A treatise on choir and chorus singing, tr. by T. Helmore, Volume 32 |
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A Treatise on Choir and Chorus Singing, Tr. by T. Helmore Francois Joseph Fetis No preview available - 2018 |
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Common terms and phrases
1st Treble 2nd Treble absolute piano accent Allegro Allons attain Bass Bâton cel sis Chapel character Choir and Chorus Choir or Chorus choralists CHORUS SINGING chromatic scale composer composition contralto Cres crescendo and decrescendo detached diatonic and chromatic difficulty Director effect ex cel example execution of music exercises expression ff pp ff Fighting Phill give grandeIddio la glo Halle-lu-jah Harmonic Phrasing Iddio la glo-ri-a intonations kind of voice lu-jah Master melodic phrasing Messa di voce mezzo-soprano modulations notes nuit octave Palestrina passage piano and forte pieces poco a poco practice pronunciation Rhythmical Phrasing ri-a Robert Row-ley roll'd round roll round Sacred Harmonic Society School second treble Sempre forte Sempre Piano sentiment shadings Shear the sheep sheep sturdy shepherd shear Silly songs sing-ing cease singers solo singers songs singing cease Soprano style sung syllables Tenor theatres Tonneau unison vocal masses vocal music vocalised voices of women words
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Page 11 - Choral modulations into the least analogous modes may be executed without much difficulty, if the movements of each part present only diatonic and chromatic intervals, ascending and descending by semitones ; but if these modulations contain such intervals as the imperfect fifth, the tritone or greater fourth, the augmented second, the augmented fifth, or diminished fourth, then the intonations become difficult. They are so in general to...
Page 33 - On the pronunciation of words, and vocal articulation. Chap. VIII. — On the articulation of the vocal organ, or vocalisation in chorus. Chap. IX. — On the Melodic Phrase, the Harmonic Phrase, and the Rhythmical Phrase. Chap. X. and last — On Animation.
Page 21 - The greatest difficulty of sounds by turns increased and diminished, consists in employing an equal time in the increase of power, and its diminution.