"Cadenza" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him and, after howling in vain, tapped his brawn. Sutton looked up, shut off his noise, and turned to Davidge with the impatience of a great tenor interrupted in a cadenza by ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... was the same, whereas the complete portraits of the old masters have this fault—that they never rise above themselves. But a ray of light set Evelyn's portrait singing like a skylark—background, face, hair, dress—cadenza upon cadenza. When the blinds were let down, the music became graver, and the strain almost a religious one. And these changes in the portrait were like Evelyn herself, for she varied a good deal, as Owen had often remarked to Harding; for one reason or for some other—no ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
... many, varied forms of pain Are trifling, small and hardly worth attention. One thing is so much worse—oh! pray again The "epidemic" never, never mention, And promptly tell your poet that the rhyme "cadenza" Must never more be worked in ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891 • Various
... pot-house band, he himself is the first fiddle) does not subordinate himself as carefully to the requirements of the composition, the result will be worthless as a whole, no matter what individual talents may glitter out of it. What should we say if the first fiddle insisted on having a cadenza to himself in the course of every dozen bars of the music? What should we say if he cut the best parts of the 'cellos, in order that they might not add a mellowness which would slightly veil the acuteness of ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons
... thanks for your very friendly letter and for the dedication of the Beethoven Cadenza. It sounds well and is pleasant to play. Of course somewhat more might have been made of the thing, and a different key taken at the outset than C minor. But it is easier for me to play the critic than to do things myself, and so today I will merely thank you ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated
... explanations is at hand. The rest of what you are going to see is opera, and nothing but opera. Before many bars have been played, Siegfried and the wakened Brynhild, newly become tenor and soprano, will sing a concerted cadenza; plunge on from that to a magnificent love duet; and end with a precipitous allegro a capella, driven headlong to its end by the impetuous semiquaver triplets of the famous finales to the first act of Don Giovanni ...
— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw
... supplied really needed fingerings, bowings, and other indications! Important compositions on which I am now at work include Ernst's fine Concerto, Op. 23, the Mozart violin concertos, and Tartini's Trille du diable, with a special cadenza for my ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens |
