 | Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward - 1859 - 628 páginas
...different parts ; so that in a company of singers, which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers." They all end on the key-note, he further says ; and then tells how, north of the Humber, the folks... | |
 | Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - 1863 - 550 páginas
...different parts ; so that in a company of singers, which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there...in one consonance and the soft sweetness of B flat. In the northern district of Britain, beyond the Humber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants... | |
 | Thomas Stephens - 1876 - 558 páginas
...which one frequently meets with in Wales as many different parts are heard as there are performers, who at length unite with organic melody in one consonance and the soft sweetness of B. In the northern parts of Britain beyond the Humber, and on the borders of York, the inhabitants use... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1880 - 544 páginas
...company of singers," says that clerical traveller, " which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there...one consonance and the soft sweetness of B flat." The choirs of Wales had therefore a noble reputation 700 years ago, and venture to challenge the world... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1898 - 622 páginas
...of singers, which one frequently meets with in Wales, as many different parts and voices are heard as there are performers ; who all at length unite,...one consonance and the soft sweetness of B flat." This, if accurate, proves that counterpoint was known to the Welsh at this time, and that Welsh music... | |
 | Thomas Stephens - 1901 - 268 páginas
...one frequently meets with in Wales, as many different parts are heard as there are performers, who at length unite with organic melody in one consonance and the soft sweetness of B. " Their children from their infancy sing in the same manner." CHAPTER XXXI. THE CHURCH. NEWELL, " History... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1926 - 768 páginas
...different parts ; so that in a company of singers, which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers.' LLEWELYN AND EDWARD I 211 Assize of Arms of Henry Ill's reign certain classes of English freemen had,... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - 1999 - 400 páginas
...which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will near as many different parts and voices are there are performers, who all at length unite, with organic melody, in one consonance" (1892: 498). In a world of musical monophony the Welsh produce polyphony. Their instrumental music... | |
 | Brian Williams - 2004 - 108 páginas
...long dress for modesty. '[The Welsh] do not sing in unison . . . but in many different parts . . . you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers, who all at length unite' Gerald the Welshman C.1146-C.122Í HUNTING, HAWKING AND BOISTEROUS SPORTS STAGS AT BAY Stags were stalked... | |
 | 1890 - 570 páginas
...many different parts ; so that in a company of singers, which one frequently meets in Wales, you wul hear as many different parts and voices as there are...melody in one consonance, and the soft sweetness of В flat.1' This glimpse of Welsh society 700 years ago by a contemporary writer is exceedingly interesting.... | |
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In their musical concerts they do not sing in unison like the inhabitants of other countries, but in many different parts; so that in a company of singers, which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices... 
