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The Rhymester; Or, the Rules of Rhyme. a Guide to English Versification. with a Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque, Comic Verse and Song-Writing

The Rhymester; Or, the Rules of Rhyme. a Guide to English Versification. with a Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque, Comic Verse and Song-Writing


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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. 1882 Excerpt: ...had clouded remained. French poetry to-day is more like poetry and less like Pope than it has been for several centuries. Hugo's example has been followed--nay, even improved, for " the master," as his followers affectionately call him, is, like other great geniuses, often careless, and the art of Theophile Gautier, and of Baudelaire, and of M. Theodore de Banville, is above all things finished and polished and perfect. And to-day the inspiration which the French poets caught from their study of the early forms of French CHAPTER IX. OF SONG-WRITING. ALTHOUGH song-writing is one of the most difficult styles of versification, it is now held in but little repute, owing to the unfortunate condition of the musical world in England. "Any rubbish will do for music " is the maxim of the music shop-keeper, who is practically the arbiter of the art nowadays, and who has the interests he is supposed to represent so little at heart that he would not scruple to publish songs, consisting of "nonsense verses "--as school-boys call them--set to music, if he thought that the usual artifice of paying singers a royalty on the sale for singing a song would prevail on the public to buy them. Another reason why "any rubbish will do for music " has passed into a proverb is, that few amateur singers--and not too many professionals--understand "phrasing." How rarely can one hear what the words of - song are! Go to a "musical evening " and take note, and you will see that, in nine cases out of ten, when a new song has been sung, people take, the piece of music and look over the words. A song is like a cherry, and ought not to require us to make two bites at it. Nor is the injury inflicted on music due only to the amoun...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236079657
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236079655
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr

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