ISBN: 9781152501584

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...music. This art is now carried to such a pitch of perfection, or if you will of corruption, as makes it utterly incapable of being an adjunct to poetry. H y a grande apparence, que les progrfo que votes avez faits dans la musique, ont nui enfin a r.eux de la veritable tragedie. C''est un talent, qui a fait tort a un autre; says M.Voltaire with his usual taste and judgment. Our different cadences, our divisions, variations, repetitions, without which modern music cannot subsist, are entirely improper for the expression of poetry, and were scarce known to the antients. But could this be managed, the additional expense necessarily attendant on such a performance, would make the matter impracticable. This Mr. Dryden foresaw long ago. The passage is curious. A new theatre, much more ample and much deeper, must be made for that purpose; besides the cost of sometimes forty or fifty habits: which is an expense too large to be supplied by a company of actors. It is true, I should not be sorry to see a Chorus on a theatre, more than as large and as deep again as ours, built and adorned at a King''s charges; and on that condi tion, and another, which is, that my hands were not bound behind me, as now they are, I should not de spair of making such a tragedy as might be both in structive and delightful according to the manner of the Grecians. What he means by having his hands bound, I imagine, is, that he was either engaged to his subscribers for a translation of Virgil, or to the manager of the theatre for so many plays a season. This suffrage of Mr. Dryden is, however, very apposite to the present point. It serves, also, to vindicate my design of imitating the Greek Drama. For if he, ... Books Group, Books, History, The Works Of William Mason Volume 2 Books>History Volume: 1 Publisher: London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies Publication date: 1811 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.<

ISBN: 1152501585

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