lagrime

Del freddo Rheno, a complete sestina rather in the style of the cyclic madrigals of Arcadelt and Berchem, opens the group on a note of simple tunefulness (this piece was popular with intabulators); in other madrigals the style varies from Willaert-like seriousness (Occhi piangete), through supple contrapuntal writing resembling Rore (Per pianto la mia carne), to the chordal declamation typical of the Roman madrigale arioso (Queste non son più lagrime).

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They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicita of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days.

Vanity Fair 2006

"Di che lagrime grondi e di che sangue" its dazzling foliage.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

The chorus with which the tragedy winds up -- "Ahi! lagrime; Ahi! dolore" -- the words appropriately carved upon his tombstone at St. Onofrio -- is unspeakably pathetic.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicità of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days.

IV. The Green Silk Purse 1917

I never heard the quartet from Moses better sung; but Miss Gladkowska sang "O quante lagrime" at my farewell concert at Warsaw with much more expression.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

( "Parmi veder le lagrime"), in which he laments the loss of Gilda.

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

They are not, it is said, very brilliant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good-natured, simple appeals to the affections, which people understood better than the milk-and-water lagrime, sospiri, and felicita of the eternal Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days.

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

-- "E voltatasi al giacente corpo di Romeo, il cui capo sopra un origliere, che con lei uell 'arca era stato lasciato, posto aveva; gli occhi meglio rinchiusi avendogli, e di lagrime il freddo volto bagnandogli, disse;" Che debbo senza di te in vita più fare, signor mio?

Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827

Ms. Petibon conveys manipulation of a different sort as the despairing Salome in "Queste lagrime e sospiri" from Alessandro Stradella's "San Giovanni Battista."

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