Portamento del Croce," by Gaudenzio Ferrari, one of the soldiers or executioners, in repulsing the sorrowful mother, lifts up a stick as if to strike her; a gratuitous act of ferocity, which shocks at once the taste and the feelings, and, without adding anything to the pathos of the situation, detracts from the religious dignity of the theme.
Weber certainly deserves your kindness. I only wish that you could hear her sing my new aria which I lately mentioned to you, I say, hear her sing it, because it seems made expressly for her; a man like you who really understands what portamento in singing means, would certainly feel the most intense pleasure in hearing her.
The portamento gliding from one note to another is also a lovely effect. Its proper and timely application calls for good judgment and sound musical taste. "I usually play a 'Strad, but very often turn to my beautiful 'Guillami," said Mr. Brown when asked about his violins. "It is an old Spanish violin, made in Barcelona, in 1728, with a tone that has a distinct Stradivarius character.
The qualities in which he excelled were the evenness of his voice, the art of swelling its sound, the portamento, the union of the registers, a surprising agility, a graceful and pathetic style, and a shake as admirable as it was rare.
Still the music critics with strange persistence continue to adjudge a singer by the old formulæ and standards: has she an equalized scale? Has she taste in ornament? Does she overdo the use of portamento, messa di voce, and such devices? How is her shake? etc., etc. But how false, how ridiculous, this is!
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