The book Lyre, Pen And Pencil : Essays, Studies, Sketches was written by author Ritter, Fanny Raymond, 1840-1890 Here you can read free online of Lyre, Pen And Pencil : Essays, Studies, Sketches book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Lyre, Pen And Pencil : Essays, Studies, Sketches a good or bad book?
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Such love songs would not have offended Una. How refined are the musical creations of Ford, the composer, compared to the intensely powerful, yet anything but ethical pro- ductions of his contemporary Ford, the dramatist ! As for the gayer madrigals, or " Fa la las," as they were called, such as Morley's " Now is the month of May- ing," they are fit for the nymphs who dance through Spenser's " Fairy queen." Madrigal composition almost disappeared— having flourished for a hundred years-^during t...he latter half of the 17th century, transformed into the glee in Eng- land, and gradually displaced in Italy by the increasing supremacy of instrumental music. As early as 161 o, io8 The Madrigal. Orazio Vecchi, the Italian madrigalist, composed his " Antiparnasso," a succession of madrigals accompanied by dramatic action — a sort of preparation for the lyric drama and vocal monody, as we find it in modern opera. I may observe here, en passant, that the glee is an al- most exclusively English form of concerted music ; even the word itself is of Keltic or Anglo-Saxon origin.
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