| 1807 - 856 sider
...district of Britain, beyond the Humber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make u:,e of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less variety ; singing only in two parts, oue murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has... | |
| 1806 - 816 sider
...norlhern district of Kritoin, bevond the Ilumber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with...the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity by art, hut by long nahit, which has rendered... | |
| John Jones - 1824 - 384 sider
...northern district of Britain, beyond the Humber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with...variety, singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity... | |
| John Mackenzie - 1841 - 518 sider
...work on the use of the harp in the Highlands. use, in singing, less variety than the Welsh. They sing in two parts, one murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the treble. Neither of the two nations acquired this by art, but by long habit which has made it familiar... | |
| Thomas Stephens - 1849 - 532 sider
...northern parts of Britain beyond the Humber, and on the borders of York, the inhabitants use in singing the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less...variety, singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the treble, or acute. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiar... | |
| Giraldus (Cambrensis.) - 1863 - 550 sider
...Humber, and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphoiiious harmony, but with less variety ; singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiarity... | |
| Thomas Stephens - 1876 - 566 sider
...northern parts of Britain beyond the Humber, and on the borders of York, the inhabitants use in singing the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less...variety, singing only in two parts, one murmuring in the base, the other warbling in the treble or acute. Neither of the two nations has acquired this peculiar... | |
| William Smythe Babcock Mathews - 1891 - 518 sider
...north district of Britain, beyond the Humber and on the borders of Yorkshire, the inhabitants make use of the same kind of symphonious harmony, but with less variety, singing in only two parts, one murmuring in the bass, the other warbling in the acute or treble. Neither of... | |
| Sir John Rhys, Sir David Brynmor Jones, David Brynmor-Jones - 1906 - 734 sider
...the Cymry in the art of music. They used three instruments — the harp, the pipes, and the crwth.s In their concerts they did not sing in unison, but...from the laws. They were organised in some fashion into a kind of separate order, though we have no certain evidence as to the rules of their craft or... | |
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