When Greek or Latin works were published, numerous professional copies were made simultaneously by scribes in a scriptorium, each making a single copy from an original that was declaimed aloud.

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

As he did so, he was supposed to have declaimed: Here I stand and here I rest.

The passionately declaimed opera of Monteverdi's era was almost unknown in the 1920s, however, and Orff's production met with reactions ranging from incomprehension to ridicule.

Organizing the text to make it more rapidly ingested ( through punctuation ) was not needed and eventually the current system of rapid silent reading for information replaced the older slower performance declaimed aloud for dramatic effect.

He managed a smile when he saw that, and declaimed, " And God said, Fiat, Indiana, and there was Indiana.

On 1 November 1990, shortly before Thatcher was ousted as Prime Minister, Delors bore the brunt of British Euroscepticism ; tabloid newspaper The Sun's headline declaimed " Up Yours Delors " in response to his supposed attempts to force European federalism upon the UK.

All through the American War of Independence he consistently declaimed against the colonies, and he was bitter ( and, some historians say, downright slanderous ) in his attack on Benjamin Franklin before the Privy Council.

It was from the balcony of his rooms in Meadow Buildings that he declaimed passages from The Waste Land through a megaphone, an episode recalled in Brideshead Revisited which Waugh gives to the character of Anthony Blanche.

It was thanks to Wedekind's success that the tradition of German satirical writing was established in the theatre, producing the cabaret-song satirists Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, Joachim Ringelnatz and Erich Kästner among others, who invigorated the culture of the Weimar Republic ; " all bitter social critics who used direct, stinging satire as the best means of attack and wrote a large part of their always intelligible light verse to be declaimed or sung.

After the 1868 Glorious Revolution ( Revolución Gloriosa ), he retired from the government, although he was a strong supporter of the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy during the First Spanish Republic ( 1873 – 1874 ) and as the leader of the conservative minority in the Cortes, he declaimed against universal suffrage and freedom of religion.

He rested his hand upon the head of the much smaller Stevens, and declaimed with great dignity for an extended period.

When Coleridge travelled to Chamonix, he declaimed, in defiance of Shelley, who had signed himself " Atheos " in the guestbook of the Hotel de Londres near Montenvers, " Who would be, who could be an atheist in this valley of wonders ".

But Chatham could not brook the thought of a step which implied submission to the " natural enemy " whom it had been the main object of his life to humble, and he declaimed for a considerable time, though with diminished vigour, against the motion.

Temur declaimed well while his eldest brother Gammala, who stammered, could not match him.

He declaimed the girls ' means of hiding from bodily examination that would expose their fraud:

It alternates declaimed line from the singer and non-metrical khene passages, at a pace slow enough to allow improvisation.

Audiences in London, Berlin and Rome alike were bowled over by the tongue-twisting vitality with which Marinetti declaimed ‘ Zang Tumb Tuuum .’ As an extended sound poem it stands as one of the monuments of experimental literature, its telegraphic barrage of nouns, colours, exclamations and directions pouring out in the screeching of trains, the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire, and the clatter of telegraphic messages " Caroline Tisdall & Angelo Bozzola

Rich's company notoriously offered Bartholomew Fair-type attractions — high kickers, jugglers, ropedancers, performing animals — while the cooperating actors, even as they appealed to snobbery by setting themselves up as the only legitimate theatre company in London, were not above retaliating with " prologues recited by boys of five, and epilogues declaimed by ladies on horseback ".

* Agon: The agon is a debate or formal argument constructed as a ' symmetrical scene ', with two declaimed sections and two songs.

He composed cantari in the eight-line stanzas called ottava rima, telling the subjects of courtly romance in a fast-paced narrative, with an undertone of subversive populist skepticism that undercut the very conventions that the stories embraced, full of vivid contemporary color and pious sentiment, and perhaps he declaimed them in the public squares: La Reina d ' Oriente, Gismirante, Apollonio di Tiro, Brito di Brettagna, Madonna Lionessa.

* Agon: A conventional agon is a debate that decides or reflects the outcome of the play, comprising a ' symmetrical scene ' with a pair of songs and a pair of declaimed or spoken passages, typically in long lines of anapests.

The poetry declaimed by Bunthorne is strongly contrasted stylistically with Grosvenor's.

This influence can also be seen in many of his works, including the operas Wat Tyler ( 1948 – 50 ) and Men of Blackmoor ( 1954 – 55 ), and his piano concerto which has a communist text declaimed by a male chorus in the last movement.

Critics declaimed Lucius ' luxurious lifestyle.

The party, he declaimed, represented " socialism – a political cult that would destroy the principles of private property, our religion, and our homes.

Théoden's speech is declaimed, followed by music.

14, songs, declaimed poems and piano solos, c. 1866, published 1868

Text has been an important resource for Reynolds ' work, and since the mid-1970s he has been interested in the use of language as sound, " the ways in which a vocalist's manner of utterance – whether spoken, declaimed, sung, or indebted to some uncommon mode of production " affect the experience of the ideas that the text carries.

It can be interpreted as a conventional symmetrical scene and yet it seems to be a hybrid parabasis / song without any clear distinction between the sung and declaimed sections.

The following year, De Gaulle visited Brittany, where he declaimed a poem written by his uncle ( also called Charles de Gaulle ) in the Breton language, expressing devotion to Breton culture.

In his seminal 1965 poem " Black Art ," which quickly became the major poetic manifesto of the Black Arts literary movement, Jones declaimed: " we want poems that kill.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

The effect of the invention of valves for the brass was felt almost immediately: instrument-makers throughout Europe strove together to foster the use of these newly refined instruments and continuing their perfection ; and the orchestra was before long enriched by a new family of valved instruments, variously known as tubas, or euphoniums and bombardons, having a chromatic scale and a full sonorous tone of great beauty and immense volume, forming a magnificent bass.

Only when the old maid Marie, who would carry him on her arm when he was a young boy, get close to her, he will call her with his sonorous baritone, fairly lively, voice.

A trained actor, Günther Schifter was immediately recognizable by his distinct and sonorous voice.

Once Gabrieli was working at St. Mark's, he began to turn away from the Franco-Flemish contrapuntal style which had dominated the music of the 16th century, instead exploiting the sonorous grandeur of mixed instrumental and vocal groups playing antiphonally in the great basilica.

His voice showed little sign of age ; it was still warm and sonorous throughout its range, and brilliant and lustrous in its upper register.

His later masses were characterized by light melodies juxtaposed with the grace and fluidity of the madrigalian dance songs ; thus creating a charming sacred style that was more sonorous than it was profound.

: Poe, who studied sound effects carefully, says that he chose " Nevermore " as the refrain for The Raven largely because the word contains the most sonorous vowel, o, and the most " producible " consonant, r. An amusing story is told of an Italian lady who knew not a word of English, but who, when she heard the word cellar-door, was convinced that English must be a most musical language.

-" a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world.

:" Rich Gallaecia sent its youths, wise in the knowledge of divination by the entrails of beasts, by feathers and flames — who, now crying out the barbarian song of their native tongue, now alternately stamping the ground in their rhythmic dances until the ground rang, and accompanying the playing with sonorous < span lang =" la "> caetrae </ span >" ( a caetra was a small type of shield used in the region ).

Karl Haas ( December 6, 1913February 6, 2005 ) was a German-American classical music radio host, whose distinctively sonorous voice and humanistic approach to making music appreciation contagious made him well received by many.

The sonorous acoustical environment of this basilica was the center of activity of the Venetians.

The waltz's dreamy Introduction was played by a sonorous clarinet evoking a distinctive Arabian feel.

She was admired for her sonorous, focused tone as well as her excellent musicianship.

His voice was sonorous, and his eyes flashed fire.

The song was inspired by McTell's experiences busking and hitchhiking throughout Europe, especially in Paris and the individual stories are taken from Parisians-McTell was originally going to the call the song Streets of Paris ; eventually London is chosen for its arguably more sonorous name.

He was, for instance, alone in his age to use unexpected, sonorous, punning rhymes.

He was a man of superb physique and excellent carriage, with a flexible and sonorous voice, and manners of rare distinction and elegance, He was much liked at court, and Louis XIV held him in particular esteem.

But he was an energetic writer, never tame or languid, and at the same time able to command the attention of an audience without recourse to melodramatic artifice ; while his sonorous verse, if scarcely able to support the ordeal of the closet, is sufficiently near to poetry for the purposes of the stage.