English Glees And Part Songs - An Inquiry Into Their Historical Development (1886) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION. The origin of the word ' glee' as applied to a musical composition. Quotations from old writers showing the manner and variety of the application of the term. The tenacity with which old customs are adhered to, in reappearing under different forms and names, is a matter which can never fail to arrest the attention of the student of history and literature. The best and most distinguished of our opera and oratorio singers would doubtless be much surprised if they were told that they were the direct representatives of the ancient bards, the Scandinavian scalds, or the Anglo-Saxon gleemen. The conditions under which they practise their art are different, the character of the art itself has become modified and changed, but the main principles which surround the exposition of their abilities are the same. The successive progress of ages has added a vast number of extraneous accompaniments to the artistic THE ANCIENT BAUDS 67 life of those who are the present representatives of an ancient, honourable, and highly favoured race. Among the ancient Britons, whose love for vocal and instrumental music was an inheritance derived from their far distant Aryan ancestors, the bards, who were musicians and poets, were held in the highest esteem. Ammianus Marcellus tells us that ' these bards celebrated the noble actions of illustrious persons in heroic poems, which they sang to the sweet sounds of the lyre.' Another early historian, Diodorus Siculus, states that ' the British bards are excellent and melodious poets, and sing their poems, in which they praise some and censure others, to the music of an instrument resembling a lyre.' He also adds elsewhere, ' their songs and their music are so exceedingly affecting that sometimes when two armi...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	William Alexander Barrett
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	372
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-61639-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-61639-5
Barcode:	9781120616395

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