 ... please more than to surprise ; but her taste is vicious, her excessive love of ornament spoiling every simple air, and her greatest delight (indeed her chief merit) being in songs of a bold and spirited character, where much is left to her discretion...  History of the Opera: From Monteverde to Donizetti - Side 19av Henry Sutherland Edwards - 1862Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Charles Larcom Graves - 1904 - 276 sider
...censuring the " fantastical excess " of her embellishments in ad libitum passages, he goes on — " She is fond of singing variations on some known simple air, and latterly she pushed this taste to the very height of absurdity by singing, even without words, variations composed... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - 1912 - 374 sider
...being in songs of a bold and spirited character where much is left to her discretion (or indiscretion) confined by accompaniment, but in which she can indulge...without words, variations composed for the fiddle." Catalani's knowledge and culture did not embrace the high things of the intellect, and her mental range... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - 1912 - 374 sider
...being in songs of a bold and spirited character where much is left to her discretion (or indiscretion) confined by accompaniment, but in which she can indulge...without words, variations composed for the fiddle." Catalani's knowledge and culture did not embrace the high things of the intellect, and her mental range... | |
 | Louis C. Elson - 1918 - 380 sider
...being in songs of a bold and spirited character where much is left to her discretion (or indiscretion) confined by accompaniment, but in which she can indulge...without words, variations composed for the fiddle." Catalani's knowledge and culture did not embrace the high things of the intellect, and her mental range... | |
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