" Vocal music,'' says
L'Abbate Gravina, who would have said the same
thing of instrumental, "ought to imitate the language of the human feeUngs and passions, rather
than the warblings of Canary birds, which our singers,
now-a-days, affect so vastly to mimic with their quav-
erings and boasted cadences.
L'Abbate Gravina, who would have said the same
thing of instrumental, "ought to imitate the language of the human feeUngs and passions, rather
than the warblings of Canary birds, which our singers,
now-a-days, affect so vastly to mimic with their quav-
erings and boasted cadences.
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