 | Louis Hector Berlioz - 1856 - 292 pages
...habit. It is nevertheless so rooted a one, that they will only ensure its extirpation by rendering a large number of violinists amenable for the fault...for example, upon a whole row, if one of them misses coming-in. Even were this fine no more than half-a-crown, as it might be inflicted five or six times... | |
 | Hector Berlioz - Conducting - 1856 - 356 pages
...habit. It is nevertheless so rooted a one, that they will only ensure its extirpation by rendering a large number of violinists amenable for the fault...for example, upon a whole row, if one of them misses coming-in. Even were this fine no more than half-a-crown, as it might be inflicted five or six times... | |
 | Hector Berlioz - Conducting - 1882 - 268 pages
...missed. 1 invoke the attention and rigour of orchestral conductors to this insufferable habit. It ia, however, so rooted that they will only ensure its...violinists would count his rests, and keep watch that his neighbours did the same, since it might be inflicted five or six times upon the same individuals in... | |
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Whence it follows that scarcely the half of them come in again at the right moment; while the rest still hold their instrument under their left arm, and look about them. Thus the point is greatly weakened, if not entirely missed. I invoke the attention... 