 A space is left between these where the ' conductor,' should there chance to be one, walks up and down, directing the choruses. But very often there is no leader, and apparently all sing according to their own sweet will. One voice commences: it may be...  A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war - Page 189by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1882 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1882 - 632 pages
...(which is by no means necessary), he walks up and down between. Then a single voice commences, and "after one clause of solo, other voices strike in...themselves to pouring forth a rippling torrent of ra, ra, ra-ra-ra ! while others burst into a flood of la, la, la-la-la ! Some confine their care to... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Gypsies - 1882 - 602 pages
...Europe, but so completely Tahitianized that no mortal could recognize it, which is all in its favor, for the wild melodies of this isle are beyond measure fascinating. " After one clause of solo, another strikes in — here, there, everywhere — in harmonious chorus. It seems as if one section... | |
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