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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...

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...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ...to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—help... ...s a lowering of copying costs hurt every industry equally. Digital copies of music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies... ...of homeschooling, or a cartoonist with a uniquely twisted view of life, or a musician who can make a slack key guitar do very strange things, or a per... ... exemplary librari- ans at Duke University Music Library could find no trace. Catalogues of pub- lished records showed nothing. Inquiries to various mu...

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...nufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"), or dow... ...le MP3 files may render the CD obsolete - but they were preceded by radio music broadcasts. But the novelty is that the Internet provides a venue fo... ...the atrocious. The deluge of self-published and vanity published e-books, music tracks and art works has generated few masterpieces and a lot of tra... ...l cannibalize print books to oblivion. The more paranoid point at the music industry. It failed to co-opt the emerging peer-to-peer platforms (N... ..." But this view ignores a vital difference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. The medium (or carri... ...ic content it spawned. They were reduced to providing access to dull card catalogues and unimaginative collections of web links. The more daring add... ...over the Internet can be conceptualized as the continuation of mail order catalogues by virtual means. But e-books are different. They are detrimenta... ...stead of endless, static and bi-chromatic lists of links - Cybergeography catalogues visual,recombinant vistas with a stunning palette, internal dyn... ...be required to remember reams of numbers. Future browsers will be akin to catalogues, very much like the applications used in modern day libraries. C...

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...ifc MURRAY HILL HOTEL M One Block From Qrand Central Station European Plan—Music—Smoker Headquarters in New York for All College and University Athlet... ...M. Moore, Mgr. W, S* Underwood Go. ^ PIANOS, it UlgillS North Adams, Mass. MUSIC PIANO TUNING A SPECIALTY P RATT BROTHERS COLLEGE i SHOES Opp. Wilson ... ...nager, J. H. Lapliaui '07; captain, C. M. Waters 'lo. Glee Club—Manager of Musical Associa- tion, C. B. Rogers "07 ; leader of mandolin club, T. K. Th... ...M. Moore, Mgr. W. S. Underwood Co* Jt PIANOS, it UlginS North Adams, Mass. MUSIC PIANO TUNING A SPECIALTY P RAT T BROTHERS COLLEGE SHOES Opp. Wilson H... ...it MURRAY HILL HOTEL St One Block From Grand Central Station European Plan—Music—Smoker Headquarters in New York for All College and University Athlet... ...o dollars a week. The minimum expenses of the undergraduates appear in the catalogues of the time to have been one hundred seventeen dol- lars. CALEND...

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...ooks. Tammy politely asked Miss Armstrong to sit back and enjoy the taped music they had prepared, adding. “You play the organ beautifully. We would... ...but we’ll have to rely on these inferior tape recordings until your sheet music arrives.” With a smile from Tammy, Miss Armstrong, who glowed from f... ...fully to convince Fred to put his pride aside and attend the service. The music full of praise for those upstairs, forced imps out onto the main roa... ... for his actions. Having enjoyed the service, Darcy particularly liked the music that was pumped thought the old P.A system, which near had the speak... ...overed in a dustsheet and was sick and tired of the excuses regarding new music books. Miss Armstrong finally convinced herself that her talents wer... ...ess to do home visits was inspired by the thought of opportunity, leaving catalogues with those he ministered to. As Tom’s bottom was rather numb fro... ...t of spiritual word to enlighten the situation. “You could just leave the catalogues in the surgery with the other reading material or even do a let...

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... cultivated in a recent time, in which the visual intertwines with dance, music, text, may bring an important contribution to a deeper understanding... ...minaries - an antiopera, in which he exercises the pure casualness of the musical language). We can affirm that paradoxism is a neo-avant-gardism p... ...n the pages, the counterpoint verbalism, the coalescing of the words, the musical arrangement of the punctuation, the orthographic coercion - usually... ...ingale”, “Diaphanous smells/ through watersides/ seek their flower”, “The music is / a dream / passing through the stars”, “-Don’t wait for me/ I wi... ...k”. The author makes fun with playful words. Sometimes the play is purely musical: (“Man and wife / with beak / they speak in trick... “). The eroti... ...ion, he is a founding-member of “Rebel Academy”. He is named in many catalogues of records which are periodically issued in the United States a...

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... far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain thoughts seriously hampers the emb... ... will not be required to remember reams of numbers. Future browsers will be akin to catalogues, very much like the applications used in modern day ... ...olution: the virtual collaborative ("Follow the Sun") modes. Examples: A group of musicians is able to compose music or play it - while spatially ... ...ought into a virtual pharmacy and into other virtual businesses. It is now selling music, video, electronics and many other products. It started as... ...consumers and users and then suggest purchases and refer to the appropriate sites, catalogues, or virtual malls. They also provide price compariso... ...GPS enabled wireless mobile or PDA. This technology can be seen in action in a few music sites on the web and is likely to be dominant with wireles... ...ures, and blind alleys in one's work. Artists - especially performing artists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (...

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... far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain thoughts seriously hampers the emb... ... will not be required to remember reams of numbers. Future browsers will be akin to catalogues, very much like the applications used in modern day ... ...olution: the virtual collaborative ("Follow the Sun") modes. Examples: A group of musicians is able to compose music or play it - while spatially ... ...ought into a virtual pharmacy and into other virtual businesses. It is now selling music, video, electronics and many other products. It started as... ...consumers and users and then suggest purchases and refer to the appropriate sites, catalogues, or virtual malls. They also provide price compariso... ...GPS enabled wireless mobile or PDA. This technology can be seen in action in a few music sites on the web and is likely to be dominant with wireles... ...ures, and blind alleys in one's work. Artists - especially performing artists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (...

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... Von Hammer speaks of his Copy as containing about 200, while Dr. Sprenger catalogues the Lucknow MS. at double that number.* The Scribes, too, of th... ...inal Rubaiyat (as, missing an Arabic Guttural, these T etrastichs are more musically called) are independent Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of... ... to come!” Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum! XIII. Look to the Rose that blows about us—”Lo, ...

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...poison-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to t... ... Gay mansions, with supper- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of l... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...u flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of the air;” the wreck... ... manner of Subscriber-Lists (Pranumeranten), Militia-Rolls, and other Name-catalogues; extraordinary names as we have in Ger- many, the name Teufelsdr... ...ried children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute-music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdrockh, “when the Sun, lik... ...nd through all manner of Subscribers’-lists, Militia-rolls, and other Name-catalogues,’ but had nowhere been able to find ‘the name Teufelsdrockh, exc...

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...ish Inquisition engender- ing together brought forth, or perfected, those Catalogues and expurging Indexes, that rake through the entrails of an o... ... regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric....

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...n they tell why Skim Winsh, who came to his cottage under Dutton Shaw most musically drunk at 10.45 P.M of every Saturday night, as his father had don... ...s on pan, and key and kettle, 68 Actions and Reactions Sweet music that shall make ‘em settle; But when to crown the work h... ...-brakes worked from lower platform only, loaded silk or fibre, wind-tight. CATALOGUES FREE THROUGHOUT THE PLANET THE F THE F THE F THE F THE FOUR AN O... ...been at Weston-super- Mare a little too long for cannibals. I’ll go to the music- room and try over next Sunday’s hymns.” She lifted the boy’s hand li... ...ghtly to her lips, and tripped across the acres of glimmering floor to the music-room that had been the Infant’s ancestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey ... ...ncestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey and silver dress disappeared under the musicians’ gallery; two electrics broke out, and she stood backed against t...

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...rchestra was playing “Carmen” and “Madame Butterfly.” Carol was dizzy with music and the emotions of parting. She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-... ...residential overshoes in the coat-closet under the stairs, and as the thin music seeped in, Stewart whispered: “I can’t stand it, this breaking up aft... ..., and I’d protect you—” His arm slid behind her shoulders. The insinuating music drained her independence. She said mournfully, “Would you 12 Main St... ...eled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing. She almost gave up library 13 S... ...fteen minutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she ho... ...l of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol. All winter he read sporting- catalogues, and thought about remarkable past shots: “ ‘Member that time wh... ...” It was the sort of farce which is advertised in “school entertain- ment” catalogues as: Riproaring knock-out, 5 m. 3 f., time 2 hrs., interior set, ...

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...tyle, not for its matter,” said Hayward. He talked enthusiastically of the music at the Oratory , and said charming things about the con- 136 Of Huma... ...uite exquisitely , there appeared a rococo beauty . He wrote of old church music and the Alban Hills, and of the languor of incense and the charm of t... ...went into the drawing- room for his singing lesson and she sat down on the music-stool she put up her face in the middle of a scale and said: “Embrass... ... a rippling brook, and her voice was so soft, so low , it was the sweetest music he had ever heard. “What are you thinking about?” Philip stopped sudd... ... the real thing: I felt the glow of your young passion, and your prose was musical from the sincerity of your emotion. You must be happy! I wish I cou... ...itors for the summer holidays would make it possible to get better prices. Catalogues were made out and sent to the various dealers in second-hand boo...

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...There was a choir of boys in short surplices and blue cassocks, and a very musical service, in the course of which it was discovered to be the Feast o... ...repetition than on the first. After an evening, when Gillian had gone to a musical party with Aunt Ada, and Fergus did his lessons under Aunt Jane’s s... ...to the marble works at three o’clock. Valetta could not go, as she had her music lesson at that time, and she did not regret it, for she had an idea t... ... light, and which gave periodi- cal concerts in the Masonic Hall. It being musical, Miss Mohun had nothing to do with it except the feeling it need- f... ...an either, judging by the manner in which she was wont to vi- tuperate her music lesson. ‘Oh! but that’s only scales, and everybody hates them! And I ... ...ughtily called him among themselves, used to arrive from leave, armed with catalogues, or come in with his drawings to find sympathy in his colonel’s ...

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... the “V an Baerle,” after his father; and the “Cornelius,” after his godfather; the other names have escaped us, but the fanciers will be sure to find... ...lfish worldlings at the Hague. We have observed that Leyden overflowed with schol- ars. In like manner Haarlem was devoted to the gentle pur- suits of... ...ystens and his nosegay, then the corporation, then followed a cheer for the people; and, at last, and for once with great justice, there was one for t... ...t spoiled. In the centre of a circle of magnificent trees, which were decorated with garlands and inscriptions, the procession halted, amidst the soun...

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...e to-day about (of all things) Carthage; 11, luncheon; after luncheon in my mother’s room, I read Chapter XXIII. of The Wrecker, then Belle, Lloyd, a... ...he sound of a whistle pipe blown outside on the dark, very softly and to a pleasing simple air; I really think I have hit the first phrase: [Here foll... ...ion, if that might be. As he left I heard the villagers asking which was the great lady?And a little further, at the borders of Malie itself, we found... ..., if it may be, and picturesque, always with an epic value of scenes, so that the figures remain in the mind’s eye for ever. OCTOBER 8TH. Suppose you ... ...ver. OCTOBER 8TH. Suppose you sent us some of the catalogues of the parties what vends statutes?I don’t want colossal Herculeses, but about quarter si...

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...along. It was soon gone again to return no more that day; and the bands of music and the straggling Punch’s shows going after it, left it a prey to th... ... played ostentatiously , crowned with the Copenhagen and Bird Waltzes in a Music Book of Miss T ox’s own copying. Over and above all this, Miss Tox ha... ... rarely exposed him to be singled out for such distinction. He was a great musical ama- teur in his way -after business; and had a paternal affection ... ... he answered, looking up with his widest and almost sudden smile; ‘humming musical recollections— of his last night’ s quartette party , I suppose—thr... ...g me half mad. I wish he’d make a bonfire of his violoncello, and burn his music-books in it.’ ‘You respect nobody, Carker, I think,’ said Mr Dombey. ... ...e street. Quiet, calculating spirits withdraw into the dressing-rooms with catalogues, and make marginal notes thereon, with stumps of pencils. T wo b... ...st it is all gone. Nothing is left about the house but scattered leaves of catalogues, littered scraps of straw and hay , and a battery of pewter pots...

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...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...l, and Miss Watson very well, and with the power of singing difficult part music at sight, they did so for the same reason that the lark sings, and ch... ... battles and skirmishes through the monotonous pages of history, or by the catalogues of libraries stretching over a dozen measured miles, could not b... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...daily. They mix as equal partakers in the same amusements of races, balls, musical assemblies, with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the la... ...r destination which only the institutions of my country render impossible. Music for the deaf! Eloquence without an audience!” 123 Thomas de Quincey ...

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...etic exercise was the Spartan characteristic. Nor was their instruction in music and verse less carefully attended to than their habits of grace and g... ... to battle, we shall find that Terpander and Pindar had reason to say that music and valor were allied. The first says of Lacedaemon— The spear and so... ...d dance, and song, and joy appear; both describing the Spartans as no less musical than warlike; in the words of one of their own poets— With the iron... ...inds or change in their countenance, calmly and cheerfully moving with the music to the deadly fight. Men, in this temper, were not likely to be posse... ...rious debates of such men, to inspire and direct them; and visit poets and musicians, if at all, in their more sportive moods; but, for difference of ... ...the command of numerous copies, made the treatises public, and drew up the catalogues that are now current. The elder Peripatetics appear themselves, ...

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... in which they would probably have appeared had the Hesiodic corpus survived intact, is unusual, but should not need apology; the true place for the ?Catalogues? (for example), fragmentary as they are, is certainly after the ?Theogony.?...

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...................................................................... 66 THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE (fragments) .................................... ...he following works: Hesiod: Works and Days, The Theogony, fragments of The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae, The Shield of Heracles (attributed to He... ...intact, is un- usual, but should not need apology; the true place for the “Catalogues” (for example), fragmentary as they are, is cer- tainly after th... ...on served to link the Theogony to what must have been a distinct poem, the Catalogues of Women. This work was divided into four (Suidas says five) boo... ... again a distinct poem: the curious title will be explained presently. The Catalogues proper were a series of genealogies which traced the Hellenic ra... ...e roams hunting among the mountains and thickets and streams, how he makes music at dusk while returning from the chase, and how he joins in dancing w... ...nd Phoebus Apollo laughed for joy; for the sweet throb of the marvel- lous music went to his heart, and a soft longing took hold on his soul as he lis...

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...so that the work was famous in antiquity, and is included in the Alexandrian catalogues of Platonic writings. 6 Menexenus MENEXENUS by Plato (see App... ...her I had Connus, the son of Metrobius, as a master, and he was my master in music, as she was in rhetoric. No wonder that a man who has received such... ...en the pupil of very inferior masters, say, for example, one who had learned music of Lamprus, and rhetoric of Antiphon the Rhamnusian, might make a f... ...h; and in addition to this, holding gymnastic and equestrian con- tests, and musical festivals of every sort. She is to the dead in the place of a son... ...nce to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value ... ...es and Plato. (1) In the entire absence of real external evi- dence (for the catalogues of the Alexandrian librarians can- not be regarded as trustwor...

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...hestra swaying with it. His heart was beating faster. He must make it into music; he must fix it in himself, so that he could make it into music and w... ... windows with a soapy rag. A silly phrase took the place of the welling of music in his mind: “Arbeit und Rhythmus.” He kept say- ing it over and over... ...us.” He tried to drive the phrase out of his mind, to bury his mind in the music of the rhythm that had come to him, that ex- pressed the dusty boredo... ...s much better, to let everything go, to stamp out his maddening desire for music, to humble him- self into the mud of common slavery. He was still tin... ... care anyway. But some day he would want to play the piano again, to write music. He must not let him- self sink too deeply into the helpless mentalit... ...n rooms, where the four walls were covered from floor to ceiling with card catalogues. 279 John Dos Passos And every day they were adding to the pape... ...caps, that had its homes in vast offices crammed with index cards and card catalogues; a world full of the tramp of marching, where cold voices kept s...

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...and poison brewing, and choking by sulphur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to... ...es. Gay mansions, with supper rooms and dancing rooms, are full of light and music and high swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ... thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of 40 SARTOR RESART... ...manner of Subscriber Lists ( Pr¨ anumeranten), Militia Rolls, and other Name catalogues; extraordinary names as we have in Germany, the name Teufelsdr... ...earied children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun,... ... and through all manner of Subscribers’ lists, Militia rolls, and other Name catalogues,’ but had nowhere been able to find ‘the name Teufelsdr¨ ockh, ...

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...at. His fair eyebrows arch good- naturedly and uncritically. He has a most musical voice; his speech is a perpetual anthem; and he never tires of the ... ...RIDGEON. Good-night. B. B. repeats the salutation several times, in varied musical tones. Schutzmacher goes out. SIR PATRICK. Its time for us all to m... ...erous, comes into the gallery through the private door. JENNIFER. Have the catalogues come yet, Mr Danby? THE SECRETARY. Not yet. JENNIFER. What a sha... ...le joy and pride: you did not speak the words that will always be heavenly music in my ears. I listen to them now whenever I am tired or sad. That is ... ...ried happily once always marry again? The Secretary returns with a pile of catalogues. THE SECRETARY. Just got the first batch of catalogues in time. ...

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... Spanish Inquisition engendering together brought forth, or perfected, those Catalogues and expurging Indexes, that rake through the entrails of many ... ...must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric.... ... o’er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn’st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to... ...vely portraiture displayed, Softly on my eyelids laid; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals... ...ming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Wh... ... changes to a stately palace, set out with all manner of deliciousness: soft music, tables spread with all dainties. Comus appears with his rabble, an...

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... it were not for sex instincts, if it were not for Art, and especially for Music. This view of life he forc ibly expressed in the “Kreutzer Sonata,” ... ... life he forc ibly expressed in the “Kreutzer Sonata,” in which Woman and Music, the two magnets of his youth, were im peached as powers of evil. Al... ...Peace” and in “Anna Karenina,” his descriptions of female charms resembled catalogues of weapons against which a man must arm himself or perish. The b... ... an officer, and an old and very stupid lady in a wig, a widow who owned a music shop; she loved playing cards and played remarkably well. But it was ... ...estra, which was famous at the time, and consisted of serfs belonging to a musical land owner. The refreshments were magnificent, and the champagne f... ...d for the most part with her, and did not notice how time was passing. The musicians kept playing the same mazurka tunes over and over again in desper...

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...as furnished this emotional life. Churches have provided some art and some music. But aside from the Catholic Church almost none of this is for the po... ... element of joy is largely lacking. To many it makes no ap- peal, although music and art and beauty do. In no country has society so utterly neglected... ... large part of our population has come from lands where beauty and art and music have for generations been made a part of the common life of all. VII ... ...it crimes because they choose the wrong. Different writers have made their catalogues of causes that are responsible for crime, and most of these list...

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...y describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mysticism and music— Three conclusions— (1) Mystical states carry authority for him who h... ...ther, not like the emotional effect of some poem, or scene, or blossom, of music, but the sure knowledge of the close presence of a sort of mighty per... ...0] “is worthy to be called a religion”; and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so-called “Civilization,” as these things are n... ...sically, I would just as lief, yes, rather, die with a hearty enjoyment of music, sport, or any other rational pastime. As a timepiece stops, we die— ... ...t. Q. What things work most strongly on your emotions? A. Lively songs and music; Pinafore instead of an Oratorio. I like Scott, Burns, Byron, Longfel... ...r hand, has ended by utterly re- pudiating the personal point of view. She catalogues her elements and records her laws indifferent as to what purpose...

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... to be as merry in this here parlour, come round every week, as a piece of music? Gone down with Wal’r. Where’s that there fresh lad, that nothing cou... ...mmed some bars, and beat time on the seat beside him, seemed to denote the musician; and the extraordinary satisfaction he derived from humming someth... ...t was so very long since any voice 74 Dombey & Son of apathy had made sad music in her ears; that the stranger’s figure remained present to her, hour... ...y on her breast, and laughed in a tone that made the howl of the old woman musical. ‘So Alice Marwood was transported, mother,’ she pursued, 83 Charl... ...inner slowly made its way: the later stages being achieved to the sonorous music of incessant double knocks, announcing the arrival of visitors, whose... ...e street. Quiet, calculating spirits withdraw into the dressing-rooms with catalogues, and make marginal notes thereon, with stumps of pencils. T wo b... ...st it is all gone. Nothing is left about the house but scattered leaves of catalogues, littered scraps of straw and hay , and a battery of pewter pots...

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...orman wearily. “I promised to go and read to Margaret while Flora does her music,” said Ethel; “I shall come after that and do my Latin and Greek with... ...thor- ough dusting and setting-to-rights, sorting magazines, burn- ing old catalogues, and finding her own long-lost ‘Undine’, at which she was so del... ...e evening,” she said, “and I could draw here, if I wished, but I have some music to copy.” Margaret was concerned at the dissatisfaction, though not u... ...b book, and imparting the cream to the listeners; and Flora gave them some music, a great treat to Margaret, who had long only heard its distant sound... ...ly some notes to compare, and while he did so, he was remarking on Flora’s music, and joining in the conversation so freely as to prove it was no labo... ...her hearty appreciation made Mr. Rivers for the time forget her plainness. Music followed; Flora played nicely, Meta like a well-taught girl; Ethel we...

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... he had described to her this experience. He called it a “serenade,” a low music that, outside one of the windows of the sleeping house, disturbed his... ...dinner Charlotte Stant played to him; seated at the piano and requiring no music she went through his “favourite things”—and he had many favourites—wi... ...en playing lawn tennis or endlessly and rhythmically waltzing. His love of music, unlike his other loves, owned to vaguenesses, but while, on his comp... ...in Charlotte’s constant phrase, and resounded with a din in which the wild music 116 The Golden Bowl of gilded and befrogged bands, Croatian, Dalmati... ...seemed to hear it tell him why it kept recurring; but it phrased the large music now in a way that filled the room. The reason was—into which he had li... ...en than the usual extravagance, as Maggie’s glance made out, of circulars, catalogues, adver tisements, announcements of sales, foreign envelopes and...

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... sufficient mea- sure by which fully to express himself. He had no ear for music and no eye for painting, and the finest qualities in the creations of... ... year. He also wrote an ‘Essay on Epitaphs,’ and an ‘Epitaph on Philips, a Musician,’ which was afterwards published with some other pieces of his, in... ...es Burney, who has since distin- guished himself so much in the science of Musick, and obtained a Doctor’s degree from the University of Oxford, had b... ... it were innocent. He once dedi- 177 Boswell’s Life of Johnson cated some Musick for the German Flute to Edward, Duke of York. In writing Dedications... ...as Giardini, as that he is an eminent Grecian.’ Gold- smith. ‘The greatest musical performers have but small emoluments. Giardini, I am told, does not... ...ave treated of it. This leads us to 309 Boswell’s Life of Johnson look at catalogues, and the backs of books in libraries.’ Sir Joshua observed to me...