"Cantillation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like the responses to John of Leyden's prayer by the mutinous soldiers brought to their knees in "Le Prophete." Not at all ineptly, Mefistofele, who does not admire the Cherubs, likens their monotonous cantillation to the hum of bees. A fourth movement consists of a concluding psalmody, in which the Cherubs twitter, Earthly Penitents supplicate the Virgin, and the combined choirs, celestial and terrestrial, ...
— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel |
