"Monody" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its very nature tended towards polyphony; the violin towards monody. And, besides, Kuhnau prided himself on the fugal character ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock
... ingenious of the vase effusions was published, the net profits being applied to some Bath charity. Four volumes of the compositions appeared. The prize poem was written several times by Anna Seward, and on one occasion was awarded for her monody on the death of ...
— Anna Seward - and Classic Lichfield • Stapleton Martin
... my head, skipping about on the very tips of his claws, until I tired of his frivolity and hit him from underneath, when he scuttled away, and after half an hour, more or less, was succeeded by another, as if they found an intoxication in dancing over my head. The gnats sang their monody, and the midges put in their treble, but the meshes of my gauze were too fine to let them pass; and after hours of this strange pandemonium I fell asleep, to be waked in the morning by the sun streaming over ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James |
