"Musical phrase" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it from the great churches. Giotto's coloured tower in Florence, that carries the bells for Santa Maria del Fiore and Brunelleschi's silent dome, does not ring more than four contralto notes, tuned with sweetness, depth, and dignity, and swinging one musical phrase ...
— Essays • Alice Meynell
... pleasure in completing a musical phrase of which the first few bars have been given them. The procedure ...
— Music As A Language - Lectures to Music Students • Ethel Home
... in the dressing-room," she answered, backing away toward the center of the stage with a broad musical phrase on her lips. ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... estrangement—a few bars of Schumann's melody, "The Nut Bush," should be sent, and the one who received it should at once hurry to the side of the other and all difference should be healed. But this token was never sent by me, perhaps because I did not know how to scribble the musical phrase: pride perhaps kept her from sending it; in any case five years are a long while, and she seemed to have died out of my life altogether; but one day the sight of a woman who had known her, brought her before my eyes, and I asked if Doris married. The woman could not tell me; she had not ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... loft. She had neither heard nor seen his entrance, but she felt the presence of her rector, and turned to find him silently watching her. She played her phrase to the end, before she greeted him with other than a smile. Then she apologised, saying: "Even one's rector must wait for a musical phrase to reach its period. Angels may interrupt the rendition of a great work, but not man. That were sacrilege. You see, I was really praying, when you entered, though my heart spoke through my ...
— An Ambitious Man • Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
