| John Hawkins - Music - 1875 - 538 pages
...to inspire.* * It seems that the old English march of the foot was formerly in high estimation, us well abroad as with us ; its characteristic is dignity...respect it differs greatly from the French, which, as it is given by Mersennus, is brisk and alert. Sir Roger Williams, a gallant Low-country soldier... | |
| John Hawkins - Music - 1875 - 532 pages
...* It seems that the old English march of the foot was formerly in high estimation, as well abro»d as with us ; Its characteristic is dignity and gravity, in which respect it diners greatly from the French, which, as it is given by Mersennus, is brisk and alert. Sir Roger Williams,... | |
| George Grove - Music - 1880 - 778 pages
...Hawkins, however, in his History of Music, says : — ' It seems that the old English march of the foot was formerly in- high estimation, as well abroad as...respect it differs greatly from the French, which, as it is given by Mersennus, is brisk and alert.' On this subject Sir John quotes a bon mot of Sir... | |
| George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland - Music - 1880 - 866 pages
...Hawkins, however, in his History of Music, says :— ' It seems that the old English march of the foot was formerly in high estimation, as well abroad as...respect it differs greatly from the French, which, as it is given by Mersennus, is brisk and alert.' On this subject Sir John quotes a bon mot of Sir... | |
| Henry George Farmer - Band music - 1904 - 276 pages
...It was formerly in high estimation, as well abroad as with us," says HAWKINS (History of Music). " Its characteristic is dignity and gravity, in which...heavy and sluggish. " That may be true," answered Sir Roger, " but, slow as it is, it has traversed your master's country from one end to the other." 3 It... | |
| George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland - Music - 1907 - 942 pages
...Hawkins, however, in his History of Music, says : ' It seems that the old English march of the foot was formerly in high estimation, as well abroad as...characteristic is dignity and gravity, in which respect it différa greatly from the French, which, as it is given by Mcrsennus, is brisk and alert.' On this... | |
| Charles Edelman - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 452 pages
...addition or alteration whatsoever'. Sir John Hawkins gives the characteristics of the English march as 'dignity and gravity, in which respect it differs...greatly from the French, which ... is brisk and alert', and relates an anecdote in which a French officer told Sir Roger Williams, while serving in the Low... | |
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